T.R. Vishwanath

Co-Founder & CTO, Glean

Search every verified T.R. Vishwanath interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. T.R. Vishwanath, co-founder and CTO of Glean, has discussed the company's focus on enterprise AI for workplace productivity. In a May 2026 interview, he stated that Glean is primarily focused on making knowledge workers more productive and that while the company allows some external support via AI, that is not its core focus. He described Glean's approach to AI as ensuring answers are "grounded in data" with citations, and he said that search itself does not hallucinate, though the relevance of results can be subjective. He advised viewers to "get start using these technologies" and "figure out where the limits are." In an October 2025 conversation, Vishwanath defined an AI agent as an application that can "autonomously reason and take action to solve a business goal end to end." He noted that coding agents are working well and predicted that agentic flows would make tasks like communicating, creating, and collaborating easier for knowledge workers. At a May 2024 panel on security and privacy in generative AI, he discussed the importance of safeguarding data integrity, locking down access, and using secret managers rather than putting secrets in code. He also emphasized the need for guardrails, visibility, and auditing when introducing generative AI into organizations.