Rafael Freitas

Creativity
that ships.

Twenty-plus years turning ideas into campaigns, campaigns into businesses, and businesses into AI products. The medium keeps changing. The instinct never has.

São Paulo → London
20+ years shipping
6 businesses built
side projects
01 First companies in São Paulo 02 The world's biggest brands 03 Building the machines behind the work 04 Founder mode: shipping AI products 05 Building for the love of it 01 First companies in São Paulo 02 The world's biggest brands 03 Building the machines behind the work 04 Founder mode: shipping AI products 05 Building for the love of it
01 Chapter 01 — São Paulo

The instinct came before the career.

Before the global brands and the boardrooms, there was a university student who couldn't stop building. Spot the gap, make the thing, ship it. The pattern was set early — and it never switched off.

Mabuya CommunicationsAsset — Mabuya event photo
1.1 / Events / Founder

Mabuya Communications

What started as producing every event at our own university became a business: making other universities' events better, and connecting brands to the student audience. Parties across São Paulo, Olympic games in the countryside, events for DJs and musicians.

First companyFounded at university
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UNA Mobile — BBB 11 Feed appAsset — BBB 11 Feed screens
1.2 / Mobile / Co-founder

UNA Mobile

An app development agency that spotted a cultural moment: Big Brother Brasil had no app. So we built the first one — BBB 11 Feed. Then App Artment, a flat-hunting organiser born from my own house hunt, plus apps for musicians.

#1 Most downloadedBBB 11 Feed — Brazilian Apple App Store
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Master NetworkAsset — Master Network talk / event photo
1.3 / Community / Founder

Master Network

An invitation-only networking group for young marketing professionals. Talks and events built to help them learn, connect and support each other through the early career.

400+Members — invitation only
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The storyline · 01 → 02

The kid who built apps for reality TV grew up — and walked into the biggest brands in the world.

02 Chapter 02 — BR → UK

Creativity, at scale.

Crossing markets and cultures into the global machine — ATL, digital and service design for some of the world's biggest brands. Each tile opens a deeper page of work.

Shell — Moving Forward, Fuel ServiceAsset — Moving Forward key visual
2.1 / Energy / VML · WPP

Shell

Global account leadership — £30M+ portfolio grown 30%, with consistent Brand Trust growth.

  • Moving Forward — Shell & Fuel Service · 2�� Brand Film Festival winner
  • The Great Travel Hack — branded mini-series on Prime Video
£30M+ / +30%Portfolio grown
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Sage — Boss It campaignAsset — #BossIt TikTok montage
2.2 / B2B / Wunderman Thompson · WPP

Sage

Redefining the B2B narrative — celebrating the entrepreneurial spirit of business owners taking charge.

  • Boss It — 1.3M #BossIt entries, 7bn TikTok views · Best Use of TikTok, Biddable Awards 2021
+193% YoY sales+175% website conversions
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Listerine — Cannes LionsAsset — Listerine campaign stills
2.3 / J&J / JWT · WPP

Listerine

Sometimes people don't think about what your mouth goes through.

  • Cannes Lion-winning campaign
  • Feel Every Smile — an app that lets blind and partially sighted people feel the smiles they receive
Cannes LionWinner
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Imodium — My RhythmAsset — My Rhythm service screens
2.4 / J&J / JWT · WPP

Imodium

Digital service design beyond the pack.

  • My Rhythm — a support service as useful as the pill itself, helping frequent sufferers identify their triggers
Service designBeyond the product
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Canon — Night SurfersAsset — Munich Night Surfers 360
2.5 / Imaging / JWT · WPP

Canon

When the product is what you shoot with, not what you show, you push it to its limits.

  • Munich Night Surfers — night surf shot in the city centre of Munich, delivered as an immersive 360 mobile experience that put the DSLR in people's phones
Immersive 360Mobile experience campaign
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Autistica — Make Sure All Is CalmAsset — Make Sure All Is Calm stills
2.6 / Charity / DOJO

Autistica

For autistic people, the Christmas season might not be as festive as it is for most.

  • Make Sure All Is Calm — a Christmas campaign that told that story with impact
All is calmChristmas campaign
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Costa Coffee — Made a Little BetterAsset — Costa global campaign
2.7 / Coca-Cola / OpenX · WPP

Costa Coffee

Creatively refreshing the nation's favourite coffee shop — as Global Coffee Category Lead for Coca-Cola's coffee play.

  • Made a Little Better — a new creative brand platform built on one insight: everything is made a little better when your coffee is
100% YoYGrowth
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The storyline · 02 → 03

Then the campaigns stopped being enough. He started building the machines that make them.

03 Chapter 03 — Operating Models

Building the systems to deliver.

Not just campaigns — studios, teams and operating models, built from scratch inside and outside legacy agency structures.

JWT — Social & Content Studio showreelAsset — JWT studio / team
3.1 / Co-founder / JWT

Social & Content Studio

JWT's first social and content studio, co-founded from zero.

£1M+ P&LIn just over a year
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AI Core Team — WPP OpenAsset — AI Core Team / WPP Open
3.2 / Founder & Lead / VML

AI Core Team

Conceived, launched and led cross-functional AI adoption across the business — deploying WPP Open company-wide.

Agency-wideAI adoption
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DOJO UKAsset — DOJO UK positioning
3.3 / Managing Director

DOJO UK

Launching the UK arm of a creative ecosystem that turns social behaviours into strategic communications. A modern operating model over a legacy structure.

Microsoft · Zeiss+ Autistica, RiDC
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The storyline · 03 → 04

And when AI arrived, he didn't write strategy decks about it. He shipped products.

04 Chapter 04 — Founder Mode

The AI builder era.

Operationalising AI, not theorising about it. Three live ventures, each one a working product with strategy at its core.

Self-Sufficient Club — Fat Tony UIAsset — SSC / Fat Tony UI
4.1 / Co-Founder

Self-Sufficient Club

A strategy-first marketing operating system for the founder economy. Masterclass, SSC Score, community — and Fat Tony, an AI strategist grounded in each member's own Blueprint, not generic prompts.

OutsmartDon't outspend
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Panama Red — product UIAsset — Panama Red product UI
4.2 / Co-Founder

Panama Red

AI-powered brand strategy products: Brand Strategy Sprint, Pitch Sprint, and Culture Connectors — mapping where brands can connect with culture and grow.

StrategyWith a spine
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LessFaff.ukAsset — LessFaff.uk
4.3 / Founder

LessFaff.uk

Done-for-you automation for UK high-street businesses — barbers, nail salons, takeaways. Big-agency thinking, high-street prices.

AutomationFor the high street
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The storyline · 04 → 05

But here's the tell that it was never about the money. He builds even when nobody's paying.

05 Chapter 05 — The Engine Room

Play. This is who I am.

Personal utilities and fun things, built because the itch demanded it. Family chaos, poker nights, football tournaments, vinyl nostalgia — all valid product briefs.

Asset — Poker app screens
5.1 / App + Smart Home

Poker Tournament Manager

Full tournament management, wired into the house. The lights dim when the blinds go up, the room announces eliminations — and when the game ends, a narrated story of the evening is shared with the group. Hooked up via Make.com, Gemini and ElevenLabs.

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Asset — Humansareinferior.com
5.2 / Game + Automation

Humans Are Inferior

A game with the provocation baked into the URL — humansareinferior.com — complete with a fully automated X account that publishes the propaganda all by itself.

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Asset — Music Wall photos
5.3 / Hardware

Music Wall

The vinyl experience, rebuilt by hand. Printed album-cover tiles with NFC chips behind them turn Spotify back into an analog, tactile decision: pull an album off the wall, listen end to end — as the artist intended.

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Asset — Second Brain screens
5.4 / System

Second Brain in Notion

An entire life's worth of knowledge, organised in Notion — then made AI-powered and agentic, so it works back.

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Asset — World Cup Guide
5.5 / Utility

World Cup Guide

Everything you need to follow the tournament, in one place.

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Asset — Newsletter tool
5.6 / Utility

School Newsletter Organiser

School comms arrive as chaos. This turns them into a calendar a parent can actually use.

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Asset — Guess The Celebrity
5.7 / Game

Guess The Celebrity

A party game, engineered properly.

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Asset — Recipefy screens
5.8 / App

Recipefy

Saved a recipe reel on Instagram, never to be seen again? Recipefy grabs the video, scrapes the recipe out of it, and lands it in an app built for two: my wife and me.

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