The Lab · Brand & creative

Industrial in, personal-care out.

A specialty-ingredients line spoke factory; its buyers lived in beauty. I redirected the voice toward the people actually reading — formulators and brand teams — then rebuilt the materials that carry it: the newsletter system, the sales decks, and a one-page formula card for every hero ingredient.

The voice shift
Before — catalog voice
After — the rebrand voice
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Pairs shown are representative and anonymized — the originals carry supplier and trade names that stay off this site. The third line is real: it became the fixed closing of every send, and later the voice itself became a system any teammate could run — that story is The marketing LLM.

The newsletter system

A weekly cadence with a fixed skeleton — tagline, one ingredient or concept, a compelling narrative, the same closing every time — so the voice survived any author.

The sales decks

The concept-to-product story, retold for formulators: open on the consumer moment, land on the ingredient that delivers it, close with samples — not specifications.

The formula cards

One page per hero ingredient. Everything a formulator asks in the first five minutes, answered in the order they ask it — anatomy below.

Anatomy of a formula card
The hero, named for the shelf trade name second, never first The consumer hook the moment this ingredient sells Usage band, up front rate · phase · pH — the first question Claims, pre-translated what marketing may actually say One call to action: samples a formulator decides by feel, not by PDF

Anatomy shown with placeholder content — real cards carry supplier and trade names that stay off this site.

What this shows

I can take a technical catalog and give it a voice its buyers recognize — then build the system so the voice survives without me.