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Zavia is a strategic communications and positioning studio working exclusively at the intersection of architecture, luxury real estate, and premium hospitality.
ZAVIA is a strategic communications and positioning studio working exclusively at the intersection of architecture, luxury real estate, and premium hospitality.
Zavia is a strategic communications and positioning studio working exclusively at the intersection of architecture, luxury real estate, and premium hospitality.
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Our approach aligns a firm’s editorial placement, industry recognition, and strategic relationships behind a single, overarching direction. We define the precise role communication plays in advancing a firm’s trajectory—whether that means entering a new market, attracting institutional partners, or cementing a founder’s authority.
Our approach aligns a firm’s editorial placement, industry recognition, and strategic relationships behind a single, overarching direction. We define the precise role communication plays in advancing a firm’s trajectory—whether that means entering a new market, attracting institutional partners, or cementing a founder’s authority.
By translating architectural and development achievements into definitive market leadership, we ensure exceptional work is seen, understood, and remembered by the audiences shaping the future of the built environment.
By translating architectural and development achievements into definitive market leadership, we ensure exceptional work is seen, understood, and remembered by the audiences shaping the future of the built environment.
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Every aspect of our approach is designed to help firms communicate with greater clarity, build stronger authority, and unlock new opportunities across markets.
Every aspect of our approach is designed to help firms communicate with greater clarity, build stronger authority, and unlock new opportunities across markets.
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Built Environment Specialists
This singular focus has allowed us to solidify deep-rooted industry relationships and master its distinct commercial language. From our strategists to our copywriters, our entire team is native to this space.
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Built Environment Specialists
This singular focus has allowed us to solidify deep-rooted industry relationships and master its distinct commercial language. From our strategists to our copywriters, our entire team is native to this space.
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Multi-Dimensional Amplification
We do not believe in isolated PR moments. By combining high-tier editorial coverage with digital distribution, thought leadership, and stakeholder engagement, we turn every feature into a multi-channel campaign that supports your business objectives.
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Multi-Dimensional Amplification
We do not believe in isolated PR moments. By combining high-tier editorial coverage with digital distribution, thought leadership, and stakeholder engagement, we turn every feature into a multi-channel campaign that supports your business objectives.
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Cross Market Perspective
We help firms expand and operate across different regions, adapting their positioning and communications to each market while maintaining a consistent global identity. Our cross-market perspective connects local insight with international opportunities.
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Cross Market Perspective
We help firms expand and operate across different regions, adapting their positioning and communications to each market while maintaining a consistent global identity. Our cross-market perspective connects local insight with international opportunities.
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Boutique Approach
Our boutique structure allows us to work closely with every client, offering senior-level attention, direct communication, and highly tailored strategies. Every engagement is shaped around the firm’s specific vision, ambitions, and business priorities.
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Boutique Approach
Our boutique structure allows us to work closely with every client, offering senior-level attention, direct communication, and highly tailored strategies. Every engagement is shaped around the firm’s specific vision, ambitions, and business priorities.
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Integrated Brand and PR
We align brand strategy and public relations from the outset, ensuring that identity, messaging, and visibility work together. This integrated approach creates a clear, consistent market presence across every platform and audience.
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Integrated Brand and PR
We align brand strategy and public relations from the outset, ensuring that identity, messaging, and visibility work together. This integrated approach creates a clear, consistent market presence across every platform and audience.
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Leadership
Founder
Carlota Mendoza
Carlota Valentina Mendoza has built her career at the intersection of public relations, high-level sales, and strategic alliances, specializing in scaling global giants and luxury hospitality projects. Over a decade of navigating these industries, she has earned a reputation as a magnetic super-connector, building a trusted, high-level network of decision-makers, global editors, and industry leaders. After years of experiencing the limitations and pain points of traditional PR firsthand, Carlota recognized the need for a deeper, more impactful approach, inspiring the creation of ZAVIA to move past transactional publicity and instead focus on engineering genuine, long-term reputation and market authority.
Carlota Valentina Mendoza has built her career at the intersection of public relations, high-level sales, and strategic alliances, specializing in scaling global giants and luxury hospitality projects. Over a decade of navigating these industries, she has earned a reputation as a magnetic super-connector, building a trusted, high-level network of decision-makers, global editors, and industry leaders.
After years of experiencing the limitations and pain points of traditional PR firsthand, Carlota recognized the need for a deeper, more impactful approach, inspiring the creation of ZAVIA to move past transactional publicity and instead focus on engineering genuine, long-term reputation and market authority.
Senior Partner
Sara Goncalves
Sara Goncalves has spent her career building brands from the inside out, defining their core essence, visual identity and strategic voice. She joined ZAVIA to focus on the vital, conceptual layer of positioning ensuring that a brand’s visual narrative, voice, and soul are entirely cohesive before it even meets the market.
Throughout her career, she has worked directly with founders and design-thinkers to translate complex visions into clear brand personalities. Her work establishes the foundation and intellectual depth that allow firms to resonate deeply with their audience and command an enduring market presence.
Sara Goncalves has spent her career building brands from the inside out, defining their core essence, visual identity and strategic voice. She joined ZAVIA to focus on the vital, conceptual layer of positioning ensuring that a brand’s visual narrative, voice, and soul are entirely cohesive before it even meets the market.
Throughout her career, she has worked directly with founders and design-thinkers to translate complex visions into clear brand personalities. Her work establishes the foundation and intellectual depth that allow firms to resonate deeply with their audience and command an enduring market presence.
