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The Person Behind Horus

Stephen Hettman

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer · Founder, SurfaceVector · Builder of Horus

CISSP Active TS/SCI 20+ yrs cybersecurity USMC cyber leadership Holly Ridge, NC · USA

The short version

I'm a senior cybersecurity engineer with two decades in the discipline — half of it leading communications and cyber operations in the U.S. Marine Corps, the other half engineering and defending production security environments in the private sector. I hold a CISSP and maintain an active TS/SCI clearance.

I built Horus because the AI tools I needed for my own daily security and engineering work didn't exist as products I could trust. Every commercial option asked me to send code, logs, prompts, and infrastructure context to someone else's cloud. That's not a position a serious security engineer should ever be in. So I built the local-first agentic system I wanted to use — and now I sell it, with my name on it, to people who need the same thing.

Background

Why Horus exists

Horus is a local-first AI operator. It runs on your own hardware via Ollama. No prompts leave your machine. No code leaves your machine. No telemetry, no phone-home. It exposes a 120-tool local operator suite — file ops, code search, PTY terminal, git, SSH, PM2, process control, Ollama model management, media generation, and a staged-edit approval workflow that keeps a human in the loop before any change touches production.

Privacy

Your data never leaves the machine. There is no cloud inference layer to leak through.

Control

You own the models, the tool rules, the workspace jail, the audit log.

Discipline

Staged edits + human approval — not blind autonomy. Built for environments where mistakes have consequences.

Durability

No vendor outage takes you offline. No pricing change strands your workflow.

The business

SurfaceVector is operated under Demigon Holdings LLC, a North Carolina-registered entity. We also operate HTMLforme, a hand-coded web development practice serving Jacksonville, Wilmington, Surf City, Hampstead, Sneads Ferry, and Topsail Beach.

Entity
Demigon Holdings LLC
Location
Holly Ridge, NC · USA
Brands
SurfaceVector · HTMLforme · Horus
Built since
2025 — Horus is on its 5th major iteration

Talk to me directly

If you're evaluating Horus for personal use, a team, or an enterprise environment with compliance constraints, the fastest path is a direct conversation. I personally read every inquiry.