ZenSearch, in context.
Honest comparisons against enterprise search, search engines, open-source toolkits, and personal AI — so you can see what's genuinely different about an AI coworker, and where another tool is the better fit.
Head to Head
Pick a matchup.
Feature Matrix
The coworker capabilities, side by side.
A high-level overview. Each comparison page has the full feature-by-feature breakdown.
| Capability | ZenSearch | Glean | Algolia | Elastic | Onyx |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cited AI answers | Ranked results | DIY | |||
AI agents with tool calling | Limited | Basic | |||
Approval-gated write actions | Basic | ||||
Risk-tier governance (T0–T5) | |||||
Automations (cron / email / event) | Limited | ||||
Multi-agent delegation | |||||
Self-improving procedural memory | |||||
NL-to-SQL database queries | DIY | ||||
Built-in guardrails | Basic | None | None | Basic | |
Hybrid search (dense + sparse) | NeuralSearch | Configure | |||
18 enterprise connectors | 100+ | API / crawler | Build your own | Limited | |
Slack / Teams surfaces | Slack | Slack | |||
True on-premise / air-gapped | Self-hosted | Self-hosted | |||
Bring your own LLM | N/A | DIY |
What's Different
Why teams pick the coworker.
Acts, doesn't just answer
Beyond retrieval: agents that post replies, update records, and run jobs on a schedule — each write approval-gated.
Governed end to end
Risk tiers T0–T5, cross-surface approvals, document-level RBAC, and a full audit trail with reasoning on every run.
Yours to run
On-premise or air-gapped, with bring-your-own-LLM — including fully local models. Your data never leaves your network.
Get Started
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yourself.
Try ZenSearch in the live demo, or talk to our team about a deployment shaped to your environment.