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Doing Trust Falls with AI: Agent Adoption Starts Long Before You Think
Read more: Doing Trust Falls with AI: Agent Adoption Starts Long Before You ThinkWhen 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…
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What’s Stopping You? Overcoming the Three Most Common Obstacles to Building AI Agents
Read more: What’s Stopping You? Overcoming the Three Most Common Obstacles to Building AI AgentsYou’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…
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Beyond Data Centralization: Evolving Agentic Data Access
Read more: Beyond Data Centralization: Evolving Agentic Data AccessIt’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…
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Lost in Data—Seeking, Not Finding
Read more: Lost in Data—Seeking, Not FindingHansel and Gretel had it easy. They were only lost in the woods once. And despite some awkwardness with a witch and a candy house, it ended up working out pretty well for them. Modern teams, on the other hand, may not have to worry about being eaten by a wicked witch, but they do…
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Agentic AI Without the Baggage: Why SWIRL + MCP is the Smarter AI Search Stack
Read more: Agentic AI Without the Baggage: Why SWIRL + MCP is the Smarter AI Search StackThere’s a common misconception in enterprise AI:If your AI agent needs access to internal knowledge, you first need to build a vector database. It sounds logical until you actually try it. Suddenly you’re drowning in embeddings, data pipelines, security concerns, and months of effort just to get a prototype off the ground. But here’s the…
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The Data Strikes Back—Search Requires More Than Force
Read more: The Data Strikes Back—Search Requires More Than Force“The first amendment, the second amendment, the third amendment, the fourth amendment, the fifth amendment…” “Stop!” “The sixth amendment, the seventh amendment, the eighth amendment…” “Alexa, stop!” “The ninth amendment, the tenth amendment, the 11th amendment, the 12th amendment…” “Alexa STOP!” “The 13th amendment, the 14th amendment…” “ALEXA STOP!” One of my kids asked me…
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Agentic Search: The Foundation of Successful AI Agents
Read more: Agentic Search: The Foundation of Successful AI AgentsPut on a blindfold at home, and you’ll probably manage just fine—barring the occasional stray Lego. Familiarity can carry you a long way, at least until you want to cook or rearrange furniture. But blindfold yourself on a busy sidewalk, and you’re suddenly a pinball, bouncing unpredictably without scoring points (and possibly getting flattened). We…
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Interface Overload—How Fragmented Search Drains Focus and Productivity
Read more: Interface Overload—How Fragmented Search Drains Focus and ProductivityKnowledge work frequently leaves us feeling like we’ve been navigating a particularly complex train system without the benefit of a smartphone. Instead of looking for information in one place, we’re bouncing between Slack, SharePoint, email, CRM tools, databases, and countless browser tabs. Information isn’t just scattered across silos of data—it’s scattered across silos of interfaces,…
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It’ll Only Take Five Minutes is Killing Search—It Doesn’t Need To
Read more: It’ll Only Take Five Minutes is Killing Search—It Doesn’t Need ToIt’s no secret in the world of enterprise software that what doesn’t scale doesn’t work. When software doesn’t scale, performance degrades rapidly as usage increases. The catch is knowing when something doesn’t scale and that’s not always immediately obvious. The problem here is that individual solutions can scale but when you put enough individual solutions…
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Speaking Human—Conversational Search With AI
Read more: Speaking Human—Conversational Search With AIIt’s time to stop searching in a foreign language. Working with computers forces people to think like a computer and communicate in a language the computer understands. Although keyword-based queries are a big step up from writing code, they are awkward, often require playing “guess the keyword,” and still frequently miss the mark. They’re still…
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