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Glean updated its personal AI assistant today, introducing a number of new features to support employees in their day-to-day work. The update brings real-time voice interaction, branded slide generation and agent sandboxes that allow knowledge workers to explore larger data sets within a secured environment.
According to company officials, Glean Assistant aims to address a persistent challenge: turning AI deployment into daily productivity gains. The assistant connects with company data, people and workflows to adapt to each employee's context. Today's release is the fourth major upgrade to the enterprise assistant, which has already seen strong usage. The company reports users engage with Assistant six times per active day on average.
New Capabilities for Glean Assistant
The update includes a mix of capabilities, some new — the real-time voice interaction — and some building on existing features — such as the collaborative Canvas capabilities.
| Capability | Description |
|---|---|
| Real-time voice | Hands-free interaction for briefings, summaries and quick questions |
| Brand-aligned slides | Presentations generated with company fonts, colors and visual guidelines |
| Agent sandboxes | Secure environments with CLI and code interpreter for large datasets |
| Canvas collaboration | Adapts the Canvas to reflect the user interface for Slack messages and emails |
| 100+ enterprise actions | Execute tasks across Salesforce, Jira, GitHub and other apps |
| Agent templates | Ready-made templates to handle daily planning and execution of common tasks |
Workers also gain access to the information feeding their personal graph, to view, edit and delete information related to their work, goals and projects. The goal is to ensure the context the graph represents is an accurate picture of an employee's worklife.
With the agent sandbox, business users can crunch large datasets without context window limitations. The company offered the example of a salesteam member who uses the sandbox to assess the entirety of their sales pipeline, or a product team aggregating customer feedback on a specific product in one place as two potential use cases for the sandbox.
Image generation, code tools, canvas UIs and task templates are generally available today. Slide generation, real-time voice and MCP actions are in beta. Agent sandbox is coming soon.
Glean's 2025 at a Glance
At its inaugural Glean:GO conference in May 2025, the company announced over 40 new features centered on its Glean Agents platform. Strategic partnerships included Workday for HR and finance workflows, Dell Technologies for on-premises deployments and Palo Alto Networks for enhanced security.
Glean announced a series of advancements at its Glean:LIVE event in September 2025, introducing the Glean Enterprise Graph, a living map and central intelligence layer that connects people, content and workflows while integrating company-wide and personal knowledge for deep personalization. It also introduced the third generation of its AI assistant, to execute complex, multi-step tasks, adapt to user writing styles and automatically route requests to specialized agents.
Glean doubled its annual recurring revenue to $200 million in nine months, reaching the milestone in December 2025. The company simultaneously launched what it described as the industry's first autonomous agents designed for the enterprise and established the Work AI Institute in partnership with researchers from Stanford and Harvard.
The growth was fueled by a June 2025 Series F funding round that secured $150 million at a $7.2 billion valuation.
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