Glean or Liminary

Choose between enterprise-only search (Glean) or a portable knowledge layer for everyone (Liminary).

Choose Liminary to give your small team enterprise-grade proactive in-context knowledge discovery without the $60,000 commitment or IT complexity.

Glean starts at $60,000 a year and 100 seats. Liminary starts at $29 a month, no IT department required. Glean is an enterprise search platform. It connects to over 100 tools (Salesforce, Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence), indexes everything, maps permissions, and lets employees search across their entire organisation's knowledge. For companies with 200+ people and dedicated IT teams, it's transformative.

Glean requires IT involvement for setup, connector configuration, and permission mapping. For a 10-50 person sales team, a small consultancy, or an individual professional, Glean is not an option.

The gap Glean leaves

Most professionals and small teams work below Glean's threshold. They don't have 100 seats. They don't have a dedicated IT team. They don't have $60,000 for an annual search contract. But they have the same fundamental problem: their knowledge is scattered across tools and impossible to find when they need it.

These teams and individuals cobble together a stack of ChatGPT, Google Drive, browser bookmarks, and maybe Notion. They search by opening tabs and scrolling through folders. When a new team member joins, the onboarding is "shadow someone for three months and gradually figure out where everything is."

Where Liminary fits

Liminary serves the market Glean doesn't reach. No seat minimums. No IT department required. No six-month implementation. Sign up, install the Chrome extension, start saving content, and you have a queryable knowledge base in minutes.

For small sales teams, this means: every rep can save research, competitive intelligence, and meeting notes into shared collections that the whole team can query. A new hire doesn't need to shadow anyone. They query the collection: "How do we typically handle objections around pricing?" and get an answer grounded in the team's actual playbook.

For consultants and independent professionals, this means: your accumulated knowledge persists across clients and projects. Research from one engagement enriches the next. Your expertise compounds instead of resetting.

What Liminary offers that Glean doesn't (at this scale)

Self-serve signup. No sales call, no IT involvement, no procurement process. Start in minutes.

Chrome extension for web research. Capture anything from the web into your knowledge base. Glean indexes internal tools; Liminary captures external research and web content alongside your internal work.

Personal and portable. Your knowledge base belongs to you and travels with you. Glean's knowledge belongs to the organisation. When you leave, your access goes with it.

Collections by client or project. Organise knowledge the way you actually work, not the way your company's file system is structured.

Recall in Google Docs. Your knowledge surfaces while you write. Glean's search requires you to go to Glean.

Competitive intelligence agents. Small teams can monitor competitors and prospects without a dedicated market intelligence function.

Public shareable collections. Build queryable knowledge bases that clients, colleagues, or the public can access. Glean is internal-only by design.

What Glean offers that Liminary doesn't

Glean is built to search what your IT department has already approved and connected. 

Organisation-wide permission mapping. Glean respects existing access controls across connected tools. Liminary's permissions are simpler, built around individual collections.

Who should use what

If your company has 200+ employees, a dedicated IT team, and the budget for enterprise search, Glean is the right choice. It does things Liminary cannot.

For small teams and solo professionals. If you're a small team, an independent professional, or a growing company that needs connected knowledge without the enterprise overhead, Liminary gives you the capability Glean provides at a fraction of the cost and complexity. No seat minimums. No IT required. No six-month implementation. Just your knowledge, connected and findable.

For teams Glean won't sell to. You run a 12-person consultancy. A 30-person agency. A 50-person investment firm. You have the same problem Glean solves for the enterprise: knowledge scattered across tools, new hires onboarding by osmosis, the same questions answered five times a week. 

Glean's sales team won't return your email. Liminary works the way you'd build it yourself if you had six months: shared collections by client or project, queryable team knowledge, no procurement cycle. Liminary is built to grow with your team, not lock you out at 100 seats