Glean AI vs. Tropic

Glean is well suited for any business with multiple vendors and vendor owners/approvers. They help implement controls on approvals/payments that you can't otherwise get in QBO, allow greater visibility across the organization for vendor spend, and cut down on time to manually enter and track invoices.

Incentivized

Tropic is not ideal if you only have contracts below $5k. There isn't sufficient room to successfully negotiate those down. However, if you have sizable and or multi-year contracts, this is where they excel because they have a lot of real life data points to pull from. They are also tough negotiators. One of our reps owned an exhausting negotiation process with a data aggregator and saved us hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Incentivized

• Gleans update us on particular spending patterns we should be more cognizant of
• Spend tracking and automatic graphs that allow data to be reviewed quite easily
• Customer service is always available

Incentivized

• Contract negotiation
• Contract visibility
• Benchmarking
• Current contract usage

Incentivized

• Their platform could be improved a bit to do a better job of shadow IT tracking (licenses being used or expenses).
• Lowering prices for folks who may only want their platform without negotiation services.

Incentivized

Their cost and billing premise make sense, they allow unlimited users instead of trying to charge you for each and every head, thus allowing you to truly have spend visibility and cost consciousness front of mind for your vendor approvers. Their UI is clean and easy to pick up and understand, even for non-accounting personnel.

Incentivized

We reviewed other provides for automated bill entry, but not for contract negotiation.

Incentivized

• Freed up so much time my role was able to expand
• Parallel accounting by team that has access to our Glean account

Incentivized

• They returned savings for us that was greater than the cost of their service.
• The company has better hygiene in terms of being on top of our contracts - from negotiating terms that finance cares about to ensuring we don't let a contract auto-renew.

Incentivized