Aeira
Aeira · The Sovereign Answer Engine · 2026

The Sovereign
Answer Engine

Aeira organizes your organization's knowledge and turns it into defensible answers for the right people and agents: a patent-pending 8-axis ACL, a sealed audit chain your auditor can verify without us, and broad connector coverage across your enterprise systems, all inside your perimeter, with your LLM. One contract. One ACL model. Every scale.

8-axis
ACL · patent-pending
Broad
Connector coverage
BYO LLM
Your endpoint, your contract
Verifier
Customer-run audit chain
The Challenge

Enterprise search is broken by design

Knowledge is trapped in silos, search tools ignore access controls, and every scale upgrade means a costly replatform.

The Governance Gap Most enterprise search products expose data to users who shouldn't see it. Without ACL enforcement at the index level, every search result is a potential compliance violation.
Search results that ignore permissions

Employees see documents they shouldn't access. Confidential HR data, board materials, and financial reports leak through ungoverned search.

Every upgrade means a new integration

Moving from basic search to enterprise scale typically requires a full replatform: new APIs, new auth models, new vendor.

Knowledge scattered with no unified schema

Wikis, runbooks, KB articles, HR docs, each in a different format. No single index, no single query surface.

Scale surprises: usage spikes → unexpected costs or downtime

Without rate limiting, quotas, and clear tier boundaries, production search becomes unpredictable and expensive.

The Aeira Vision

One API. One ACL model.
Every scale.

Aeira gives you a single integration contract that stays consistent as you grow, from a curated company directory to a fully governed, high-throughput search platform.

"Start with catalog. Scale to federated. Never rewrite the integration."

Aeira Design Principle
Inside
Your perimeter
BYO LLM
Your contract, your endpoint
Broad
Connector coverage
Hybrid
Keyword + semantic
Architecture

Governed search from ingestion to query

Every request flows through the same ACL-aware pipeline, regardless of tier. Scale changes capacity, never the contract.

L1JWT ValidationAuthenticate every request with org identity
L2ACL Engine · patent-pending8-axis pre-filter (group · user · region · department · country · office · role-band · employment-type) + 4 access classes
L3Query RouterKeyword, semantic, or hybrid (auto-selected)
L4Index LayerEntity templates + custom types via API
L5Ingestion PipelineBulk API · CSV/YAML/JSON
L6Rate LimitingPer-user quotas · sliding window · burst control
L7Audit chainSealed Merkle, Ed25519-signed, standalone verifier · auditor runs it themselves
L8Metrics & MonitoringPrometheus-native operational telemetry

Entity Templates

20 ready-made templates for common enterprise data. Define custom types via API for anything else: runbooks, KB articles, policies.

ACL at the Index Level

Permissions are enforced at query time, not bolted on after. Users only ever see the data they're authorized to access.

PublicDepartmentGroupUser
Included with Every Bolt Plan

Catalog: Your company directory out of the box

A curated, ACL-aware directory of the information every employee needs: offices, holidays, benefits, apps, and more. No setup cost. No additional license.

Free with Bolt Catalog is bundled in all Bolt plans. Your team gets governed discovery from day one, at zero incremental cost.
Offices
Holidays
Benefits
Apps & Tools
IT Help
HR Policies
Travel
Security
+ 2 Custom

What's Included

  • 8 core categories + 2 custom
  • 50 records per category (link-centric entries)
  • 4-level ACL (public, department, group, user)
  • Browse + keyword search with ACL filtering
  • Import via CSV, JSON, or YAML templates
  • Integrated with Bolt AI chat
  • Fair-use query and storage limits
Index Any Corporate Data

Dynamic: Hybrid AI search across everything

Go beyond directory. Index wikis, runbooks, KB articles, guides, any corporate data. Hybrid search combines keyword precision with semantic understanding.

Hybrid Search

Keyword + semantic vector search. Find results by exact terms or meaning. Aeira picks the best strategy automatically.

20 Entity Templates

Pre-built templates for common enterprise data types. Define custom types via API for anything else.

Bulk Ingestion API

Import via CSV, YAML, or JSON. Up to 10,000 indexed records with full ACL support.

Production-Scale Enterprise Search

Enhanced: Built for production workloads

Bulk ingestion, rate limiting that holds across replicas, region-aware ACL, and tenant isolation enforced inside retrieval. For teams that need scale with governance.

1

Bulk ingestion

Batched writes with per-document status, so a partial batch reports which documents failed instead of reporting success.

2

Per-User Daily Quotas

Soft and hard limits prevent abuse. Fair usage across teams without manual monitoring.

3

30 QPS Rate Limiting

Burst control with sliding window. Production-grade throttling that protects your infrastructure.

4

Region-Aware ACL

Location-based access filtering for multi-region deployments and data sovereignty compliance.

5

Tenant isolation

Tenant id is mandatory in every storage call, enforced at retrieval rather than filtered afterwards, with no implicit-default path.

Security & Authorization · Patent-pending

Patent-pending 8-axis ACL + verifiable audit chain

Aeira indexes ACL as a first-class dimension. Every doc carries country, office, role-band, and employment-type restrictions that are evaluated at query time. Patent-pending architecture. Every access decision is emitted to a sealed Merkle audit chain your auditor can verify without our cooperation.

8-axis ACL · patent-pending

Restrictions indexed at ingest. Documents not matching the requester's identity never enter the candidate set.

country office role-band employment-type

Plus 4 access classes: Public · Department · Group · User

Standalone audit verifier

Sealed Merkle chain, Ed25519-signed, KMS-rooted. Your auditor runs the verifier binary themselves, no Sparcle cooperation required.

What tamper-evidence costs

Measured, not modelled. The sealed chain is 29% of ingest throughput and PII scanning is 1.2%. Most vendors will not tell you this number because they have not taken it.

Sustained 7,867 documents/second on one 32-core node with durable commits, Catalog tier, keyword only. The limit was the database, not Aeira: a fifth of the cores were still idle. The load harness ships in the box, so run it on your hardware and quote what it returns.

JWT native

Every request validated via JWT. Identity claims pass through from your IdP (Okta, Entra, OneLogin, Auth0, Google, Zoho, or any compliant OIDC / SAML 2.0).

Per-tenant CMK

Vault today; AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, and PKCS#11 HSM on the roadmap. Crypto-shred for HIPAA-aligned / GDPR Article 17 erasure. Deleting the key destroys the derived data.

Attested residency

Every audit event records the region that served it, inside the signed hash. Editing it invalidates the chain, so residency is checkable by your auditor rather than asserted by us.

Namespace isolation

Each tenant gets a dedicated namespace with independent access boundaries. Tenant_id mandatory in every storage call, no implicit-default path.

Tier Comparison

Choose your scale

Same API. Same ACL. Different capacity and governance depth.

Capability Catalog Dynamic Enhanced Federated
What you can index 10 directory categories Any document or data Any document or data Any document or data
Entity templates 8 core + 2 custom 20 + custom via API 20 + custom via API 20 + custom via API
Records 500 (50/cat) Up to 10K Up to 100K Negotiated
Search Keyword Hybrid Hybrid Hybrid
ACL model 4-level 4-level 4-level + region 4-level + region
Ingestion Manual templates Bulk API Bulk + per-doc status Bulk + per-doc status
Query volume Fair-use 10K/day 50K/day Negotiated
Price Free w/ Bolt $999/mo $4,999/mo Custom
Ready to Scale

Index anything.
Find everything.

Start with Catalog, included free in every Bolt plan. Scale to Dynamic, Enhanced, or Federated as your governance needs grow. Same API. Same ACL. No replatform.

Catalog

Free with Bolt

1 API

Across all tiers

4-Level

ACL always on

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