# Amplified Creations

> Independent, fully-remote technology studio across Leiria & Lisboa, Portugal. We design and ship custom VR, AI and immersive product systems for ambitious B2B teams. Founded 2014. Trusted by Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, SONAE, the Portuguese Army, Hyundai and Aston Martin.

## About

- **Legal name:** Amplified Creations, Lda.
- **Founded:** 2014
- **Based:** Leiria & Lisboa, Portugal (fully remote, no fixed office)
- **Founder & CTO:** Pedro Thomaz
- **CEO:** João Thomaz
- **Email:** info@amplifiedcreations.com
- **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/amplified-creations/
- **Languages:** English, Portuguese, Spanish

## What we do

Seven in-house disciplines — we never outsource senior work and never hand off to juniors:

1. **3D / Virtual Reality** — Medical-grade therapeutic VR, cinematic 360° tours, real-time 3D (Unity, Unreal, WebGL, Three.js), Matterport/Insta360 workflows, Class I medical device development
2. **AI Systems** — Claude/LLM setup, prompt systems and agent design, RAG pipelines over your own data, custom AI systems built from scratch (models, infra, evals), workflow automation and internal copilots, fine-tuning and cost/latency optimisation, EU-hosted data privacy
3. **Photography & Video** — Studio, aerial (EASA-licensed), architectural, automotive, product; colour-graded for print/web/broadcast
4. **Webdesign & Engineering** — Marketing sites, internal dashboards, native mobile (Swift/Kotlin/Flutter), headless CMS, CI/CD, legacy migration
5. **Branding** — Identity systems, verbal identity, naming, design system delivery (Figma + tokens + code)
6. **Marketing** — Content engines, paid acquisition (Google/LinkedIn/Meta), lifecycle email, SEO + GEO
7. **Business Strategy** — Productisation, GTM, pricing workshops, org design, investor narrative, technical due-diligence

## Own products

- **RVer** (https://rver.pt) — Therapeutic Virtual Reality. Class I Medical Device certified by Infarmed under EU MDR 2017/745. 12,400+ sessions delivered in hospitals, clinics and palliative care across Portugal and Spain. Use cases: pain management, anxiety reduction, rehabilitation, patient experience.
- **VRBox** (https://vrbox.io) — 3D virtual tour management and personalisation for Matterport® and 360° tours. Custom branding, interactive hotspots, analytics heatmaps, CRM sync (HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive). EU-hosted (OVH, ISO 27001).

## Selected work

- **Mercedes-Benz Photography** — Full automotive photography programme for Mercedes-Benz Portugal. 12 deliverables per shoot day, one year of assets from three shoot days, cost-per-asset down 78%, time-to-publish new launches under 36 hours. (2025)
- **Porsche Virtual Tour** — Immersive 360° showroom experience for Porsche Portugal. (2025)
- **SONAE 3D Virtual Tour** — Multi-location 3D tour system for SONAE retail. (2024)
- **Exército Português Virtual Tour** — Recruitment-grade virtual tour for the Portuguese Army. (2024)
- **Aston Martin Photography** — Editorial automotive photography. (2025)
- **Hyundai Photography** — Product and lifestyle shoot for Hyundai Portugal. (2025)

## Team

- **Pedro Thomaz** — Founder & CTO. Technical lead. VR, AI, product strategy, engineering leadership.
- **João Thomaz** — CEO. Operations, client relationships, GTM.
- **Renato Thomaz** — CFO. Finance, compliance, regulatory.

## How we engage

- Discovery: 2–3 weeks, fixed scope, deliverable in hand — you can stop after this
- Build: 6–14 week sprints at a fixed senior-team rate
- Retainer: post-launch telemetry, iteration, content, paid acquisition
- Mutual NDA before first call on request
- Full IP assignment on delivery — standard, no extra charge
- EU GDPR-compliant, all data in EU regions, DPAs on request
- No open-ended retainers without a roadmap
- No hourly billing

## Technology stack

3D / VR: Unity, Unreal, Three.js, WebGL, Matterport, Insta360, Blender, Houdini, Sketchfab
AI: Claude (Anthropic), OpenAI, LLM orchestration, RAG pipelines, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant), embeddings, fine-tuning, agent frameworks, LangChain, evals & guardrails, MCP, EU-hosted inference
Frontend: React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, TypeScript, TouchDesigner, Tailwind CSS, Vite, D3.js, Framer Motion
Backend: Node, Python, PHP, Golang, Rust, Laravel, Express, GraphQL, Prisma
Design: Figma, Adobe CC, DaVinci Resolve, Cinema 4D, Framer, Procreate, ZBrush, Runway ML, Midjourney, Claude Design
Native: Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, ARKit, ARCore, SwiftUI, TestFlight
Infra: OVH, Cloudflare, Postgres, SQLite, Docker, GitHub Actions, Vercel, Kubernetes, Nginx, AWS, Supabase, Resend, Stripe

## Pages

- [Homepage](/) — Studio overview, services, stats, team, products, testimonials, FAQ, contact
- [Work index](/work/) — All case studies
- [Mercedes-Benz Photography](/work/mercedes-photography) — Case study
- [Porsche Virtual Tour](/work/porsche-virtual-tour) — Case study
- [SONAE 3D Virtual Tour](/work/sonae-3d-virtual-tour) — Case study
- [Exército Português Virtual Tour](/work/exercito-virtual-tour) — Case study
- [Aston Martin Photography](/work/aston-martin-photography) — Case study
- [Hyundai Photography](/work/hyundai-photography) — Case study
- [Journal](/journal/) — Studio writing, thinking and long-form posts
- [Lab](/lab/) — Open-source experiments, generative art, shader sketches
- [Team](/team/) — The people behind the studio
- [Capabilities](/capabilities/) — One-page studio overview, print-friendly PDF
- [RVer product](/products/rver/) — Therapeutic VR medical device detail
- [VRBox product](/products/vrbox/) — Virtual tour platform detail
- [3D / VR service](/services/3d-vr/) — Service detail
- [AI Systems service](/services/ai/) — Service detail
- [Photography & Video service](/services/photo-video/) — Service detail
- [Webdesign & Engineering service](/services/web/) — Service detail
- [Branding service](/services/branding/) — Service detail
- [Marketing service](/services/marketing/) — Service detail
- [Business Strategy service](/services/strategy/) — Service detail
- [Book a call](/call/) — Schedule an intro
- [Press & Media Kit](/press/) — Logos, brand colours, founder bio, press contact
- [Careers](/careers/) — How we hire; no open roles right now
- [Manifesto](/manifesto/) — Studio principles and operating beliefs
- [Sustainability](/sustainability/) — Environmental and ethical commitments
- [Privacy Policy](/privacy/)
- [Cookie Policy](/cookies/)
- [Terms of Service](/terms/)
- [Accessibility Statement](/accessibility/)
- [Sitemap](/sitemap.xml)
- [Full content for LLMs](/llms-full.txt)