SWIRL Blog

September 11, 2025

Future-Fit or Bust: Building an Enterprise That Can Actually Keep Up

If your processes still run on spreadsheets and email, you’re not digital. You’re pretending. Digital transformation isn’t measured by how many SaaS apps you’ve bought. It’s measured by how seamlessly your people, processes, and data can adapt to change. Most enterprises fail that test.

July 3, 2025

What is Agentic Search?

Agents are everywhere these days. Finding them the data they need is a problem that is all too often glossed over or treated as a Simple Matter of Programming (SMOP). As experienced engineers know, SMOP is an ironic joke. It’s never simple. Finding a clear definition of agentic search turns out to be challenging. On...

July 1, 2025

Agentic AI Needs Agentic Search—Context, Confidence, and Control are Critical

AI agents are advancing fast—but they’re still only as effective as the information they can access. And without intelligent, real-time, agentic search, most enterprise agents are limited in their capabilities. We like to imagine AI agents as highly capable digital coworkers—able to analyze complex data, perform tasks, and make smart decisions. But in reality, even...

June 24, 2025

From Query to Action: How Agentic Search Bridges the Gap Between Insight and Execution

In enterprise AI, finding the right information is no longer the end, it’s just the beginning. Getting a correct answer to a question is helpful. But getting the answer and acting on it? That’s where real value begins. Agentic search makes that possible. Unlike traditional search tools that simply surface documents or passages, agentic search...

June 17, 2025

SWIRL Enterprise 4.2: Bringing AI Search to the Kingdom of Search

You’d be forgiven for thinking it’s a little strange—maybe even pointless—to bring AI-powered search to Google Workspace. After all, this is Google. The company whose name is synonymous with search. Trying to enhance Google with better search feels a bit like installing sprinklers in a rain forest. But here’s the thing: while Google’s public web...

June 12, 2025

When Agents Go Rogue: How Agentic Search Keeps AI in Its Lane

AI agents are quickly becoming a centerpiece of enterprise transformation strategies. They promise to handle routine tasks, retrieve information, make decisions, and even initiate actions autonomously. On paper, they look like the future. In reality? They often act more like cats given car keys—enthusiastic, fast-moving, and completely unaware of the chaos they can cause. It’s...

June 10, 2025

Doing Trust Falls with AI: Agent Adoption Starts Long Before You Think

When we talk about building AI agents, most of the focus is on infrastructure: how to connect agents to the right systems, how to manage access controls, and how to ensure reliable, secure data delivery. And yes, those are critical components—after all, agents can’t do much if they don’t have access to the right information...

June 5, 2025

What’s Stopping You? Overcoming the Three Most Common Obstacles to Building AI Agents

You’ve got the vision. The pilot runs beautifully. Everyone’s excited about automation, AI-powered productivity, and the promise of agents that can handle everything from summarizing meetings to drafting reports and answering questions. But just when it’s time to scale… progress stalls. Reality obnoxiously asserts itself. That promising AI agent project starts to fizzle, and no...

June 4, 2025

Escape the Complexity Trap—Powering Agentic Search Without the Overhead

Everyone wants AI agents, whether to create multi-step automation, automatically update wikis and other information repositories, generate sales leads, or dozens of other uses. The biggest challenge, however, isn’t the AI part of the equation; rather, it’s providing the fuel: data. Data Powers AI—If You Can Get It More than ever, data is the fuel...

May 29, 2025

Beyond Data Centralization: Evolving Agentic Data Access

It’s a bit like evolution in action. In nature, evolution favors traits that help organisms thrive. But when the environment shifts suddenly, those once-useful traits can become useless appendices. The same holds true for enterprise technology. Every software or system you adopt solves a problem… until the environment changes. And in 2025, the environment has...