Enterprise setup can be complex
Glean is designed for complex environments – requiring deeper technical setup and ongoing configuration. For some teams, this goes beyond what they can manage day to day.
Happeo vs. Glean
Which search platform is right for your organization?
Compare how Happeo and Glean approach enterprise search — from complexity and governance to cost and day-to-day usability.
Why teams look for a Glean alternative
Glean is a powerful enterprise search platform built for large, complex organizations. Mid-sized and scaling teams often look for a different balance of capability, simplicity, and cost predictability.
Costs can be harder to forecast with usage
With pricing influenced by seats and AI usage, some organizations prefer a model that’s easier to predict and plan for long term — especially as adoption increases across the business.
Answer accuracy can be harder to validate
While AI-powered answers can be fast and expansive, some teams look for results that remain tightly grounded in verified documents and are easy for employees to check and trust.
How Happeo takes a different approach
Simple to roll out and govern
Happeo connects directly to your tools and respects existing permissions without requiring custom routing or engineering work.
Predictable pricing
Simple, seat-based pricing – with integrations and usage costs included. No variable API fees or fluctuating model costs.
Built on retrieval, enhanced by AI
Happeo finds the right content first and uses AI to summarize and clarify it — giving teams fast answers without losing visibility into the source.
Designed for broad adoption
Search should work for everyone, not just technical teams. Happeo keeps the experience simple enough for everyday use across the organization.
Powers knowledge discovery
Surfaces related knowledge hubs, people, and resources alongside results — helping teams uncover information they didn’t know existed.
Search built for trusted answers
One search for all your tools
Happeo retrieves documents, files, and conversations from tools like Google Drive, SharePoint, and Slack through live connections — without moving or duplicating content. Results stay up to date because everything remains in your source systems.
Secure, role-based access
Search respects the existing permissions within each connected system. Results are retrieved based on each user’s access rights at the source, ensuring people only see content they’re authorized to view.
Clear, AI-generated answers
Employees can ask questions in natural language, and Happeo generates summarized answers grounded in verified internal content — always linked back to the original sources for transparency.
Verified source transparency
Each answer shows the specific files, pages, or messages that informed the result. People can trace responses back to their origins and quickly open the underlying content.
Multi-language support and translation
Happeo interprets queries in over 100 languages. Users can select their preferred language for results or translate content instantly when working across regions.
Built-in quality control
Answers include a confidence indicator to help teams judge reliability, with user feedback feeding into Search Analytics. When searches fail, they’re marked as knowledge gaps so teams can strengthen and refine their knowledge base.
Trusted by teams like yours
“Our digital toolset currently comprises around 20 different tools. Finding what we needed meant going through different databases and not always finding the right document. With Happeo, we're able to search across various platforms such as Jira, Sharepoint, and OneDrive.”
“The way we consume information with Happeo is very efficient because we can search and find what we need in a tangible way and recycle and reuse some of the work we already have.”
Security and governance built in
Search uses permission aware retrieval and integrates with your SSO and compliance protocols. Users only see content they are authorized to view across connected systems, supporting secure and well governed knowledge access.
User data is stored securely in Google Cloud
ISO 27001 Certification
GDPR compliance
SSO authentication
Search across the tools you already use
Connect knowledge from your existing platforms into one intelligent search experience.
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A comparison of search approaches
Deployment complexity
Cost model
Intelligence model
Governance and permissioning
Adoption and usability
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Connects quickly with minimal configuration and no engineering dependencies.
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Seat based pricing with integrations and usage included.
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Retrieval first accuracy with optional AI summaries for clarity.
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Mirrors your existing source permissions without manual setup.
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Designed to be straightforward and usable for scaling companies across every department.
Glean
Requires deeper technical setup routing and ongoing management.
AI centric pricing with usage considerations that can scale unpredictably.
Leans heavily on generative answers.
Requires prior indexing and structured permissions routing.
Optimized for technical teams and larger enterprises.
FAQ
How does Happeo ensure security without indexing my documents?
Happeo uses a retrieval-based approach where the search query and results are passed to Happeo’s backend for synthesis, but we do not store the document content. Results are pulled directly from the source application’s search API and are always permission-aware. This ensures employees only see content they are authorized to view.
Is Happeo suitable for our complex IT stack?
Happeo integrates seamlessly as a connective governance layer built to work with your existing stack. We support standard tools like Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, Jira, Salesforce – and many more. Our focus is low-maintenance integrations that ensure consistency and reliability.
Does Happeo deliver the same productivity benefits as enterprise tools?
Enterprise solutions like Glean have quantified that improved search leads to substantial benefits, such as saving employees over 100 hours annually in search time. Happeo offers these high-impact capabilities in a pragmatic and cost-effective package to help reduce friction, accelerate ramp-up, and increase throughput of your teams.
