SWIRL Blog

November 20, 2025

The Confidence Economy: Don’t Be The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The problem is no longer lack of data. It’s no longer an inability to retrieve data. Today’s problem is knowing which data to trust. It’s like the sorcerer’s apprentice commanded the broomstick to bring buckets of bits instead of buckets of water, but the result is much the same: data, data everywhere, with no time to stop and think.

October 3, 2024

What are AI Agents?

AI agents are transforming business automation by perceiving their environment, making decisions, and taking action—powered by AI models like Large Language Models (LLMs). This article explains how AI agents operate, their benefits, and the challenges of data security. With SWIRL’s access-based, federated approach, AI agents can securely interact with multiple data sources without uploading or duplicating data, enabling faster, safer, and more compliant automation.

September 3, 2024

How You Can Use AI to Improve Research

Research is a search and data relevancy challenge. From keeping studies, notes, and datasets connected to ensuring security for sensitive information, researchers face endless data management friction. SWIRL solves this by bringing AI to your data instead of moving it, enabling secure, relevant, and fast insights from anywhere—databases, email, Slack, or cloud storage—without duplication or risk.

August 30, 2024

How To Use AI to Give You More Time for Creative Work

Finding relevant research papers is often harder than writing the literature review itself. Online databases make access easier but still force researchers to sift through countless irrelevant results. AI infrastructure software like SWIRL changes that—bringing AI to the data, enabling universal connectivity, advanced metasearch, enhanced prompts, and secure, flexible model use. The result: less drudgery, more relevant results, and more time for creativity and insight.

August 29, 2024

A Council of AI Advisors—Turning a Mixture of Experts into Your Personal AI Advisory Board

Most people don’t have a trusted council of expert advisors—but with AI, you can. SWIRL AI Search transforms multiple AI models into a coordinated, secure “Council of AI Advisors,” eliminating prompt chaos and reducing hallucinations. By managing model interactions, enhancing prompts, and bringing AI to your data, SWIRL delivers contextually relevant, personalized insights that help you make better decisions faster.

August 26, 2024

How to Increase Productivity With AI?

A Harvard/MIT study shows AI can improve productivity—if used wisely. Centaurs split tasks between human and AI strengths, while Cyborgs deeply integrate AI into workflows. Both approaches work, but results often lack diversity. AI Infrastructure Software solves this by guiding prompts, reducing hallucinations, supporting multiple AI models, and delivering more relevant, varied outputs.

August 22, 2024

What You Need to Use AI to Turn Data Into Products

In manufacturing and enterprise environments, the ability to quickly find and use data can make the difference between rapid value creation and costly delays. SWIRL AI Connect brings AI to the data—eliminating risky data transfers—while offering universal connectivity, AI model flexibility, and unified search with prompt enhancement. The result: secure, scalable AI infrastructure that boosts efficiency, improves decision-making, and accelerates time-to-market.

August 21, 2024

Understanding the Differences between Unified Search, Metasearch, and Federated Search

Efficient information retrieval is key to productivity. This article compares unified search, federated search, and metasearch—explaining how each works, their advantages, challenges, and best use cases. From centralized indexing to real-time queries and external aggregation, discover which approach fits your organization’s data needs and search environment.

August 21, 2024

Five Ways to Use AI the Right Way in Academia (From a Former Psychology Professor)

While AI shouldn’t write your paper for you, it can be a powerful tool to improve your academic work. This article explores 5 practical ways to use AI effectively: summarizing papers, adjusting tone, detecting plagiarism, verifying citations, and finding relevant sources. Learn how AI can save time, improve quality, and help you focus on meaningful research.

August 20, 2024

Use AI to Search Course Catalogs—How Harnessing AI Magnifies the Value of Everyone’s Time

Registering for classes is often more stressful than it needs to be. This article explains how AI infrastructure software can simplify course selection, improve search, identify relevant prerequisites, and help students have more productive advising sessions. By combining AI-enhanced search with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), it ensures relevant, accurate, and secure results—making course registration faster, easier, and more effective.