Security & Compliance

Built for the work your CISO has to defend.

Bolt and Aeira are built to the security bar regulated industries demand, which means they work for any enterprise that takes governance seriously, not just the ones a regulator forces to. This page covers our architectural posture, the compliance regimes the platform is deployable for today, and our roadmap. Detailed security briefs, threat models, and pen-test results are shared under NDA.

At a glance

The posture, summarized.

Your data. Your perimeter.

Self-host on AWS, Azure, GCP, on-prem, or fully air-gapped. Every Bolt tier and Aeira Federated keep your data plane in your perimeter; Sparcle never hosts your data and never runs your inference. You bring the LLM, under your own provider contract, so nothing routes through us at any tier.

Identity-bound by design

Every query inherits the calling user's identity from your IdP (SAML, OIDC, JWT). Aeira filters in-band on every result; Bolt's pipeline applies policy guardrails before any prompt reaches the LLM. No bypass mode for callers.

No provider API keys in circulation

When your people reach AI through Bolt's own endpoint, they authenticate with SSO and the provider credentials stay server-side under a per-organisation key. Nobody holds a provider API key, so there is none to leak, share, or take with them, and removing someone from your IdP removes their AI access. Each person sees only the models their role permits, and a model outside that set is refused by name rather than quietly replaced.

Governed by device policy too

On macOS the desktop app reads the configuration profile your MDM pushes, and the browser extension reads managed policy on Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox and Safari. Device policy, your server policy and the built-in floor are reconciled by one merge rule with a documented precedence, so two sources cannot quietly disagree. On Windows the app reads Group Policy from the machine tree, and ships ADMX and ADML templates so the settings appear in the Group Policy Editor. Per-user keys are excluded by design on both platforms, so a local user cannot forge managed policy for themselves. What we do not have is a push channel: policy is read when the app starts and reconciled locally, so there is no delivery confirmation back to your MDM.

Encrypted & auditable

KMS-enveloped storage with per-tenant key isolation. Provable cryptographic erasure for GDPR & HIPAA obligations. Aeira search seals an audit event for every query it serves, allowed or denied, recording the query, the calling principal, the tenant, and the decision. Per-result filtering detail is not recorded today. Specific KMS posture and crypto choices reviewed under NDA.

Patent-pending architecture

Bolt's patent-pending architecture covers the runtime architecture, the priority engine, and the overlay UI. Detailed claim language is shared under NDA.

Tamper-evident audit you can verify yourself

Every privileged action is sealed into an Ed25519-signed Merkle chain. Export a self-contained proof bundle and an auditor verifies it completely offline, with no database, and nothing from Sparcle, in the verification loop.

Forwards to your SIEM

Audit events forward straight to Splunk HEC, Microsoft Sentinel (HMAC-signed collector or a Data Collection Rule with AAD OAuth2), or syslog over TCP, authenticated from bolt-api. Forwarding is off until you configure it, and the stdout-to-collector route (Vector, Fluent Bit, OpenTelemetry) stays available if you would rather ship Bolt's logs the way you ship everything else. Either way your security team watches Bolt activity where it watches the rest of the estate.

Compliance Posture

What's deployable today, what's on the roadmap.

We use precise language about compliance: an architecture is "deployable" for a regime when it can be configured to satisfy that regime's technical requirements, but a formal certification is a separate process with a third-party auditor. Here's where we are honestly.

Regime
Status
Notes
HIPAA
Architecture deployable
Self-hosted variants meet HIPAA technical safeguards. BAAs available on enterprise contracts during pilot evaluation.
SOX
Architecture deployable
Audit-trail responses, tamper-evident logging, and role-based controls support SOX IT general controls. Customer-specific scope reviewed during pilot.
ITAR / Export Control
Architecture deployable
Air-gapped Federated tier available. US-person-only access controls and data residency enforced via deployment configuration.
GDPR / UK GDPR
Architecture deployable
Provable cryptographic erasure for Right to be Forgotten. EU + UK data residency via region-pinned deployments.
FCA / PRA (UK financial services)
Architecture deployable
Self-hosted posture supports SYSC 8 outsourcing, SS1/21 + PS21/3 operational resilience, SS1/23 third-party risk, and DP5/22 AI model risk. Customer remains the regulated entity; Sparcle ships software, the firm runs it. Architecture brief + DPA + third-party-register template under NDA.
DORA (EU financial services)
Architecture deployable
Self-hosted + BYO LLM avoids ICT third-party concentration risk. Exit-portable via Helm / Docker Compose. ICT incident logging + reporting hooks available.
Google CASA
Independently assessed
Assessed by TAC Security, an authorized CASA lab, against the 48 requirements Google requires before an application may hold restricted Gmail scopes. Scoped to Bolt's handling of Google user data, not a penetration test and not a SOC 2 substitute. Detail at /trust/independent-assessment.
SOC 2 Type II
Roadmap
Audit engagement planned. Honest framing: no formal certification yet. Aligned controls implemented; happy to share gap analysis under NDA.
FedRAMP Moderate
Roadmap
Federated tier targeted. Multi-quarter effort; we work with sponsoring agency partners during pilot.
ISO 27001
Roadmap
Audit engagement on the path; controls aligned. NDA brief covers timeline.

Deployment Models

Your data plane stays in your perimeter, always.

Self-Hosted (every Bolt tier, Aeira Dynamic / Enhanced)

You run the data plane and the AI inference. Sparcle ships software, updates, and support. Docker Compose for staging, Kubernetes for production HA, air-gap option available. Most regulated buyers start here. From $30/seat/month for Bolt; from $999/month for Aeira Dynamic.

Bring your own LLM (any tier)

You keep the data plane in your perimeter and you own the model contract. Point Bolt at a local or self-hosted model and no LLM traffic leaves at all; point it at a cloud provider you chose and only the PII-masked prompt goes, under your agreement with them, never through Sparcle. An admin can set a privacy floor: Bolt derives a privacy tier for each endpoint and refuses to build a provider below the floor. The check sits at the egress point every request passes through, streaming and non-streaming alike, so a call path cannot skip it. Leaving the floor unset is the default and means no enforcement, which is the right posture for a trial and the wrong one for production.

Air-Gapped (Aeira Federated)

No outbound, no inbound, no telemetry. Multi-region VPC or physically air-gapped. License validation via offline-signed token, refreshed on a customer-controlled schedule. Defense, federal, and the most-regulated industries. Custom annual contracts from $500K/year.

Available under NDA

Where the technical depth lives.

We deliberately don't publish implementation specifics on the public site. Below is what we share under a mutual NDA during pilot evaluation:

  • Architecture brief: component-level diagrams of Bolt's runtime and Aeira's data plane, including the cache hierarchy, the priority engine's scoring model, and the security pipeline's specific layers
  • Security posture documentation: threat model, encryption details, key management semantics, audit log format and retention
  • Patent claim summaries: what the patent-pending architecture covers and how it maps to the runtime
  • Pen-test results: latest external assessment findings and remediation status
  • Compliance gap analysis: honest current-vs-target view for SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP
  • Reference customer conversations: design partners willing to take a call about their experience
  • Deployment runbook: Helm charts, Docker Compose, Kubernetes manifests, and the operational guides used during go-live

Take the next step.

Schedule a 30-minute call to walk through the architecture, request the security brief under NDA, or arrange a reference conversation with a design partner.