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...

April 11, 2025

Why Enterprise AI Search Belongs On-Premises or in a Private Cloud—Not in a Vendor’s Cloud

How do you feel about turning your data over to someone else? What happens if that company gets acquired or goes out of business? What happens if there’s a data breach? AI search has the power to transform how businesses find, retrieve, and use information—but only if it’s built the right way. Many AI search...

April 3, 2025

Easy for Me, Not for Thee—Finding Information Without Compromising Security

AI search is simultaneously transforming how enterprises access internal information and demonstrating that there is nothing new under the sun. Balancing accessibility with security is an age-old problem which AI search throws into sharp relief. Enterprises handle multiple types of sensitive data—contracts, financial records, customer data, and internal communications. A search solution that fails to...

April 3, 2025

How Open-Source AI Empowers Enterprises: Security, Control, and Performance

How can enterprises leverage AI without exposing sensitive data? Your sensitive data gets exposed when you are using a third-party application that leaks data. This includes the AI models: Samsung banned ChatGPT after a sensitive data leak. Many enterprises distrust external AI systems that might use submitted data for their own model training. But we...

April 1, 2025

Know Before You Ask—Quantum Search Redefines Predictive Analysis

Quantum AI search technology anticipates your questions and is ready with helpful answers. SWIRL’s new Quantum AI Search feature takes advantage of emergent properties of AI to dramatically expand the range of data sources that it can simultaneously search in response to a user query. Two pieces of research out of the Massachusetts Institute of...

March 27, 2025

The Holy Grail of Data Democratization—And How AI Can Make It Reality

Data democratization is a persistent dream: The goal of every person in an organization being able to access the data they need when they need it, analyze that data, gain insights, and take appropriate action. Data democratization, if it could be achieved, has the potential to sharply improve organizational performance. However, like the legendary Holy...

March 25, 2025

Context-Aware Search—Relevant Insights Without the Noise

Search is noisy and it’s only getting worse. Look for anything more than a few days or weeks old and you end up with a flood of documents that leaves you digging through irrelevant results to find what actually matters. Traditional search engines match keywords but fail to understand context, intent, or business relevance. It’s...

March 24, 2025

Connecting the Dots—Unifying Disconnected Data Sources With AI Search

Steve, our marketing manager, needs to compile a comprehensive report on the performance of a recent product launch campaign. He knows the information he needs exists—scattered across emails from the sales team, Word documents on OneDrive, performance dashboards in the marketing automation platform, shared documents on the company network, and possibly even scribbled notes from a recent...

March 18, 2025

AI See, AI Say—Stop Your AI From Leaking Data

Data, data everywhereAI finds what you seekData, data everywhereThe AI has sprung a leak(with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge) The best thing about Generative AI is that it will answer your questions. The worst thing about Generative AI is that it will answer your questions. It’s not just that they might make mistakes; there are...

March 13, 2025

Increase Business Agility—Accelerate Decisions with AI Search

Customer behavior and markets are changing faster than ever. Businesses need to be agile to keep up. How well a business responds to changing market conditions and capitalizes on sudden opportunities depends on how quickly it can make data-driven decisions. For decades, search has been treated as a tool: a way to retrieve documents, locate...