Consulting · Websites · Systems · Growth

We structure, build and grow businesses

Thirty years building and growing companies — our own and others', from small operations to large ones. Zaestro brings that whole-business view and then builds the websites, software and acquisition systems that carry it out.

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Strategy, design, code, infrastructure, CRM and traffic — one partner, in English and Portuguese.

30+ years in business

Building and growing companies since the nineties

Whole-business view

Strategy and execution from the same people

Brazil & United States

We work across both markets and time zones

Registered LLC

Albany, New York — a real, accountable company

What we do

Four fronts, and they connect

A business needs a sound structure before it needs a website, and demand before it needs scale. We work across all four fronts, so strategy and execution stop being separate conversations with separate vendors.

Front 01

Consulting & Business Structuring

Where the thirty years come in. We look at the business as a whole — model, offer, pricing, structure, management — and say plainly what has to change before a single line of code is worth writing.

  • Business model and revenue structure review
  • Positioning, offer design and pricing
  • Restructuring of businesses that stalled
  • Processes, management routine and organisation
  • Growth planning with the numbers behind it
Front 02

Websites & Platforms

The public face of your business, built to be found and built to convert — not a template with your logo dropped on top.

  • Institutional and authority websites
  • High-conversion landing pages and funnels
  • Multilingual sites (up to 6 languages)
  • Member areas and customer portals
  • Technical SEO and performance from day one
Front 03

Systems & Automation

The machinery behind the site. Custom software, CRM and integrations that remove manual work instead of adding another dashboard nobody opens.

  • Custom software and multi-tenant SaaS
  • CRM implementation and pipeline design
  • API integrations and payment flows
  • AI-assisted workflows and document handling
  • Dashboards and operational reporting
Front 04

Growth & Acceleration

Demand, captured and worked. Paid traffic, funnels and follow-up wired directly into the CRM, so a lead never dies in an inbox.

  • Google Ads and Meta Ads campaigns
  • Lead capture, scoring and routing
  • Email and WhatsApp follow-up automation
  • Webinar and launch funnels
  • Tracking, attribution and reporting
Our work

Built, launched and running today

We are not describing capabilities in the abstract. These are live projects — several of them our own businesses, which is where every method gets tested first.

Marques Lima Advogados

Live

Immigration law · Brazil & United States

A law firm turned into an international acquisition engine: multilingual site, an interactive visa eligibility assessment, and its own CRM behind it.

  • Custom website in 6 languages with a full-screen eligibility quiz
  • Quiz answers land straight in the firm's own CRM as scored leads
  • Google Ads campaigns feeding a dedicated assessment landing page
WebsiteSystemsGrowth

Stack: WordPress · Custom theme · EspoCRM · Google Ads

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Doulhe

Live · paying tenants

Auction technology · SaaS

A white-label auction platform: live bidding floor, automatic bidding agent and billing — from listing to payment, under the client's own brand and subdomain.

  • Live auction room with real-time bidding and automatic bidding agent
  • Multi-tenant: each client gets a branded subdomain, provisioned automatically with wildcard SSL
  • Recurring billing and onboarding wired into the signup flow
SystemsWebsite

Stack: Multi-tenant SaaS · Real-time bidding · VPS · Cloudflare

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Leiloeiro Oficial

Live · 5,000+ students since 2017

Professional education · Brazil

A training school for a regulated profession, with the full acquisition machine behind it: video sales letter, webinar funnel, course area and content engine.

  • Site built around a VSL and a webinar funnel that fills classes
  • Registrations flow into the CRM, segmented by engagement for follow-up
  • Blog and organic content bringing in demand without ad spend
StrategyWebsiteGrowth

Stack: WordPress · CRM · Webinar funnel · Email & WhatsApp

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Banco de Leiloeiros

Live

Data product · Brazil

Every auction in Brazil goes through a licensed auctioneer — so this product gathers all 2,584 of them, across all 27 states, in one searchable place.

  • One-off purchase to member access, fully automated end to end
  • Transactional email delivery for credentials and onboarding
  • Serverless architecture with a managed database
WebsiteSystems

Stack: Next.js · Vercel · Supabase · Resend

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Arrived here from the footer of a site we built? That is exactly how this works.

How we work

Three stages, no black boxes

You always know what is being built, what it costs, and what happens next. Every asset we create is yours from the first day.

Stage 01

Diagnose

Before writing any code we map how your business actually makes money and where it leaks. Sometimes the honest answer is that you do not need a build at all — you need the model, the pricing or the structure fixed. That is a valid outcome, and we will say so.

  • Business model and offer review
  • Current funnel and bottleneck analysis
  • Technical and infrastructure audit
  • Scope, priorities and success metrics
Stage 02

Build

We design and ship the site, the system, or both — in weeks rather than months. You review working software, not slide decks.

  • Design and build in short review cycles
  • Infrastructure, domains and email set up properly
  • CRM, integrations and automations connected
  • Handover with everything in your name
Stage 03

Accelerate

With the foundation live, we turn on demand and keep improving it. Campaigns, follow-up and conversion get optimised against real numbers.

  • Campaign launch and budget management
  • Conversion and follow-up optimisation
  • Reporting on the metrics that move revenue
  • Ongoing iteration as the business grows
Why Zaestro

Why clients choose us

Thirty years as operators, not as a vendor watching from outside. That changes what we notice and what we tell you.

Thirty years of pattern recognition

Having run small operations and worked inside medium and large businesses, we recognise the problem you are describing — usually because we have already lived it once.

We see the whole business

Most vendors are handed a task. We look at model, offer, pricing, structure and demand together, because a beautiful site on a broken business model still loses money.

We use what we sell

Our own law practice, SaaS and digital products run on exactly these systems. If a method does not survive our own operation, we do not sell it.

Strategy and execution, same hands

We decide what has to change and then build it. Nothing is lost in translation between the consultant, the designer and the developer — they are the same team.

Bilingual, two markets

We build and communicate natively in Portuguese and English, for clients in Brazil, in the United States, and selling between them.

You own everything

Domain, code, data, ad accounts and CRM stay in your name. Leaving us should always be possible — that keeps us honest.

30+

Years building businesses

4

Fronts, under one roof

2

Countries we operate in

4

Of our own projects live

Luis Flavio M. Lima · Founder

Who is behind this

Thirty years of business first, technology second

I am Luis Flavio M. Lima — a lawyer and a business owner, with more than thirty years spent building and growing companies. My own, and others': small operations finding their footing, and medium and large businesses with all the complexity that brings.

That is the part you cannot shortcut. Three decades of seeing what makes a business work and what quietly kills it — the pricing that never covered the cost, the offer nobody actually wanted, the structure that could not carry growth — gives you a view of the whole board, not just one square of it.

The technology came later, out of necessity. I needed a site that brought in clients, a CRM that fit how my practice really works, a platform I could sell subscriptions on. I hired for some of it, got burned on most of it, and learned to build it myself.

So Zaestro does both, and that is the whole point. We tell you what has to change in the business, then we build the thing that carries it out — instead of handing a strategy deck to a developer who was never in the room.

FAQ

Questions we get asked

And straight answers, before you spend an hour on a call.

That footer link means we designed and built that site. If you liked what you saw there, we can build the equivalent for your business — the site itself, the systems behind it, and the campaigns that bring people to it. Use the form on this page and tell us which site you came from.

Four things: we consult on the business itself (model, offer, pricing, structure, management), we build websites and platforms, we build the systems behind them (custom software, CRM, integrations, automation), and we run acquisition (paid traffic, funnels, follow-up). Most clients start with one front and add the others as they grow.

Both, and that is deliberate. More than thirty years running and growing businesses is what lets us tell you the offer is mispriced or the structure will not carry growth — and then actually build the fix. A consultancy hands you a deck; a development shop builds whatever it is told. We do the thinking and the building, which is why the two do not contradict each other.

Yes — often that is the more valuable work. A business that stalled usually does not need more traffic; it needs its model, pricing, costs or structure fixed first. We have done it in our own companies and for clients, including outside the obvious sectors: a long-established American band currently has us restructuring its entire business side.

Yes. We are a registered US company based in Albany, New York, and we work with clients in the United States and in Brazil — including businesses selling from one country into the other. Everything we build can ship bilingually.

It depends entirely on scope: a focused landing page and a multi-tenant platform are not the same project. After the diagnosis call we send a fixed scope with fixed pricing, so you approve a number before anything starts. No hourly surprises.

Landing pages and funnels typically go live in one to two weeks. Full institutional sites with integrations run three to six weeks. Custom software and platforms depend on scope, but we ship in usable stages rather than disappearing for six months.

Yes, completely. Domain, hosting, code, data, ad accounts and CRM are set up in your name and handed over. We think you should be able to leave at any time — it is the only honest way to earn the next month.

Both. Some clients want a build and a handover. Others keep us on to run campaigns, maintain the systems and keep improving conversion. We will tell you honestly which one your situation calls for.

Whatever fits the job and keeps you independent: Next.js and modern serverless for applications, WordPress when the client needs to edit content freely, established CRM platforms rather than something proprietary you can never leave, and AI where it genuinely removes work.

Tell us what you want built

A site, a system, a funnel, or all of it. Send a few details and we will come back with an honest read on what it takes — including whether you actually need us.

No obligation. A real conversation about your business.