Market Entry Sprint
Six to ten weeks. Single US category, single corridor. The firm rebuilds positioning, pricing posture, messaging, and trust architecture for the American buyer, then launches it into market.
See the Sprint →US market architecture for operators from Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay. Latin American operators arrive at US enterprise procurement with operating history concentrated in the region. The US procurement officer does not score against LatAm past-performance. The translation work is structural.
The Latin American gate covers São Paulo and Mexico City as city-level deep dives. Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Santiago are future Phase 2 city-gate candidates as demand surfaces.
The Latin American operator entering the United States with strong product-market fit at home and across the region faces a US procurement gate that does not score against the past-performance the firm carries. The US enterprise buyer is filtering on category anchor, outcome claim, US peer set, and past-performance evidence in US-recognised commercial structures. The Brazilian, Mexican, Argentine, Colombian, or Chilean operator typically arrives with case material concentrated in regional buyers, regional revenue, and regional project execution. The US procurement officer reads it as parallel-and-irrelevant rather than as US-applicable. The materials are not weak. They are filed under the wrong frame.
The Brazilian and Mexican fintech vanguard has crossed (Nubank, StoneCo, Mercado Libre, dLocal) and built US-facing positioning that reads cleanly inside US enterprise. The operator pattern for industrials, agri-food, mining-adjacent, and family-controlled groups entering US enterprise procurement directly is structurally less mature. Portuguese and Spanish source materials translated into English carry a register that reads as flat, as descriptive rather than commercial, and as past-tense rather than US-forward. Pricing in BRL, MXN, ARS, or CLP, ranges, and starting-from figures reads as soft and negotiable. American buyers expect firm pricing in dollars and a clean US category anchor before they interpret the price. The fix is US-translated past-performance positioning that surfaces the Latin American operations as US-relevant rather than as parallel-and-irrelevant.
The LatAm operator does not have a track-record problem. The operator has a frame problem. The work is to refile the same evidence under the headings the US procurement officer is actually reading. House view on Latin American entry
Six to ten weeks. Single US category, single corridor. The firm rebuilds positioning, pricing posture, messaging, and trust architecture for the American buyer, then launches it into market.
See the Sprint →Three to six months. Multi-channel US rebuild and run. Paid, owned, earned, conversion architecture, sales enablement. The standard shape for Latin American operators committed to serious US scale.
See the Build →Monthly retainer, twelve-month minimum. Ongoing rebuild-and-run across multiple US surfaces. Typical for Brazilian and Mexican groups with several US-facing brands and for family-controlled holdings entering US enterprise.
See the Partnership →City-specific deep dives: São Paulo · Mexico City · reference frames: operator pattern for US entry · US procurement four-filter framework.
No legal services. No Latin American company formation, no CVM, CNV, CNBV, SBS, SVS, or adjacent regulator filings, no US entity formation. No L-1, E-2, EB-5, or O-1 visa work. No US tax structuring, FATCA analysis, or double-tax-treaty analysis. No customs and tariff classification, USMCA rules-of-origin certification, or Section 232 and 301 tariff work. No US banking introductions. No fiduciary services. No regulatory licensing. No IP filing. No contract drafting. No FDA, FCC, or DOT clearance work for life-sciences, electronics, or hardware operators.
These sit with Latin American counsel who specialise in US entry, and with US counsel on the American side. The firm works inside the parameters they set. When a marketing decision carries legal or tax implications, the firm flags it and defers before execution.
US enterprise buyers filter on category anchor, outcome claim, US peer set, and past-performance evidence in US-recognised commercial structures. Latin American operators typically arrive with case material concentrated in Brazilian, Mexican, Argentine, Colombian, or Chilean buyers, in regional revenue, and in regional project execution. The US procurement officer does not score against LatAm past-performance and reads the materials as parallel-and-irrelevant. The work is to refile the same evidence under headings the US buyer is reading.
Nubank, StoneCo, Mercado Libre, dLocal, and adjacent fintechs built US-facing positioning early and at category-level conviction. The operator pattern for industrials, agri-food, mining-adjacent, and family-controlled groups entering US enterprise procurement directly is structurally less mature. The fix is the same US-frame translation work, applied to industries that have not yet had a category vanguard.
No. US entity formation, USMCA rules-of-origin certification, E-2 and L-1 visa work, customs and tariff classification, double-tax-treaty analysis, and banking introductions sit with the operator's own counsel. The firm designs US marketing architecture inside the legal and tax structure counsel has already established.
Industrials and heavy manufacturing, agri-food and food processing, fintech and payments, mining and resources, energy, retail and consumer, telecoms, aerospace and aviation, pharma, and family-controlled industrial groups. Fit is confirmed in discovery, not in published sector lists.
São Paulo and Mexico City have dedicated city-level pages at /cities/sao-paulo/ and /cities/mexico-city/. Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Santiago are future Phase 2 city-gate candidates as demand surfaces. The Latin American gate carries the cross-region work for those operators today.