De La Paz · Selected Work · MMXXVI

Selected work.

The active catalog. A confidential brief, an established consulting practice, a live SaaS product, and the site you are reading. Case studies below, and a longer archive underneath.

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Consulting practice · 2018 – ongoing

Bespoke BusinessDevelopment

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A curated consulting practice across strategy, brand, build, growth, and legal. Sixteen capabilities in five categories. Value-based pricing, no rigid packages, no standing team.

Externally the practice is presented as an adaptive expert network with reach across ten offices on four continents. Internally it is one person running the whole thing as a system. The gap between how it presents and how it is run is deliberate, and is where the leverage lives.

Behind it sits a suite of purpose-built tools, each one paired with a WordPress plugin: a free front-door diagnostic, a business-plan builder with a live financial model, a white-labeled client portal with e-signature and weekly status memos, a proposal builder, a finance back office, a KPI dashboard, a testimonial engine, and a lead engine. Operations management sits at the center of all of it, so that one person can hold two clients at retainer without either one noticing they are the second.

bespoke-business.com
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SaaS · Personal operating system · 2024 – ongoing

miya.life

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A personal operating system that consolidates more than fifty life systems, a native artificial intelligence assistant, and a live wallpaper engine into a single dashboard. Family sharing. Calendar, medications, meals, and a full money system built in, with live bank sync.

Live in production after hundreds of shipped rounds in its first year, and always being updated. The AI assistant is not a bolt-on; every system knows how to be talked to. Built for the web, installable as an app, and packaged for the Microsoft Store.

Built alone, in the open, on the theory that a personal operating system should be buildable by one person if it is worth building at all. Every round of shipping is a test of the operations underneath the software.

miya.life
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Personal site · 2026

lewisdelapaz.com

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This site. A multi-page portfolio of what I make, delivered as a self-contained WordPress plugin so I can edit every section from the WordPress admin without touching a template file.

Built in the open as one of four active pieces. Editorial hero, manifesto, disciplines matrix, exhibition-style work, curriculum vitae, published works, and enquiry. Photo slots throughout, ready to be filled from my own media library.

The site is also a test of my own operations. If I cannot maintain my own site with the same weekly cadence as the letter, the whole positioning collapses.

lewisdelapaz.com
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Confidential · 2026

Privateproject

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Something new, under mutual confidentiality with the people involved. The kind of thing I do not talk about until they are ready to.

More detail here when the project itself is public. Until then, this entry exists as evidence of an active fourth commitment.

Under wraps

From the archive.

§ · Archive
Earlier and adjacent pieces
Miya Money
Product · 2026
AI personal accountant with live bank sync, embedded inside miya.life. Bills, income, debts, net worth, projections.
High Value Network
Internal tool · 2026
Influential-contact CRM across thirteen United States sectors, with an in-tool AI research engine, an org chart of every seat, and a 3D globe.
BBD Client Portal
Software · 2026
White-labeled engagement portal: e-signature, weekly status memos, program plans, impact exhibits, closeout reports.
The Verdict & The Blueprint
Diagnostics · 2026
A free front-door business diagnostic and a business-plan builder with a live financial model, delivered by email.
Lookbook campaigns
Art direction · 2026
Two HTML lookbook ad campaigns, more than six hundred and fifty pieces, one provocative and one aspirational.
Product films
Film · 2026
A dozen problem-led product films for miya.life, scripted and captured from the real product, cut by hand. In production.
ORBITAL
Internal tool · 2024
NASA-style hypertext business command center: 3D globe, mission control, schema management, CRM bridge.
Wrong Number
Product experiment · 2025
Serialized SMS fiction subscription. Launched.
Nine Dialed
Consumer brand · 2023
Premium home espresso lifestyle brand. Full identity, typography system, a hundred-design visual brief, Shopify.

LewisDe La Paz

One person who likes to make things · MMXXVI

Colophon
TypeFraunces · Instrument Serif · Inter Tight · JetBrains Mono
PaletteCream · Obsidian · Oxblood · Saffron
BuiltBy hand, on nights and weekends
RuntimeWordPress on shared cPanel · No third-party trackers
MotionLenis smooth scroll · WebGL atmosphere · Reduced-motion honored