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latitud.

a 66-page report, rebuilt as a website people can explore.

the latitud report, 2026
website design & development by joão passarelli

visit the live report
Detail of the report’s painted Earth: orange continents and blue ocean, with city lights painted as small dots.

give the research
a life beyond the pdf.

latitud had a 66-page report on latin american founders building global companies. it needed a website for fundraising outreach, and kept the pdf for sharing on whatsapp.

i designed and built a different way through the same material. it runs in english, portuguese and spanish. you can follow the research, start with a founder you recognize, or explore the companies, and each route makes sense on its own.

let people look
inside the numbers.

the report makes its case with charts and real companies. on the site, the charts respond to you. press a button and the companies regroup. scroll, and the fortune 500 fills in.

The report’s headline in Instrument Serif with lime highlighting: And the shift is happening now: 46% of LatAm-born founders now say they’re global at day -1.
A corner of the report’s treemap of foreign-born founders of US unicorns by country of birth. Brazil, 9, and Argentina, 5, are the two lime cells among dark grey cells for Belgium, Australia, Iran, Poland, Spain and others.
a different 46%: fortune 500 companies founded by immigrants or their children

a person can be
the way into a report.

the playbooks give the research a human scale. a face, a familiar company or a lesson worth reading can pull someone into the rest of the report.

each of the 22 playbooks opens from a single line with a portrait, the founder’s name and the lesson in a few words. the story opens in place, so you never lose the list.

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all 22 playbook openers. move across the frame, drag, or use the arrow keys

leave room for
what comes next.

the tracker goes beyond the report’s featured stories. it’s where companies building globally from day one can get discovered.

the universe sorts the companies by stage as you scroll. the full list is set like a departures board, and it flips again whenever a filter changes.

Detail of the tracker’s painted sky: an orange comet streaking through deep blue brushwork and stars.

first the website,
then the report.

i started with latitud.com. latitud came back for the report website, which i also designed and built from scratch.

the site puts the research, the founder playbooks and the tracker in one public place. afterwards i rebuilt the pdf from the website: 43 pages instead of 66, in english, portuguese and spanish, still easy to pass around on whatsapp.

A painting from latitud.com: a figure beside a glowing orange tent under the Golden Gate Bridge, in orange and blue.
A section of latitud.com: a serif heading and short lists set beside one of the site’s paintings.
from latitud.com, where the work started
design & development joão passarelli back to top