A Glean alternative for teams that also answer customers
If you are a mid-sized organisation that wants cited answers from its own documents - for staff and for customers - without an enterprise search contract, this page is for you.
- Team chat with citations
- Customer widget and drafts
- Fewer connectors than Glean
Why look for a Glean alternative?
Usually for one of two reasons. Scale: Glean is built and priced for large enterprises with many apps to search, and a mid-sized team may need only its drives, wiki and help centre. Audience: Glean is designed for employees, while many teams need the same knowledge to answer customers on the website and in the help desk. SupaCortex covers the sources mid-sized teams use most, answers staff and customers with checked citations, and is sold on published plans.
- Keep: cited answers across your drives, wiki and documents.
- Gain: a public website widget and help-desk reply drafts.
- Gain: past tickets as reviewed, redacted Q&A.
- Give up: most of Glean's connectors and per-user permission sync.
- Give up: answers in Slack and Microsoft Teams (on our roadmap).
An honest ledger
What you keep
The everyday use most mid-sized teams have for enterprise search.
- Answers across Google Drive, SharePoint and Confluence (beta), uploads and websites.
- Citations on every answer, naming the document, section and project.
- Google and Microsoft sign-in, roles and two-step verification.
- A private chat history for each person.
What you gain
The reasons teams choose SupaCortex in the first place.
- A website and in-app widget that answers customers from a customer-facing project.
- Cited reply drafts in UnifyDesk or any desk on the Draft API.
- A confidence gate that says "not enough evidence" instead of guessing.
- Open models on infrastructure we operate; documents not sent to a third-party AI API.
- Published plans; website visitors and app users are never seats.
What you give up
Stated plainly, because you would find out in week two otherwise.
- Most of Glean's connector catalogue - no Slack, Jira, Notion or CRM as sources.
- Per-user permission mirroring: access is by project, not by each file's sharing.
- Answers inside Slack or Microsoft Teams - on our roadmap, not built.
- Security certifications such as SOC 2 - we do not hold them today.
If every employee must see only what each source lets them open, across dozens of apps, stay with Glean. We would rather say that here.
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Questions people ask before they start
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