The Human-Sounding AI Playbook

Three hours of setup gets you a one-page voice guide, a folder of your own writing that AI can copy from, and a five-point checklist that catches the stuff that will embarrass you. After that, AI drafts stop reading like a press release from a company that doesn't exist. The point isn't to hide that you used AI. It's that the output sounds like your business because you fed it your business.

1. Pick tasks where a draft is enough

AI is good at first drafts and bad at final authority. Sort your recurring writing into two piles.

Safe for AI drafting: appointment reminders, follow-up emails, FAQ answers you've written before, social captions, job ad rewrites, meeting notes into action items, turning a long email into three short ones, five subject-line variations, reformatting a price list.