Enterprise AI Work Copilots 2026: Glean vs UnifyApps vs Distyl AI vs Moveworks vs Aisera

We The Flywheel Research & Analysis

Published February 15, 2026

The Enterprise AI Copilot Gold Rush

Every employee in a Fortune 500 company uses an average of 35 SaaS applications. Information is scattered across Slack threads, Confluence pages, Salesforce records, Jira tickets, and SharePoint drives. Finding what you need — let alone acting on it — burns hours every week.

Enterprise AI work copilots promise to fix this by creating an intelligent layer between employees and their tools. But the market has fractured into fundamentally different approaches:

• Glean — an AI-native search platform that evolved into autonomous agents
• UnifyApps — a purpose-built enterprise AI operating system for building and orchestrating agents
• Distyl AI — an elite deployment partner that builds custom AI systems for Fortune 500
• Moveworks — an employee copilot for IT and HR, now supercharged by ServiceNow's $2.85B acquisition
• Aisera — a multi-agent service automation platform with native agent-to-agent coordination

These companies share a market category but solve different problems with fundamentally different business models. Choosing the right one depends less on features and more on how your organization consumes AI.

Head-to-Head Comparison

Glean: The Enterprise Graph

Glean started as enterprise search and evolved into the most complete AI work platform in this comparison. Its moat is the Enterprise Graph — a proprietary knowledge layer that maps relationships between people, documents, projects, and permissions across 100+ integrated applications.

Search That Understands Context

Unlike traditional search engines that match keywords, Glean's search understands organizational context. Results are personalized based on your role, team, recent activity, and access permissions. Every query respects source-level permissions — employees only see what they are authorized to access in the original tool. This permissions-aware approach eliminated the security concerns that plagued earlier enterprise search products.

From Search to Agents

Glean's third-generation assistant (launched September 2025) and Agentic Engine 2 transformed the platform from passive search to active automation. Agents can interpret instructions, collect data across tools, make decisions, and adapt plans in real time. The no-code agent builder lets anyone create autonomous agents in minutes, not months — and the platform now powers over 100 million agent actions annually.

In December 2025, Glean launched fully autonomous agents that handle end-to-end tasks: from gathering context across Salesforce and Jira to drafting responses and updating records. The Work AI Institute, a first-of-its-kind research initiative, studies how enterprises actually adopt and scale AI in the workplace.

The Numbers

$765 million raised across six rounds. $7.2 billion valuation. Revenue doubled from $100M to $200M+ ARR in just nine months (February to December 2025). Named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2025. Partnership with Microsoft for Agent 365 integration.

Trade-Offs

Glean's pricing starts at $50+ per user per month with mandatory support fees (10% of ARR) and requires a 100-user minimum ($60K ACV). AWS-only deployment limits options for Azure-centric organizations. The platform is strongest as a knowledge layer — if your primary need is building complex custom agents rather than searching and acting on existing knowledge, UnifyApps or Distyl may be better fits.

UnifyApps: The Enterprise AI Operating System

UnifyApps launched in 2023 — immediately after the ChatGPT inflection point — with a thesis that enterprises need a unified operating system for AI, not another point solution. The platform combines agent building, app development, workflow automation, and data management in a single layer.

Purpose-Built for the AI Era

While competitors like ServiceNow and Salesforce are retrofitting AI onto platforms built in the 2000s, UnifyApps was designed from scratch for generative AI. The platform offers four agent types: RAG agents for knowledge retrieval, Workflow agents that convert prompts to automated workflows, Simple agents for task automation, and Advanced agents for complex enterprise decision-making. A master agent orchestrates specialized agents working together.

1,000+ Connectors, Zero Lock-In

UnifyApps integrates with over 1,000 enterprise applications — Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, SAP, and hundreds more. Critically, the platform is LLM-agnostic: you choose the optimal model for each use case rather than being locked to a single vendor's AI. Deployment options span AWS, Azure, GCP, VPC, or fully on-premise.

The Sprinklr Connection

In October 2025, Sprinklr founder Ragy Thomas joined as Co-CEO alongside a $50M Series B at $250M valuation. Thomas built Sprinklr from startup to $600M revenue public company — his playbook of "unified platform versus point solutions" is now being applied to enterprise AI. The company reports 600%+ year-over-year revenue growth and serves banking, telecom, healthcare, retail, and public sector customers globally.

Trade-Offs

UnifyApps is still early-stage compared to Glean or Moveworks. No public pricing makes budget planning difficult. The breadth of capabilities (agents + apps + automation + data) can create complexity — organizations with simpler needs may find it over-engineered. Enterprise search, while supported through connectors, is not the primary differentiator the way it is for Glean.

Distyl AI: The Palantir of Generative AI

Distyl AI does not sell software licenses. It deploys elite engineering teams — veterans of Palantir, OpenAI, and Apple — to build custom AI-native systems for the world's largest enterprises. You buy an outcome, not a capability.

The Distillery Platform

At the core is Distillery, a proprietary platform that transforms standard operating procedures into "Routines" — auditable AI workflows where every input, output, and decision point is tracked. Distillery converts step-by-step employee instructions into software recipes that LLMs can execute automatically. This codifies organizational knowledge in a way that scales beyond any single employee.

100% Production Record

Distyl's most remarkable claim: every engagement has shipped to production. No failed implementations. Solutions reach 120 million+ end users and have generated "hundreds of millions in operating impact" for clients. The target customers are Fortune 500 companies in healthcare, telecom, insurance, manufacturing, and financial services — organizations where reliability, workflow complexity, and data requirements make off-the-shelf tools insufficient.

$1.8 Billion Bet on Services-Led AI

In September 2025, Distyl raised $175M at a $1.8B valuation — a 9x increase from previous funding — from Lightspeed, Khosla Ventures, DST Global, and Coatue. The company recently expanded to a 15,000 sq ft office in Midtown Manhattan. This is not a moonshot startup; it is a fast-scaling enterprise with proven delivery against Fortune 500 contracts.

Trade-Offs

Distyl is not self-service. You cannot sign up and start building. Engagements require direct involvement of Distyl's engineering team, creating dependency on their capacity and creating vendor lock-in — solutions built by Distyl cannot easily be modified by clients internally. Pricing is outcome-based and custom, meaning six-figure minimum engagements. This model works for organizations willing to pay a premium for guaranteed outcomes but is inaccessible to mid-market companies.

Moveworks: The Employee Copilot (Now ServiceNow)

Moveworks pioneered the enterprise employee copilot — an AI assistant that resolves IT tickets, answers HR questions, and automates workplace requests through natural conversation. In December 2025, ServiceNow acquired Moveworks for $2.85 billion, creating the most integrated employee support platform on the market.

84% Auto-Resolution

Moveworks' headline metric is remarkable: 84% of employee support requests resolved autonomously, without human intervention. Employees ask questions in natural language through Slack, Teams, or a web portal, and Moveworks either resolves the issue directly (password resets, software provisioning, PTO inquiries) or routes it to the right team with full context. The result: 78% increase in employee satisfaction scores across deployments.

ServiceNow Integration

The acquisition combines Moveworks' conversational AI with ServiceNow's workflow automation engine — the system of record for IT operations at most large enterprises. This means Moveworks' copilot can now trigger complex ServiceNow workflows directly: provisioning access, escalating incidents, updating CMDB records, and managing change requests. For organizations already on ServiceNow, this is the tightest integration available.

Trade-Offs

Post-acquisition, Moveworks' future is tied to ServiceNow's product roadmap. Organizations not on ServiceNow may find the integration benefits less compelling. The platform is strongest in IT and HR service management — it is not a general-purpose agent platform like Glean or UnifyApps. Companies looking to build custom agents for sales, marketing, or operations will need additional tools. The acquisition also introduces enterprise pricing dynamics — expect ServiceNow's sales motion, not startup agility.

Aisera: The Multi-Agent Orchestrator

Aisera takes the most architecturally ambitious approach in this comparison: a "System of AI Agents" where domain-specific agents autonomously coordinate, make decisions, and execute workflows across enterprise functions.

Domain Agents That Talk to Each Other

Rather than a single monolithic assistant, Aisera deploys specialized agents for IT, HR, sales, facilities, and customer service. These agents communicate via native support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols — the same open standards adopted by Google, Microsoft, and AWS. When an employee asks "I need a new laptop for the project starting Monday," the IT agent handles procurement while the HR agent checks budget approval and the facilities agent arranges delivery.

Measurable Outcomes

Aisera publishes specific metrics: 84% auto-resolution rates (matching Moveworks), 55% productivity increase for support teams, and 63% operational cost reduction. The "Auto mode" enables anyone to create autonomous agents quickly, reducing the implementation overhead that plagues enterprise AI deployments.

Trade-Offs

Aisera has lower brand recognition than Glean or Moveworks, making it a harder sell to risk-averse enterprise buyers. The multi-agent architecture is powerful but adds complexity — debugging why an agent chain made a particular decision requires more sophisticated tooling than a single-agent approach. Pricing is custom and not publicly available. The company's enterprise traction, while growing, does not match Glean's $200M ARR or Moveworks' $2.85B exit validation.

Five Approaches, Five Bets

Each platform represents a distinct bet on how enterprise AI work copilots should be delivered:

Which Copilot for Which Organization

The Bottom Line

The enterprise AI work copilot market has moved past the "AI chatbot" phase into genuine workflow automation. Glean's $200M ARR proves enterprises will pay for AI that actually finds information. ServiceNow's $2.85B Moveworks acquisition confirms that AI copilots are now critical infrastructure. Distyl's $1.8B valuation shows that for complex organizations, managed AI deployment is worth a premium.

The common thread: every platform is moving from passive assistance (answer questions) to active agency (take action). Glean launched autonomous agents. UnifyApps orchestrates multi-agent workflows. Aisera coordinates domain-specific agents via open protocols. The winners in 2026 will be platforms that don't just help employees find information — they do the work.

For procurement teams evaluating these platforms: start with the problem, not the technology. If the problem is "employees can't find things," Glean is the answer. If it's "we need to automate complex workflows across fragmented tools," UnifyApps or Aisera. If it's "we need guaranteed outcomes on our most critical processes," Distyl. If it's "our IT support costs are unsustainable," Moveworks. The worst choice is trying to make one platform do everything — these are complementary, not competitive.