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BRAND VOICE · CREATIVE DIRECTION

Only a Creative Directorcan craft theexperience andvision.

Brand voice is how your company sounds when it talks — most products sound like the tool that built them.

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THE PROBLEM

02 / THE PROBLEM

Your work has changed.Your work has changed.Your words haven'thaven't.

a copy problemstructural

symptom

You survived the loans, shipped the product, and raised your prices. You turned away work you would have begged for three years ago. The company grew up. The brand didn't. Your site still sounds like the version of you that was hoping someone would take a chance: careful, eager, a little generic.

diagnosis

I know that climb from both sides. I've built things, and I've watched it happen to a hundred owners since. Your best clients hired you anyway. Instinct. A referral. Sometimes in spite of the words, not because of them. So let's be honest: the work is already good enough. The words are still introducing a stranger.

THE FRAMEWORK

04 / THE PROCESS

Four phases. One to three weeks.Four phases. One to three weeks.

  1. Before any voice is designed, the work is observation. Who the brand actually speaks to, how they behave, and an inventory of the category's tired language - so the voice can be built deliberately against it.

    deliverable

    Audience map, voice inventory, category teardown

    duration

    2–3 days

  2. The voice pillars - the small set of traits that make the voice recognizable and consistent. Plus explicit verbal boundaries: what the voice does and does not do, so it stays coherent and never drifts into caricature.

    deliverable

    Voice pillars doc, do/don't matrix

    duration

    3–4 days

  3. The voice is constant; the tone shifts. This phase maps how the brand speaks in different contexts - sales page vs. error message vs. founder note - so the system holds across every surface.

    deliverable

    Tone matrix across 6–10 contexts

    duration

    2–3 days

  4. The system applied. Your highest-leverage copy - homepage, key product pages, primary sales asset - rewritten against the voice pillars, tone matrix, and verbal boundaries.

    deliverable

    Rewritten copy across agreed surfaces, with rationale notes

    duration

    3–5 days

THE PROOF

MeasuringBrand HealthBrand Health

Discovery, Brainstorming, Collaboration. Brand health went from 52 – 91.

Airbnb Super hostBRAND VOICE SCORE

Jessica & Chris

Treehouse in Huntersville, North Carolina

Superhost status. 4.96 rating across 200+ stays. Guests book the experience - the listing copy describes a cabin.

52→91/100

Score moved from 52 to 91 out of 100.

Industry avg48

Score moved 39 points after one rewrite cycle. The voice now matches the experience guests actually have.

Image placeholderBefore listing screenshot
Before — generic retreat language, treehouse buried in the gallery.
Image placeholderAfter listing screenshot
After — treehouse, bridge, and canopy sleep lead the story.
The Audit - Six DimensionsBEFORE → AFTER
Specificity40 → 92

The title said private cabin. The photos showed a treehouse. Guests had to click through to learn what they were actually booking.

The opener names the treehouse, the suspension bridge, and the canopy sleep - the details guests already see in the gallery.

Generic Language52 → 90

Peaceful retreat, perfect getaway, escape the everyday. Language any listing in the county could paste in unchanged.

Concrete particulars: outdoor shower, sky-view bed, walk to Main Street. Words tied to this property only.

Point of View45 → 88

Copy read like a template. No host voice, no stance on who this stay is for or why it is worth the drive.

Jessica and Chris sound like themselves - warm, specific, proud of the build without overselling the magic.

Consistency55 → 91

The welcome note was personal. The headline was generic. Reviews described an experience the title never promised.

Title, description, house rules, and welcome message speak in the same voice end to end.

Hero Clarity48 → 94

After five seconds a guest still could not tell if this was a cabin, a treehouse, or a room with a nice deck.

The headline answers what it is, who it is for, and why a 4.96 across 200 stays matters here.

Stance vs. Claim50 → 89

Unique stay and memorable experience with nothing underneath. Claims without evidence on the page.

Ratings, review language, and specifics do the claiming. Copy sets up proof instead of replacing it.

Primary Improvements

  1. 01

    Lead with the treehouse, not the category.

    The biggest mismatch was experience versus label. Rewriting the title and first paragraph around what guests actually book fixed the positioning problem in one pass.

  2. 02

    Pull Superhost proof above the fold.

    The 4.96 across 200 stays was buried in badges. It now sits where a skeptical guest looks first - next to the promise, not under it.

  3. 03

    Align photos, copy, and reviews on one story.

    Reviews already said treehouse and magical. The listing now uses the same words those guests use, so the voice matches what the gallery already proves.

Role

Creative Director · Brand Voice

Timeline

One rewrite cycle

Context

Airbnb Superhost · 200+ stays

07 / FREE AUDIT

Request a Free Brand EvaluationRequest a Free Brand Evaluation

Six dimensions. Same Day Feedback. Yours to keep.

what you get

Brand health score.

3 Creative directions.

Honest feedback.

what it costs

9 Questions.

Submit 3 links.

Finished in 20 mins.

what's next

Select a package.

Set up time to chat.

Design kick off.

Criteria: Specificity · Generic Language · POV · Voice · Hero Clarity · Stance

Directional read. Not the full audit.

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05 / WHO IT'S FOR

Built for one kind of client.Built for one kind of client.

The Precision Driven

  • You can describe the business in a room. On the page, it loses something.
  • You've outgrown the story you told in year one.
  • You want one experienced person. Not a committee, not a junior.
  • You'll read feedback as data, not verdict.You'll read feedback as data, not verdict.
  • You already know what the brand should sound like. It's just not written down anywhere.

The Consensus Seekers

  • You want someone to make the copy pop.
  • You're collecting audits the way you collect newsletter subscriptions.
  • You want a deck of options to choose from.
  • You'll read feedback as criticism.
  • The brand is a line item.The brand is a line item.

Select your engagement.Three depths. One diagnosis.

When your score names the weakest dimension, that is the crack - not a pitch hook. These tiers are how far we go to fix it.

Run the score first - then choose your depth.

Choose one engagement

01

For solo founders & personal brands

Starter

$1,500

The voice, captured. One page that proves it works.


  • -Brand voice system. How you sound across writing, social, video, and any channel where your brand speaks.
  • -One landing page rewritten in your voice.

1 week

02

For small teams of 2–5

Studio

$3,500

Your voice, made portable. Anyone on your team writes in-brand.


  • -Everything in Starter, plus:
  • -Brand Ambassador. A Claude assistant trained on the voice system we built together, so your team produces on-voice work without you in the room.

2 weeks

Selected

03

For founders ready to rebuild the whole voice

Motivated

$7,500

The full system. Documented, owned, ready to scale with you.


  • -Everything in Studio, plus:
  • -Brand Ambassador Pro. Voice-trained prompt library + full team workflow.
  • -Voice personas. Distinct profiles for who's writing and who's reading.
  • -Full landing page rebuild (homepage + 2).
  • -Ownership handoff. The full system, documented, yours to evolve.

3 weeks

Engagement · Studio · $3,500

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-You work directly with the creative director. Email, Slack, video, phone - whatever moves the work forward.

-Local voice positioning — for brands whose market is a place.

Questions worth asking.

08 / FAQ

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CURIOUSCURIOUS?

You describe where the voice is breaking down. I tell you whether and how I can close the gap. If the fit isn't there, I'll say so.

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