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...

February 13, 2025

Zero Trust Security in AI Search: Why Bringing AI to the Data Matters

The goal of enterprise AI Search is to make it easier for us to find important information—while not making it easier for unauthorized people to find it. AI search is transforming how enterprises access and leverage information. However, with increased AI adoption comes heightened security concerns, especially regarding data access, governance, and compliance. Organizations handling...

January 30, 2025

How SWIRL’s Re-Ranking Can Save You Hours of Work Every Week

Re-ranking is the process of refining the order of search results to ensure the most relevant information appears at the top. It’s a powerful tool that saves time, reduces frustration, and makes searching more productive—whether you’re looking for a document at work or browsing online. When you search using tools like Google or Bing, the...

January 30, 2025

Save 8 Hours a Week with this Simple AI Strategy

Google does it, Apple is doing it, and so are OpenAI and Perplexity. They’re all leveraging AI summaries—bringing together the most relevant search results and using AI to deliver concise answers. Your employees are already using these tools, both at home and in the workplace. When are you planning to bring AI summaries into your...

January 28, 2025

What Did You Mean? Ambiguity Can Be Fun – And AI Can Help When It’s Not

Ambiguity in wordplay can be the source of a great deal of humor, as in the classic Ronnie Corbett sketch, My Blackberry Is Not Working. The sketch takes place in a grocery store with a customer complaining that his blackberry is frozen—the fruit, not the once-popular mobile phone. The puns continue from there, and I...

January 28, 2025

Not Meant to be Found—Why You Need AI Search for Internal Data

Information on the internet is meant to be found—that’s the goal of putting up a web page, posting an article, a blog, substack, video, or anything else. Indeed, the whole SEO game is figuring out the cleverest ways of surfacing content and attracting eyeballs so that people will find your content, videos, articles, and so...

January 22, 2025

AI Search Without Data Movement? If Only!

I recently received an email from a well-respected AI company telling me that their system could help me find information in my personal data. Great! All I had to do was upload my data to their very secure website. Not so great. I have information scattered across local storage, email, Slack, and multiple cloud providers....

January 15, 2025

If It Doesn’t Scale, It Doesn’t Work: Overcoming the Top 3 Challenges to Scaling AI Across Your Organization

AI has the potential to transform business operations. However, deploying AI across the enterprise is a difficult and challenging task. CTOs, CIOs, AI project managers, and enterprise software architects are all facing the same three primary obstacles to AI-driven innovation: Fundamentally, if a potential AI solution can’t be scaled across the enterprise, it’s not worth...

January 9, 2025

How Can You Break Down Data Silos Without Moving Data using SWIRL

The promise of AI tools is seductive: streamlined workflows, automated insights, enhanced productivity. Yet as our collection of AI solutions grows daily, we’re discovering that tool proliferation itself has become our newest challenge. At the heart of this challenge lies data access. Organizations have the technical capability and appetite for implementing various AI tools, but...

January 7, 2025

No Time to Prepare for Meetings? AI Search Can Help

Meeting prep can be more of a time sink than the meeting itself—unless it doesn’t get done, in which the meeting itself often becomes a waste of time. And sure, for those who might not have much to say or whose preparations are fairly simple, this may not be a big deal. But as meetings...