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Glean CPO: MCP runtime fetching cannot replace offline-processed enterprise context

Chief Product Officer, Glean · Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey · Sep 2, 2026 · at 10:51

Glean's Chief Product Officer explains the architectural limits of runtime context protocols compared to background batch processing of enterprise organizational data.

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“The key thing is MCP, as much independence as it brings, it's a very runtime fetch of information. You are bound by the latency or you are bound by the search APIs under the hood provided by these themes. So it's a very different paradigm when you rely on High compute, offline processed information of connecting the dots between different employees, teams, projects, subsidiaries, organizations, companies you have, you might have acquired over the last decades, et cetera, and processing them offline to actually develop a superior context and understanding of the real-time Pulse of the organization.”

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