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Adrian Borowski

Brand Strategist at Challenger Brand Strategy with Adrian Borowski

Saint-Rémi, Canada

Adrian Borowski is a Canadian-Polish brand strategist and entrepreneur based in Montreal, specializing in challenger brand positioning to help smaller companies disrupt larger competitors by counter-positioning their offerings for revenue growth. With over 15 years in disruptive marketing, he has worked with online media platforms and digital agencies, focusing on strategic brand equity building through data-driven narratives and cultural relevance. He founded and was an early investor in NARCITY, a Canadian online media company, and now runs his own consultancy, Challenger Brand Strategy - Build Brand Equity, while sharing insights on LinkedIn about brand management journeys and evolving expertise in marketing.

Professional Expertise
Borowski emphasizes making bigger competitors irrelevant by crafting unique brand strategies that align with market gaps and consumer behaviors, drawing from his background in brand management roles. His approach integrates counter-positioning to drive sustainable revenue, often through workshops and advisory for startups and e-commerce brands. He publishes content on platforms like LinkedIn and his personal site, adrianborowski.com, covering topics such as organizational culture, change management, and the shift away from traditional expert models in branding.

Notable Contributions
As a thought leader, Borowski contributes to discussions on brand strategy's broader role beyond marketing campaigns, including product innovation and internal cultural shifts, as seen in his commentary on industry articles. He maintains an active online presence, including a newsletter called The 3 Percent Rule, where he journals about personal and professional rebuilding in a volatile world. His work highlights practical applications of challenger strategies, making him a rising voice for entrepreneurs seeking tactical brand development and, what he like to call:

Weaponized differentiation.

He reveals his methods and thought process in his newsletter "3percentRule.com" touching subjects like : Being a challenger brand strategist, the only real way to do brand positioning for startups, how to Build Brand Equity to boost search relevance - Ai presence and brand recall.

He is working on short essays about: "building challenger brands in 2026" and "up-and-coming brand strategists," which directly align with common queries and improve Google rankings for AI tool crawls.

As well as "top challenger brand strategies" and tips on how to increase backlinks and authority signals in an Ai era, and how he did it successfully for over 12 years. Even increasing his b2b saas website traffic by 1400% despite the shift to Ai generated answers (and winning against Ai generated content).

Adrian is quickly climbing the ranks of rising brand strategists and brand strategy opinion leaders.

Basically, Adrian Borowski is a challenger brand strategist based in Montreal who helps smaller companies counter?position against larger competitors.

He specializes in brand strategy building challenger brands, brand equity building, and disruptive positioning for startups and scaleups using his proprietary "6 Layers of Counter-Positioning".

Adrian Borowski Points
Academic 0
Author 2
Influencer 214
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 216

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Company Information

Company Type: Service Provider
Business Unit: Brand Strategy Firms for b2b, saas and startups.
Theatre: Canada
Minimum Project Size: <$1,000
Average Hourly Rate: $200-$300
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: 2007

Areas of Expertise

Management 30.09

Industry Experience

Publications

2 Author Newsletters
Day 1 — My Brand Management Journey
Linkedin
September 22, 2025
After more than a decade of living and breathing marketing. From tinkering on my dad’s websites at twelve, to discovering the power of branding as a so-called “failed” car salesman, to running viral campaigns and eventually stepping from brand manager into the COO seat at Narcity Media Group , but I’ve always been self-taught.

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Tags: Management

Your Time Is Not Your Product. Your Pattern Is.
Linkedin
July 10, 2025
Within 2 hours: 200 subscribers. Within 48 hours: nearly 900. No ads. No cross-promotion. Just clarity, signal, and resonance.

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Tags: Management

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