We don’t deliver what you ask for and stop there. We bring new perspectives, stay ahead of trends, and push when something could be sharper. High craft, every time.
🚀 Let’s go!
ONGOING PARTNERSHIP
What if your brand had a senior creative team already inside?
We move inside your organisation — fast, quiet and fully embedded. We learn how you think, how your teams work, and what your brand needs to stay sharp. Then we just get on with it. No briefing from scratch every time. No overhead. No waiting.
In-house, without the house!
With them, everything flows: less friction, more focus, better results. They're a team that feels like part of the project.
URSAMamen Fernández, Digital & Communication Manager Europe
Cocota has become one of our main collaborators at Havaianas Europe. They are an extremely organised design studio.
HavaianasSandra Muñoz, Trade and Retail Manager — Havaianas Europe
I'm always amazed by Cocota’s approach to what can be a complex project. They put great effort into understanding the business.
AmadeusPernille Fisker Nyegaard, Head of Portfolio Marketing, Travel Distribution Amadeus
INSIDE AND ONGOING
Some of these relationships are over five years in.
How we work
We become part of how your brand operates — not a supplier you manage, but a creative cell that moves with you. We know your stakeholders, your tone, your history. We anticipate what you need before you ask. And when something could be better, we'll tell you. That's real creative judgment. And it's what we're here for.
The creative seniors your teams will CC on everything.
Speed
We respond like colleagues, not agencies. Fast turnarounds, no re-briefing, no queue.
Depth
We spend time understanding your business well enough to translate complexity into clarity and help you communicate it better.
Attitude
We bring ideas you didn’t ask for. We challenge briefs. We stay ahead of where design is going. We envision your brand.
Autonomy
Senior judgment on every piece. We don’t need hand-holding, we need context, and we take it from there.
Friction
Almost none. We integrate seamlessly across your departments, acting as the glue that keeps everything visually aligned and ensuring consistent, on-brand delivery.
What makes this different
Quality that challenges you
We understand your business
Complex organisations, multiple teams, competing messages. We take time and care to make sense of it all and translate it into a brand that’s coherent, consistent and easy to defend internally.
The intangibles of an in-house team
Institutional knowledge. A shared language. The ability to move across departments without losing consistency — without the overhead of hiring.
WHAT WE DO
WHAT
The outside team your inside teams didn't know they were missing.
WE DO
Our services
Everything your brand needs to stay elevated, consistent and alive — handled by people who already know how you work.
Brand Guardianship
- Brand strategy & positioning evolution
- Brand governance & decision-making
- Competitive & cultural landscape analysis
- Periodic brand consistency audits
- Partner & supplier brand supervision
- Brand voice definition & evolution
- Brand curation & content oversight
System definition & manualization
- Design system
- Brand guidelines extension & updates
- Social media guidelines and templates
- Motion guidelines and templates
- Presentation templates (PPT, Google Slides, Figma)
- Visual merchandising guidelines
- Campaign toolkits
Campaigns
- Creative concept & art direction
- Campaign adaptation across formats & channels
- Paid media banners & digital assets
- Photography & video art direction
Spaces
- Point of sale
- Brand activation in office spaces
- Wayfinding
- Stand & event design
Offline
- Editorial design: catalogues, reports, whitepapers, sales sheets, one-pagers
- Posters & print materials
- Packaging
- Gifting & branded merchandise
Online
- Social media content creation
- Lead generation content: freebies, infographics, guides
- Newsletters
- Landing pages & campaign websites
- Demo & explainer videos
- AI image generation
- Photography curation & direction
- Illustration
In numbers
40+
International
design awards
10+
Years of brand partnerships
9.2
Client satisfaction score in 2025
100%
Senior team on every project
TRUSTED BY
Sandra MuñozTrade and Retail Manager — Havaianas Europe
1/4
Cocota has become one of our main collaborators at Havaianas Europe. They are an extremely organised design studio, which is very important when launching a campaign with very little time in different countries and working with teams that speak different languages and come from different cultures.
Pernille Fisker NyegaardHead of Portfolio Marketing, Travel Distribution — Amadeus
2/4
I'm always amazed by their approach to what can be a complex project. They put great effort into understanding the business, the challenge we want to solve and the message we want to send. Their holistic, diverse and innovative way of thinking brand and design is reflected in the deliveries, which are always spot on.
Mamen FernándezDigital & Communication Manager Europe — URSA
3/4
Working with Cocota is like breathing easy. They get it straight away, they genuinely listen, and they bring a clarity that shows up every single day. With them, everything flows: less friction, more focus, better results. For us, they're more than a supplier — they're a team that feels like part of the project.
Nuria Bernardez BlancoGlobal Head of Business Operations, Advertising — Avolta
4/4
They have consistently provided us with invaluable support across a variety of creative and strategic projects. They always add value, demonstrate eagerness, and show a keen interest in thoroughly understanding our business needs. They have seamlessly integrated themselves with our team, functioning more as an extension rather than an external partner.
Is this for you?
Good fit
👍
Mid-to-large company with an established brand that needs to stay sharp
Marketing or comms team that wants a real creative partner, not just execution
Multiple departments, one consistent brand standard
International presence, high expectations, no appetite for average
You want someone who brings ideas — not just delivers yours
Your needs include real online and offline expertise, with a high level of craft
Not the right fit
👎
Need volume production without creative oversight
Not yet at the stage where brand consistency is a priority
Your most important need is print production or media buying
Primarily looking for performance marketing, SEO or e-commerce
Procurement-led process where price is the only variable
You need a full in-house team replacement at volume
A 30-minute conversation. No pitch, no pressure — just an honest look at what you need and whether we’re the right people to be inside your brand.
FAQ
Common questions
How can we help you?
What is an embedded design studio?
An embedded design studio works inside your organisation rather than at arm's length. Instead of managing briefs back and forth with an external agency, you get a senior creative partner who learns your brand, your teams and your priorities — and operates from that knowledge every day. We call it the implant model: we slot into how you already work, with almost no friction and no ramp-up time after the first month. The result feels like an in-house team, without the cost or overhead of building one.
How is this different from hiring an in-house designer?
An in-house designer gives you one perspective and one skill set. A B2B creative partner like Cocota brings a full studio — strategy, visual identity, digital, motion, accessibility — at senior level, on a monthly fee that scales with your needs. You also get an outside point of view: someone who can challenge your assumptions, bring ideas from other industries and tell you when something could be sharper. That's the part a full-time hire rarely delivers.
What does brand guardianship mean in practice?
Brand guardianship is the ongoing work of keeping a brand coherent, consistent and sharp as a business grows and changes. In practice it means: reviewing new assets before they go out, maintaining the identity system as it expands, connecting creative output across departments and catching drift before it becomes a problem. For organisations using Digital Asset Management platforms like Brandfolder or Frontify, we work directly inside those systems — so brand consistency lives in the tools your teams already use.
Is this the right model for a B2B company with multiple departments?
It's exactly the right model. B2B organisations with marketing, comms, HR and leadership teams all producing brand touchpoints are the ones that benefit most from a single senior creative partner with visibility across all of them. We become the connective tissue — one consistent standard, one point of creative judgment — without the politics or overhead of a large agency relationship. The monthly fee structure also makes budget planning straightforward in complex organisations.
What does brand inconsistency actually cost?
More than most companies realise. Inconsistent brand execution across departments means lower perceived quality, harder internal alignment, weaker pricing power and more time spent correcting instead of creating. For B2B brands especially — where trust and credibility drive the sales cycle — the cost of looking fragmented is measured in deals, not just aesthetics. The question isn't whether it costs money to maintain brand consistency. It's whether it costs more to let it drift.
How does the monthly fee model work?
We design a scope around your real priorities — not a generic block of hours. Each month covers a defined set of deliverables and cadences, with a clear rhythm of reviews and check-ins. The monthly retainer is fixed, so there are no surprises at invoice time. As your needs evolve, the scope adjusts — we do that conversation quarterly, as part of our brand pulse review. No lock-in beyond a minimum initial commitment, no hidden extras.
How do we get started?
A 30-minute conversation — no pitch, no commitment. We listen to what you're dealing with, share how we'd approach it, and tell you honestly if we're the right fit. If we are, we design a scope around your real priorities and agree a monthly fee that reflects them. If we're not, we'll say so. Either way, you leave with more clarity than you arrived with.