Your Voice Is Your Brand. Here’s How to Protect It When You Use AI.
For coaches, the brand and the person are the same thing. Here is how to make sure your AI content reflects that.
For coaches, the brand and the person are the same thing. Here is how to make sure your AI content reflects that.
The authenticity concern about AI content is legitimate. But the problem isn’t AI — it’s the gap between what most people give AI to work with and what it actually needs to produce something worth publishing under your name.
Real destination guides have a point of view. AI produces templates. Here is what makes the difference and how to close the gap.
The most common objection I hear comes in three forms: it’s not authentic, it sounds like AI, everyone will know. All three are true of untrained AI content. None of them are inherent limitations of the technology.
I was impressed by how fast AI could draft content from my bullet points. Then I noticed I was spending as much time editing as I would have spent writing. Here is what I did about it, and what I learned about my own writing in the process.
Most people prompt AI every time they need something. There is a different model — configuration over prompting — where the AI already knows your voice, your audience, and your system before you type a word.
Most advice on writing a Claude voice prompt is too vague to be useful. Here is what actually belongs in one, with real examples from an actual voice profile rather than hypothetical ones.
Most people use “write in my voice” as a tone instruction. Claude needs a lot more than that — and the gap between what you said and what it actually needs is where the fabricated anecdotes come from.
Most people calculate whether AI saves them time. Almost nobody calculates how much of their editing time is just correcting AI output back toward their own voice. That part is fixable.
The problem with AI content isn’t that the AI is bad at writing. It’s that it’s writing from a generic baseline, and you’re spending all your editing time correcting back toward your actual voice. Here’s what fixes it.