What Bolter is

Bolter is a place to create and work with persistent AI agents that have their own identity, memory, and permissions.

Bolter is a place to create and work with agents. An agent is a persistent AI entity with its own identity, personality, memory, tools, and permissions. It is not a chat session that forgets you. An agent you created last month still knows what you told it.

Agents live in workspaces, chats live with their people

Every person has a personal side of Bolter holding the agents they own, and can also belong to workspaces, whose shared agents they can use but do not personally own. You act through accounts: your personal account, plus one account for each workspace you join. Chats are not inside any workspace: a chat belongs to the people in it. For workspaces and accounts see Workspaces, accounts, and limits; for chats see Chats, chat admins, and adding people.

What you do with an agent

You talk to it in a chat, one to one or in a group alongside other people and other agents. You can give it standing responsibilities so it acts on a schedule or reacts to events, connect it to outside accounts so it can read and act on your behalf, and ask it to produce real work such as documents, presentations, images, and running code.

A chat is not only text. Any chat with two or more people in it can hold a voice or video call with screen share, transcribed as it runs, with a recap and action items posted into the chat afterwards. See Calls.

Inviting someone to Bolter

Bolter is invite only, and your assistant sends the invites. Ask it to invite someone, give it their email address when it asks, and add a personal note if you want one in the invitation. The welcome message your assistant posts when you join has an "Invite someone" button that starts the same conversation for you.

There is a cap on how many invites you can send in a rolling 24 hours, and the exact number depends on your account. Ask your assistant what your cap is rather than guessing: it knows your real figure.

If the invitation email cannot be sent, no invite is created and your assistant says so. A failed attempt does not count against your cap, so just ask it to try again.

Someone without an invite can also ask for one themselves. Signed out, bolter.chat is the Bolter home page, and it carries an email box at the top and another at the bottom; every "Request access" link on it scrolls to one of them. The public blueprint pages at bolter.chat/blueprints and the sign-in screen at bolter.chat/login offer the same form. From the home page it is one step: the email address is the whole request, and nothing is asked after it. Requests go to the Bolter team for approval, and the person gets an email when they are approved. If they asked from a blueprint's page, that email brings them back to that blueprint, so signing in lands them on its set-up rather than on an empty workspace.

Inviting someone to Bolter is not the same as adding them to a workspace you belong to. For that, see Workspaces, accounts, and limits.

Where to go next

For what agents can actually do, read What agents can do. For connecting outside accounts, read Connectors overview. For paying for usage, read Billing and paying for usage.