San Diego · Bird Rock studio

What are you trying to make happen?

More orders, more bookings, more people through the door. A launch that lands. A brand people remember. A business that runs better. Whatever it is, tell me the goal. Most people who call have already paid for something that was supposed to get them there. I find out why it didn’t before we make anything.

45′ · three things to fix, in writing

Hablamos español

Who we are

We don’t sell you a service. We look at your business first.

Lead Wolf exists because I kept watching the same thing happen: a business pays for the thing it was sold, and nobody has checked whether that’s what actually stands between it and the goal. So every job here starts the same way. You tell me what you’re trying to make happen. I look at the whole path, from the first time someone hears about you to the moment they pay, and find where it breaks. Then we build the fix with the right team for the job, whatever it turns out to be, and we report what happened in numbers you can check against your own books.

Oz Riveros, founder of Lead Wolf

Oz Riveros · founder · Bird Rock, La Jolla

What we put to work

The tool depends on the problem.

Oz Riveros operating the RED camera behind a restaurant bar on set

01

Film & photo

For when the goal is attention that turns into action. A commercial, a brand film, product photos: shot in our studio, each one built around what it has to make someone think, feel or do.

Oz Riveros thinking at a conference table

02

Ads & tracking

For when the goal is orders, bookings or calls. Google and Meta ads, plus the part most shops skip: the page people land on, the checkout, the follow-up, and tracking that counts sales instead of clicks.

Illustration: an automation workflow on a laptop screen

03

AI & systems

For when the goal is a business that runs without you doing everything twice. Reporting, quoting, follow-up, the handoffs between people. AI where it earns its place, and not where it doesn’t.

You don’t have to pick one. Figuring out which you need is our job, not yours.

The problem

Great advertising can’t fix a bad checkout.

Good ads into a slow ordering page. A film nobody sees. Leads that arrive Friday and get called Tuesday. More traffic makes every one of those worse.

Selected work

Who we've done it for.

Tap a spot to watch it with sound.

OWN Vitamins daily pack, from the OWN commercial

▶ 56″

OWN Vitamins · diagnosis + media

Three leaks, one budget.

Food manufacturer brand film by Lead Wolf

▶ 27″

Food manufacturer · brand film

The factory floor, start to finish.

Mr. Moto Pizza Hulu spot by Lead Wolf

▶ 19″

Mr. Moto Pizza · Hulu spot

Made for streaming TV.

PTC Boxing Gym coach, from the gym spot

▶ 10″

PTC Boxing Gym · paid media

The coaches are the ad.

Made here

We make it ourselves.

Camera, lights, crew, edit — all in our studio. No middlemen, no markup, no waiting on a vendor.

Restaurant · Mr. Moto Pizza

Set dressing

Product · cocktail

Crew · on camera

Lifestyle · hotel

Director · with talent

Why it matters

Owning the gear means owning the timeline — and the accountability.

The studio

One roof in Bird Rock.

Come see it. The audit, the shoot, the ads, the reporting — it all happens here.

We run our own shop on AI — reporting, research, follow-up — so what we install for you is what we use ourselves.

Where

Bird Rock, La Jolla

Visits

By appointment

You meet

The people doing the work

The people

The people who'll actually work on your business.

Oz Riveros

Founder & lead strategist

Eve Gonzalez

CFO & co-founder

Michael Soares

Writer & director

Eli Koehler

Videographer & key grip

Emily Holmes

Set designer

Proof

In their own words.

Tap to play with sound.

5.0

Clutch · 11 reviews

“This audit is really impressive. There’s a ton of valuable intelligence in here … Really great work on this.”

Dustin Smalley · Bird Rock Group, on a Wolf Diagnostic

“Our subscriptions have increased compared to last year.”

Brit · owner, Rudy’s Flower Truck

Brands we've worked with

  • Mr. Moto Pizza
  • Balboa Park
  • Enhance.MD
  • Hi Note
  • PTC Boxing Gym
  • Revive Med Spa
  • OWN Vitamin
  • Rudy's Flower Truck
  • Barrio Donas
  • The Granger Hotel
  • Homeaglow
  • CoLab Public House
  • Tequila Cabal
  • Rock and Roll San Diego
  • Sawdust Art Festival
  • Keystone Law Group
  • Coastal Color Works
  • El Super Leon
  • Chula Vista Center

Who it's for

San Diego owners who are done guessing.

Restaurants, hotels, med spas, product brands, local services — businesses already spending money and tired of not knowing where it goes.

Hablamos español

Todo el proceso, en español si lo prefieres.

A team of San Diego business owners photographed by Lead Wolf

Journal

What we're seeing.

The next step

Tell us what you’re trying to make happen.

45 minutes, free for qualified businesses. You leave with three things to fix, in writing. If we can’t find anything worth fixing, we’ll say so.

45′ · three things to fix

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