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Voice guardrails for AI content

How to encode taste as a rubric so agents do not drift into slop.

/ Tags#voice#brand#guardrails#writing
/ Highlights
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  • 01Positive spec + negative spec = voice
  • 02The negative spec carries the taste
  • 03Same rubric for humans and models

Every team we work with hits the same wall: the AI outputs are technically fine and completely forgettable. The fix is not a better prompt — it is a better rubric.

We build voice guardrails as a two-part system: a positive spec (what we sound like) and a negative spec (what we refuse to sound like). The negative spec is where the taste lives.

Once encoded, the same rubric runs against every draft — human or model — and forces a conversation before publish. Nothing ships that has not survived it.

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