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Brand Voice

Teach PostRout the tone, vocabulary, audience, and writing rules that generated content should follow.

Updated August 6, 2026

What does Brand Voice control?

Brand Voice is the reusable writing profile PostRout follows while generating and adapting content. It helps outputs remain recognizable even when the format changes between long-form publications and social channels.

  • Audience and level of technical knowledge
  • Tone, personality, sentence style, and point of view
  • Preferred terminology and phrases
  • Words, claims, and styles to avoid
  • Industry, positioning, and writing references
  • SEO and AI-generation guidance when available on your plan

Create a useful voice

  1. 1

    Name the voice

    Use a name that tells the team where it applies, such as Product Education or Founder LinkedIn.

  2. 2

    Describe the audience

    Be specific about roles, problems, existing knowledge, and what readers should do next.

  3. 3

    Define the tone

    Choose concrete traits and explain what they mean in practice. 'Clear and direct' is more useful with examples.

  4. 4

    Add vocabulary rules

    Record product names, capitalization, preferred phrases, prohibited claims, and language to avoid.

  5. 5

    Add references

    Use representative writing samples when your plan supports advanced voice controls.

  6. 6

    Test and refine

    Generate the same source for two different channels, then adjust the voice where the result is too generic or too rigid.

Defaults and overrides

A workspace default helps ordinary posts start consistently. A Studio Brand Profile can select its own default global Brand Voice. Always confirm the selected voice before generation when a workspace contains multiple voices.