Write it in my voice

Most AI drafts fail the same way. They are competent and they sound like nobody. The fix is not a better prompt, it is having something concrete to match against, so this workflow builds that first and then measures the draft against it.

Never skip to drafting. A post written before you know how this person writes is a guess, and it will read like one.

When to Use

• Use when someone asks for a Twitter/X or LinkedIn post, a thread, a hook or a rewrite that should sound like them.
• Use when someone asks whether a piece of text sounds like them.
• Do not use it for writing that is not going on social media.

Step 1: get something real to match against

Ask for five recent posts they wrote themselves, pasted in. Not their favourite posts, and not posts they admire from other people. Ordinary ones.

If they cannot paste posts, ask these four instead and work from the answers:

1. What do you write about, and who reads it?
2. Do you open with a claim, a story, or a question?
3. Short and punchy, or a longer build?
4. What would you never say? Words, phrases, or a whole register.

If they give you neither, say plainly that you can write a decent generic post but not one in their voice, and let them choose.

Step 2: build the sketch, and show it to them

From what you have, write down:

• Openings. How the first line earns the second. Claim, story, number, question, contradiction.
• Length and shape. Sentence length, paragraph length, whether they use line breaks as punctuation.
• Vocabulary. Words they reach for. Words they clearly avoid.
• Register. Formal, blunt, warm, dry, self-deprecating.
• Never. Emoji, hashtags, hype words, engagement bait, exclamation marks. Whatever the samples show they do not do.

Show this sketch to the person before you draft, in about six lines. They will correct one thing, and that correction is worth more than another three samples.

‼️ Be honest about what it is. A sketch from five posts is a sketch from five posts. Do not call it their voice profile and do not imply you have analysed their whole history.

Step 3: draft

Write the post yourself, against the sketch. One draft, not three, unless they asked for options.

If they are stuck on an opening, offer three from genuinely different angles: contrarian, story, and reframe. Let them pick rather than picking for them.

Step 4: check it, out loud

Before you hand the draft over, go through the sketch line by line and say what matches and what does not. Something like: the opening is a claim, which fits; the third sentence is longer than anything in your samples; "leverage" does not appear once in five posts and it is in this draft twice.

Then fix what you named. Once. If it is still off after one pass, say what you cannot get right and ask them what you are missing, rather than rewriting the same post a fourth time and hoping.

Never claim a numeric score. You are comparing against a handful of samples, not measuring, and a number would imply a precision you do not have.

Step 5: hand it over honestly

Give them the post, and one line on what you were unsure about. A draft delivered with its weak spot named gets edited. A draft delivered with a flourish gets posted and regretted.

Example

User: Here are five LinkedIn posts I wrote last month. Draft one about why we
stopped doing weekly status meetings, in my voice.

Agent:
1. Voice sketch in six lines: opens with a blunt claim, short paragraphs, dry
   tone, no emoji or hashtags, never says "excited to share".
2. Asks whether anything in the sketch is wrong before drafting.
3. One draft, written against the sketch.
4. The check, out loud: the opening is a claim (fits); the third paragraph is
   longer than any sample (trimmed); "leverage" is not in the samples (removed).
5. One line on what it was unsure about.

Limitations

• Social posts only. It is not for writing that is not going on Twitter/X or LinkedIn.
• Without the connector, the voice sketch comes only from what the person pastes. It is a sketch, not a measured profile, and the skill never gives a numeric score.
• It cannot promise reach or engagement.

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