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What this way of thinking looks like in real work.

Three businesses with three different realities, and three different answers. We only state what we can show. Where we cannot show a result, we do not claim one.

  1. 01

    Hortiluma

    A working operation

    San Antonio de Belén, Heredia, Costa RicaIn productionFarol

    Hortiluma is part of the same family that owns Dimerso and Farol. That is stated here, in the case, not in a footnote. It is what lets us show the operation from the inside, and the reason this case follows a stricter standard.

    Inside the Hortiluma store: blue crates in the foreground, tables of fruit and vegetables, two people arranging produce.
    Produce, crates and two people at work on the shop floor.
    The entrance of the Hortiluma store in San Antonio de Belén, with its sign above the door and customers at the counter inside.
    The entrance, with customers at the counter.
    What we entered

    A produce store in San Antonio de Belén: fruit, vegetables, groceries and meat sold at the counter, customer orders, and electronic invoices and tickets issued to Hacienda.

    What we noticed

    Four kinds of work leaned on the same products every day: charging at the counter, invoicing, coordinating orders and telling customers what was available.

    What we decided

    Not a tool for each job, but one system that all four could read and write.

    What we made

    The store runs on Farol, Dimerso’s own product.

    • Electronic invoicingIssues invoices and electronic tickets to Hacienda.
    • Point of saleCharges customers at the counter.
    • OrdersReceives and coordinates customer orders.
    • StorePublishes its catalogue and receives orders on its own site.
    What changed

    The store works on Farol every day. It is in production, not a pilot.

  2. 02

    BeautyBox

    The customer side of a service business

    Beauty services with more than one locationLiveView live site
    BeautyBox live booking flow in Spanish, showing branch selection for the San Pablo and Ulloa locations.
    The live booking flow, at the step where a customer picks a branch.
    What we entered

    A beauty business with more than one location, where a customer has to find a service and a place before booking.

    What we noticed

    What stood between a customer and an appointment was on the customer’s side: getting from a service that interests them to a reservation.

    What we decided

    Build the public booking experience around the real structure of the business: its services and its locations.

    What we made

    The public appointment experience, with a direct path from a service and a location to a reservation.

Your business will not look like any of these.

That is the point. Tell us how yours works.