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About New Horizon

The room your business has been missing.

New Horizon is a curated networking community for serious Greater Houston business owners, built on weekly lunches, warm introductions, and referrals that get followed through.

Every Wednesday · 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM · Spring Creek BBQ, League City, TX

Why we started

Networking was broken

If you're a business owner in Greater Houston, your options have been thin. Big mixers where anyone with a ticket walks in and you leave with forty cards and zero follow-up. Rigid franchises with 7 AM meetings and attendance penalties. Or a Facebook group where your post gets buried in twenty minutes.

None of them do the one thing networking is for: putting you in a curated room of serious owners, on a consistent schedule, with structure that turns conversations into referrals.

So we built that room. A small per-event fee keeps the quality high, David reviews every application personally, and every meeting ends with a referral round, not a handshake and a hope.

A new horizon for Houston networking

What we built

A room designed for referrals

The curation, the agenda, the platform: every piece of New Horizon exists to turn showing up into real business.

Curated Membership

Every application is reviewed personally. The fee and the vetting keep the room full of serious owners instead of card-collectors.

A Weekly Rhythm

Every wednesday, 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM, over lunch at Spring Creek BBQ. Relationships compound when you show up consistently.

Referral Rounds

Every meeting ends with a structured referral round: give a lead, ask for one, and introductions get made on the spot.

Member Spotlights

One member goes deep on their business each week, so the whole room learns how to refer them well.

A Living Directory

A searchable member directory keeps you findable between meetings, with connections and messages included.

Real Accountability

Everyone leaves with a next step and someone to follow up with. Follow-through is the whole culture.

Who's behind it

Run by people who show up

This isn't a franchise or a faceless directory. Two operators, one job: keep the room worth your Wednesday.

DM

David McLain

Founder · Runs the room

David leads every meeting in person, reviews every application, and makes the introductions. This is his room, and he works it like one.

KB

Kris Black

Araptus · Builds the platform

Kris builds and runs the member platform: the directory, events, ticketing, and everything that keeps the community working between Wednesdays.

"I'd rather have twenty owners who show up and refer each other than a room of two hundred who never follow up."

— David McLain, Founder
What we believe

Four rules the room runs on

01

Give first

Referrals flow to people who lead with generosity.

02

Curate hard

One great member beats ten lukewarm ones.

03

Show up

Trust is built in reps, not in one-off mixers.

04

Stay local

Greater Houston owners, growing Greater Houston businesses.

Real relationships · Real opportunities · Greater Houston

Where we meet

Lunch at Spring Creek BBQ

This is where everyone meets for now. The spot may change as the group grows.

Every Wednesday
11:45 AM – 1:15 PM
2710 Gulf Fwy S
League City, TX
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Spring Creek BBQ
League City, TX
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Come see the room for yourself.

Applying is free and takes a few minutes. David reviews every application personally. No pressure, no auto-approval.