Comparison · AI assistants
Curiosity and Glean
Cloud companies, or the industrial estate
Curiosity connects complex industrial data; Glean focuses on cloud applications.
Your data · your environment
Who each tool is for
Different problems, honestly stated
Curiosity
For industrial and regulated teams whose knowledge sits in engineering systems and structured records, where the answer depends on how those records connect, and where the deployment has to run on their own infrastructure.
Glean
A work assistant that searches across cloud applications such as Slack, Google Drive, Jira and Salesforce, building an index and a graph of people, content and activity to answer questions over them. It runs as a cloud service and targets productivity for knowledge workers in general.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
Glean is built for organizations whose knowledge lives in a modern SaaS stack. Curiosity is built for teams whose knowledge lives in engineering systems and structured records, and runs on their own infrastructure.
Built for the industrial estate
General assistants are tuned for cloud collaboration tools. Curiosity connects engineering systems, data lakes, network drives and proprietary sources.
Structured context, not a chat layer
The graph models entities and relationships, so answers reason over how records connect rather than over retrieved passages.
On your infrastructure
On premises or private cloud, with data residency you control and the model of your choice.
Side by side
Feature comparison
The same five questions, answered for both.
Deployment
Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use
Cloud, single tenant
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Search over documents
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Horizontal, knowledge workers
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
SaaS apps and files
Residency
EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure
US cloud
At Airbus, we developed the next generation of customer support AI assistance tools with Curiosity, enhancing our technical support’s ability to access and navigate vast data from multiple sources, including millions of documents.
Services Innovation Team
Airline Services at Airbus
AI assistants
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CompareYour data. Your infrastructure.