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brand voice guidelines for creators and freelancers

Give it five things you wrote. Everything it writes after that sounds like you, instead of sounding like a chatbot.

Why does everything you generate sound like everyone else?

For your own business, or as a service you charge other businesses like yours for.

Nobody runs this lab yet. Take it, give it your hours and your prices, and it is yours.

your-business.exampleYour businessit runs under your name, on your domain

How it would run

3 magiks · the sheets are examples
01
Extract my voice
Example
NOTEBOOK

Your voice, extracted

From five pieces you wrote

A client email, two newsletters, a landing page and a long post. Nine thousand words. What comes back in all five is below. What appeared once is not: one occurrence is a mood, not a voice.

Sentence and rhythm

HabitEvidence
11 words a sentence on averageAll five
Opens on the fact, never on a wind-up5 of 5
One line paragraphs to land a point4 of 5

Words

You say we, never the team, never our organisation. You say client, never user. You write numbers as figures even under ten.

You never write leverage, synergy, seamless, unlock, or in today's fast paced world. Not once in nine thousand words.

What you do that most people do not

You say what did not work before saying what did. Three of the five pieces open on a thing that failed. Anything written for you that opens on a win will not sound like you, whatever else it gets right.

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02
Write in my voice
Example
NOTEBOOK

A paragraph in your voice

What it wrote

We do not send a report you have to decode. You get the three numbers that moved, what moved them, and what we would do next. If nothing moved, we say that too, and it takes one line.

Why it sounds like you

Your habitWhere it came from
Short sentences, no wind-upYour five reference pieces
Never says leverage or synergyYour words I never use list
Says we, never the teamAll five pieces
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03
Does this sound like me?
Example
Does this sound like me?5 rows
PassageVerdictWhat gives it away
In today's fast moving landscape...Not youOn your never list, and it is a wind-up
Three numbers moved. Here they are.YouOpens on the fact, 7 words
Our team is committed to unlocking...Not youSays the team, says unlocking
It did not work in June. It works now.YouFailure first, then the win

+ 1 more rows

Three passages out of five would need rewriting. Two of the three fail on the same thing, a wind-up before the point, and that is the single fastest fix.

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example · not real dataInvented for this page. Every collection starts empty; the first run writes the first row.

The job

The complaint about generated writing is always the same: it reads fine, and it sounds like nobody. A creator who delegates their writing, to a ghostwriter or to a machine, buys volume and pays in identity. Yet brand voice is not a mystery. It sits in a handful of pieces already written, in a list of words you refuse, and in knowing who you write for. This lab would turn that material into a resource reread on every piece, instead of brand voice guidelines opened once and never again.

What it would know about your business

Put there once, read by every magik.

Put there once by you, read by every magik, corrected when reality moves. Full on day one, unlike the collections below.

resource base
Five things you wrote
Words you never use
Who you write for
01Extract my voice
02Write in my voice
03Does this sound like me?

What it would keep

Worth more in month six than in week one.

The collections belong to the lab, not to any single magik. Every magik reads them and every run adds to them, which is why this lab is worth more in month six than in week one.

example · not real data
Words I never useas it would fill up
WordWhyInstead
revolutionarynobody believes itnew, and that is all
supportbrochure wordhelp, do it with them
solutionsays nothingthe name of the thing
a sample, truncated

Invented for this page. Your Words I never use collection starts empty and fills as you work.

Reference piecesstarts empty

Under your own brand

It wears your name, not ours.

The same lab, under your name, your colours and your logo. Your customers never see ours.

askmojo.ai
AskMOJO
your-business.example
Your business
The same lab under two brands: only the logo, the address and the colour change.
Your colours, in one field.
Your logo and your favicon, on every public surface.
Your own address, on a verified domain.

On the Pro plan, and not needed to take a lab. A fully bespoke theme exists as an upgrade, hand built rather than self-serve.

What it would plug into

And whatever you already use: any tool available through an API or an MCP server, connected with your own account.

Why not another web app built for your trade

Built around your business, not the average one.
What it knows, what it keeps and what it does are yours to write, and two businesses running the same idea end up with two different labs.
Its sources are not a closed list.
A vertical tool ships with the sources its vendor chose, and that is the ceiling. A lab can be pointed at the ones your business actually runs on, connected from your own accounts, and everything they bring back lands in your collections, which you own and can take with you.

A tool built for exactly your job, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This is for the jobs nothing covers, or the ones spread across three tools today.

Questions · 8

How do you actually determine a brand voice?

Not with adjectives. From pieces you actually wrote: sentence length, how you open, how you turn a corner, what you never say. The first magik reads five of your own texts and writes that description down, which is the part most guidelines skip by choosing three words instead.

Is this the same as a brand style guide?

No, and this idea only handles the words. Your colours, your logo and your typography are not touched here. What is produced is the written voice: how a sentence of yours is built, and whether a given text sounds like you or like everybody else.

What does a voice description look like?

A short document with rules you can check against a text: how long a sentence runs before it stops, whether you address the reader directly, which words are banned, how you handle a disagreement. Checkable is the whole point, since a third magik uses it to judge a draft.

Is five pieces really enough?

For a voice, yes. What is being looked for is how you build a sentence, how long you let it run, how you turn a corner, and the words you never use. Five pieces you stand behind beat fifty where half were written by somebody else, or by a machine.

How is this different from brand voice guidelines in a document?

Guidelines rarely get reread once written. Here the description of your voice is a resource read by every magik at the moment it writes, and a third magik exists only to tell you whether a given piece sounds like you. The guidelines stop being a document to comply with and become what produces the text.

Does it still help if I write for two different audiences?

Yes, as long as you say so: who you write for is part of what you put in. One voice can carry two registers. It is the words you never use, plus your reference pieces, that stop the second register drifting into the generic tone of everybody else.

What if the texts I would give it were already written with AI?

Then it would learn that voice, which is the one you are trying to get away from. Pick five pieces you wrote yourself, even old ones, even rough: a message to a client, a post you would sign again. Raw material you stand behind matters more than polished material.

Why this rather than a tool built for my trade?

A tool built for exactly creators and freelancers, and only that, will go deeper at that one job. This lab is for the jobs no tool covers, or the ones spread across three tools today, and it runs under your name.

Who is playing this idea

Every audience is still open.

Nobody has taken a square on this idea yet. You declare your audience when you take the lab (“roofers in Brittany”, “plumbers around Paris”), and two people can start from the same idea on two different audiences without getting in each other’s way.

The shape behind it

Applies Social Studio to this job.

Sound like your week?

And it wears your name, not ours.

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