An alternative to Glean for teams that need more than search
Glean is a strong enterprise search and assistant platform. Artificial Wit is an MCP-native AI enablement layer — it turns your ERPs, APIs and knowledge base into tools any LLM can call, not just a closed search assistant.
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Glean centers on permission-aware search across your documents and apps, surfaced through its own assistant. Artificial Wit centers on MCP: it exposes your APIs, ERPs and knowledge base as standardized tools that Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or any MCP client can call directly — plus self-serve pricing instead of a custom enterprise sales process.
Where teams evaluating Glean hit a wall
Glean earns its reputation on document and app search — it's genuinely good at helping employees find things across SharePoint, Drive, Confluence and email. Where teams start looking for alternatives is usually one of two places: they want the assistant to actually do something with a system of record (look up an order in SAP, update a Salesforce record, flag an exception), not just find a document about it — or they don't want to standardize on one closed assistant experience when their org already has people using Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini side by side.
Glean's pricing is also enterprise/custom and sales-led, which is a longer evaluation cycle than teams wanting to connect a first API and test the idea this week.
Artificial Wit vs. Glean
Based on Glean's public positioning as of 2026. Verify current specifics directly with Glean before deciding — capabilities change.
| Capability | Artificial Wit | Glean |
|---|---|---|
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini & other LLMs Artificial Wit is model-agnostic by design via MCP; Glean centers on its own closed assistant experience. | ||
Turns APIs into standardized MCP tools | ||
Direct ERP / CRM transactional access (SAP, Oracle, Salesforce) Glean's strength is document and app search; transactional read/write against systems of record isn't its primary focus. | ||
RAG over documents, wikis & SharePoint with citations | ||
Permission-aware retrieval | ||
Self-serve signup with published pricing Glean is enterprise/custom, sales-led. Artificial Wit publishes Free and $29/user Pro tiers. | ||
No-code agent & workflow builder (forms, tables, charts) |
Honest fit, either way
Glean is a strong fit if...
- You mainly need employees to find things across many document sources.
- You want one polished, closed assistant experience for company-wide knowledge search.
- You're a large enterprise ready for a custom, sales-led rollout.
Artificial Wit is a strong fit if...
- You want your ERP, CRM or internal APIs callable by AI — not just searchable.
- Your team already uses more than one LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor) and wants one governed layer behind all of them via MCP.
- You'd rather sign up free and connect a first API this week than start a custom sales cycle.
Frequently asked questions
Is Artificial Wit a direct competitor to Glean?
Not exactly — Glean is primarily an enterprise search and assistant platform built around your internal documents and apps. Artificial Wit is an MCP-native AI enablement layer: it turns your APIs, ERPs and knowledge base into tools any LLM can call. Teams evaluating Glean for AI-powered access to company knowledge often land on Artificial Wit when they also need transactional access to systems like SAP, Oracle or Salesforce, or want to avoid being locked into one assistant experience.
Does Artificial Wit do enterprise search like Glean?
Yes — Artificial Wit includes a RAG-powered knowledge base with permission-aware retrieval and cited answers over documents, wikis and databases. What differs is scope: alongside search, Artificial Wit also exposes your APIs as MCP tools, so an assistant can act on data (create a ticket, pull an order status) rather than only surface it.
Can I use Glean and Artificial Wit together?
Some teams do — Glean for broad internal document search, Artificial Wit for MCP-based tool access to ERPs, CRMs and custom APIs from Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. They're not mutually exclusive; the overlap is narrower than it first appears.
Why would a team choose Artificial Wit over Glean?
Two reasons come up most: wanting model flexibility (any MCP-compatible LLM, not one closed assistant) and needing AI access to legacy ERPs/CRMs beyond document search — plus a self-serve Free and Pro tier instead of a custom enterprise sales cycle.