Glean vs Shortwave

SpecialistThe AI workspace where teams and agents get work done together

Lightning-fast email productivity suite with powerful AI triage and shortcuts, but carries a steep subscription price.

Collaborative email client combining shared inboxes, team chat, and AI assistance for streamlined workflow management.

Builds collaborative enterprise AI agents connected to company knowledge, but offers less robust out-of-the-box universal search.

Feature-rich cross-platform email client with integrated AI summarization and writing tools across multiple devices.

SpecialistBuild, share, and control AI agents that actually do the work

SpecialistVersatile AI assistant for inbox management and scheduling accessed directly via email, SMS, or WhatsApp.

Privacy-focused email client featuring cross-platform support and a built-in generative AI assistant for drafts.

SpecialistAutonomous AI executive assistant handling complex email triaging, meeting notes, and calendar scheduling.

SpecialistAutomates employee IT and HR support requests exceptionally well, but focuses less on general universal document search.

SpecialistDeploys enterprise conversational assistants and automated workflows, but lacks Glean's unified organization-wide knowledge graph search.

Creates permission-aware context graphs and routes tasks across enterprise tools, but has a smaller connector library than Glean.