Charles Jonas · Art de Vivre · Rio de Janeiro
Charles Jonas runs Art de Vivre — a CRECI-licensed Rio brokerage that buys, sells, and rents homes, with a short-stay operation running alongside it. We built the whole thing: a 200-page website in four languages, a custom backend to run it, and an installable guest app — the sales catalog, the rentals, direct booking, experiences, and lead capture all converging on one domain.
Most agencies would have stitched this together from rented software: a site builder here, a CRM subscription there, a booking widget, a translation plugin. We built one system instead, so Art de Vivre owns every layer of it.
The public site sells and rents property in four languages, every price converting live between reais, dollars, and euros. Behind it, a custom backend lets Charles manage listings, photos, translations, and a 6,500-record CRM, then publish the live site himself in one click. And every guest who books gets an app with their door code, wifi, and arrival details — online or off.
Full-bleed, editorial, and quick. Visitors land in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish and see every price in reais, dollars, or euros — their choice, kept as they browse.
A single search bar covers the whole model: browse to buy, to lease, or to book a short stay.
Buyers filter by neighborhood, property type, suites, and price. Off-market mandates show only where the owner allows it — the discreet listings stay discreet.
The same home can be for sale, open to a long lease, and bookable for a short stay, all on one page — each price converting live between reais, dollars, and euros. Specs, a full gallery, a video tour, and share tools sit right alongside.
Boats and helicopters, hikes and climbs, a private chef. Guests book curated experiences directly, with checkout handled on the page — one more reason to come through Art de Vivre instead of an OTA.
A Journal and a set of plain-language Guides — how buying works, how the money moves, where to live — written by Charles himself and translated into every language the site speaks.
This is what wins the how-to-buy and trip-planning searches, then hands those readers to the listings.
Rather than lock Charles into a monthly CMS, we built him one. Behind this login: an Airbnb-style listing manager (multi-photo upload, drag-to-order, cover shots), side-by-side English-to-French/Portuguese/Spanish translation, and a one-click Publish that rebuilds and ships the live site.
It also holds a 6,500-record CRM — pipeline stages, an activity timeline, follow-up reminders, and email sent from the record — plus role-based logins so a team can share it. The same backend is ready to run the next brokerage we build.
Art de Vivre installs straight from the website onto a phone home screen. When a guest books, their stay code opens a private guide: door code, wifi, check-in and check-out, and arrival directions — one tap away, even offline.
A reminder is pushed the day before arrival. It is the kind of touch a five-star operator gives, on infrastructure we built once and can hand to every client.
One platform, built to be owned — not a stack of monthly subscriptions.
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