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Use AI without handing it your secrets

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PITCHING AT THE PALO ALTO NIGHT ON 29 OCTOBER 2026

Employees paste customer records, contracts and keys into AI tools every day, so companies either ban AI and lose the productivity or allow it and risk a leak. Sparcle's Bolt answers most requests on the device with no model call at all, and masks sensitive data before anything that does need AI leaves the machine.

Most AI governance products sit between the employee and the model and inspect what flows through. That still sends every routine question to a model, and in regulated teams one pasted patient record or private key is already a compliance incident.

Bolt starts from the opposite end: most work does not need AI. It runs 80+ utilities, search and recall locally, works with the network off, and when a task does need a model it masks names, numbers and secrets on the device first. Companies get the governed version, with policy by role, approved models and MCP servers, and an audit trail, on top of Aeira, Sparcle's permission-aware enterprise search. The founder previously worked on Google Workspace's admin console and at NVIDIA.

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