🏢 About Us

Building the internet
for Polonia since 1995

31+ years before AI went mainstream. 3 years before Google. Media Express LLC — the story of a company that didn't just survive the AI revolution, but saw it coming early enough to build its own tools.

Our story ↓ Media Express LLC →
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Most digital agencies buy traffic, run ads, and sell you leads. We took a different path. For 31 years we built — a Polish-American media and radio network, the largest directory of Polish businesses in the US, 150+ own platforms and portals, and a community of Polish-Americans who trust this network. We don't chase traffic. We create it.
We don't sell access. We ARE the network.

Artur Borek
Founder & CEO, Media Express LLC  ·  est. April 1, 1995
AB
1995
founded
30+
years in business
150+
sites & portals
500K+
Polish-Americans reached
~3 yrs
building AI tools
Where we come from

31+ years. One mission:
digital Polonia in America.

We're not a startup. We've been building the internet for Polish-American communities since most people in Chicago didn't even have email yet.

April 1, 1995
We started — 3 years before Google
Artur Borek founds Media Express LLC in Chicago. The internet runs on dial-up, WordPress doesn't exist, there's no social media, no Google. We see the potential: Polish-Americans in the US need their own digital home. First sites for Polish businesses and communities — handcrafted in HTML.
1998
Voice on the web and online radio — in the dial-up era
The internet still ran on 56k modems. We built an experimental VoiceChat system — real-time voice communication over the web. This was the same technological direction being explored in parallel by the founders of PalTalk, which went on to become one of the first widely-used online voice platforms in the world.

That same year we began working with Radio dla Ciebie — a Polish-American radio station in Chicago run by Stanisław Kędzia, on air from 1998 to 2005. We ran the first experimental online audio streams for the station. Pushing audio through a dial-up connection was testing the very limits of what the internet could carry. We did it because we understood that radio would eventually move online — before that was obvious to anyone else. That early work grew into PolskieRadio.us — our own Polish-American radio station aggregator, still running today.
2000s — 2010s
Building the ecosystem
Over two decades we build a network of sites, portals, and resources for Polonia. Polish Network, KatalogFirm.us, PolskieRadio.us and dozens of other projects take shape. Each one a piece of a larger puzzle: we're not building websites, we're building community. Today we operate 150+ own domains — the largest Polish-American digital ecosystem in the US.
2022 — 2023
We see the shift — before most did
ChatGPT enters the mainstream. Most companies react with fear or skepticism. We react differently: we start looking for tools that would prepare us and our clients. AI tools for small business. In Polish and English. Built for the reality of Polish-Americans — contractors, restaurants, service providers. Those tools don't exist yet.
2023 — 2024
We didn't find the tools — so we built them
Adobe, Semrush, BrightEdge build for enterprise. Small businesses are left on their own. We decide to change that. We start building Szef.AI — an AI business assistant for Polonia. We also begin monitoring AI bot traffic across our 150+ sites, collecting data unavailable anywhere else. We see what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini crawl — in real time, on our own servers.
2025 — 2026
Szef.AI — AI tools in every entrepreneur's hands
We launch Szef Chat (bilingual AI assistant, free), Szef Monitor (AI bot tracking — free, unlimited) and prepare Szef Audit (AI visibility report). Everything Semrush charges $500/mo for — we give free or at a fraction of the cost. Because we believe small Polish businesses deserve the same tools as corporations.
Unique market position

We bridge two markets.
One ecosystem.

We are not a startup. We are not a trend. We are the longest-running Polish-American digital agency in the United States — and three years ago we started building the AI tools that will define the next 31+ years.

Media Express LLC holds a position no other agency in the US can claim: we connect the Polish-American market into one unified ecosystem. Whether you own a Polish-American business building your online presence, or you run an American company that wants to reach Polonia — we're the only ones who truly do this.

Polish-Americans are 10 million strong in the US. They search for services in Polish and English. We are the only agency with 31 years of deep expertise serving this community — both in language and in trust that is built over decades, not ad campaigns.

What we offer is unique and impossible to replicate quickly: 31 years + bilingual fluency + community trust + 150+ own portals — the only combination like it in the Polish-American market.

For Polish-American businesses
Building a Polish business in the US? We know this market from the inside. We reach Poles in America through a network we've been building for 31+ years — one nobody else has.
For businesses targeting Polonia
10 million Polish-Americans is a powerful, loyal market. We have the network, the trust, and the language. You have the product. We make the connection.
10M+
Polish-Americans
The largest Polish diaspora outside Europe. One agency with 31 years of relationships with this community.
Our advantage

First-hand data.
Not analyst reports.

"When Adobe presents an AI traffic report, they're working from aggregated enterprise client data. When we present a report — it's from our own 150+ sites that we've monitored for years. That's the difference between theory and practice."
— Artur Borek, Founder of Media Express LLC

Media Express LLC operates 150+ own websites and portals — from news services and business directories to online radio stations. This isn't a client portfolio. These are our own digital properties, where we see AI bot behavior every single day.

When ChatGPT started indexing the web in a new mode, we saw it in our server logs day by day. When Perplexity began crawling for Live Search — we had the data. When Google launched AI Overviews — we could measure the organic traffic impact on our own projects.

This gives us an advantage that can't be bought: 31+ years of experience + real-time data from 150+ sites + deep knowledge of the Polish-American market. No AI startup has that combination.

So when we build tools for your business, we don't work from theory. We know what works — because we test it on ourselves. Szef Monitor, Szef Chat, Szef Audit — these are tools we actually use.

See our tools →
What we solve

Real problems.
Real solutions.

Polish businesses in the US face unique challenges in the AI era. We know them from the inside.

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AI doesn't know your business
ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity — when someone asks for a contractor in Chicago, these systems answer from data they have. If your business isn't there, you don't exist for thousands of potential clients searching via AI.
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The language barrier
Polish entrepreneurs in the US work in two languages simultaneously. Most AI tools are English-only — or translate poorly. Szef Chat understands both languages naturally, because that's how you actually talk.
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Enterprise pricing for small business
Semrush charges $500–$2000/mo for tools that monitor AI traffic. Adobe LLM Optimizer is built for corporations. A small mason, roofer, or landscaper is left without access to the same data.
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Invisible AI traffic
Your site may be visited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini — and you'd never know. Google Analytics won't show you. Szef Monitor tracks every AI bot on your site, free, with no usage limits.
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Time is money
A Polish contractor doesn't have a marketing department. Szef isn't a chatbot — it's an assistant that knows your trade. Quotes, contracts, email replies, website copy — fast and in plain language.
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The unknown AI future
AI changes every month. Gartner projects a 50% drop in Google search traffic by 2028. Who'll tell you how to prepare? Someone watching it on 150+ own sites — not just reading analyst reports.
Our ecosystem

150+ own sites.
One ecosystem.

Media Express LLC isn't an agency that builds client sites and that's it. We operate our own network of portals, news services, directories, radio stations, and social platforms — all aimed at Polish-Americans in the US.

This is a unique market position. We are simultaneously a digital agency, a media publisher, and a platform operator. We understand SEO not from courses — we understand it because we manage 150+ own projects and see the results in real time.

Selected network properties:

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Polish Network
Hub of the Polish-American digital network
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PolskieRadio.us
Polish online radio in the US
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KatalogFirm.us
Directory of Polish businesses in the US
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MediaExpress.us
Web design & AI marketing agency
🚀 Google AI about us

Google AI just started talking.
It's talking about Media Express.

This is not a normal search result. This is a real Google AI Overview reading and presenting our business out loud directly inside Google Search. This is what the future of SEO looks like.

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SEO · AI SEO · GEO · AIO
We help businesses be visible not just in Google — but in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. The next generation of search requires a next-generation strategy.
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Google AI Overview
AI Overviews are the future of search. Businesses that appear there first will gain a massive advantage. As one of the first agencies, we're already figuring out how to get you there.
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Businesses that adapt first win
Visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity is the new SEO. We help businesses be where tomorrow's customers are looking — not where yesterday's were.
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