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Writing Style Guide

Create a writing style guide your whole team can use. Capture the choices that keep your organization’s writing clear, consistent, and unmistakably yours.

  • Stop re-deciding punctuation, capitalization, and terminology in every draft.
  • Give staff, freelancers, editors, and subject matter experts one shared reference.
  • Turn the completed guide into a reusable AI voice skill.
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— WHAT'S INSIDE —

A simple starting point to document the decisions that shape your content and ultimately, your impact on the world.

The guide moves from everyday editorial decisions, to boilerplate copy, to the larger questions of voice and tone, and even dives into how to turn this information into an AI voice skill.

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Getting started

Getting started is easy. Just make a copy of our template and fill in the examples and placeholders with your own content.

02

Record recurring editorial decisions

Record rules for punctuation, capitalization, numbers, dates, filenames, captions, language, and translations.

 

03

Brand identity

Capture legal names, shorthand, mission, vision, boilerplate language, audiences, voice, tone, signature phrases, and terminology.

04

Keep it current

Assign clear roles for stewarding, updating, reviewing, approving, and sharing the guide across your organization.

05

Built to be shared

Create one accessible source of truth that can travel across teams, projects, vendors, and channels without losing consistency.

 

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Style guide to AI voice skill

Translate your identity, tone, vocabulary, and mechanical rules into structured instructions an AI assistant can reference.

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Why your organization needs a writing style guide

Read the companion article for more context on what a style guide does, why it matters, and how to put it into practice across your communications workflow.

Read the blog post