The Bolt Blog
- How to use Plan mode in Bolt.new
Once your project exists, Plan mode is the one place in Bolt.new where a prompt doesn't change your app. Here's how to turn it on, what a good first plan covers, and how to turn the plan into a build one piece at a time.
- What AI agents can do for a small business
Bolt's first acquisition, Dokai, builds AI agents that finish multi-step work without supervision. Here's what that means for a small business ready to automate the repeatable stuff, and how to build an agent instead of buying one.
- Bolt.new makes its first acquisition: Dokai
Bolt.new acquired Dokai, a San Francisco startup that built autonomous AI agents for enterprise sales teams. The Dokai team joins Bolt's AI and machine learning organization as its first capabilities arrive this fall.
- Two years in the idea diary. Four weeks to ship.
A manufacturing engineer kept a diary of app ideas he'd never have time to build. Then he built E.L.I, a lean-improvement platform, in four weeks on Bolt.new, and founded a company within a month.
- Who owns the code? The agency handoff guide
Who owns the code an agency builds with AI? You and the client, per your contract. What clients now put in writing, and the five-step handoff that proves it.
- From client brief to a pitch prototype that runs
The fastest way to turn a client brief into a working prototype to present: a five-step agency process, what to show in the room, and what to hold back.
- Writers deserve receipts. A filmmaker built them on Bolt.new.
Filmmaker and writer Angela Hollowell built Postglow and Honeyblocks on Bolt.new: share-image receipts for writers and newsletter blocks beehiiv wouldn't build. No code, no AI imagery, all taste.
- Flag football is having a moment. FlagStat is keeping score
Bradley Metrock built FlagStat, the operating system for flag football, on Bolt.new. It now serves customers in at least 16 states and is the official statistics platform of the NFHS.
- What is Bolt Forge?
Bolt Forge is a new Bolt.new agent that runs on open-source AI models, giving every individual Pro plan up to 50X more usage at no extra cost through October 14, 2026. Opted-in sessions help train open-weight models with Arcee AI.
- Build a landing page with AI in under an hour
Learn when to build a landing page with AI instead of templates. Generate code in Bolt, test forms, and publish with checks.
