I was a young creative who made a choice that wasn't mine. My family believed in security over purpose. Stability over calling. So I took a government job. Showed up. Collected a paycheck. And felt something inside me disappear a little more each day.
Ten years. Ten years of knowing I was built for something else — but not having the courage to find out what.
Then everything broke open.
But conviction doesn't automatically bring clients. I had work that genuinely helped people, and no idea how to be found. Marketing felt manipulative. I believed in what I did, but I was invisible online — and an empty calendar doesn't care how good you are.
I couldn't keep going like this. So I did what I always do when something matters: I went deep.
I learned brand strategy, web design, content systems, and digital infrastructure. I rebuilt my practice from the ground up. And it worked — not because I found a hack, but because I built something real.
Once I had solved it for myself, I started noticing it everywhere.
Businesses doing genuinely important work — struggling to be seen. Not because they lacked talent or purpose, but because no one had ever taught them how to translate what they do into something the internet could find and trust.
That felt like a waste I couldn't ignore.
This knowledge wasn't meant to stay mine.
I built Alchemy Brands for businesses that exist for a reason beyond revenue — the ones where the work actually matters, and invisibility is the only thing standing between them and the people they're meant to serve.
I combine everything I learned — brand strategy, design, content, and automation — into one complete system. Not a service. A transformation in how your business is seen.
The world has enough generic brands. What it needs is for the businesses doing real work to become impossible to overlook.
That's what I build.
— Leo Polck
Founder, Alchemy Brands
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