Glean Alternative for Small Teams | Context Link | Context Link
One place for AI to talk to your business
A Glean alternative for teams that move fast
Glean is a powerful enterprise search platform, but it starts at $50K+/year, needs IT to deploy, and asks your team to work inside another app. Context Link gives small teams one place for AI to talk to their business, inside the AI tools they already use. Connect your sources, ask source-backed questions from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot with citations on every answer, and save settled decisions as Memories that every AI reads the latest version of. No enterprise contract, no months-long rollout.
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Key differences
- Glean is an enterprise search platform with $50K+/year contracts and multi-week deployments.
- Context Link runs inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, no new app to adopt.
- Connect Notion, Google Docs, Google Drive, email, Basecamp, websites, and uploaded files in minutes, not weeks.
- Every answer is source-backed with citations; sources sync every 24 hours, and settled decisions can be saved as Memories that every connected AI reads the latest version of.
- Built for teams of 3-200, not 500+.
Use your existing AI
With your existing knowledge sources
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Which Should You Choose?
Choose Glean If...
- You have 500+ employees and a dedicated IT team to manage deployment.
- You need enterprise-wide search across 100+ apps (Salesforce, Jira, ServiceNow, Workday).
- You require deep compliance controls, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, fine-grained ACLs.
- You want AI agents that automate multi-step enterprise workflows.
- You can commit to $50K+/year contracts and a multi-week onboarding process.
Choose Context Link If...
- You're a team of 3-200 that uses AI every day.
- You want source-backed answers with citations inside the AI tools you already use, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot.
- You need to connect Notion, Google Docs, Google Drive, email (Gmail, Outlook, Zoho, Fastmail, IMAP), Basecamp, websites, or uploaded files.
- You want to be set up this afternoon, not next quarter.
- You want to save settled decisions as Memories, so every AI tool on the team reads the latest version.
Feature comparison
| Capability | Glean |
Context Link |
|---|---|---|
| Where you work | Glean's own app, browser extension, and sidebar | Inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, the AI tools you already use |
| AI model | Model Hub, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta (but you still work in Glean's interface) | Model-agnostic, works across any AI tool, switch freely as models improve |
| Connectors | 100+ enterprise apps (Salesforce, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Workday, etc.) | Notion, Google Docs, Google Drive, email (Gmail, Outlook, Zoho, Fastmail, IMAP), Basecamp, any website, uploaded files (PDFs, Word, Markdown), and custom connections (your AI pushes content from any service it can reach) |
| Setup time | 3-6 weeks (IT-led deployment, sales process required) | Minutes (self-serve, no IT needed) |
| Pricing | ~$45-50+/user/month, $50K+ annual minimum, 100+ seat floor | SMB-friendly per-seat pricing, no enterprise minimums, no 'contact sales' |
| Team size | Designed for 500+ employees | Built for teams of 3-200 |
| Memories (save the latest truth) | No equivalent, Glean is enterprise search and agent automation; it doesn't give AI a place to save knowledge back | AI and humans save settled decisions as Memories: named, canonical docs with version history, so every connected AI reads the latest version |
| Direct question answering (Q&A) | 'Ask Glean' inside Glean's app, browser extension, or sidebar | Ask Question skill invoked from inside ChatGPT or Claude: \ask-question [question] or "ask Context Link what …". Returns one grounded paragraph with numbered citations. Secondary to the primary get context on [topic] workflow |
| Best for | Enterprise-wide AI search, agents, and workflow automation across hundreds of apps | Giving small teams one connected knowledge base inside the AI they already use: source-backed answers with citations, kept in sync every 24 hours |
The Real Differentiation
Glean
Glean is a powerful enterprise AI platform. It indexes your company's apps, builds an 'enterprise graph' of your organisation's knowledge, and makes it searchable through its own AI interface. It supports multiple LLMs via its Model Hub and can automate workflows with AI agents. But your team still works inside Glean, another app to adopt, another login, another interface to learn. And for teams under a few hundred people, the $50K+ annual minimum and multi-week deployment are hard to justify.
Context Link
Context Link takes the opposite approach. Instead of building another app, it runs inside the AI tools your team already uses, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot. Connect your knowledge sources once (Notion, Google Docs, Google Drive, email, Basecamp, websites, uploaded files) and they become one connected knowledge base, kept in sync every 24 hours. Ask from any connected AI and every answer comes back source-backed with citations. When something settles into a decision, save it as a Memory: a named, canonical doc that every AI reads the latest version of.
Glean is another app to adopt. Context Link is one place for AI to talk to your business, inside the apps you already have.
Meet your team where they already work
Your team stays on the best AI tools for them — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot. Context Link upgrades every conversation with your company's actual knowledge. Easy adoption, zero workflow disruption.
FAQ
Is Context Link a direct replacement for Glean?
Not exactly, they serve different markets. Glean is enterprise AI search and workflow automation across 100+ apps, designed for organisations with 500+ employees. Context Link gives small teams one connected knowledge base: sources synced every 24 hours, source-backed answers with citations from inside the AI you already use, and Memories for saving settled decisions. If you're a team of 3-200 that wants AI grounded in your actual business content, Context Link is the better fit.
How does Glean's pricing compare to Context Link?
Glean doesn't publish pricing; you have to go through enterprise sales. Context Link has published, SMB-friendly per-seat pricing with no minimums and a free trial.
Can I use Context Link with ChatGPT AND Claude?
Yes. Context Link is model-agnostic. The same connected sources and Memories are available from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. Different team members can use different AI tools and still pull from the same knowledge base.
What are Memories?
A Memory is a named, canonical document that holds the latest version of something your business wants AI to reuse: a positioning statement, an ICP definition, a pricing rationale. AI or a human saves it once, then any AI tool connected to Context Link can retrieve it later. Updating a Memory replaces the old truth while keeping version history, so AI always reads the latest version.