Tone presets vs. custom voice
Six presets, and how to write a custom voice prompt that the AI actually follows.
The six presets
Avago ships with six tone presets that cover most small-business needs:
- Professional — measured and credible, good for trades and B2B.
- Friendly — approachable and warm, good for local services.
- Confident — direct and assured, good for a strong hero.
- Warm — gentle and personable, good for care and wellbeing.
- Concise — short and punchy, good for scanning.
- Playful — light and informal, good for relaxed brands.
Pick one and the AI writes every rewrite in that register while keeping your facts intact.
Writing a custom voice prompt
When the presets don't capture how you sound, write a custom voice. The trick is to be concrete and to give examples:
- Describe the voice in a sentence — "plain-spoken, dry humour, never salesy".
- List a few do's — short sentences, British spelling, address the reader as "you".
- List a few don'ts — no jargon, no exclamation marks, no "world-class".
- Give a sample line the AI can imitate.
The AI follows a custom voice the same way it follows a preset — across every rewrite on the site.
Common mistakes
Custom voices fail in predictable ways:
- Too vague. "Make it engaging" tells the AI nothing. Name the traits.
- Contradictory. Asking for "formal but really casual" leaves the model guessing.
- No examples. A single sample sentence does more than a paragraph of adjectives.
- Fighting the facts. Voice changes the delivery, not the content; it can't add claims your sources don't support.
Set your voice once, early. Everything you write or rewrite afterwards inherits it, which keeps a multi-page site sounding like one business rather than several.
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