Tone of Voice guidebooks,
without the fluff.
I write, design, and deliver printable Tone of Voice guidebooks that bring confidence to your team and consistency to every channel of communication.
You don’t need another bloody word cloud.
You need a structured and slightly opinionated answer to the question,
‘What do we actually sound like?’
Whether it’s a poster or an email unsubscribe message, your voice makes you stand out (or fade into the background.)
I run workshops and build tone of voice guidelines so that your business always sounds like the best version of you.
The result is that you attract the right people, and they stick around.
Running your communication channels just got a whole lot lighter
Your audience leans in
You no longer appeal to everyone.
That's the point. The people who have the same values and interests feel an affinity with you. The rest are disinterested. Decisions are simpler
Hooks, grammar, and tone sorted.
The foundational work is done. The creative guardrails now give you freedom to ideate without second-guessing.Everyone’s aligned
It's not just "Marketing's job".
Ownership of your voice is repped by customer service, sales, product, and dare I say it, legal. You didn’t get here on purpose.
As your business grew, something will have happened to your original voice.
Maybe you hired more people. Tone of voice was discussed in unofficial meetings, and sharpened by someone enthusiastic taking on more than they should.
So now socials sound great, customer support sounds rushed, and the careers page looks like it was pieced together from AI prompts. Everything has to go through you, and you’re really needing to focus elsewhere.
This is what happens when your business scales. It’s no-one’s fault.
The good news is, it’s fixable. Just one workshop and a document later.
I run a 2.5 hour online workshop. You invite a member from each team to the room: support, product, design, marketing. And we dig.
What do you want to be known for saying?
What kind of client relationships do you want?
Why do you exist, beyond making money?
What do you want people to think of, when they think of you?
How much prior knowledge do we assume your audience has?
It’s genuinely good fun. It’s great to ideate in this way with your team. And it’s structured enough to mine for gold, yet loose enough to give space for all of those juicy parts of your brand to ooze out in conversation. I take notes furiously.
From there, I carry out extensive independent research. I spend time in the spaces your audience and competitors occupy and I uncover every overlooked detail.
Then I build your Tone of voice guidelines.
Here’s how it works.
Everything from our workshop and my research is distilled into a guide that’ll give your team a clear overview of:
The kind of personality your business has
Your core values
What you don’t sound like
How your voice should read across each channel
Real examples of what it sounds like in the wild
And enough detail for your new hire to write on-brand copy on their first day.
Obviously I can throw in a word cloud if you really want one.
But with your tone of voice guidelines, you replace guesswork with evidence. It’s exactly the same as entering a room full of strangers feeling confident. Because now you know who you are, what you stand for, and what your worth is. And when people talk, they’ll all say the same thing.
Ahhhh. Sigh of relief.
I still don’t get it
Here are the FAQs.
When you’re ready, get in touch.
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I imagine you want a clear ROI. Especially if you’ve decided to dive into tone of voice as part of how your brand operates.
I’m afraid copywriters can never give a clear ROI in advance of a project. Only in hindsight.
What I can tell you is that in an age where we’re bombarded with information, a compelling and consistent voice cuts through the noise, speaks to the heart, and leaves a lasting impression.
A strong, recognisable tone of voice will cement to your customers who you are, what you stand for, and why they should trust you.
That sort of thing generates returns long after the initial launch.
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£2.000.
That includes the 2.5hr workshop, 1x round of revisions, and your Tone of Voice and Style guide, delivered in a printable PDF in your brand design.
If you’re looking for a fully fleshed-out verbal identity kit (which normally clocks in around the 60-page mark), we’ll be looking at around 4-6k depending on scope.
By the way, I’m not dogmatic—if you have a different idea in mind about the contents of your tone of voice guide, just let me know and we’ll adjust the scope and therefore the cost.
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Starting the project to having the printed guidebook in your office space normally happens within 5-6 weeks, depending on how quick you are with getting your feedback to me ;)
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No.
LLMs condense vast amounts of data in order to give generic, easily digestible answers. So basically, every answer you get is the generic summary. That median average will completely marginalise unique or unconventional output over time. It homogenises everything.
You invest in a tone of voice guide to position yourself above the cornfield. Why would I give you homogenised content?
I’m going to be very direct and honest now:
Whenever I read anything online that gives me a whiff of LLM, I want to bail.
Not because I’m a copywriter, but because I’m one of those people who is drawn to, and driven by, authenticity. It doesn’t matter how solid that person, brand, or organisation’s reputation is. If their copy feels “off” and reads like uncanny valley LLM work, I feel uncomfortable.
Why? Because it makes me wonder what the actual product will be like if they’ve not invested in how they’re talking to me.I know I’m not alone in this.
This is why I guard against AI use.