Horizon for Co-Development Studios
Become easier for clients to approve, onboard, and scale.
Horizon helps co-development studios use controlled workspaces, scoped access, and repeatable delivery models to work more securely and predictably across different client pipelines.
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Your client does not need to buy Horizon. The client keeps its pipeline. You use Horizon to govern your side of the collaboration. |
Enables you too:
- Reduce client onboarding friction.
- Strengthen your security and access story.
- Support developer and artist contributors through controlled workspaces.
- Protect margin by reducing repeated setup and support overhead.
- Scale from small engagements to deeper embedded partnerships with a more mature delivery model.
Why this matters
Co-development studios are no longer evaluated only on talent, credits, and capacity. Clients also need confidence that an external team can integrate safely, quickly, and predictably into their production environment.
That makes onboarding, access control, IP protection, tooling alignment, and offboarding part of the buying decision. If those areas are unclear, deals can slow down, security reviews become harder, and onboarding can delay billable work.
Every client works differently. One client may send managed workstations. Another may rely on VPN access. Another may provide restricted Perforce or Git access, separate build credentials, Jira access, asset review workflows, or temporary cloud workstations. Horizon gives co-dev studios a repeatable way to handle that complexity without rebuilding the delivery model for every client engagement.
The client keeps its pipeline
Horizon is used by the co-development studio. It does not require the client to buy Horizon, operate Horizon, or change its platform strategy.
The client keeps its tools, source-control model, review process, security requirements, and production workflow. Horizon helps the co-dev studio make its own side of the collaboration more controlled, repeatable, and auditable.
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The client keeps its pipeline. The co-dev studio brings a more mature way to work with it. |
What changes with Horizon
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Without Horizon |
With Horizon |
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Every client engagement risks becoming a one-off setup project. |
Client/project-specific workspace templates create a repeatable setup model. |
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Contributors rely on local machines, shipped hardware, VPNs, or manual configuration. |
Contributors can work through controlled developer or artist workspaces. |
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Access patterns may become broad, manual, or difficult to audit. |
Access can be scoped by project, role, and duration. |
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Source and assets may spread across unmanaged endpoints. |
Work can stay inside governed environments where the engagement model allows it. |
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Offboarding depends on manual cleanup. |
Access can be time-boxed and centrally revoked. |
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Client IT, DevOps, or production teams may need to support external onboarding. |
The co-dev studio brings a more mature delivery-readiness model. |
Built for development and art co-dev
Development teams
Horizon supports controlled developer workspaces with source access, IDEs, build/test tooling, task context, and project-specific templates. This helps reduce onboarding friction, environment drift, and broad access exposure.
Art and technical art teams
Horizon supports GPU-backed artist workspaces with DCC tooling, editor access, Perforce-oriented asset workflows, and controlled asset handling. This helps reduce pipeline mismatch, unmanaged asset distribution, and workstation overhead.
Why this helps commercially
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Commercial outcome |
How Horizon helps |
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Easier to approve |
A co-dev studio with a mature security, onboarding, and access story is easier for clients to evaluate. |
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Faster to onboard |
Project-specific workspaces reduce manual setup, tool installation, environment drift, and delay before productive contribution. |
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Stronger security posture |
Controlled environments, scoped access, time-boxed permissions, and clearer auditability strengthen the client-facing security story. |
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Less delivery friction |
Developers and artists can work in environments aligned to the engagement, reducing mismatch, rework, and support overhead. |
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Better margin protection |
Less non-billable setup work, fewer support escalations, better workspace and GPU utilization, and cleaner offboarding help protect delivery margin. |
Best fit
Horizon is especially relevant for co-development studios where client onboarding, source or asset access, distributed contributors, developer and artist workspaces, and security expectations already create real operational cost.
- Co-dev studios serving AA or AAA clients.
- Art outsourcing teams handling large assets or Unreal/Unity workflows.
- Engineering co-dev teams needing secure source access.
- Distributed teams repeatedly onboarding contributors across client projects.
- Studios that want stronger security and compliance answers in client conversations.
- Organizations where GPU utilization, Perforce workflows, or offboarding create recurring friction.
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