About us
A studio built to remove the handoffs
Mario Studio started as one designer with a logo backlog. It grew into a six-person remote team because clients kept asking the same question: why does every part of this have to come from a different company?
Our story
Every brand we touched had the same problem: a beautiful identity that fell apart the moment it hit a website, a slow site nobody dared to change, and a marketing team waiting on three vendors to agree.
So we built the studio the other way round. One team owns the brand, the build and the campaign, which means decisions made in the audit actually survive into the code that ships.
- 2018
Studio founded
Mario starts freelancing on brand identities for local retailers.
- 2020
Development added
Design work needed a build partner, so we became one.
- 2022
Retainers launched
Maintenance and security become an ongoing service, not a favour.
- 2024
Fully remote team
Six specialists across Europe and Africa, working async.
- 2026
Nine services in-house
From audit to marketing, delivered without external vendors.
The team
Six specialists, one shared board, no account managers between you and the people doing the work.
Mario Alvarez
Founder & Brand Director
Runs every brand audit personally.
Ines Duarte
Lead Engineer
Eighty-plus production launches.
Tomas Neri
Product Designer
Designs systems, not screens.
Amara Bello
Security Lead
Hardening, monitoring, incident response.
Sara Lindqvist
Video & Motion
Short-form in a day, campaigns in a week.
Kofi Mensah
Growth Marketer
Reports pipeline, not impressions.
What we value
Evidence before taste
Audits, tests and numbers decide direction. Opinions are inputs, not conclusions.
One team, no handoffs
Strategy, design, code and marketing sit together, so nothing is lost in translation.
You own everything
Source files, repositories and accounts are yours on final payment. No lock-in, ever.
Say the honest thing
If you do not need the engagement, we will tell you and scope something smaller.
Ship, then improve
We launch on a date and keep improving with data, instead of polishing in private.
Security is default
Every build ships patched, backed up and monitored — not as an upsell.