Mantel and Glean have entered into a partnership to deliver Work AI services in Australia and New Zealand, focusing on large organizations with complex technology environments.
Under the agreement, Mantel will implement and support a green platform for customers in financial services, energy and utilities, and the public sector. We provide advice, implementation, expansion, and operational support as companies move their AI projects from pilot stages to broader use.
Businesses in the region are increasing their spending on AI, cloud, and data platforms, but many still struggle to connect these systems to their daily operations. Information often remains scattered across documents, applications, and internal tools, making it difficult for employees to find important materials and automate routine tasks.
Glean’s software is designed to span an organization’s existing technology assets and connect to over 100 enterprise systems. The goal is to allow employees to search for information in natural language and use AI assistants and agents while maintaining existing security privileges.
Mantel has already implemented Glean across its business, linking documentation, code repositories, and ticketing systems. This experience is expected to be part of the company’s pitch to clients as it expands its work around repeatable AI workflows and agents.
The partnership also reflects Glean’s extensive expansion into Australia and New Zealand. For Mantel, this will add another product relationship to a business that already operates across major cloud and data platforms including AWS, Google Cloud, Snowflake, and Databricks.
Mantel employs over 850 people and is based in Melbourne. The company positions itself as an AI and technology consultancy across data, digital, cyber security and cloud services.
industry focus
Both companies are targeting areas where data governance and security controls are likely to weigh heavily on technology decisions. Financial institutions, utilities, and government agencies tend to operate with layered legacy systems and more stringent compliance requirements than many other parts of the economy.
This has increased the demand for AI tools that can work across existing software without requiring organizations to rebuild their systems from scratch. Vendors and service providers are increasingly framing the next stages of adoption around actual internal use cases, especially as enterprises look for evidence that early investments in AI and data infrastructure can yield tangible benefits.
Emma Bromet, Data & AI Partner at Mantel, said the partnership responds to customer demand for actionable AI outcomes. “Our customers are looking for ways to turn the potential of AI into real business outcomes on top of the data platforms and cloud foundations they have already invested in,” said Bromet. “Glean provides a secure, enterprise-ready Work AI layer that can be deployed across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Google Cloud, and other application environments, so knowledge workers can ask questions in natural language, discover how work is done here, and automate workflows with confidence. By adopting it in-house and building a commercial agency, we can market highly actionable stories to our clients.”
Regional expansion
Glean is expanding its presence outside the domestic market as demand for workplace AI products tied to internal data increases. That model focuses on providing employees with access to a single assistant or search layer that can retrieve information from multiple business systems while maintaining access control.
For software companies in this space, implementation is often more of a challenge than initial interest. Larger organizations typically require integration with existing systems, governance settings, operational support, and internal change management before broader deployment.
Zubin Irani, Green’s vice president of partnerships, said implementation partners are central to the process. “Enterprises are ready to move beyond AI pilots, but they need the right platform and the right implementation partner to reach production,” Irani said. “Mantel brings deep expertise in data, AI and cloud, and together we can help organizations in Australia and New Zealand deploy Work AI securely and quickly to have a measurable impact on their business.”
