Making AI Work for Your Business: SWIRL and the Rise of On-Premises Intelligence

Imagine having the power of ChatGPT, but completely under your company’s control – working securely within your own systems, securely accessing your data, and tailored to your specific needs. That’s the promise of on-premises AI, and it’s becoming a reality thanks to the rapid advancements in open-source AI models.

Open-source AI models give businesses the ability to download, customize, and run powerful AI tools directly on their own servers. You remain in complete control over your data, how it’s used, and how the AI is trained – a crucial factor for security, compliance, and getting truly relevant results.

The Untapped Potential of On-Premises AI

But what does this actually mean for your day-to-day operations?

AI offers numerous advantages: instantly summarizing complex reports, generating insightful market analyses, and empowering your customer support team with instant access to the knowledge they need to rapidly resolve issues. The potential to boost productivity and improve decision-making is enormous.

There are two obstacles to taking advantage of the power AI brings: first, until recently, using AI meant connecting to a model located outside your security perimeter. That problem is solved using on-premises, open-source AI.

Second, is connecting the AI to the data.

The Data Bottleneck: A Common Challenge

There’s a critical hurdle every company faces when using AI: connecting that AI to the right data, at the right time, from the right sources. Your company’s valuable information – customer interactions, sales figures, market research, internal documents – is often scattered across dozens of different systems and applications, hidden like diamonds buried deep within a coal mine.

Traditionally, getting this data to the AI has been a tedious, manual process. It often involves extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data into specialized databases, like vector databases – a complex and time-consuming IT project that can take months. You wanted AI insights today, but the data preparation alone could delay your project indefinitely.

SWIRL: A New Approach to On-Premises AI

This doesn’t have to be the way. That’s where SWIRL comes in. SWIRL is designed to eliminate this data bottleneck and make on-premises AI practical and accessible for your business. It solves three major problems:

Instant Data Access: Connecting Without the Chaos
Problem: The time-consuming and complex process of extracting and moving data before you can search it.
SWIRL’s Solution: SWIRL comes with over 100 pre-built connectors to your existing enterprise applications – databases, CRMs, document repositories, and more. You can connect to your data in real-time, without any data duplication or complex data mining or movement projects. Your data stays where it is, secure and under your control.
AI-Powered Search: Intelligence Out of the Box
Problem: The need to build and manage your own AI models for search.
SWIRL’s Solution: SWIRL’s search interface provides powerful, AI search capabilities straight out of the box. You don’t need to be an AI expert. Simply connect your data sources, and SWIRL uses advanced AI techniques, including a specialized “reader LLM,” to find the most relevant information across all your connected systems. You get the best answers, instantly. And you can choose the AI model that you prefer, including open-source models trained specifically on your domain.
Conversational AI: Deeper Insights, Interactive Exploration
Problem: Sometimes, search isn’t enough; you need to explore your data interactively.
SWIRL’s Solution: SWIRL includes an AI co-pilot – a conversational AI agent that allows you to ask questions in natural language, refine your queries, and drill down into your data to uncover deeper insights. It’s like having an expert analyst at your fingertips.

SWIRL: The Key Benefits

With SWIRL, you get:

Real-time data access: Connect to your data sources instantly with 100+ built-in connectors.
AI-powered search: Find the information you need quickly and easily with SWIRL’s Galaxy interface.
Conversational AI: Explore your data interactively with SWIRL’s AI co-pilot.
On-premises deployment: Complete control and security.

SWIRL delivers all of this on day one, empowering your business to harness the power of on-premises AI without the headaches of data migration. Contact us to find out how SWIRL can bring AI search to your internal data.