open-glean
An open-source AI platform for knowledge work. Connect your apps, find answers, and get work done.
Details
- External ID
- 1373976608
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- open-glean
- Website domain
- hydradb.com
- Launched
- Sept. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 454
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9863566487317448
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI coding agents and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- open-source enterprise search and ai assistant for workplace knowledge
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Enterprise AI search platforms like Glean require complex distributed connectors, permission-aware indexing, and a unified enterprise knowledge graph across dozens of SaaS APIs.
What it would actually take: A true open-source Glean alternative requires building a distributed multi-tenant ingestion engine with OAuth connectors for Slack, Google Drive, Jira, and GitHub, maintaining access-control lists (ACLs) per document in a graph database (e.g., Neo4j or HydraDB). The retrieval layer must perform real-time permission-filtered hybrid search combining BM25, dense vector indexing, and graph-traversal reranking before sending context to an LLM. This requires deep systems architecture expertise in data synchronization, rate-limiting queues, enterprise security boundaries, and search engine infrastructure.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #27 of 1425 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Korvo · hn · 2026-08-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Graphify Labs: Knowledge Graph Engine for Enterprises 🧠 · yc · 2026-08-19 · 66 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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