Improbable has announced the launch of Bolter, an AI-native messaging platform designed for mixed teams of people and AI agents, backed by a $10 million investment from the venture builder's own capital. The product is now available in invite-only beta, with access requests open at bolter.chat. Bolter enables non-technical operators to automate real business processes by describing them in plain text, then run, share, and compound that work across a team.
From Gaming and the Metaverse to Practical Automation
Improbable, founded in 2012, has spent more than a decade building infrastructure for games and virtual worlds that placed thousands of concurrent users in a single space. The company raised $500 million from SoftBank in 2017 and at one point was among the largest consumers of Nvidia's GPU streaming capacity. That experience in running enormous fleets of machines now underpins Bolter's agent infrastructure.
Why Bolter, Why Now
AI has made intelligence cheap, but turning it into work that actually runs still typically requires an engineer. Key operators who know their business best continue to execute by hand tasks that could easily be automated. Chatbots provide answers that users act on manually, while many automation tools require technical setup, self-hosting, and ongoing maintenance.
Automation Without Code or API Keys
Bolter closes the gap by combining blueprints, connectivity, and agentic capability in one platform. Users can install proven, tested workflows in minutes and personalise them to reflect their own ways of working. They can also describe a process in plain words, the way they would brief a new hire, and Bolter turns it into an automated workflow that runs the same way every time.
Connectivity That Compounds Across Teams
In Bolter, work no longer remains isolated in an individual's personal tab. The platform connects to tools a team already uses from day one and brings together colleagues, their agents, and their colleagues' agents. Memory compounds across the workspace, while any result can be shared with anyone and opened in one click without a Bolter account.
Agentic Power With Human Guardrails
Every Bolter agent runs on its own computer with its own browser and memory, acting on the user's behalf within set guardrails. Agents plan, debate, and hand work to each other as instructed, while the user sets the goal and is pinged only when a decision is needed. Each run produces a receipt showing what ran, what changed, and what awaits sign-off, with approval gates holding anything that leaves the workspace until a person approves it.
A European Platform With Model Neutrality
Bolter is built on the conviction that Europe should have its own messaging platform designed for a world where every team mixes people and AI agents. No mainstream messaging platform today is European, and the most visible agent platforms are being built by large US AI companies, which can lock users into their models. Bolter is model-neutral, routes each request to the best AI model for the task including open-source models, and does not train on customer data.
Leadership Perspective
Herman Narula, CEO and co-founder of Improbable, said the company is aware it is competing with some of the biggest firms in the world. He added that Bolter started as a project he coded himself because he wanted it to exist. Narula said a messaging platform built for mixed teams of humans and AI agents is worth attempting, especially in Europe.
With the $10 million investment, Bolter emerges from stealth and is onboarding operators in small batches to ensure every new member receives support. Improbable describes Bolter as its third product brought out of stealth since pivoting to venture building in 2023, following Somnia and Kallikor. Access requests are open today at bolter.chat, and the team is hiring across Europe as it attempts to build a European alternative in an increasingly AI-driven communications market.