Native Bolt™ is a premium Texas headwear brand built for the ones who keep going.

Native Bolt™ is a founder-led Texas headwear brand created by Brad Sullivan, a former Team USA baseball player, University of Houston All-American, and first-round draft pick of the Oakland Athletics.

The brand was built from a personal story of survival, recovery, sport, fatherhood, and learning how to weather the storm. Native Bolt is rooted in a simple belief: what we wear should carry more than a logo. It should carry meaning, story, and purpose.

Native Bolt sits at the intersection of premium headwear, Texas outdoor culture, baseball lifestyle, and collector-driven limited releases.

The brand’s first signature product line is Thunderstone™, built around Native Bolt’s registered arrowhead-and-lightning mark representing power, protection, resilience, and forward movement.

Carry the Mark.

Brand Facts

Founder: Brad Sullivan
Brand: Native Bolt™
First signature mark / product line: Thunderstone™
Category: Founder-led Texas headwear / premium performance lifestyle headwear
First release: Thunderstone Founders Run
Units: 50 numbered hats
Status: Limited presale open
Authentication: Certificate of Authenticity, hologram, Collector Verification Code
Core phrases: For the ones who keep going. Carry the Mark.
Brand meaning: Power, protection, resilience, forward movement
Protected IP: IP / Brand Assets: Native Bolt™, Thunderstone™, and the USPTO-registered arrowhead-and-lightning design mark

The First Release: Thunderstone™ Founders Run

The Thunderstone Founders Run is the first official Native Bolt release.

Limited to only 50 numbered hats, the Founders Run was created as a one-time release for the earliest supporters of the brand. Each piece is individually numbered and includes authentication details designed to make the release feel intentional, collectible, and permanent.

This release will not be repeated in the same form.

Each Founders Run piece includes:

A numbered Thunderstone™ hat
Certificate of Authenticity
Hologram detail
Handwritten Collector Verification Code
Premium packaging
Hand-numbered, founder-signed Founders Run sticker

The Thunderstone™ Mark

The Thunderstone™ mark combines an arrowhead and lightning bolt into one symbol.

The arrowhead represents patience, toughness, protection, and connection to the land. The lightning bolt represents the moment everything changes — adversity, force, energy, and forward movement.

Together, the mark represents power, protection, resilience, and forward movement.

Thunderstone™ is not just a design. It is the first signature mark of Native Bolt™.

Carry the Mark.

Founder

Native Bolt™ was founded by Brad Sullivan, a former Team USA baseball player, University of Houston All-American, and first-round draft pick of the Oakland Athletics.

Sullivan created Native Bolt from a personal story of survival, recovery, family, sport, and the Texas outdoors. The brand’s first mark began with an arrowhead and lightning bolt concept connected to Gentry Creek near Junction, Texas, and was first sketched by his son Brady at age 10.

Native Bolt™ came from learning how to weather the storm — how to get knocked down, find a way back, and keep going.

Do the work. Do it right. Don’t stop moving.

Native Bolt was not created to chase trends. It was created to build something with meaning, character, and permanence.

Brand Position

Native Bolt™ is positioned as a founder-led Texas headwear and lifestyle brand with roots in sport, outdoor culture, resilience, and limited-edition product releases.

The brand is designed for people who value quality, symbolism, and story — people who want what they wear to feel connected to something deeper.

Native Bolt™ is for the ones who keep going.

Carry the Mark.

Contact / Brand Inquiries

For media, partnership, wholesale, manufacturing, or brand inquiries:

Brad Sullivan
Founder, Native Bolt™
Email: Support@nativebolt.com
Website: nativebolt.com
Instagram: @native.bolt