Read this before the next AI rollout meeting

Every tool your team logged into this morning is a decision someone will have to defend later.

Bolt is the governed AI surface your workforce touches every day. Aeira is the search engine underneath it for the questions that can never afford to guess wrong. Together they give your organization instant answers, provable governance, and a boundary you define.

View this as a deck All roles A decision-maker briefing · by Sparcle

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The crux

When someone finally asks "prove it," most AI tools have no honest answer. Bolt and Aeira are built so that answer already exists before anyone has to ask.

Where budget, risk and time actually collide

Three problems. One root cause.

Every AI strategy conversation eventually collapses into the same three problems. They are not hypothetical. They are the reason procurement stalls, the reason legal blocks rollouts, and the reason the best tool in the building never gets adopted company wide.

Exposure and lawsuits

Sensitive data crosses a boundary nobody controlled, and when it surfaces later there is no clean record of what happened or who touched it.

The AI bill nobody approved

Every trivial question gets routed through a model that costs money and adds latency, because the tool has no cheaper tier to fall back to.

Twenty tabs, zero memory

The answer lives in Gmail, the context in Jira, the file in Drive, and finding it costs more time than using it will.

Not a hypothetical: this morning, twice

The same day, two ways.

Today

  • Sensitive data pasted into whatever model happened to be open, with no record of what left the building.
  • Every trivial lookup burns a paid model call, on a bill nobody sized in advance.
  • The answer is in one of twenty tools, and finding it costs more time than using it will.
  • When something goes wrong, the record is a support ticket, if it exists at all.

With Bolt and Aeira

  • PII and PHI pseudonymized before any model, public or private, ever sees it.
  • Hundreds of instant answers with zero network call and zero model call, before AI is even considered.
  • One search surface across everything you already run, permission-filtered before it ranks.
  • A cryptographically sealed, independently verifiable audit trail, by default.

On the AI bill

The tokens you never spend are the ones that never leak.

Most of what people ask a chat assistant does not need a model at all. A currency conversion, a timestamp, a regex, a lookup against a known table: these have exact answers. Sending them to an LLM burns money, adds latency, and hands the model text it never needed to see.

  1. Type it

    no network yet
  2. Instant, on-device

    zero cost, zero exposure
  3. Search your apps

    still no model call
  4. Escalate to AI

    only when it's genuinely needed

Cheapest path first

Every request tries the free tiers before it ever reaches a model: on-device recognizers, then your own connected data, then cache.

Any model, including your own

Point Bolt at a hosted provider, or a model already running on your own machine or GPU cluster. Marginal cost drops to what your hardware costs.

Hundreds of free answers

Hundreds of instant operations across thousands of recognized reference values resolve with no network call and no AI call at all.

On tool sprawl

Twenty systems in, one safe search box out.

Email, calendar, files, tasks, people, chat, code, tools you have not even connected yet. Bolt gives every one of them the same front door, the same boundary, and the same audit trail, reachable from the browser or the desktop launcher wherever your infrastructure already runs.

First-party, deep

Native integrations into the productivity suites most companies already run, pulling live, not cached.

Third-party, broad

A wide, growing catalog of connected tools on a common open protocol. Adding one is configuration, not a project.

Works both directions

Bolt exposes its own capabilities the same way, so tools you already use elsewhere can call into it too.

Swappable, not welded

Every connector, every model, every identity provider is a module you can replace. Nothing is a dead end.

Not just the obvious sources

Everything you can reach, in one result list.

The search box reaches further than email and files. Clipboard history, notes, and installed apps are searched on-device, encrypted at rest, the same box, the same governance, no separate tool to open.

Clipboard history

Every copy, text and image, encrypted at rest and full-text searchable. Screenshots are OCR'd, so you can find one by the words inside it.

Notes

Encrypted at rest, device-local, auditable and deletable on request, searchable the same way as everything else.

Installed apps

Find and launch what's on the machine without hunting through a dock or a start menu.

Files & drives

Local machine, network drives and the cloud you signed into with your own identity.

Annotate & export

Mark up, redact or crop an image from the clipboard, then hand it off through your own share sheet. Nothing routes through Sparcle to get there.

Email

Threads and attachments, live against your provider.

Calendar

Meetings and attendees, current, not a nightly sync.

People & contacts

Your directory and org graph, permission-filtered per person.

Worth being precise about: clipboard, notes and file search are on-device today. Image similarity search, finding a screenshot by what it visually shows rather than the text inside it, exists as working code but is not switched on in the shipping build yet; OCR-text search on images is live now.

Integrations, apps and identity

Provisioned like the rest of your stack, not a shadow IT problem.

Connecting a new tool to Bolt is an IT decision with an audit trail, not an individual's browser extension nobody signed off on.

Admin-provisioned & blessed

IT publishes a catalog of approved integrations with central auth and policy. People pick from what is already approved.

Any API becomes a governed tool

Point it at a REST or OpenAPI endpoint and it is wrapped as a policy-gated action automatically, no SDK, no bespoke integration project.

Bolt works both directions

The same tools Bolt calls out to, it can also expose inward, so agents you already use elsewhere can call into Bolt too.

Identity provisioning, not a side door

Users are provisioned and deprovisioned the way the rest of your enterprise stack already works. The day someone leaves, their access leaves with them.

Two engines, one company

Bolt is the surface your workforce touches. Aeira is what regulated search stands on.

For teams where "good enough" retrieval is not good enough, Aeira is Sparcle's air-gapped hybrid search engine, purpose-built for defense, finance, healthcare and federal environments, wrapped in the same audit backbone Bolt uses everywhere else. Bolt gives people speed; Aeira gives the organization certainty that speed never outran permission.

Bolt

the surface your workforce touches

Aeira

the engine underneath regulated search

Access control is a pre-filter

Documents are excluded before ranking ever runs, so what a searcher sees is never a matter of the ranker guessing correctly.

Hybrid retrieval, not one trick

Multiple search signals combine so recall does not collapse to whichever technique happens to be fashionable.

Deployable fully air-gapped

Built to run with no outbound connection at all when that is the requirement, not a flag bolted on later.

One shared foundation

The same audit and pseudonymization layer that seals Bolt's action trail seals Aeira's search trail too.

For the people who build things

Paste anything. It becomes a workbench, not a wall of text.

A table becomes rows you can sort, chart and export: a mini spreadsheet with no spreadsheet app required. A log becomes a level breakdown and a top error. A curl command becomes Python. And it chains: pipe one transform into the next like a formula bar for anything you paste.

Paste a table

sorted, charted, exported to CSV or SQL

Pipe to transform

255 | hex → 0xFF

Chain transforms

text | slug | upper

Paste a stack trace

top frame isolated automatically

What happens while you are not looking

Trigger it on a schedule, on an event, or before you walk into the room.

The same governed agent that answers a typed question can be scheduled. Point it at your connected apps and it gathers what it can reach, under the same masking and the same audit trail as everything else. You compose the workflow. Bolt never pretends to write your emails for you.

Time and interval

Cron-style and interval triggers, so recurring prep happens without anyone remembering to ask.

Events and webhooks

Fire from another system's webhook, signature-verified, so Bolt reacts to what actually happened.

Ahead of the calendar

Schedule a run tied to a meeting so the relevant context, pulled only from what you can already see, is ready before it starts.

One product, read differently by every seat

Nobody has to compromise for anybody else.

Engineer · hacker

A scriptable, chainable surface with a real API. Everything is a registry, not a black box.

Executive

One number to defend in the board meeting: spend, automation, and exposure surface versus a year ago.

Compliance · legal

An audit trail independently verifiable by someone who never had to log in. Erasure and SIEM export slot in.

IT · security

Identity provisioning, role-based access, KMS-backed encryption. You approve the boundary once; Bolt enforces it.

For regulated industries

Built for the audit you did not schedule.

Healthcare, financial services, government and legal all share one pattern: the cost of an incident is not the incident, it is not being able to answer what happened. Bolt and Aeira are built so that answer already exists before anyone has to ask.

  • HIPAA · healthcare PHI pseudonymized before it reaches a model. A reportable exposure becomes a masked, audited, provable non-event.
  • SOX · financial reporting Retrievals, tool calls and model calls against financial data land in a tamper-evident, independently verifiable trail auditors can check without trusting you.
  • PCI-DSS · payment data Card numbers are recognized and masked on sight, never held in plaintext, never forwarded to a model unmasked.
  • GDPR · CCPA · erasure Erasure is a cryptographic disposal, not a delete statement: the key that could read the data is destroyed, the encrypted bytes and a tamper-evident receipt remain. Retention and erasure duties are satisfied at the same time, by the same construction.

Sparcle

A cryptographic answer, not a shrug

When a regulator, an auditor, or your own board asks what happened, you hand them a cryptographic answer, not a shrug and a support ticket.

Not a pitch-deck number

Counted from what ships, not from what we hope to ship.

Every figure above is computed from the live product registry at build time, the registry the product itself runs on.

300+

runnable operations

zero LLM cost, on-device
2,000+

recognized reference values

decoded on sight, no lookup call
14

search scopes

across your connected apps
30+

integrations

first and third-party, growing

What changed

Since you last looked: three agent CLIs, one gateway.

The governed surface now covers the coding agents your teams adopted on their own, and the free build is the full app rather than a trial.

New: the governed browser

The browser Bolt ships, and the check on the way out

Most AI exposure happens in a browser tab. Bolt ships its own, so what a person types or pastes into a page is screened on the machine before it is allowed to leave it.

A normal browser

Sees the paste, says nothing

  • A customer list reaches the AI site intact
  • The extension is the only control, and only where it is installed
  • No record of what was sent, or why
  • Every AI-enabled extension holds its own permissions

Bolt's browser

Names it, holds it, records it

  • What was found, grouped by type with a count, without repeating the values back
  • The page is held while the person decides, and a written reason is required to proceed
  • The reason lands in the audit record as a durable incident, not a counter
  • The tab says Guarded only when the guard reported, and Not screened when it cannot

The bottom line

Instant when instant is enough. Governed when it isn't. Provable either way.

See it against your own tools, your own data, your own boundary. No fabricated demo, no sanitized sandbox.

One surface

for your whole workforce

One boundary

your model, your rules

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Every other seat

Same platform, argued from where you sit

Each role page makes the case in that role's own language, and links back here.

See it on your own data

Bolt runs inside your perimeter, on the LLM you choose.