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Agentic AI's Appetite for Data is Growing Fast—How to Feed it Safely

Stephen Balzac
July 18, 2025
Agentic AI data orchestration

Agentic AI is hungry. Not just for compute power or clever prompts, but for clean, connected, context-rich data. If that data is siloed, stale, or fragmented, the agent stalls possibly hallucinating, failing to act, or chasing irrelevant tasks. And yet, that's exactly the state of most enterprise data: duplicated across platforms, locked behind APIs, and full of outdated reports and orphaned documents.

That's where SWIRL enters the picture. SWIRL isn't another data lake, warehouse, or vector store. It's a data orchestration layer designed to power agentic AI by connecting disparate systems, enforcing high-quality retrieval, and doing it all without requiring you to copy your data into someone else's infrastructure.

Agentic AI Is Only as Smart as the Data It Can See

To do anything useful, an agent needs to reason over multiple systems: customer records in Salesforce, support logs in Zendesk, pricing spreadsheets in SharePoint, regulatory PDFs in Box, and maybe even Slack messages or Jira tickets. SWIRL acts as the real-time translator and orchestrator for this mess. It routes each agent query to the right sources, pulls back only what's relevant, deduplicates and cleans the data, and delivers structured output in formats the agent can use.

Data Sharing Without Data Exposure

SWIRL avoids data copying risks by taking a Zero ETL approach where data stays where it is and SWIRL connects to it via native APIs or secure search interfaces. This lets agents see across systems without the company giving up control of the data itself. Sensitive data stays within the enterprise perimeter, subject to existing access controls and audit trails.

Interoperability Isn't Just for Slides Anymore

SWIRL is built for real-world interoperability. It normalizes results across dozens of data platforms, translating native formats into common schemas that agents and LLMs can actually understand. It also supports plug-and-play connectors, so companies can gradually grow their interoperability without ripping out existing systems.

Garbage In, Garbage Out: The Data Quality Factor

SWIRL helps at the point of retrieval. It filters and scores results using advanced heuristics—favoring recent, complete, and trustworthy data over old or irrelevant files. Because SWIRL searches across multiple sources in parallel, it can cross-check results and surface inconsistencies automatically.

New Models Need New Infrastructure

Agentic AI is forcing a rethink of traditional data strategy. SWIRL makes that shift possible without a major data remodel. It overlays your current stack, enhances it with search and orchestration capabilities, and gives AI agents the visibility they need without compromising existing investments in security, compliance, and enterprise tools.

SWIRL delivers secure, federated AI search across all your systems, re-ranked with AI and kept within your tenant’s security boundary.
Connect Your Systems
Link iManage, NetDocuments, M365, SharePoint, email, research tools, regulatory sources, SQL databases, and other systems. No data lake required. No second index to secure.
Search Everywhere at Once
SWIRL runs a federated search across all connected systems simultaneously. Native permissions ensure lawyers only see documents they're authorized to access.
Re-Rank with Your LLM
Results are re-ranked by your firm's chosen large language model to surface the most relevant items first. Provenance, citations, and source systems preserved.
Feed Your Assistant or UI
Results flow via APIs and connectors to M365 Copilot, ChatGPT, or other assistants. Or lawyers use SWIRL's own legal search interface directly.
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