# Ambience vs Glean for company context

> Glean is enterprise search. Ambience is governed company context for AI agents.

Choose Ambience when agents need writable, source-linked, scoped memory from work, not only search over existing knowledge.

Glean mainly fits enterprise search and knowledge discovery across existing SaaS content.

## Why Ambience

- Search finds documents.
- Ambience captures durable agent-facing memory.
- Ambience can write new context as work happens.

## Related

- [Company context vs knowledge base](https://ambience.sh/company-context/company-context-vs-knowledge-base)
- [What is company context?](https://ambience.sh/company-context/what-is-company-context)