Inoah

What Inoah does

INOAH Arquitetura da Saúde (legal entity INOAH ARQUITETOS ASSOCIADOS LTDA) is a São Paulo-headquartered, Brazil-only architecture firm founded in 2016 by Ana Dinardi and Sueli Nogueira, both former senior leaders at healthcare-architecture firm L+M. The company provides professional architectural services exclusively to the healthcare sector, serving hospitals, laboratories, medical centers, medical clinics, and transition clinics. Its service portfolio covers the full project lifecycle — Technical and Legal Feasibility Studies, Master Planning (Plano Diretor), Test Fit, Preliminary Studies, Draft Projects (Anteprojeto), Regulatory Approval Projects, Executive Projects (Projeto Executivo), and Interior Design Projects — with completed engagements ranging from 200 m² clinics to 85,000 m² hospital programs.

The firm earns revenue through project-based professional services fees quoted individually against scope, complexity, and square meterage, billed under multi-year contracts. There is no proprietary technology platform, software product, or recurring SaaS component; the entire offering is design labor sold to enterprise clients. Go-to-market is exclusively direct enterprise field sales, with projects typically requiring consultative engagement with C-level and procurement decision-makers at major healthcare networks. The client roster includes Brazil's largest healthcare operators — Rede D'Or, Hospital Mater Dei, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Hospital Sírio Libanês, A.C. Camargo, DASA, Unimed, and UnitedHealth/Samaritano — and the project footprint spans at least nine Brazilian states. Marketing support is limited to a portfolio-driven website and maintained LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook profiles; there are no channel partners, distributors, or self-service acquisition mechanisms.

Name

Inoah

Legal name

INOAH ARQUITETOS ASSOCIADOS LTDA

Website

https://inoaharq.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

INOAH is a São Paulo–headquartered Brazilian architecture firm founded in 2016 that exclusively designs healthcare facilities — hospitals, laboratories, medical centers, clinics, and transition clinics — for enterprise clients including Rede D'Or, Mater Dei, and Albert Einstein on projects ranging from 200 m² to 85,000 m².

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Santo Antônio

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Architecture Services: INOAH generates revenue through professional architecture and design services for healthcare facilities. Revenue streams include feasibility studies, master plans (Plano Diretor), test fits, preliminary studies, design development (Anteprojeto), regulatory approval projects, executive projects, and ambient design projects. Projects are typically billed as one-time professional services engagements with fees based on project scope and square meterage.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

INOAH Arquitetura da Saúde is a São Paulo-based boutique architecture firm that exclusively serves the healthcare sector, designing hospitals, laboratories, medical centers, clinics and transition clinics. It delivers end-to-end architectural services — feasibility studies, master planning, test fit, preliminary studies, draft projects, regulatory approval projects, executive construction projects, and interior design — to healthcare providers and operators across Brazil.

Product overview

INOAH Arquitetura da Saúde is an architectural firm specializing exclusively in healthcare facility design. The company operates as a unified architectural service rather than a platform-plus-modules software architecture. Its service portfolio encompasses the complete project lifecycle: from Technical and Legal Feasibility Studies (Estudo de Viabilidade Técnica e Legal) and Master Planning (Plano Diretor), through Test Fit validation and Preliminary Studies (Estudo Preliminar), to Draft Projects (Anteprojeto), Regulatory Approval Projects (Projetos para Aprovação nos Órgãos Legais), Executive Projects (Projeto Executivo), and Interior Design Projects (Projetos de Ambientação). The firm serves diverse healthcare clients including hospitals (Rede D'Or, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Hospital Sírio Libanês), medical centers, laboratories, clinics, and transition care facilities, with projects ranging from 200 m² to 85,000 m².

Differentiator

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Healthcare Architecture Design Services End-to-end architectural design services for healthcare facilities, including feasibility studies, master planning, test fit, preliminary design, regulatory approval projects, executive construction projects, and interior design. Intended for hospitals, laboratories, medical centers, outpatient clinics and transition clinics.
• Feasibility Studies (Estudos de Viabilidade) Pre-design feasibility analysis for healthcare facility projects, evaluating programmatic, spatial and operational viability for hospitals, laboratories, medical centers, and clinics.
• Master Planning (Plano Diretor) Strategic layout and long-range planning for healthcare campuses and individual facilities, developed for hospital, laboratory, medical center and clinic clients.
• Test Fit (Test Fit) Space-fit validation studies confirming that programmed clinical functions and adjacencies can be accommodated within a target building or site, for healthcare facility clients.
• Draft Projects (Anteprojeto) Preliminary architectural design (Brazilian 'anteprojeto') translating clinical and operational requirements into schematic design solutions for healthcare facilities.
• Regulatory Approval Projects (Projetos de Aprovação) Architectural documentation prepared for submission and approval to Brazilian regulatory authorities for healthcare facilities, including hospitals, laboratories, medical centers and clinics.
• Executive Projects (Projetos Executivos) Detailed construction-level architectural documentation for healthcare facility projects, supporting bidding and on-site construction by contractors.
• Interior Design (Arquitetura de Interiores) Healthcare-specific interior architecture for hospitals, laboratories, medical centers and clinics, focused on patient and staff experience, clinical workflow integration, and human-centered design.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully completed healthcare architecture projects ranging from 200 m² to 85,000 m²
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Stantec: Global architecture, engineering, and consulting firm with significant healthcare facilities design work; broader portfolio but overlapping capability in hospital architecture.
• SmithGroup: US-based integrated design firm with deep healthcare architecture practice; comparable in healthcare design focus but with significantly larger scale and broader service portfolio.
• HKS: Leading global healthcare architecture firm known for flagship hospital projects; broader portfolio and global delivery model represent a scaled incumbent analog to INOAH's healthcare specialty positioning.
• NBBJ: Internationally recognized architecture firm with strong healthcare and hospital planning practice; comparable specialty focus but serves clients at a global enterprise scale.
• HDR Architecture: Major architecture and engineering firm with one of the largest dedicated healthcare design practices globally; competes for large hospital commissions and shares INOAH's healthcare-specialization orientation.
• Perkins&Will: Global architecture firm with a dedicated Healthcare Practice delivering hospital and clinical facility design at scale; overlaps with INOAH's core competency but at much larger scope and international reach.

Emerging players

• Payette: Boutique architecture firm with a strong healthcare and life sciences specialty practice; similar boutique scale and exclusive-niche orientation as INOAH, though operating in a different geography.
• Flad Architects: US architecture firm specializing in healthcare, science, and academic facilities; narrower scale than HDR/HKS but with a similarly deep healthcare-only focus analogous to INOAH's positioning.

Direct peers

• Botti Rubin Arquitetos: Established Brazilian architecture firm with a substantial portfolio of hospital and healthcare projects, competing for the same enterprise healthcare clients (Rede D'Or, Mater Dei, etc.) within Brazil.
• L+M Arquitetura Hospitalar: Brazilian healthcare-specialist architecture firm where INOAH's two co-founders (Ana Dinardi and Sueli Nogueira) spent a combined 25 years before founding INOAH in 2016. Directly comparable niche, geography, and client base, making it the closest peer.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/inoaharq
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/inoah-arquitetura-hospitalar
• Instagraminstagram.com/inoah_arquitetura

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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