AI agents that operate factories
AI agents that operate factories. Factories run on rigid software that was set up once and never touched again. Around it, people do the real work by hand: pulling orders from the ERP, planning production, writing shift reports, hunting for the cause of a defect. The most valuable part of the factory is the part AI cannot reach. Horizontal changes that. Our agent layer sits on top of your existing MES and ERP and connects every machine on the line into one system. Nothing gets ripped out. Production keeps running. From day one, agents take over the manual work around production: planning, reporting, root-cause analysis, process optimization. Use case by use case, the plant learns to run itself. Our goal is the fully autonomous factory, where software agents and physical AI work in the same flow as your existing automation. Horizontal is a team of engineers and researchers from ETH Zurich, Stanford and TUM, backed by leading Silicon Valley investor Y Combinator. We work with leading international manufacturers across industries. Run a large line and feel the limits of your MES? Talk to us!