SWIRL Blog

February 25, 2026

Why Does Legal Search Demand a Different Approach to AI?

Enterprise AI is evolving rapidly. Models are becoming more capable. Interfaces are becoming more conversational. Expectations are rising across every function especially for legal teams. As adoption accelerates, so does a more sobering realization: AI success in the enterprise is defined less by model intelligence than by system architecture. This reality is particularly visible in legal environments. Legal professionals are not simply evaluating whether AI is useful. They are evaluating whether it can be trusted within frameworks of security, governance, compliance, defensibility, and risk.

October 17, 2023

Swirl Security Overview Pt. 3 – Securely deploying Swirl in Azure

This is the third blog in the series where we will be checking in with the best practices to deploy Swirl. Swirl’s Azure-hosted Architecture and Security Commitment The diagram above showcases the standard layout for Swirl when hosted in Azure. All offerings hosted by Swirl strictly adhere to the following: Delving Deeper into Swirl’s Security...

October 12, 2023

Swirl Security Overview Pt. 2

This blog covers the second part of Swirl Security Overview (User Data, Metadata, and Credentials). This is a three-part series that guides you about Swirl’s security. This blog is the second part of the Swirl Security overview. We have the first part, which discusses and explains Swirl in general. Read the first part here. Credential...

October 7, 2023

Swirl Security Overview

This series of blogs will give you a security overview of Swirl. What is Swirl Search? Swirl is an open-source search platform software that simultaneously searches multiple content sources and returns AI-ranked results. You can also use Generative AI Models to get answers based on your data. It’s written in Python. Swirl can connect to...

October 1, 2023

Contribute to Swirl this Hacktoberfest 2023

We are happy to take part in Hacktoberfest’23. This year’s Hacktoberfest is going to be Swirl’s first Hacktoberfest. And the team is excited about it. What is in it for you? You get to contribute to Swirl. And as per Hacktoberfest’s Rules. If Swirl accepts your four pull requests between October 1 and October 31,...

September 28, 2023

Swirl 2.6 Released

Team Swirl is delighted to announce General Availability of Swirl 2.6! This release adds SearchProviders for ServiceNow, Hacker News and Google News. We’ve also validated Swirl on the latest stable Python version (3.11.5) and updated our Dockerfile image to the latest stable Debian release (Bookworm). Full details are here: https://github.com/swirlai/swirl-search/releases/tag/v2.6.0 Interested in Enterprise support, solutions & hosted Swirl? Visit www.swirl.today

August 25, 2023

Embedding Swirl in your application

Software companies can reduce churn and increase engagement by adding generative AI. However, challenges such as lack of data, security concerns, and integration with existing processes can make it difficult. When successfully embedded, AI can create differentiation and unlock various use cases. Swirl, an open-source tool released on GitHub under Apache 2.0, allows for quick...

August 24, 2023

Easily Swirl generative insights from your data and ChatGPT

Generative AI is exciting because it provides what users want: answers, not documents. And more than that, expertise. Large language models like ChatGPT show expertise in many tasks, even simple programming ones. There are limitations, ChatGPT only knows information before September 2021. ChatGPT thinks the current “state of the art” in search consists of Pagerank, Semantic...

August 15, 2023

Giving you time in a Swirl

It is understood that “Any company that creates more than $10 billion in shareholder value does one of two things: extend time (more time, saving time) or enhance time.” Time is priceless. Swirl recently released version 2.5 featuring a performance benchmark showing a median search time of ~3 seconds across 12 sources. In layman’s terms,...

August 7, 2023

Swirl 2.5 Released

Team Swirl is thrilled to announce the General Availability of Swirl 2.5! The theme for this release is performance. Configured with 12 SearchProviders, Swirl 2.5 supports up to 15 queries/second on a Standard F16s v2 server (16 vcpus, 32 GiB memory) with a median response time of 3 seconds. Swirl 2.5 also includes SearchProviders for...