Glean and Corivo both care about work context. The product shape is different.
Glean is an enterprise work AI and search platform. Corivo is a Mac-native local agent that runs with you on your machine. One is built for company-wide knowledge access; the other is built for the moment where you are looking at work and want an agent to act.
TL;DR
- Glean is strongest when a company wants an enterprise-grade search and assistant layer over workplace systems, permissions, and knowledge sources.
- Corivo is strongest when an individual knowledge worker wants a local agent that already knows the active screen, recent project context, and connected tools.
They can coexist. Glean can be the enterprise knowledge surface; Corivo can be the local agent that acts in your workflow.
What Glean does well
Glean is designed for organizations:
- Search across company knowledge sources.
- Answer questions grounded in workplace content.
- Respect enterprise permissions and admin needs.
- Provide AI assistant and agent surfaces around company knowledge.
That is a different center of gravity from a personal Mac agent.
What Corivo adds
Corivo is built around your active work:
- Native screen context. It reads the active app through macOS accessibility APIs, with no screenshots.
- Local-first context. The working memory lives on your Mac.
- Connected tools. Notion, Slack, Gmail, Calendar, GitHub, GitLab, Linear, Google Docs, Sentry, Intercom, Mem, Feishu, and more.
- Executable agent. You give a command and Corivo acts where you are.
Side by side
| Glean | Corivo | |
|---|---|---|
| Core surface | Enterprise work AI/search | Mac-native local agent |
| Primary buyer | Company / IT / enterprise teams | Individual and team knowledge workers |
| Screen context | Not the core shape | Yes — accessibility APIs, no screenshots |
| Local-first posture | Enterprise cloud/service model | Local-first on your Mac |
| Acts in your workflow | Assistant and agent surfaces | Local agent that executes commands from your current context |
| Best fit | Company-wide knowledge access | Ambient personal work context and action |
When each one wins
Use Glean when the main job is making company knowledge searchable and answerable across an organization.
Use Corivo when the main job is removing briefing from your daily AI use: the ticket on screen, the doc you were editing, the Slack thread you just read, the error you are triaging.