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Glean vs Cognition by Mindcorp

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. Only Glean ships a public API.

GleanPermission-aware search and agents across company applicationsCognition by MindcorpRoutes research, analysis, and strategy questions through a library of specialized AI virtual experts, not one chatbot.

Side by side

FactGleanCognition by Mindcorp
CategoryPersonal & Enterprise SearchAI Agents & Autonomous Workers
Pricing modelContactContact
Public APIYesNo
PlatformsWeb, API, Slack App, Chrome ExtWeb
CompanyGlean TechnologiesMindcorp.ai
Launched20192023
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 1, 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

Cognition by Mindcorp

Cognition's pitch is a library of specialized AI virtual experts rather than a single general-purpose chatbot, aimed at Fortune 500-scale research and strategy work. Because there's no pricing page and no case studies verified directly, judging real-world results means relying on the vendor's own description and the founder's track record.

Pros

  • Splits work across specialized virtual experts instead of one general model
  • Covers a wide span of knowledge work: research, strategy, design, planning, execution
  • Founded by Nova Spivack, an entrepreneur with a public track record in prior AI and semantic-web startups

Cons

  • No pricing published anywhere; every deal requires a sales conversation
  • No independent case studies or customer names were found during this research to verify enterprise results
  • The claimed count of virtual experts is a vendor figure we could not independently verify

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 Cognition by Mindcorp if you need

  • Enterprise teams handling commercial due diligence or strategic planning
  • Professionals wanting task-specific AI experts instead of one general assistant
  • Organizations already used to sales-led enterprise software purchases

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