
PebbleVault (Creator Licensing)
Dynamic anti-piracy watermark overlay and tiered commercial rights licensing matrix for 4K aerial creators.

Dynamic anti-piracy watermark overlay and tiered commercial rights licensing matrix for 4K aerial creators.

Aerial cinematographers lose up to 60% of digital licensing revenue to unauthorized screen scraping, unmanaged re-uploads, and lack of automated micro-royalty disbursement.
Key scoping bottlenecks solved:
Horizon Labs architected a high-throughput licensing vault combining real-time cryptographic video watermarking, automated Stripe Connect payout splits, and instant AWS CloudFront signed S3 download tokens.
Delivered as a scoped 45-day fixed-price sprint with guaranteed milestone delivery and strict IP anonymization.
Horizon Labs delivered the licensing vault in 45 days under a fixed-price sprint ($19,000–$28,000 hard ceiling). Dynamic watermarking was benchmarked at sub-80ms rendering overhead, with zero unauthorized preview leaks recorded during stress testing.
Next.js + Stripe Connect + AWS S3 Signed URLs + CloudFront + PostgreSQL
Tell us what you're building. After an intro call with our founders, you'll hear back within 72 business hours: a written scope with an hour range and a hard ceiling, or the questions we need answered first.