What it does

Glide describes itself as a business operations platform. You drop in the spreadsheets your team already runs on and say what you need. Its agent reads the sheets, including formulas, lookups and notes, and builds a working app for desktop and phone. You can click a number to see in plain English how it was calculated, and apps are private to your company by default until you share them. The site says agents such as Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT can connect to Glide over MCP and build into the same apps, data and permissions as Glide's own agent. An Ask feature answers questions about the business from live data. Changing a record updates every connected app, and employees, managers, customers and partners can each be given their own view. You can start from ready-made apps in an App Store or from templates, and connect spreadsheets, databases and everyday business tools. For governance the site lists single sign-on, roles down to the row, AI spend budgets by team and model, an approved-models list with a statement that data never trains them, an audit log, and CCPA, SOC 2, GDPR and AES 256 badges. A Glide for iPhone app is marked as coming soon.

Capabilities

Builds apps from Excel and Google Sheets using an AI agent
Connects Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT and other agents over MCP
Ask feature that answers questions from live business data
Row-level roles and separate views for employees, managers, customers and partners
Ready-made apps in an App Store and templates
Single sign-on, AI spend budgets, approved models and an audit log

When to use it

Your team runs on spreadsheets and you want shareable internal apps for desktop and phone
People who are not developers need to build their own business apps with AI help
You need row-level permissions, single sign-on and audit trails around internal apps
You want to build into Glide from an AI agent you already use