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Introducing Suwali: The chatbot built for public interest organizations

Suwali conversations interface

For years, public interest organizations have faced the same challenge: they have valuable, trusted content, but struggle to make it available to their communities at scale. Meanwhile, generic AI chatbots have flooded the market — tools that hallucinate facts, ignore source credibility, and are built for commerce, not public service.

We built Suwali to change that.

What Suwali does differently

Suwali is a chatbot that draws exclusively from your organization’s own content. No hallucinations. No information your team hasn’t vetted. When a reader asks a question, Suwali searches your connected data sources — articles, reports, databases — and surfaces the most relevant answer in a clear, conversational format.

But answering questions is only half the story.

The part most chatbots ignore: listening

Suwali captures what your community asks. Every question is a signal — about what your audience needs, what topics resonate, and where gaps exist in your coverage or knowledge base. The dashboard gives your team a live view of these conversations, turning audience interactions into editorial intelligence.

This feedback loop is what makes Suwali genuinely useful for newsrooms and CSOs. You’re not just deploying a tool; you’re opening a channel.

Who Suwali is for

Suwali is designed for teams that care deeply about the integrity of their content and the trust of their audience. That includes:

  • Newsrooms that want to make their journalism searchable and conversational
  • Civil society organizations publishing research, policy analysis, or community resources
  • Media networks serving multilingual audiences across different platforms

Suwali works where your audience already is — WhatsApp, Telegram, and more — so you don’t have to ask them to go somewhere new.

Available now

Suwali is live and accepting new organizations. You can start with a free trial, or contact our team if you’d like to talk through your use case.

We’re excited to see what you build with it.

Funded by:

Sida Press Forward
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation McNulty Foundation National Philanthropic Trust Battery Powered