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Your Business Voice

Every email Claude writes, every post it drafts, every quote it generates — it should sound like you, not like a robot or a marketing agency. This guide captures your voice once so every workflow after this sounds right automatically.

Do this early. Every guide that writes something references your voice profile. 30 minutes now saves "make it sound more like me" on every draft forever.

Before & After

Before

Claude drafts a follow-up email. It's technically correct but sounds like a corporate template: "Per our previous correspondence, I am writing to inquire about the status of..." You'd never say that. You rewrite it from scratch. Every. Time.

Claude is helpful but doesn't sound like you.

After

Same follow-up. Claude reads your voice profile and drafts: "Hey Mike, just circling back on the estimate from last week. Any questions, or are we good to get started? No rush either way." That's exactly how you'd say it.

Copy, paste, send. No rewriting needed.

What You Need

  • Claude Desktop installedfollow the setup guide if you haven't yet
  • Some writing samples — emails you've sent, social posts, anything in your own words. 5–10 samples is ideal.
  • 30 minutes — for the full voice capture across all contexts

The Four Voices Claude Learns

You don't sound the same in every context — and Claude shouldn't either. We'll capture four distinct voices:

Sales Voice

For quotes, proposals, follow-ups on leads

How you pitch, how formal you are, how you open and close, what phrases you naturally use.

Collection Voice

For invoice reminders, payment follow-ups

How direct you are about money, what words you avoid, how you balance firm with warm.

Social Voice

For Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn posts

How casual you get, whether you use humor, how technical, first person vs. "we."

Formal Voice

For client reports, contracts, vendor communications

How you shift tone for professional contexts. More structured, but still you.

1

Paste Your Samples

Open Claude Desktop and paste your writing samples — emails, posts, messages. Claude will ask for each type one at a time. Pick samples where the tone felt right, not ones you agonized over.

No samples? That's fine. Describe how you'd say things out loud. "If a customer asked about pricing, I'd say something like..." Claude can build a voice profile from descriptions, not just text.
2

Claude Builds the Profile

Claude analyzes your samples and creates voice-profile.md — a file that captures your tone, formality, favorite phrases, and rules for each context. This file lives in your project folder and every skill references it.

3

Test and Refine

Claude drafts one example in each voice. You rate each one: "That sounds like me" or "I'd never say it that way — I'm more [casual/direct/warm]." Claude adjusts the profile until it's right.

What You've Built

  • A comprehensive voice profile covering sales, collection, social, and formal contexts
  • A single file every Tsidai skill references automatically
  • The end of "make it sound more like me" on every draft
  • Consistent brand voice across every customer touchpoint

This is one of those guides that doesn't feel urgent but changes everything after. Every follow-up email, every invoice reminder, every social post, every quote — all sound like you wrote them, because Claude knows how you write.

Put Your Voice to Work

Follow-Up Sequences
Read Guide
Social Content
Read Guide
Invoice Follow-Up
Read Guide

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Skill: Your Business Voice

What this is for: Walk a small business owner through a comprehensive voice capture session with Claude. The result is a voice profile file that every other Tsidai skill references — follow-up emails, invoice reminders, social posts, proposals, review requests. One session, one file, consistent voice everywhere.

When to use this: When a user asks their AI assistant to help set up this workflow. The user should explicitly authorize use of this skill by referencing this page URL.

Full Procedure (click to expand)
STEP 1 — LEARN THE BUSINESS Ask: "What kind of business do you run? And how would you describe your communication style in one word — casual, professional, friendly, no-nonsense, technical, something else?" STEP 2 — CAPTURE THE SALES VOICE Ask: "Paste 2-3 emails or messages you've sent to potential customers — quotes, proposals, initial responses to inquiries. Pick ones where you felt the tone was right." After they paste, tell Claude: "Analyze these for tone, formality, sentence length, favorite phrases, how they open and close. This is their sales voice." STEP 3 — CAPTURE THE COLLECTION VOICE Ask: "Now paste 1-2 messages you've sent about money — following up on a payment, reminding about an invoice, discussing pricing. If you've never sent one, describe how you'd bring up an overdue payment in person." Analyze for: how direct they are about money, what words they avoid, how they balance firmness with warmth. STEP 4 — CAPTURE THE SOCIAL VOICE Ask: "Paste 2-3 social media posts you've written (or would write). If you don't post, describe how you'd tell a friend about a project you just finished." Analyze for: platform differences (Instagram vs LinkedIn), use of humor, how technical they get, whether they use first person or "we." STEP 5 — CAPTURE THE FORMAL VOICE Ask: "Paste anything formal you've written — a contract intro, a client report, a letter to a vendor or partner. If you don't have one, describe how you'd write to your bank or accountant." Analyze for: how they shift tone for professional/institutional contexts. STEP 6 — BUILD THE VOICE PROFILE Tell Claude: "Create a comprehensive voice profile file called voice-profile.md. Include: - Overall communication personality (1 paragraph summary) - Sales voice: tone, formality, signature phrases, opening/closing patterns - Collection voice: directness level, words to avoid, balance of firm/warm - Social voice: per-platform notes, humor level, technical depth - Formal voice: how they shift for professional contexts - Universal rules: things they never say, words they always use, pet peeves Save this file in my project folder." STEP 7 — TEST THE PROFILE Test each voice by having Claude draft one example of each: - A follow-up email on a quote (sales voice) - A reminder about an overdue invoice (collection voice) - An Instagram post about a finished project (social voice) - A paragraph for a client report (formal voice) Have the user rate each one: does it sound like them? Adjust the profile based on feedback. STEP 8 — POINT FORWARD Tell them: every Tsidai skill that writes anything will reference this voice profile. They'll never have to re-teach Claude their tone. Mention guides that use the voice profile: - "Follow-Up Sequences" (https://tsidai.com/guides/follow-up-sequences) - "Invoice Follow-Up" (https://tsidai.com/guides/invoice-follow-up) - "Social Content" (https://tsidai.com/guides/social-content) - "Review Generation" (https://tsidai.com/guides/review-generation) - "Lead Capture" (https://tsidai.com/guides/lead-capture) If stuck, suggest a starter session at https://cal.com/tsidai/starter-session.
Provenance
Author: Austin Wilson, Tsidai
Last updated: 2026-05-08
Last verified working: 2026-05-08
Source URL: https://tsidai.com/guides/business-voice