IBM ADS Alignment
Britain.Direct
Alignment with Glean
A federated identity, discovery and trust layer enabling Glean-powered enterprise agents to participate safely outside their home organisation.
“Glean provides enterprise agent identities and orchestration. Britain.Direct can provide federated identities, discovery and trust services that enable those agents to participate safely outside their home organisation.”
Internal Intelligence Layer
Glean positions itself as a Work AI platform that unifies enterprise knowledge, enterprise search, assistants and AI agents. It emphasizes agent discovery, orchestration, governance and observability across enterprise systems.
External Interaction Layer
Britain.Direct is positioned as the sovereign identity, discovery, trust and interaction layer for AI agents operating across the UK economy.
Glean Inside the Enterprise. Britain.Direct Outside the Enterprise.
| Function | Glean | Britain.Direct |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Knowledge | Yes | No |
| Enterprise Search | Yes | No |
| Agent Builder | Yes | No |
| Federated Agent Registry | Partial | Yes |
| Cross-Organisation Discovery | Limited | Yes |
| Agent Identity | Limited | Yes |
| Agent Commerce | Limited | Yes |
| Trust Frameworks | Limited | Yes |
| National AI Participation Layer | No | Yes |
Four-Layer Model
Enterprise Agents
Built in Glean: Procurement Agents, Sales Agents, HR Agents and Logistics Agents.
Enterprise Federated Agent Registry
Within Glean, maintaining the internal agent catalogue, permissions and workflows.
AI Endpoint Connector
Exports selected agents into a company.GBR.Direct namespace, such as procurement.company.GBR.Direct.
Britain.Direct
Provides agent identity, discovery and verification across organisations.
From Internal Agents to Cross-Organisation Discovery
Organisation A uses Glean. Organisation B uses Glean. Today, agents remain trapped within each organisation.
Glean manages the internal workflow. Britain.Direct manages external interaction.
Glean
Enterprise search, knowledge graph, agent orchestration and agent governance.
Britain.Direct
Identity, discovery, interaction, commerce and verification.
IBM ADS
AI, cloud, security, integration and partner-led commercialisation.
Glean
Internal agent operating system.
Britain.Direct / GBR.Direct
External identity, discovery and interaction layer.
Ethically Sourced™
Data trust and provenance layer.
GTIN Token™
Product trust and commerce layer.
Procurements AI
Procurement interaction layer.
IBM
Technology, cloud, AI and orchestration layer.
The Procurements AI Layer
Procurement naturally requires discovery, trust, interaction and governance, and aligns closely with Glean’s orchestration capabilities.
National Agent Participation Network
Glean becomes the Enterprise Agent Operating System. Britain.Direct could evolve into a National Agent Participation Network, providing a federated trust, discovery, identity and interaction layer connecting independently managed enterprise agent ecosystems.
IBM ADS becomes the distribution mechanism through which IBM Partners deploy, govern and commercialise these agent ecosystems.
Under that model, Britain.Direct would play for Glean-enabled enterprises the same role that the public internet played for corporate intranets in the 1990s: enabling independently managed internal systems to participate in a larger trusted network.