horz.dev

STATION 0.0000 — THE COMPANY, IN SECTION

The modular backend for everything around your business.

Scale Horizontally.
Focus Vertically.

Support, legal, HR, marketing, analytics, and tax — six functions on one company brain. You keep the one part only you can build.

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07 LAYERS · 1 CORE · 0 DEPARTMENTS

Field Log

STATION · 0.0000
  • placeholder12,418tickets resolved in your product's voice01
  • placeholder3,140GDPR Article 28 DPAs issued02
  • placeholder47/12launch posts shipped / cited in AI answers04
  • placeholder1.2Mcompany facts answered, source attached06
  • placeholder2,400Delaware franchise filings, before March 107

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00 · The Argument

Engineers stopped writing their own auth. Founders should stop running their own back office.

You offload billing to Stripe and auth to Clerk already. HORZ-ARCHITECTURE is the same move, one level up: support, legal, HR, marketing, analytics, and tax run as managed layers, read from one company brain, and never hit payroll. You keep the one vertical only you can build.

Breadth

Seven layers around your product.

01Customer ServiceResolves tickets in your product's voice.
02LegalRedlines contracts, issues DPAs, files corporate docs.
03HRHires, pays, and onboards. No HR manager.
04MarketingShips the site, posts, launches, and search.
05AnalyticsEvery metric, defined once, on one dashboard.
06Company BrainAnswers what your company knows, source attached.
07TaxFiles federal, state, and franchise, on time.

The Architecture

This is HORZ-ARCHITECTURE.

The next billion-dollar company has one founder deep in a single vertical, with the six horizontal functions running as layers beneath. No solo company has crossed $100M in revenue yet; the constraint was never the product, it was headcount. The breadth is a dependency you add. The depth is the only thing that was ever yours.

Two Cuts

The same company, drawn two ways.

Without

1 FOUNDER · 7 JOBS

With horz

1 FOUNDER · 1 JOB

Customer Service
Legalunstaffed
HRhalf-built
Marketing
Analyticsunstaffed
Company Brain
Taxunstaffed
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Customer Service
Legal
HR
Marketing
Analytics
Company Brain
Tax

Two cuts through one company. The rows don't change — who runs them does.

Pricing

Priced by how much of the company you hand over.

01

Solo

For the founder with no back office yet. Start here; add layers as you grow.

4 / 7

Included: Company Brain + 3 layers (4 of 7).

02

Startup

— default

Seed to Series A, shipping product but losing founder hours to the inbox.

6 / 7

Included: 6 of 7 layers, Company Brain among them.

03

Scale

Growth-stage, replacing a sprawl of point tools with one backend.

7 / 7

Included: all 7 layers.

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07 · The Floor

You were never short on the idea.

You were short on a support queue, a contract redline, and a franchise tax filing.

We run those.

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