Today's Copywriter

One voice, written down, so it stops depending on who's typing that day.

Five people can write your company in five different voices — the founder who's blunt, the marketer who's breezy, the freelancer who read your last web page and matched that instead of matching you — and what comes out the other side sounds like whoever happened to be holding the keyboard, not like your company. This is the work that fixes the pattern, not just the next paragraph.

Price anchor

from €1,500

Signs you need this

  • Your About page, your ads, and your last cold email don't sound like the same company.
  • Every new hire or freelancer has to guess your voice from old copy, because nothing about it is written down.
  • "Brand voice" keeps getting raised in meetings as a tone problem, when the real issue underneath it is that no one has agreed what you’re actually saying.

Our approach

A tone-of-voice matrix looks clinical until you actually use one — a grid with two axes, say "plain" to "playful," "formal" to "warm," with your own past sentences plotted on it, so a future writer isn’t guessing from a mood board, they’re reading a coordinate. That’s what this service actually hands you: not a list of adjectives, but a system somebody else — including an AI tool, if that’s who ends up drafting the next hundred sentences — can be handed and follow correctly on the first attempt.

→ the objection this answers: Your About page, your ads, and your last cold email don't sound like the same company.

What's included

Messaging Foundations gives you the core of it: a positioning statement your whole team can point to without arguing, three to five messaging pillars with the proof each one needs behind it, a documented tone of voice with real do/don’t examples pulled from your own material, and a banned-words list built from what’s actually gone wrong in your copy before, not a generic list.

The Verbal Identity System goes further — it adds channel-specific voice notes (how the brand sounds in an email versus a pitch deck versus a tweet), a lightweight naming framework for products or features, and one full page rewritten start to finish as a worked example, so the system is demonstrated, not just described.

How it runs

  1. 01

    Discovery

    An audit of your existing copy across channels, marking every sentence that doesn't sound like you.

  2. 02

    Margin notes

    The positioning gaps that voice work alone can’t fix get named honestly as strategic issues, not smoothed over as a tone problem.

  3. 03

    Draft

    The documented voice: pillars, tone rules, examples, banned words.

  4. 04

    Proof pass

    Two revision rounds, tested against real sentences you supply, not hypothetical ones.

  5. 05

    Handover

    One reference document, built so any future writer can follow it without you in the room.

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Proof of craft

Illustrative example — written to demonstrate approach, not client work.

Before

We are committed to providing exceptional customer service and innovative solutions.

After

You'll get a straight answer, usually within the hour, from someone who actually read your message.

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Packages

Brand Messaging & Verbal Identity

Messaging Foundations

A positioning statement and a documented voice, both defensible under questioning.

  • A positioning statement
  • 3–5 messaging pillars, each with the proof it needs behind it
  • A documented tone of voice with real do/don’t examples from your own material
  • A banned-words list built from your actual copy history
  • 2 revision rounds
  • Delivery as a single reference document

First draft in 12 business days · 2 revision rounds

€1,500+ VAT where applicable

Turnaround

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Brand Messaging & Verbal Identity

Verbal Identity System

The full documented voice, proven on one real page.

  • Everything in Messaging Foundations
  • Channel-specific voice notes (email vs. pitch deck vs. social)
  • A lightweight naming framework for products or features
  • One full page rewritten start to finish as a worked example
  • 2 revision rounds
  • Delivery as a single reference document

First draft in 20 business days · 2 revision rounds

€3,200+ VAT where applicable

Turnaround

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Frequently asked questions

How is this different from a style guide?

A style guide governs grammar and formatting. This governs what you actually say and why — positioning first, tone second.

Can you work alongside our existing visual identity?

Yes — this is verbal identity only; it's designed to sit next to a logo, palette and design system that's already set.

Who ends up using the final document?

Anyone who writes for the brand: your team, your freelancers, your future agency, and any AI drafting tool you hand it to.

Do you write actual pages as part of this, or just rules?

The Verbal Identity System includes one full worked example page. Applying the voice sitewide is separate — pair it with Website & Landing Page Copywriting once the system exists.

Add a package to your cart, or get a fixed quote for a scope beyond these two.