From a Small Software Shop to a Global Agency in 11 Years. How HORIZON Stayed true to Its Principles While Constantly Changing to Provide Cutting-Edge Solutions
HORIZON’s core values evolved with us as the company grew and we learned from our experiences. They epitomize what we want to achieve, and they might change in the future, as we aim higher and higher. We think of those values as important to our culture and individual sense of accomplishment.
Exceed clients’ and colleagues’ expectations
Take ownership and question the status quo in a constructive manner
Be brave, curious and experiment – learn from all successes and failures
Act in a way that makes all of us proud
Build an inclusive, transparent and socially responsible culture
Be ambitious and grow yourself and the people around you
Exercise and recognize excellence and engagement
Looking back, it looks so easy now. HORIZON is growing at an accelerating pace as we expand our footprint from its original offices in Turkey, boosting its international footprint across banking, healthcare, retail, property, and travel industries. The growth is fueled by trust from a whole bunch of customers - from startup founders to large corporations.
HORIZON is a digital solutions consultancy founded in 2023 in Texas and expanded nationally. HORIZON builds digital solutions that let people do things differently – offering digital solution approaches and implementation, augment resources in niche market skills offer know-how to companies of all shapes and sizes – to make beautifully designed digital solutions in a way that’s fast and fits their needs. Since the beginning our main goal was to help entrepreneurs and established companies build new software solution that matters. Building solutions that are helpful for people, making world a better place, for everyone, including ourselves.
The journey of the founding duo of HORIZON wasn't all roses. The road was bumpy, the direction unclear. At the time not many advisors bet in favor of this small software shop from Istanbul. The software shop which dared to dream big about competing, on equal terms, with agencies from the UK, US or Germany. Paradoxically, this little credit motivated us even more to prove everybody wrong and to do it our way.
We stayed true to our principles from the birth of the company. We were (and still are) constantly reinventing ourselves, thinking how and what to change to fulfil our goals, but always staying in line with these principles. We have learnt how to unlearn, not sticking tightly to old solutions, even though they might have helped us get where we are. Which proves that we are agile and adaptable, and that no matter our size, we always act quickly. We add new technologies in a snap, and at the same time we forget or transform the old ones without regret.
And it has worked. Over the last 11 years, these three mantras opened the door to HORIZON’s success today. As HORIZON grows, this may sound as the most biased, and, perhaps, the least trustworthy source to tell this story. But no need to ask us, asking our clients may actually be the best way to do it. This is because they had a chance to experience working with HORIZON from both sides of the table: as a client across the table and being transformed as a working collaborator where the table is done away with. Success doesn’t come alone but by working together. That is where our success and our growth lie, where the client becomes part of us.
