Horizon Mode: Distributed Reasoning via Recursive Swarm

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Read our papers on agentic systems and recursive swarms

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Everyone chats with the same AI in real-time. When Priya asks for a login page, Marcus already has that context. The AI remembers Day 1 decisions on Day 100.

SHARED CONTEXT: Marcus didn't need to explain authentication. The context has full workspace history from Priya's interaction 2 minutes ago.

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CTO at Lumina Health

"Horizon Mode changed how we ship. I describe the feature in chat, and three autonomous agents coordinate to build the frontend, backend, and tests simultaneously. It feels like I cloned my best senior dev."

VP of Engineering at Polystream

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Staff Infrastructure Engineer at Kinetix Systems

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Research

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Context Engineering.

We didn't just wrap an API. We published the research on retrieval-augmented code generation.

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Like Figma adapts for designers vs developers, Dropstone adapts for business owners vs engineers. Same workspace, different interfaces.

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