Is Aeira Catalog included in all Bolt plans?
Yes. Catalog is bundled free in every Bolt plan as the baseline data plane. Dynamic, Enhanced, and Federated are paid Aeira tiers for larger scale and stronger governance.
What does air-gapped deployment mean in practice?
Federated-tier deployments run entirely inside your security perimeter — typically a VPC, on-prem cluster, or physically air-gapped network. No outbound calls, no telemetry, no third-party model API calls. License validation happens via an offline-signed token, refreshed on a customer-controlled schedule. Catalog and Dynamic also run fully on-prem; Federated adds dedicated cluster isolation and custom topology.
How does Aeira help with GDPR / HIPAA erasure obligations?
Aeira gives you cryptographic erasure rather than just row-deletion — when an erasure obligation applies, the encrypted data becomes mathematically unreadable. The result is auditor-acceptable proof of erasure that satisfies GDPR Right to be Forgotten and HIPAA Right to Restrict Disclosure. We can walk through the specifics in an architecture review under NDA.
Can we bring our own data, embedding model, and infrastructure?
Yes to all three. Customer pays for their own compute, storage, and infrastructure (except in Bolt Complete, which is fully managed). Aeira ships with sensible defaults but supports BYO embedding models for customers with specialized domain models. The access-control semantics stay consistent regardless of which embedder is used.
What changes when we upgrade tiers?
Scale and governance depth — not the API. Catalog is keyword-only with hard record limits. Dynamic adds full hybrid search up to 10K records. Enhanced supports up to 100K records with high-throughput ingestion. Federated adds air-gap, multi-region, and dedicated cluster isolation. Applications written against Catalog scale up to Federated without rewrites.
Pricing — what does each tier cost?
Catalog: free with every Bolt plan. Dynamic: $999/month (up to 10K records). Enhanced: $4,999/month (up to 100K records, high-throughput ingestion). Federated: custom annual contracts from $500K/year (defense / federal / regulated tier). All paid tiers include software updates, patches, and support — customer pays for their own compute, storage, and infrastructure.
Can we see the architecture and security details?
Yes — under NDA. Detailed architecture briefs, encryption specifics, key management semantics, and audit-trail formats are shared during pilot evaluation. Schedule an Aeira deployment design call and we'll cover what's relevant to your environment.