Think about all the starving zombies.
Seriously, it’s Halloween and are the zombies happy? No! They’re hungry. They’re looking for brains in all the wrong places.
They really shouldn’t have gone after data analysts.
No, it’s not because data analysts are stupid. They’re not. They’re very smart people. Exactly the sort of people with whom zombies should enjoy having dinner.
But not this year.
Data analysts are spending more and more of their time hunting data, not analyzing data. Hunting in multiple locations. Multiple interfaces. Apps. Databases. Internal wikis. Cloud drives filled with PDFs. Hunting for hours each day. Hunting until their brains dribble out of their ears.
And which are then washed away, because no one likes walking around with gray matter sliding down their neck.
Leaving the poor zombies with nothing to eat.
But there is a better way. A way to give data analysts back a full workday to do their real jobs—data analysis—rather than data hunting.
That way is SWIRL AI.
SWIRL uses a Zero ETL architecture and database virtualization layer to connect with data sources no matter where they are, and doesn’t copy or centralize your data. You talk to SWIRL in natural language, and SWIRL figures out where the right data is and finds it for you.
No more exhausting data scavenger hunts. Instead, the right data when you need it. Search, backed by the power of AI, cutting search time by 80%.
And if you’re using agents? No problem. SWIRL works with AI agents as well.
With SWIRL you get:
- Zero ETL: Leave data where it lives—no migrations, no duplication, no new risks.
- Real-Time Search: Instantly retrieve results from all your systems—databases, CRMs, wikis, email, and more.
- Confidence Scoring: Results ranked by trust, not noise. You decide what “relevant” means.
- Security-First Design: Honors existing permissions; users and AI agents only see what they’re cleared for.
- Agent-Ready Data: Gives AI agents unified, context-rich access without extra pipelines or rework.
To date, every data analyst who has used SWIRL has kept their brains in their heads, where they belong.
So this Halloween, think of the starving zombies. And protect the brains of your data analysts with SWIRL.
No zombies (or data analysts) were harmed in the writing of this article.
To find out how SWIRL can help you save the zombies, or just massively boost productivity, contact us.