Glean and Sentrely both sit under the broad label “AI for business,” but they solve completely different problems.
Glean answers a question your employee has. Sentrely builds the software your business needs. One helps people find knowledge; the other ships working software.
What Glean Is
Glean is an enterprise search and AI work assistant. It provides:
- Indexed search across 100+ enterprise apps (Slack, Drive, GitHub, Confluence, Salesforce, Jira, Notion and more)
- Permission-aware retrieval, so users only see results they have access to
- An AI assistant chat that synthesizes answers across that knowledge base
- Glean Agents, task-specific AI assistants for things like onboarding, IT helpdesk and sales enablement
- Workplace search analytics and content gap insights
The typical Glean buyer is a larger company struggling with knowledge spread across many tools. The goal is faster answers for employees.
What Sentrely Is
Sentrely is a managed AI team, backed by real engineers, that builds, ships and monitors production-grade software in accounts you own. Our engineers deploy and supervise AI employees. Your team works with them through an agent in your Slack, asking it to build, ship and monitor production-grade software: internal tools, customer portals, integrations, automations. Automated safety checks run on every change, important changes get human sign-off, your data and files have a 35-day rewind, and you have a named account manager and on-call support.
The typical Sentrely customer is a founder or business owner who needs real software built and doesn’t want to become a developer, often after a vibe-coding app left them with something fragile.
Side by Side
| Glean | Sentrely | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Enterprise AI search and assistant | Managed AI team backed by real engineers |
| Main job | Find and summarize company knowledge | Build, ship and monitor your production-grade software |
| Who it’s for | Knowledge workers at larger companies | Founders and business owners |
| Output | Answers | Working production software in your accounts |
| Human oversight | Permission-aware results | Engineer sign-off on important changes |
| Support | Enterprise contract | Named account manager and on-call support |
When You Need Glean
If your team can’t find information spread across Slack, Drive, Confluence and your CRM, Glean is built for that problem.
When You Need Sentrely
If you need software built and running, and you’d rather not hire developers or wrestle with a vibe-coding app, Sentrely is built for that problem. Book a free 30-minute call to see if it fits.
The Bottom Line
Glean is for knowledge: AI that answers questions across your company’s data. Sentrely is for building: a managed AI team that builds, ships and monitors production-grade software. Different categories, and many companies could use both.