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Glean has spent the year building a case for why context is the differentiator in AI success. Today it's putting its thesis to the test, with the launch of what it calls "The industry’s first autonomous agents designed for the enterprise — AI systems that reason, adapt and take action on their own."
Today's announcements come a day after the company announced it had doubled its annual recurring revenue in nine months from $100 million to $200 million.
I’m proud to share a big milestone for @Glean: we’ve surpassed $200M in ARR, doubling in just nine months. This puts Glean among the fastest-growing pure-play enterprise software companies of the decade. It’s a testament to our customers, partners, and employees across the globe… pic.twitter.com/M40BS5xYu9
— Arvind Jain (@jainarvind) December 8, 2025
AI Agents, Grounded in Enterprise Context
Glean Enterprise Context provides the foundation for these autonomous agents. Enterprise Context combines the Enterprise Graph, launched in September, the Personal Graph, introduced in May, with the platform's existing indexes, connectors and memory. A library of over 85 actions supports enterprise users in building agents that can perform complex actions, follow instructions and adapt as they go, all backed by deep contextual knowledge.
To keep the agents in check, the company set in place new security measures that complement Glean Protect:
- Agent alignment and controls — Prevents agents from operating out of scope and gives businesses granular powers to allow agent building, down to the individual level.
- Enterprise-grade data protection — Additional support for sensitivity labels in Google Drive and Microsoft Purview.
Glean's New Auto Mode for Agent Building
Glean customers have options when it comes to building these fully autonomous agents. The company introduced auto mode for AI agent building today. Auto mode, available in public beta, joins the workflow mode agent building tool, which rolled out in general availability today.
With auto mode, a person can enter an operating procedure into the Glean chat and the system will spin up an agent that decides how it will finalize the task, including troubleshooting any issues that arise along the way. The company described the difference between the two builders as the difference between flexibility and control, with auto mode providing the former and workflow mode providing the granular step by step oversight needed for sensitive tasks.
Introducing the Work AI Institute
Also announced today was the launch of the new Work AI Institute, a research center led by Rebecca Hinds, who joined Glean in July 2025 after leading the Work Innovation Lab at Asana. Eight academic experts, including leaders from Stanford, Harvard, Notre Dame and University College London, join Hinds as founding members to conduct research into how AI is changing work.
The company's decision to launch the Institute was described by Glean CMO Matt Kixmoeller as a result of working with customers, where they found "the process side of driving AI adoption is just as challenging, and often more important than the technology itself."
Hinds co-authored today's inaugural report, The AI Transformation 100, with organizational psychologist and Stanford professor Bob Sutton, who described the report as an "annotated list of 100 ideas on how AI might just accentuate the positive and dampen the negative in our workplaces."
The report consolidates feedback from over 100 leaders on what's working with AI initiatives in workplaces. Notably, it provides concrete advice on how to divide labor between AI and humans and cautions against assigning tasks to AI that require empathy. It further addresses the needed structural changes, the effect of AI on organizational structures and warns against using AI as a crutch.
Glean's 2025 Wrapped
It's safe to say 2025 was the year Glean finished its transformation from enterprise search tool to work AI platform. The rollout of Glean Agents in February set the tone, which the company followed with a quick succession of major announcements and minor improvements, including May's platform expansion which brought broader LLM support, agent interoperability, new SaaS integrations and partnerships with companies including Workday, Dell, Snowflake and Palo Alto Network.
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