Move your team from Dropbox Dash to Glean.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in Glean — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Dropbox Dash is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Both products offer a natural-language chat interface that synthesises answers from connected workplace content with source citations. To move from Dash to Glean: connect the same cloud sources (Google Drive, Slack, Confluence, etc.) via Glean's 275+ connectors; users then switch to app.glean.com (or the desktop/mobile app) and ask questions in Glean Assistant rather than the Dash chat bar. Existing Dash chat history is not exportable — inform users that prior conversations will not carry over. To move from Glean to Dash: connect the same sources via Dash's OAuth admin console (21 connectors available); users access AI chat at dash.dropbox.com. Glean Assistant also supports extended 'thinking' modes and agentic task execution that have no Dash equivalent.
- Warning: Dash supports 21 named connectors; Glean supports 275+, so teams using HR (Workday, BambooHR), CRM (HubSpot, Zendesk), or engineering tools (GitLab, Azure DevOps) outside Dash's connector list will lose AI coverage on those sources when moving to Dash.
- Warning: Glean's advanced thinking modes (deep research, premium-model selection via Model Hub with OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini) consume FlexCredits; Dash's AI chat is included at the flat Teams/Business per-seat price with no metered add-ons documented.
- Warning: Neither product exports conversation history — prior AI chat sessions are not portable to the new platform.
Both products connect to workplace SaaS apps via OAuth-based admin setup to make their content searchable and AI-referenceable. To migrate from Dash to Glean: in Glean's admin console, add connectors for each app currently connected in Dash (Google Drive, Gmail, OneDrive, Slack, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Asana, Salesforce, GitHub, Zoom, etc. — all are available in Glean's connector library). Glean connectors also sync ACLs from source systems. Additional apps exclusive to Dash's 21-connector list (Smartsheet, Lucid, Canva, Miro) are also available in Glean's broader catalogue. To migrate from Glean to Dash: identify which of Glean's active connectors map to Dash's 21 supported apps; connect those via the Dash admin OAuth console. Any connectors outside Dash's list cannot be replicated — those sources will be unavailable.
- Warning: Glean supports 275+ connectors including four types (native, partner, MCP-based, custom via SDK); Dash offers 21 fixed connectors with no custom-connector extensibility documented, making migration from Glean to Dash lossy for any non-supported source.
- Warning: Glean connectors include live-retrieval mode (query-time fetch for email, chat, calendar) vs indexed mode; Dash does not expose this distinction — behaviour for email/calendar freshness may differ.
- Warning: Glean's connector setup requires enterprise-plan contracting; Dash connector access starts at the Teams tier ($15/user/month billed yearly), making Dash cheaper for small teams with standard SaaS stacks.
Both products inherit and enforce source-app access controls so users only see content they are already permitted to view, and both maintain compliance certifications including SOC 2. To migrate from Dash to Glean: verify that all connected apps' OAuth permissions are re-authorised in Glean's admin connector setup — Glean syncs ACLs from each source system via its identity-management integration and keeps them current in real time; no manual permission mapping is needed. Admins should review Glean's trust portal (trust.glean.com) to confirm the compliance posture (SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR) meets internal requirements. To migrate from Glean to Dash: connect the same apps via Dash's OAuth admin console; Dash inherits source permissions automatically and adds access reports and security-policy automation at the Business tier ($35/user/month).
- Warning: Glean provides a unified permissions framework across Search, Assistant, and Agents with post-processing validation and agent-level guardrails (prompt-injection defences, write-action pre-scanning); Dash's security governance is limited to access reports and policy alerts — no agentic guardrail layer is documented.
- Warning: Glean offers single-tenant cloud deployment (Glean-hosted or customer-hosted on AWS, Azure, or GCP) and zero-retention agreements with LLM providers; Dash does not publish comparable deployment-topology or zero-retention options.
- Warning: Glean's data-governance module (Active Data Governance) adds continuous sensitive-data scanning with 100+ info-types; Dash has no equivalent content-scanning layer — sensitive documents are controlled only by source-app permissions.
Both products provide a single personalised homepage that consolidates pinned resources, calendar events, and an activity or content feed from connected apps. To migrate from Dash Start Page to Glean Work Hub: after Glean connectors are set up, admins configure Work Hub in Glean's admin console — setting up the Announcements carousel, Resources section (upload or link handbooks, policies, OKRs), and People directory; users then access app.glean.com as their browser new-tab or daily launch point. Pinned items from Dash Start Page must be recreated manually in the Glean Resources section or as personal bookmarks. To migrate from Glean Work Hub to Dash Start Page: users pin the equivalent files and links from connected sources on the Dash Start Page; admins cannot centralise company-wide announcements or a people directory in Dash — those features do not exist on the Dash side.
- Warning: Glean Work Hub includes a People directory searchable by department/role/location and an Announcements carousel with targeting; Dash Start Page has no equivalent people-directory or admin-broadcast capability.
- Warning: Dash Start Page personal pins are per-user with no admin-controlled 'required resources' section; Glean Work Hub lets admins push mandatory resources (handbooks, benefits docs) to all employees.
- Warning: Neither product exports home-page configuration — pinned items and layouts must be rebuilt from scratch on the destination platform.
Both products index connected cloud apps and surface results from a single search bar using semantic relevance ranking. To migrate from Dash to Glean: audit which Dash connectors are active (Google Drive, Gmail, Slack, Confluence, Jira, etc.) and re-connect the same apps via Glean's admin connector setup at app.glean.com; Glean crawls and indexes content, which can take hours to days depending on corpus size. Users then search at app.glean.com or via the browser extension sidebar instead of the Dash search bar. To migrate from Glean to Dash: identify which of Glean's active connectors correspond to Dash's 21 supported integrations; connect those in the Dash admin console and retire Glean. No search-history or saved-search migration path exists in either product — saved searches or pinned results must be recreated.
- Warning: Glean indexes 275+ connectors vs Dash's 21; a team relying on ServiceNow, GitHub, HubSpot, Workday, or other apps outside Dash's connector set will lose cross-app search coverage on those sources when switching to Dash.
- Warning: Glean's initial index crawl can take significant time for large corpora; plan for a gap period before search quality matches the current Glean setup.
- Warning: Dash explicitly supports advanced image search in universal queries; Glean's documentation does not highlight equivalent image search across connected apps.