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Glean vs Jigso Sidekick

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. Both ship a public API.

GleanPermission-aware search and agents across company applicationsJigso SidekickWatches Slack, Salesforce, Drive, Gmail and calendar for deal risk and action items, and reports back in Slack

Side by side

FactGleanJigso Sidekick
CategoryPersonal & Enterprise SearchPersonal & Enterprise Search
Pricing modelContactContact
Public APIYesYes
PlatformsWeb, API, Slack App, Chrome ExtWeb, Slack App, API
CompanyGlean TechnologiesJigso
Launched2019—
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Glean

Glean is the reference implementation of permission-aware enterprise search, and permissions are the hard part everyone else underestimates. It is also priced so that only companies with a real sprawl problem can justify it.

Pros

  • Permission inheritance from each connected system is done properly, not approximated
  • Answers cite and link the underlying documents rather than paraphrasing them away
  • Connector coverage across the mainstream SaaS estate is broad
  • Commercially solid: about $300M ARR by May 2026 at a $7.2B valuation

Cons

  • No published price anywhere, and contracts start in six figures
  • Value depends entirely on connector coverage of your specific stack
  • Index quality inherits whatever mess exists in the source systems
  • Overlaps increasingly with Microsoft and Google's bundled offerings, which cost nothing extra

Jigso Sidekick

The useful idea is inversion: instead of asking a chatbot what happened, Jigso monitors your connected apps and tells you when a deal slips or an action item goes unowned, surfacing it in Slack where the team already is. It now exposes an MCP endpoint and an API, which makes it wire-able. The problems are commercial rather than technical — nothing is priced, the Sidekick name buyers may be searching for is gone, and every headline metric on the site is the vendor's own.

Pros

  • Monitors connected apps and pushes alerts rather than requiring a query
  • Automatic action-item detection and reminders drawn from conversations
  • Cross-app search over pipeline, tickets, clients, files and topics
  • Publishes an MCP endpoint and an API for connecting other tools

Cons

  • No published pricing at all — demo request is the only route
  • The Sidekick product name has been retired with no redirect target explaining it
  • Headline figures on risk detection and churn accuracy are vendor-supplied and unaudited
  • No company address, country or founding year is disclosed on the site

Which one fits

Choose Glean if you need

  • Organisations above roughly 500 people whose knowledge is scattered across a dozen SaaS tools
  • Regulated or security-conscious buyers who need source-system permissions honoured exactly
  • Teams building internal agents that need governed access to company context

Choose Jigso Sidekick if you need

  • Revenue and customer-success teams tracking risk across Slack, Salesforce and email
  • Meeting prep that needs a cross-app answer rather than a single-source search
  • Slack-first organisations that resist adding another dashboard

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