Built from the inside.

WAOF® started as a design-led agency. A decade inside our clients' brands and operations taught us to see the problem behind the brief, and to build the systems that solve it.

The WAOF® team at work in the Monterrey office

A decade of learning how things run.

  1. Agency

    Brands that operate every day.

    We started as a design-led agency for some of Mexico's largest organizations, including Farmacias Benavides, Soriana, CEMEX and Tecnológico de Monterrey. Brands that run every day put us close to the people who run them.

  2. Platforms

    Tools for the clients we knew.

    Working that close changed how we saw the work. Inside our clients' operations we found gaps in training, communication and the way teams work, and we started building the platforms they were missing.

  3. Ventures

    Problems we decided to own.

    Some problems were worth solving for more than one client. We turned them into businesses and products of our own, and we run them ourselves.

  4. Partner

    Products built with our clients.

    Today we bring all of it to the organizations we work with. The work rarely fits one department, so it lands with one team that joins theirs, defines the problem with them and builds the product their operation needs.

Partnerships that last

Farmacias Benavides campaign character in front of a store
  • Health
  • Retail

Seven years inside a national pharmacy network.

We joined as their creative agency, running social media and digital campaigns. Over seven years the work grew into national campaigns, new sales channels like eCommerce and Uber Eats, and the internal communication that reaches every store.

Years
7
New sales channels
3
National campaigns
40+
Social media growth
+180%
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A Soriana butcher at the meat counter
  • Retail
  • Training

A learning system built inside the operation.

Soriana needed to train a national workforce that changes constantly. We built its corporate learning system from inside the operation, and it has been running across the country since 2023. It became neo.education, one of our ventures.

Rollout
National
Running since
2023
Employees trained a year
16,000+
Stores
800+

Also trusted by

  • CEMEX
  • Tecnológico de Monterrey
  • FDA
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Plaza Sésamo
  • Valmont
  • Nest
  • Carza
  • One Development Group
  • August Leadership
  • El Deforma
  • Metcar
  • Liv·Connected
  • Lyto
  • Open Source Café

Grounded in reality.

  • Operational depth.

    We learn how the operation really works before we design anything for it.

  • Tested in real operations.

    What we build is tried in live operations, starting with our own.

  • Built to keep running.

    We make systems meant to last, with ongoing support and designed to evolve as the operation does.

A focused team
with the right specialists.

You work directly with the five people who run WAOF® every day, and for each project we bring in the specialists it needs to build the team around the problem.

  • StrategyPhoto

    Diego Pérez

    CEO & Co-founder

  • TechnologyPhoto

    Marcos Mora

    CTO & Co-founder

  • OperationsPhoto

    Itzel Ramos

    Account Executive & PM

  • ProductPhoto

    Eduardo Fortuna

    AI & Full Stack Engineer

  • CreativityPhoto

    Juan Gomez

    Art Director

  • MotionCopywritingIllustrationPhotographyPerformance3D & CGI

    Specialists

    Brought in for each project

Remote and worldwide

We are on fire started in Monterrey. Today we work with teams in Mexico, Europe and the United States.

  • Monterrey, MX
  • Madrid, ES
  • New York, US

We build systems disguised as businesses.

Our client work and our own ventures run on one idea. The thesis explains it, and the businesses we run to prove it.

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