Up to 10
Seats, your pick
Default ask is 5 named users; add up to 10 anytime without renegotiating. One partner, one practice group, or one small team.
Discovery
$5,000. Up to 10 seats.
30 days. Sidecar.
The lowest-friction way to put Bolt on real work, with real users, on your team's own laptops — before any production rollout.
30 days
Engagement window
Long enough for daily usage to show up, short enough that no one drifts. Engagement is fixed at 30 days; renew, upgrade, or walk.
$5,000
Flat, all-in
One invoice, paid up front. Founder-led onboarding is the line item; the binary is the deliverable.
What is included
Sidecar deployment, real product
The Discovery sidecar is the same Rust code as production Bolt. Only the packaging differs — single binary, embedded Postgres, founder-led for 30 days.
- Bolt sidecar deployment on up to 10 user laptops (macOS, Linux, Windows). Single process, embedded Postgres, no server install required.
- Aeira Catalog tier baked into the sidecar — identity-bound search across whatever corpus the user chooses to ingest locally (DMS folder, mailbox, Drive sync, code repo).
- MCP connectors pre-configured for the tools your users already use: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, Jira, Salesforce, and more on request.
- BYO LLM or use a Sparcle-provided test key for the 30-day window.
- Sealed Merkle audit chain and crypto-shred enabled by default. Even at small scale, every query carries auditor-grade evidence.
- One 60-minute founder-led onboarding call + a single 30-minute check-in mid-window.
- Optional reference rights at day 30. Declining does not affect the engagement.
Founder-led onboarding BYO LLM · BYOK No auto-renew $5K credits any expansion
How it compares
Three on-ramps, one product
Pick the rung that matches the question you are trying to answer. Discovery validates fit; Pilot validates scale; Founding Customer commits.
| Discovery | Pilot | Founding Customer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Validates | "Does this work for my team?" | "Can we run this at scale safely?" | "We are building on this." |
| Deployment | Sidecar on user laptops | Docker single-host or Helm multi-node in your VPC / on-prem / cloud | Same as Pilot + roadmap influence |
| Seats | Up to 10 | Up to 30 | Departmental to org-wide |
| Term | 30 days | 90 days | 24-month lock |
| Price | $5,000 flat | $15,000 flat | 25% off list, 24-mo |
| Onboarding | Founder call + 1 check-in | Founder-led + weekly check-ins | Founder-led + dedicated channel |
| Buyer profile | Partner / principal / dept head | Innovation officer, CIO, AI exec | CIO, CISO, AI exec, CFO |
| Path to next rung | $5K credits toward Pilot or annual | Pilot fee credits year one | Grandfathered pricing as you grow |
Who it is for
The right shape, the wrong shape
Strong fit
Discovery is right if you are
- A partner, principal, or department head with $5K signing authority.
- Sitting on confidential client work, deal flow, source code, IP, or patient data.
- Already paying for ChatGPT or Copilot but unable to use it on the work that matters.
- Five to ten people on your team who would use AI tomorrow if they could.
- Comfortable making a 30-day call without a procurement committee.
Not the right shape
Skip Discovery if you are
- Production rollouts. If you need server-side install in your VPC or on-prem, start at the Pilot tier ($15K, 90 days, up to 30 seats, Docker/Helm).
- Air-gapped or classified networks. Sidecar deployment requires outbound to your chosen LLM; air-gap is the Federated Aeira tier.
- Pure curiosity with no internal champion. Discovery works when one named person on your side owns the outcome.
- Free pilots. We do not run them; paid pilots produce decisions, free pilots produce stalls.
Two emails. One call. Sidecar in motion.
Tell us the work, the team, and a date. We confirm fit, send a 2-page agreement, and ship the binary within the week.
Or email bolt@sparcle.app · book a demo first
FAQ
Questions?
How is Discovery different from the Pilot tier?
Different deployment shape, different validation question. Discovery deploys Bolt as a sidecar — each user runs it locally on their laptop. There is no install in your data center. Best for “does this work for my team?” Pilot ships the production server build via Docker compose (single-host) or Helm (multi-node) inside your VPC, on-prem, or cloud account. Best for “can we run this at department scale safely?” See the Pilot tier →
Can Discovery convert into a Pilot or Founding Customer engagement?
Yes. If you decide to expand at day 30, the $5K applies as a credit against the Pilot tier or against year one of any Bolt or Aeira annual.
Why a sidecar deployment and not a real install?
At 10 seats and 30 days the install-and-tear-down cost of a production deployment outweighs the validation signal. The sidecar is the same product code as production — just packaged for laptop-local execution. You learn whether the workflow works; later you graduate to production for the scale and uptime guarantees.
Is the price negotiable?
Not at this entry rung. The $5K is intentionally flat so the conversation is about fit, not price. If $5K is the wrong scale, the free Aeira Catalog tier is a lower-friction technical fit-test.
What does success look like at day 30?
Three to five of your users can each name the 3 workflows Bolt changed for them. We sign off on a one-page outcomes note together. You decide: graduate to Pilot, sign Founding Customer, run a second Discovery in a different scope, or walk.
Who signs?
One partner, founder, principal, or department head with budget authority. No procurement loop required at $5K in most firms. We provide a 2-page agreement and DPA; turnaround is typically same week.