We’ve been building @Glean with this in mind. The model layer will keep moving quickly, but in the enterprise, much of the value will come from the applied layer that has the right context and can route work across models based on the task, cost, latency, and quality required.
That’s what makes an agent useful. It comes down to context: what it can see, what it can do, what constraints it understands, and how well its work fits into the workflow around it.
This layer also compounds over time. Every interaction can improve retrieval, routing, evaluation, and the system’s understanding of how work actually gets done. The system gets better through use.
→ 2 hours saved per employee, every week
→ $2.7M+ in owner change orders reviewed and processed by agents
→ 90% company engagement
How does a major infrastructure firm get results like that?
McCarthy Holdings, Inc. used Glean to give teams better context, connect scattered information, and turn manual work into faster workflows.
Our thoughts on the importance of AI sovereignty.
1. Your AI sovereignty dictates your institution’s future. Sovereignty is the precondition for choice. Relinquishing sovereignty transfers the future choices of your institution to others, who are likely to exploit it for their gain and your loss.
2. Data retention is your treasure. Transfer it at your own peril. Your ability to win is dictated by your ability to recognize and use your unique edges, and you keep winning by compounding the underlying data to generate new insights. Transferring that data hands over access to your pre-existing winning plays and yields the means of production for new ones.
3. Tokenmaxxing hijacks your value orientation and decreases your institutional fortitude and intelligence. The pursuit of high token usage incentivizes disposable scripts over robust software — with the addictive feeling of false progress. There is a reason why those selling tokens refuse to charge based on value.
4. Controlling your weights is controlling your fate. Weights are the distilled form of hard-won, accumulated institutional knowledge. If you let others control your weights, you are allowing them to migrate the alpha of your business to theirs.
5. There is no contradiction between sovereignty and alpha. The architecture that maximally preserves sovereignty is one that enables institutions to own their tribal knowledge, and to compound it as alpha.
6. Politicizing the technical issues involving sovereignty is what your adversary wants. Techno-politicization is the wellspring of false sovereignty. Techno-politicization drives decisions that seem to reduce dependency, but ultimately limit agency — especially on the battlefield in the West.
7. Real expertise is existential. Allowing politics or favoritism to determine your technical decisions rewards whoever is best at politics, not whoever is right. Listen to those closest to the problems, not those speaking most compellingly about them.
8. Learn from institutions that are winning or that have consistently delivered. Institutions facing existential threats do not have the luxury of making technical decisions based on political preferences.
9. Only listen to institutions, countries, and people who have a proven record of being right. A track record of correctness is the best and only signal for future correctness. Judging something as right or wrong based on who you like is exceedingly misguided.
The best coworkers act independently and collaborate where work happens, and that’s no different for an AI coworker.
Our new independent agents have identity, context, memory, proactivity, and accountability built in so they can act on their own while staying within the permissions, policies, and guardrails your organization sets.
Watch an independent agent work with oncall engineers to take an issue from start to finish 👇
@GergelyOrosz@karpathy Yep. This is why customers love @glean. It pulls from the systems your company already runs on, respects permissions, works for builders, and is easy for non-technical teams too.
The era of "just use [insert closed model]" is over. Increased regulatory pressure and GPT-5.6's price shift is a reminder that closed model economics can change in a moment.
Lock-in is a bet that the price, the model, and the leader never change.
@ashwingop@glean recognized this early on, we are model agnostic, context and historical knowledge remains in the customer environment and you get all the benefits and promise of the Agentic world!
The builder isn't the moat. Everyone can ship a drag-and-drop agent now.
The moat is everything underneath: the agent seeing real company context, acting inside the permissions you already have, and a safe place to take action.
Democratization without chaos. It's the reason @Gartner_inc named @glean a Market Shaper in their Emerging Market Quadrant for No-Code Agent Builders.
POV: it’s your first week in a new role and you already have a million questions.
Zain from LinkedIn built an onboarding agent where employees can choose their role and instantly see the answers, access, and support they need to get started.
Watch what @ZainulAbiddin95 built.
“If we want the world to live in peace, we must begin with ourselves.
“Enough with insults, enough with bullying, enough with all those things that wage war between people, between communities, between countries!” — Pope Leo XIV
The perfect Father's Day message.
Pope Leo:
You’ve heard your whole life that God loves you.
But do you actually believe it?
You are precious in God’s eyes. You are unconditionally loved by Him.
Your entire life will change when you realize preparation always beats planning. Planning is based on the expectation of order. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos. Plan for order and you'll be destroyed by chaos. Prepare for chaos and you'll thrive in any condition.
Dear Takers,
I hope folks like you, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Saunders, AOC, and Nancy Pelosi watch this clip of Friedberg from the All-In Podcast talking about the ridiculous rhetoric surrounding not just Elon and his paper wealth but anyone that is a builder and wanting to make something of themselves and for society.