The studio door.
Identity and campaigns made at home, built to travel the day you decide to cross a border.
Not every brief starts with a border. We build identities and run campaigns for brands that want to win at home first. Everything we make here is built to travel, so the day you decide to cross a border, the work is already ready to go with you.
Everything an agency makes. Built to travel.
Strategy, identity, campaigns, film, social, media and CRM. The difference is where we point it: everything we make is designed to survive translation, so it wins at home and keeps winning across a border. Plenty of our work never leaves Portugal. All of it could.
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COLHEITA 2023 · Nº 0417Many clients start here, long before they think about leaving.
The argument comes first.
Positioning starts with the category maths: the price ladder you can defend and the shopper who will actually pay it. We interrogate both before any creative is written. You receive a written positioning, a messaging hierarchy, a price architecture and a competitive map the sales team can quote from. Measurement is the board's own. Realised price against the ladder, and share of the segment you chose to fight in.
Ideas with a media plan attached.
A campaign begins as a commercial question. We concept against that question and pressure-test the idea with the people expected to buy it. What ships is complete: platform idea, launch film or key visual, channel plan, flighting calendar and the toolkit local teams need to run it. Success criteria are agreed in writing before launch, usually reach against the buying audience and movement in the doors the campaign was pointed at.
A system, from wordmark to shelf.
We design the whole system: wordmark, typography, colour, packaging, tone of voice and the usage rules that keep an intern from breaking it. Everything ships as working files with a guardianship document, so year three looks as sharp as week one. The measure is consistency in the wild. We audit how the identity survives retailers, printers, distributors and partner agencies, and we fix what drifts.
The weeks between campaigns.
Campaigns spike. Content is what the brand says during the other forty-eight weeks of the year. We plan and produce that editorial layer: articles, newsletters, product stories, serving and pairing pieces, retail copy in the market's own register. A native writer owns each language. We track it the way a publisher would: read time, subscriber growth, search positions on the terms your category is won on, and what a visit costs next to paid media.
Production, owned end to end.
We direct and produce in-house: brand films, product tableaux, founder portraits, social cuts and the packshots retailers keep asking for. One shoot is planned to feed a year of formats, so the budget buys a library rather than a single hero asset. Every file is logged with usage rights and territories, which matters the day a distributor in another market asks. Performance is read per asset, from completion rate on a film to the sell-in meetings the stills help win.
Daily presence, weekly judgement.
We run the channels that matter for your category and close the ones that flatter the agency. The month's work is visible: a content calendar, formats designed for each placement, community management in the market's language and a reactive lane for the weeks when culture hands you an opening. Judgement is weekly and numeric: saves and shares ahead of raw reach, growth inside the audience that can buy you, traffic passed to retail, and what each engaged follower cost.
Spend that answers for itself.
We plan and buy media across search, social, retail media and the programmatic open web, with the account structure documented so you own it if we ever part. Budgets are set against contribution, never against last year plus ten percent. Reporting arrives monthly on one page: ROAS by market and channel, incrementality where volume allows a holdout, cost per new-to-brand customer, and the share of spend still in test. When a channel stops paying, we say so and move the money.
The second purchase is the business.
Acquisition gets the applause; retention pays the salaries. We build the lifecycle layer: welcome and onboarding flows, replenishment timing learned from your own order data, win-back programmes and the loyalty mechanics that suit a premium brand rather than a coupon habit. Email and SMS are written natively per market. The scoreboard is plain: repeat rate, time to second order, revenue per subscriber and the margin left after the discounts the programme did and did not need.
The shelf has the last word.
Packaging, shelf presence, tastings, trade fairs, pop-ups and the on-trade theatre that makes a sommelier choose you. We design the physical encounter and the material that supports it, from shelf wobblers to the training deck a distributor's sales rep actually uses. Trials are staged in a handful of doors before anything rolls out. Measurement lives in the store: velocity per door, facings won, trial-to-repeat conversion and what a tasting hour returns in cases.
Made to survive a stranger's judgement.
One rule sits under everything on this page. Whatever we make must still work when it is read in another language, priced in another currency, shelved by a buyer who has never met you and judged by a stranger's palate. The export work taught us that discipline and it never switches off. So the brand you build at home is already the brand you will launch abroad.
Where next?
Tell us your brand and the market you want. The Desirability Report maps how wanted you already are there, what the entry costs, and where the white space is. It arrives as a document you will want to show your board.