Sentience vs Glean
Should I use Sentience or Glean?
Choose Sentience when the answer depends on why you made a decision and what you want to do next. It brings your conversations and earlier conclusions into view, helps you think them through and writes the follow-up in your voice. Glean offers enterprise search, personalized assistance and agents across company knowledge. Sentience gives you a digital version of yourself to develop ideas with and share when colleagues need your perspective.
At a glance
| Workflow | Sentience | Glean |
|---|---|---|
| Starting point | Your conversations, relationships, preferences and decisions. | Connected company knowledge, web information and AI assistance. |
| From answer to draft | Recover the reasoning, decide what you mean and write in your voice. | Use enterprise search, an assistant and agents to answer questions and carry out workflows. |
| Sharing | Choose what your Sentience can use when others ask it questions. | Search and agent access follow source permissions and organizational controls. |
Find the reason you made the call
Ask Sentience why you changed direction on a project. It can search the conversations around the decision and bring the reasoning back into view.
A founder revisiting old questions was reminded of a conclusion he had already reached. With that history available, you can decide whether new information changes your mind.
Turn your thinking into something people can use
Work through the next step with Sentience, then ask it to write the update or explanation in your voice. It can use the decisions and conversations behind the message as well as how you address the recipient.
Use the same process for a creative project or an unfinished argument. Your digital self is useful for thinking and writing before anyone else asks it a question.
Let colleagues ask you through your Sentience
Share your Sentience so a teammate can ask what you promised a customer or why a plan changed. You choose the sources it can use to answer. Questions that need your input can come back to you.
Frequently asked questions
We can already search our company documents. Why add Sentience?
A teammate may have the document and still need to know why you made an exception or changed your mind. Sentience can use the connected conversations and reasoning behind your decisions to answer those questions. It also helps you think through the next decision and write the response in your voice.
Can Sentience help me reconsider an old decision?
Yes. Ask what you concluded last time and what led you there. Sentience can bring relevant connected conversations back into view, then help you examine what has changed. You get to spend your attention on the new information instead of rebuilding your earlier reasoning.
Can I start with my own Sentience before sharing it with the company?
Yes. Use it for your writing, research, ideas and daily catch-up. Connect the sources that matter to you and teach it your priorities. If colleagues need access later, choose where to share your Sentience and which sources it can use there.
Start with something on your mind
Connect your email and calendar to get started. Sentience uses them to show you what needs your attention, prepare you for meetings and draft replies in your voice. Bring an idea, ask a question or record your thoughts. Share your Sentience when others need answers too.