SWIRL Blog

July 22, 2025

Agentic Search—Your Antidote to Tool Chaos

Technology companies love tools. Internal wikis, chat threads, versioned code, scattered docs, ephemeral insights—every system solves a problem, until it becomes one. Then the search begins. Your engineer needs a deployment script. Is it in Notion? Buried in a GitHub gist? Maybe in that shared Drive folder from last quarter? Good luck. Multiply that friction...

January 18, 2024

Swirl Announces Private Cloud Retrieval Augmented Generation

AI-powered enterprise search for secure private cloud retrieval augmented generation! Certified to run in your Azure private cloud, Swirl AI-powered federated metasearch enables enterprise users to rapidly locate, retrieve, and act on enterprise data, applications, and insights through an intuitive search interface. As the leading provider of search-enabled solutions for safe deployment in your Azure...

January 17, 2024

Swirl Hires Chris Biow as Head of Federal Sales for government expansion

WALTHAM, MA — [January 10, 2024] — Swirl, a leading search and AI company, announced that Chris Biow joined as Head of Federal Sales. Biow will expand Swirl’s presence and impact in the federal market, where AI demand is growing rapidly. Biow has over 20 years of experience in enterprise search and unstructured data, serving...

January 12, 2024

Swirl Breaks Cookie Cutter Enterprise Search Approaches

Usually, the cookie-cutter enterprise search approaches make you lift and shift all of your data into another search engine. Then, they allow you to search for the stuff that you require. This involves moving vast amounts of data from data siloes, databases, and many other sources, into a single indexable source. The traditional methods of...

January 12, 2024

How Swirl Nails Enterprise Search

Enterprises are large companies. The difference between your average startup and an enterprise is the scale of people, processing, and data involved. With the growing data comes the challenge of managing and finding information within these large enterprises. And this is where things go awry. Enterprise Data and Creation of Siloes Usually, when we need...

December 14, 2023

Swirl Version 3.1.0 Released

Swirl 3.1.0, the latest update to the open-source search enterprise search platform, brings several exciting features: Finding your tasks in Trello is a breeze with Swirl. The Swirl 3.1.0 update introduces several key enhancements: This latest release brings significant enhancements and issue resolutions, streamlining user experience and technical robustness: Improvements: Find your tasks with Swirl...

November 20, 2023

And if you like to talk for hours, go ahead now.

As the expression goes, a picture is worth a thousand words, and this is often multiplied when demonstrating software solutions. While I was at the Enterprise Search & Discovery show, I found how Swirl uses Swirl at work incredibly compelling. When responding to a Request for Proposal (RFP), a typical question is, “How much Cyber...

November 20, 2023

Matter LLMs, Why?

With apologies to Yoda … Matter LLMs, Why? At the Enterprise Search & Discovery 23 conference, several speakers (Sid Probstein, Jim Ford, and Amr Awadallah) talked about neural search’s power to handle tricky keyword search cases. “Who is The Who?” for example. Another example is phrases that mean something very different when reversed. There are...

November 14, 2023

Moving Beyond Traditional Search with Swirl

The Problem with Traditional Search The traditional approach is the lift and shift of data from one container to another. It is a big problem in many cases. Creating inverted indexes is widely used in traditional search engines to enable quick information retrieval. However, this method can be computationally expensive, particularly when identifying and integrating...

November 9, 2023

Swirl Search: Redefining Enterprise Search with Artificial Intelligence

Founded in 2022 in Waltham, Massachusetts, Swirl Search is an advanced, AI-driven search engine and platform designed to address and streamline enterprise search challenges. With innovative artificial intelligence at its core, Swirl facilitates efficient processing and ranking of content across multiple repositories without data migration, empowering enterprises to leverage generative AI effortlessly. Introduction to Swirl...