Bolt Bench is a threaded communication platform with a chrome-grade backbone — durable message queues, deterministic delivery, and a sidebar that keeps every conversation one keystroke away.
Every feature is engineered around one guarantee: the message you send is the message they receive — in order, intact, exactly once.
Every thread is an append-only log. Scroll back three years and the context is byte-identical to the day it was written.
At-least-once with idempotency keys means no duplicates, no drops. Receipts are cryptographic, not heuristic.
Messages traverse a mesh of regional brokers. p50 latency sits at 38ms cross-continent, p99 under 120ms.
A sidebar that loads in one paint, keyboard-first navigation, and a chrome-revival aesthetic that doesn't fatigue.
An ML ranker scores every notification against your focus calendar. Noise never reaches your lock screen.
Direct messages are sealed client-side with the Signal protocol. Even our relay can't read the payload.
Bolt Bench reads a single YAML manifest. Define your channels, retention, and routing rules — the platform handles the rest.
# bolt-bench.yaml — workspace manifest workspace: atlas-eng region: eu-west-1 retention: 365d channels: - name: #engineering delivery: at-least-once idempotency: true webhook: https://ops.atlas.dev/hooks/eng - name: #incidents priority: P1 escalation: oncall-rotation notifications: ranker: focus-aware-v3 quiet_hours: 22:00-08:00
Every plan includes unlimited members, E2E DMs, and the full chrome UI. You scale on messages, not headcount.
We replaced three tools with Bolt Bench. The threaded persistence means an incident thread from last quarter is still byte-for-byte intact when audit pulls it. The chrome UI is the first messaging client my on-call engineers don't complain about at 3 AM.
No credit card. No seat limits. The first 50k messages each month are on us.