--- title: Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to... description: Glean CEO Arvind Jain discusses the enterprise AI search and agent platform's business strategy, revenue milestones, and philosophy on avoiding vendor lock-in.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace-lljuf0txl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace | daily.dev og:description: Glean CEO Arvind Jain discusses the enterprise AI search and agent platform's business strategy, revenue milestones, and philosophy on avoiding vendor lock-in.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace-lljuf0txl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lLjUF0TXl.png og:image:alt: Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Glean CEO Arvind Jain discusses the enterprise AI search and agent platform's business strategy, revenue milestones, and philosophy on avoiding vendor lock-in. Glean passed $300m ARR and has no plans to raise money or go public soon. Jain says Glean prefers cheaper GPT models over Claude for most tasks due to cost, while positioning Glean's knowledge graphs as a context layer that makes Claude faster and more accurate. He emphasizes making agent memory portable and standard-format so customers could replace Glean easily, and discusses privacy controls and the company's origins at Rubrik. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why would a company use Glean as a context layer instead of just using Claude directly? Glean builds knowledge graphs of a company's people, concepts, and processes, letting Claude query Glean for context instead of searching through 100 internal systems itself. Glean's internal studies found this setup makes Claude twice as fast, halves its token usage, and makes its output preferred five times more often by users. _Teams comparing context layers against raw LLM search weigh results like these on daily.dev._ ### Why might an enterprise prefer GPT models over Claude for AI agent tasks? Cost is the main driver: Claude is described as very expensive, while some GPT models cost an order of magnitude less and can still handle 85% to 90% of enterprise tasks. Glean's platform uses models from multiple labs rather than standardizing on Claude, choosing per-task based on price and capability. _Developers weighing model costs across providers track trade-offs like these on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The enterprise AI land grab is on. Glean is building the layer beneath the interface.](https://daily.dev/posts/the-enterprise-ai-land-grab-is-on-glean-is-building-the-layer-beneath-the-interface--4alsn35wm) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Glean’s top line crosses $300M as AI budget-cutting becomes its major selling point](https://daily.dev/posts/glean-s-top-line-crosses-300m-as-ai-budget-cutting-becomes-its-major-selling-point-zyiebrlmg) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Who will own your company’s AI layer? Glean’s CEO explains](https://daily.dev/posts/who-will-own-your-company-s-ai-layer-glean-s-ceo-explains-uhgyup5af) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude), [#rag](https://daily.dev/tags/rag) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace-lljuf0txl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace-lljuf0txl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace-lljuf0txl"},"datePublished":"2026-10-15T09:57:37.046Z","dateModified":"2026-10-15T09:57:57.832Z","description":"Glean CEO Arvind Jain discusses the enterprise AI search and agent platform's business strategy, revenue milestones, and philosophy on avoiding vendor lock-in....","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2e97942513551a434dbce971450984c5?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/2e97942513551a434dbce971450984c5?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace-lljuf0txl","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"ai,ai-agents,claude,rag","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/glean-ceo-arvind-jain-says-he-wants-glean-to-be-easy-to-replace-lljuf0txl#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"Why would a company use Glean as a context layer instead of just using Claude directly?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Glean builds knowledge graphs of a company's people, concepts, and processes, letting Claude query Glean for context instead of searching through 100 internal systems itself. Glean's internal studies found this setup makes Claude twice as fast, halves its token usage, and makes its output preferred five times more often by users. Teams comparing context layers against raw LLM search weigh results like these on daily.dev."}},{"@type":"Question","name":"Why might an enterprise prefer GPT models over Claude for AI agent tasks?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Cost is the main driver: Claude is described as very expensive, while some GPT models cost an order of magnitude less and can still handle 85% to 90% of enterprise tasks. Glean's platform uses models from multiple labs rather than standardizing on Claude, choosing per-task based on price and capability. Developers weighing model costs across providers track trade-offs like these on daily.dev."}}]} ```