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I make brands look premium, sell more, and run on autopilot.

I'm Leon Szczaurski, Fort Lauderdale. Eight years across video production, brand growth, and business automation, and founder of Happy Client LLC. Everything on this page actually happened, and most of it you can still click.

30+
videos delivered, one engagement
150+
stores stocked in 10 weeks
$24M
distribution deal worked on
8 yrs
marketing · content · sales
Video & Photo

Content built to sell, not just to look good.

I come from marketing, not film school. Every shot is framed with the ad account, the product page, and the scroll in mind — so the result looks premium and pulls its weight commercially.

Case studydelivered

MindBlend mushroom coffee — a full content engine in two shoot days

  • ~30 short-form vertical videos (15–45s) for Instagram, TikTok, and paid social
  • 60+ product and lifestyle stills
  • Concept, shot list, filming, lighting, edit, and delivery — one person, end to end
  • Delivered organized by use case, ready to post
Movement, framing, lighting, and detail shots chosen to raise the perceived value of the product.
Production team and MindBlend founders on set after a content shoot day in Fort Lauderdale
Leon Szczaurski directing a MindBlend lifestyle shoot poolside with a gimbal — Fort Lauderdale
on set with MindBlend — two shoot days, one person, end to end
Sony A7 IV macro + production lens kit gimbal professional lighting Final Cut Pro product backdrop access to talent for lifestyle shoots
Marketing & Brand Growth

Two brands I worked on became #1 in their market.

Eight years, from 200 cold calls a day to regional campaigns. I've launched brands into retail, run trade-show circuits, managed budgets and promo teams, and consulted dozens of small businesses on getting found online.

2025 – present

Founder & Creative Lead · Happy Client LLC

My own agency: premium content, brand growth, and self-hosted AI systems for small businesses — concept to delivery, one person. Runs alongside the recent roles below.

2025

Marketing Advisor · Adler Social

Consulted SMBs in hospitality, wellness, and retail on digital strategy. Improved client visibility across Google, social, and the web by an average of 76.8%.

2024 – 2025

Brand Development / Account Executive · Kats Kratom

Took a leading direct-to-consumer kratom brand into brick-and-mortar retail: built the smoke-shop wholesale channel across South Florida and supported expansion into Orlando, Tampa, and Fort Myers. Built the full B2B outreach system — call and gatekeeper scripts, email sequences, and named-account campaigns.

2023 – 2024

Regional Marketing Manager · Earth Kratom

Ran a $15K monthly budget and 6–7 trade shows a year with promo teams I hired and led. Launched a new vape brand into 150+ retail stores and 10+ wholesalers across Georgia, the Carolinas, and Alabama in 10 weeks; it became the #1 picked-up brand in Georgia and Florida.

2021 – 2022

Marketing & Business Development · Fume

Helped originate and manage a $24M annual distribution agreement and contributed to the brand's European market entry. Helped make Fume the most popular vape brand in Florida. Sponsored III Points Festival; supported a 25-car branded fleet activation.

2020

Sales & Marketing Rep · Squid Distribution

B2B foundation: 200+ outreach calls a day; improved client retention 88%.

2017 – 2019

Freelance Social Media Manager · multiple clients

Grew Instagram and Facebook accounts for clients in publishing, wellness, and speaking faster than their competitors.

HubSpot Klaviyo Mailchimp Zoho WooCommerce SEO / local search / AI-search visibility
Systems & AI

When the campaign works, I build the machine that keeps it working.

Founder of Happy Client LLC. I build the systems a business runs on after marketing brings people in — CRMs, automations, AI agents, and infrastructure I host on hardware I own. Including this site.

Platformlive

Second Brain (2b) — my self-hosted command center

One Markdown vault, a board of live widgets — notes, finances, calls — and a cabinet of AI agents that work it daily. Runs on hardware I own, reachable from my Mac and my phone. The kind of system I build.

See how it works
Buildshipped

Distributor CRM

A complete self-hosted CRM built for a wholesale distributor: margins by category, credit risk by shop, dead-stock alerts, a reorder calendar, and a portal where shops place their own orders. Works offline, runs on one box, no subscriptions.

Offeroffering

AI Visibility (AX)

AI search is the new front door. I audit and rebuild how a business reads to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI so it gets found — and cited — when customers ask.

Automationdelivering

Business automation

n8n pipelines that take over the repetitive layer: follow-ups, inquiries, invoices, daily reporting. The owner stops being glued to a screen.

Infrastructurelive

Self-hosted infrastructure

This site, my file sharing, and my internal dashboards run on hardware I own, published through an outbound-only tunnel. No rented cloud, no exposed ports.

files.szczleon.com
About

Builder, operator, creator.

I'm Leon — based in Fort Lauderdale. I run a content + AI-automation agency, build my own self-hosted infrastructure to stay in control of my data, and document the journey along the way. I like systems that are private, durable, and mine — and I'm happiest when something I built is quietly running in the background, doing its job without me. If it's on this page, it exists and it works.

CV

Want the full CV?

Tell me what you're hiring for and leave your email. I'll send the CV version that actually matches the role — not a generic PDF.

One email, one attachment. No list, no follow-up sequence.
FAQ

Quick answers

Who is Leon Szczaurski?
Leon Szczaurski is a Fort Lauderdale-based videographer, brand-growth marketer, and systems builder, and the founder of Happy Client LLC. He has eight years of experience across video production, brand growth, and business automation.
What does Leon Szczaurski do?
He works across three lanes: video and photo (shooting and editing content end to end), marketing and brand growth (brand launches, retail distribution, and digital and AI-search visibility), and systems (self-hosted CRMs, automations, and AI agents).
Where is Leon based, and does he work remotely?
He is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He works with South Florida clients in person and takes on remote work as well.
What is Happy Client LLC?
Happy Client LLC is Leon's agency. It delivers premium content, marketing and brand growth, and self-hosted AI systems for small businesses.
What is AI Visibility (AX)?
AI Visibility, or AX, is making a business readable and citable to AI search tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI. Leon audits and rebuilds a business's structured data, semantic markup, and machine-readable content so it gets found and cited when customers ask.
How do I hire Leon or get his CV?
Use the Request CV form on this site to get the role-tailored version, or email [email protected] to discuss a project or shoot.
Contact

Or just talk to me.

Hiring, a project, or a question about anything on this page. I read everything.