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How Duolingo uses Glean

500+ hours

“Duolingo teams save 500+ hours every month”

As published on glean.com. Captured by usedby on Oct 7, 2026.

What happened

Duolingo uses Glean to search across its scattered work tools such as Google Drive, Slack, Confluence, and Zendesk. Employees also use Glean Chat, a conversational assistant, to get answers instead of asking colleagues, which reduces duplicated work.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Glean and Duolingo, not ours.

  • $1.1 million“That adds up to more than $1.1 million in yearly time savings”
  • 5x“delivering a 5x return on investment from improved knowledge access”

With Glean, Duolingo teams save 500+ hours every month — time that would have been wasted searching for information or duplicating work. That adds up to more than $1.1 million in yearly time savings, delivering a 5x return on investment from improved knowledge access.

From the page. glean.com, captured Oct 7, 2026

Glean Chat is the most underrated feature within Glean,” said Art Chaidarun, Principal Software Engineer at Duolingo. “Similar to how some people now reach for ChatGPT before Google, Glean Chat can answer some questions even more effectively than a search can.

Art Chaidarun, Principal Software Engineer, Duolingo. Source, captured Oct 7, 2026

What the story claims, and what we checked

We compared the story with its live page on Oct 7, 2026.

  • The figure: 500+ hoursCheckedPrinted word for word on the page, near the name of Duolingo.
  • The passage quoted aboveCheckedCopied word for word from the page, near the name of Duolingo.
  • Duolingo uses GleanCheckedConfirmed line. Latest check across sources: Oct 7, 2026.
  • The result itselfNot checkedWe quote it; we did not measure it.

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