Buying guide
Glean alternatives for small and mid-size teams
Glean is enterprise search done well. Whether it is the right buy for a team of 20 or 200 depends on a question that comes before any vendor list: is your problem finding what was written, or knowing what was decided?
In short
Choose by the job. For one search box across many connected apps, enterprise search such as Glean fits. If a few curated files are enough context, ChatGPT Projects or Notion AI may do. If decisions happen in meetings and rarely get written down, In Parallel captures them as a structured record and serves it to every AI tool over MCP.
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Start with the job, not the vendor
Search only finds what someone wrote down. In a smaller company much of what matters is decided in meetings and chat and never written up, so there is less to index and more to capture.
- Finding existing documents and messages fast: enterprise search
- Reasoning over files one person attaches and curates: an AI assistant project
- AI over a workspace your team already keeps current: workspace AI
- Knowing what was decided and committed to: a context layer that captures it from meetings
Criteria that matter at 20 to 200 people
Smaller teams feel set-up effort and contract terms more than large ones. Weigh these before features.
- Where the context comes from: connected apps, files you attach, or meetings captured automatically
- Whether it serves the AI tools you already use over MCP, or only its own assistant
- How it stays current without someone maintaining it
- Where data is hosted, and whether it trains models
- How it is priced, and whether you can start without a long commitment
The alternatives, side by side
Each of these started somewhere different, and each answers a different version of the question.
- Glean: search across what your organisation has written, with its own assistant and APIs
- ChatGPT Projects: context you attach and maintain, inside one assistant
- Microsoft Copilot: AI over your Microsoft 365 content
- Notion AI: AI over the workspace your team keeps current
- In Parallel: decisions and commitments captured from meetings, served to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot and Cursor over MCP
Where In Parallel fits
In Parallel is not search, and many teams run it next to a search tool: search for documents, In Parallel for decisions. It is EU-hosted, never trains on your data, and costs €29 (Professional, for teams under 50 users) or €69 (Business) per user per month, billed monthly with no commitment.
FAQ
Common questions
- What is the main difference between Glean and In Parallel?
- Glean searches across what your organisation has written. In Parallel builds a structured, current record of what your organisation decided and committed to, captured from meetings, and serves it to AI tools over MCP.
- Can a small team run In Parallel alongside a search tool?
- Yes. They solve different problems: search finds existing content, and In Parallel captures the decisions and commitments that often never get written down. Both can serve AI tools.
- How much does In Parallel cost for a small team?
- Professional is €29 and Business €69 per user per month, one plan for the whole company, billed monthly with no commitment. Prepaying a year costs 20% less.
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