Glean is good at search.
Glean connects to hundreds of work apps (Slack, Google Drive, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub, Salesforce and more), respects the permissions people already have, and answers questions with sources. It also drafts summaries and runs agents for multistep work (glean.com, checked 2026-10-29). If the problem is "people can't find things", Glean is built for it.
A new hire doesn't know what to search for.
Search assumes you know the question. In week one, a new hire doesn't know that the pricing change last spring matters to their role, who quietly owns the enterprise accounts, or why the billing service works the way it does. An answer box is only as useful as the questions someone thinks to type.
Firstweek writes the document, cites it, and gets it approved.
Firstweek reads the same kinds of sources and writes the actual story for one person: the company, the team, the role and what is happening now. Every claim links to the thread, page or record it came from, and the hiring manager approves it before the new hire sees it.
Glean answers the questions your team knows to ask, across the whole company. Firstweek writes the document a new hire needs before they know which questions exist, cites every claim and gets it approved.
Questions
Yes, and keep Glean. Glean is the search layer everyone uses every day. Firstweek is one written onboarding artifact per new hire, approved by their hiring manager, delivered before day one.
No. There's nothing to search. The new hire receives a finished document with a citation behind every claim.
Compare Firstweek with: an onboarding checklist · your company wiki · an AI chatbot · BambooHR · Pyn · Highspot and Seismic · Guru · Tettra · Workday · Rippling · Confluence AI and Google Drive AI · Trainual
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Run Firstweek on your next real hire. 30 days. Then we talk about whether it's worth keeping.