Flat pricing, US-led delivery leads, senior engineers, weekly demos, and clear ownership from scoping through handoff.
Get unstuck. Two senior engineers, 30 days, a fixed outcome.
For: Teams with a stalled initiative, a prior vendor who didn't deliver, or a narrow feature that needs to ship this month.
A real product, in customer's hands, inside a quarter.
For: Founders validating a model or shipping v1. Startups pre- and post-seed. SMB teams productizing an internal tool.
A dedicated pod that lives inside your roadmap — plus an AI teammate.
For: Scale-ups needing reliable velocity. Teams replacing a failed in-house attempt. Companies where one Horizon engagement worked and they want more.
We are a Sharetribe Expert Partner. 7+ live Sharetribe marketplaces shipped — RareWaters (acquired 2024), Kidsy, Boat.rent, Patcom Medical, Sick Day Sports Club, Unifreelancer.
For teams between hires or pre-first-engineer. Architecture direction, hiring support, vendor oversight — backed by a 10+ engineer bench if you need to ship.
| Engagement shape | 30-day sprint | 8–12 week build | Monthly, ongoing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team size | 2 engineers | 2–3 engineers + lead | 2–4 engineers + lead + AI |
| Pricing | Flat $3k | Fixed $30k | $40k / mo |
| Outcome shape | Single defined win | Launched v1 product | Sustained velocity |
| Cancellation | Sprint ends naturally | Milestone-gated | 30-day notice |
| US-led delivery | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 6-month warranty | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI teammate | — | On request | ✓ included |
| Weekly demos | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dedicated pod | ✓ (sprint-length) | ✓ | ✓ (same pod, monthly) |
Every line of code we ship carries a 6-month warranty. If we wrote a bug, we fix it — no change-order, no invoice.
We scope in writing before you sign. Out-of-scope gets its own SOW. The agreed number is the number you pay.
Delivery leads sit in San Jose and Irvine. US-law contracts. SOC 2 / NIST-aligned practices. No surprises about where your code lives.
Month-to-month on the Embedded Team tier; 30-day notice. Code is yours from day one. No lock-in, no buyout.
If you find a bug in code we wrote, inside 6 months of delivery, we fix it on our clock. Applies to every tier. The one exception is scope changes — if you ask for new behavior, that's a new SOW.
Hourly incentivizes the vendor to go slow. Flat pricing means we make money when we ship, which is also when you want us to make money. Corros told us on the record: we work "without surprises, with well-set estimations and expectations."
Same people for the whole engagement. US-led delivery leads from MAANG + YC backgrounds. A typical pod is a delivery lead + 2 senior engineers. No junior contractors rotated in.
Half our Embedded Team clients started as a Sprint or MVP. That's the point of the ladder — prove the fit cheaply, then commit.
No — that tier is monthly by design. You get the same people reliably, and you can cancel with 30 days notice. For fixed-scope work use the MVP Build tier.
You own the code from day one. We sign your NDA before the scoping call. US-law contracts. Exports/handoffs on demand.
Yes. Most of our engagements augment existing teams — Arketa, Basic.tech, Curtsy, Joyride — rather than replace them. We're used to being the extension, not the whole team.
Yes, but delivery leads and client-facing work are US-led. Implementation engineers may be global. All under US-law contracts.
Send Horizon Labs the current stage of your product, team, timeline, and budget. The team will give a practical next step.