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Core Voice Profile Template

Document your authentic voice so AI tools can write like you, not like a robot. From Chapter 5 of the book.

Build your voice profile

Your voice profile is a reference document that captures how you naturally communicate. Upload it to your AI assistant and it becomes the baseline for everything it writes on your behalf.

The best voice profiles are specific and concrete. Instead of saying "professional tone", describe what that actually means for you - short sentences, plain language, occasional dry humour.

Tone

How do you come across? Direct and no-nonsense? Warm and conversational? Authoritative but approachable? Describe the feeling your writing creates.

Vocabulary preferences

Words and phrases you naturally reach for. Industry terms you use (or avoid). Whether you lean formal or casual.

Negative constraints

Words and phrases to never use. Cliches that make you cringe. Jargon that your audience would find off-putting. This is often the most valuable section.

Signature patterns

Your structural habits - short paragraphs, rhetorical questions, lists, stories before principles. The patterns that make your writing recognisably yours.

Values

What you stand for and what matters to your audience. These shape word choice and emphasis more than any style rule.

Put it to work

Write up the five sections above as one document. Then give it to your AI assistant.

Create a Skill that contains your Core Voice Profile, your Negative Constraints, examples of your writing and the output rules you want it to follow. If your plan doesn't include Skills, save the same instructions and files as a project and reuse them. A large archive suits a project better, because a project keeps its files loaded in every chat.

New to this? The thinking behind this tool is in the Human-First AI book series - short, practical guides for using AI at work. Browse the books.

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