MCP IS A PROTOCOL. YOUR AI COWORKER NEEDS A CONTEXT LAYER

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Most teams assumed off-the-shelf MCP would replace the need for a context layer. It hasn't. MCP defines how tools talk — not what they know. Glean's benchmark tested both head-to-head: off-the-shelf MCP used 30% more tokens, and Glean was preferred 2.5x on agentic tasks. An enterprise knowledge graph changes what your AI can do.