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Brooklyn-born builder. Bulldog dad. Operator across products, physical goods, audiences, and AI.

AI Operator

Brooklyn-Born

OPS
AI
BUILT

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How I Got Here

01 / 06
Brooklyn

Born Direct

Born and raised in Brooklyn. It set the baseline for how directly I speak, work, and make decisions. I never really lost it.

A Brooklyn neighborhood street at blue hourOrigin
A Brooklyn neighborhood street at blue hour
01 · Brooklyn

Born Direct

Born and raised in Brooklyn. It set the baseline for how directly I speak, work, and make decisions. I never really lost it.

Archival Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare multiplayer gameplay from 2007
02 · Online

Captain at Thirteen

On the original Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, I captained a team to number two in the world. At thirteen I was leading people older than me under pressure. It was my first proof that organizing a group is its own skill.

Walking out of a university lecture hall into morning light, notebook and campus ID left on the seat
03 · Baruch

College Dropout

I left Baruch College after a single semester because the learning I wanted was on the other side of building something, getting it wrong in public, and being responsible for the result.

Open shipping containers on a factory loading bay meeting a casino floor of slot machines
04 · China → U.S.

Factories to Casino Floors

I learned sourcing, factory relationships, packaging, duties, customs, freight, quality control, and how to land multi-million-unit physical-product programs in the United States. Brandation grew past $50M in sales.

Franki and Freddi looking up together at home
05 · Audience

Franki & Freddi

A father-son bulldog story became a 1.5-million-person audience through cinematic storytelling. Franki died in 2025. The book I am writing about losing him is called To Lose A Dog; Freddi carries the story now.

To Lose A Dog
A Brooklyn desk at dusk: rain on the window, an ultrawide agent console, and a vintage CRT as a relic
06 · 2022 → Now

The AI Turn

I have been technical my whole life - one of the first kids in New York with high-speed internet because my dad was a Wall Street trader, then several technology startups of my own. In 2022 I turned hard into AI. The systems I built for myself became products, agents, automation, and eventually ZipLyne.

Four Operating Worlds

Where I
Operate.

Each world opens on its thesis. Keep scrolling and the card slides away to show the work itself.

BUILD / 01

Digital Products

Mobile and web products shaped around the hard part, not the feature list.

Scroll to reveal the work

Four Operating Worlds

The through-line is learning the system deeply enough to operate it.

BUILD / 01

Digital Products

Mobile and web products shaped around the hard part, not the feature list.

baba Translation and baba News presented together as digital products
MOVE / 02

Physical Products

Factories, packaging, duties, customs, freight, quality control, and the last mile into the U.S.

Three physical products staged between quality control and delivery
STORY / 03

Social Media

Emotional storytelling, distribution, and brands people choose to follow for years.

A single iPhone presenting the Franki and Freddi Instagram profile
SYSTEM / 04

AI Systems

Agents and automation that survive contact with real operations.

A night command desk with three monitors running agent pipelines and a live operations map

Products & Builds

Live products, operating proof, and the experiments that led to the next thing. ZipLyne lives outside this grid because it is the agency built from all of it.

Book in Progress

What I'm Writing

To Lose A Dog book on a writing desk overlooking Brooklyn at dusk
Memorial Video & Photos
Franki / 2020 - 2025To Lose
A Dog.

A book about Franki - grief, pet loss, and what resilience looks like after the dog who started everything is gone.

Read about the book

Everything I learned building for myself became

ZipLyne.

A custom-software and AI agency built from operating experience - not from watching the work from the outside. If you want something built, this is where it happens.

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CORE PRINCIPLES

What I Believe

Things I have been wrong about long enough to stop being wrong about.

01

Build It and Find Out

Reality settles arguments faster than planning ever will.

02

Speed Compounds

More useful attempts create more chances to get it right.

03

AI Amplifies Judgment

The tool scales the thinking; it does not replace it.

04

Taste Is Part of Function

How a thing reads, feels, and moves is part of whether it works.

BIOMETRIC DISCIPLINE

The Work Runs on the Body.

Training, food, sleep, and mental clarity are not hobbies competing with the work. They determine the ceiling of the work.

Read the Full Health Guide
VO2 Max
42
TOP 10% TIER
Resting HR
54
BPM AVERAGE
Body Fat
~10%
DEXA MEASURED
Weekly Training
6×
SESSIONS / WK

What Has My Attention

The real operational priorities, not the polished biography.

Writing To Lose A Dog

A book about Franki, grief, pet loss, and resilience.

Running ZipLyne

AI systems, agents, products, and automation.

A Better VO² Max

More zone two, less ego, honest measurement.

Freddi

The bulldog runs the house and the content calendar.

Costa Rica

Santa Teresa when the timing works.

Sitting Still

Meditation, breathwork, and learning to stop.

EXPERIMENTS & BUILDS

Also Built

Live functional tools and products I built to exist. Direct links.

I READ EVERYTHING.
I ANSWER STRAIGHT.

Whether you're building an AI operating system, scaling physical products, or exploring an agency partnership.

Speed Over CeremonyCreated using Claude and Codex as a team.© 2026 Isaac Horowitz