We help technical companies seem inevitable.
Our job is to help brilliant minds tell — and sell — their stories.
The companies we work with don't have a design problem. They have a translation problem.
They've built something genuinely difficult and genuinely important, and they need the rest of the world to understand it. Sometimes that means investors who have to grasp what they are looking at before they'll write a check. Sometimes it means customers, partners, or the press looking for a hook. The complexity that makes the work matter is the same complexity that makes it challenging to communicate, and the result is that brilliant companies get overlooked in favor of worse companies that simply explain themselves better.
Closing that gap is what we do. Over the last decade, we've sat across the table from founders who needed to make the complex clear (and quickly!), and we've built the team and systems to do it at the standard the moment demands.
We don't just make things look good. We make them land.
How? We live & breathe this stuff.
How we engage.
We work with a small number of clients at a time, by design.
The kind of work we do — translating complex missions into clear, compelling brands — requires immersion. We need to understand your technology, your market, and your people before we touch a pixel. We're not looking for one-off projects. We're looking for companies we believe in.
A true renaissance team.
Since 2016, we've built a team that thinks across disciplines — design, code, strategy, 3D, AI — because the best brand stories don't come from specialists working in silos.
They come from people who can see the connections between a scientific breakthrough and a compelling visual, between a complex workflow and a clear user experience, between what a company does and why anyone should care.
That's the team we've spent a decade assembling.
Our approach.
We've built our own tools to serve you better. Our proprietary, AI-powered production platform makes the client-agency relationship transparent and frictionless — from approvals to reporting to delivery. We didn't buy software off the shelf. We built it, because no existing tool matched how we work.
Why Aloa?
We think differently. Most agencies start with a mood board. We start by asking: who needs to understand you, and what's stopping them?
We've been here before. 10 years. Two IPOs. A TechCrunch Battlefield win. Tens of millions raised by our clients after rebrand.
No-surprises pricing. Transparent, modular pricing. No hidden fees. No scope creep.
A true renaissance team.
Since 2016, we've built a team that thinks across disciplines — design, code, strategy, 3D, AI — because the best brand stories don't come from specialists working in silos.
They come from people who can see the connections between a scientific breakthrough and a compelling visual, between a complex workflow and a clear user experience, between what a company does and why anyone should care.
That's the team we've spent a decade assembling.
Our approach.
We've built our own tools to serve you better. Our proprietary, AI-powered production platform makes the client-agency relationship transparent and frictionless — from approvals to reporting to delivery. We didn't buy software off the shelf. We built it, because no existing tool matched how we work.
Why Aloa?
We think differently. Most agencies start with a mood board. We start by asking: who needs to understand you, and what's stopping them?
We've been here before. 10 years. Two IPOs. A TechCrunch Battlefield win. Tens of millions raised by our clients after rebrand.
No-surprises pricing. Transparent, modular pricing. No hidden fees. No scope creep.
Meet the team.
We invest in our people, just as we invest in our customers.
Our team is made up of designers, strategists, and digital savants who are passionate about building digital experiences that matter.
Ross Palmer
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Maru Retana
Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Renata Hernandez
Digital Strategist & Front-end Lead
Mario Arias
3D Wizard
Elizabeth Maldonado
Lead Designer
Eduardo Torres
Web Developer
Oscar Maceda
Animator & Video Editor
Ema Alševskaja
UI/UX Designer
Who we champion.
Our client list includes well-funded startups, mission-driven organizations, and publicly-traded companies. We’ve helped startups raise tens of millions in funding and established companies generate hundreds of millions in revenue.
Some of the brands we've worked with:
