Brand voice architecture for founders with something to say

Cool brand, forgettable copy. Let's fix that.

Audits that pinpoint where your brand voice breaks. Copy that sounds like you actually wrote it. Plus an AI context file that keeps it that way. Main character energy on every channel, not just the one you have time for.

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Macy Cate Ferrando hi, I'm Macy
why a founder trusts Smart Mouth Co. over a freelancer off a job board

This method comes from running brand voice at four very different scales.

POPSUGAR

Founded and scaled the commerce content org through six straight years of record revenue.

Birdies

Gave the brand voice a full makeover and built its guidelines from scratch.

Yahoo

Wrote the editorial standards and content strategy for Yahoo's content teams.

Walmart

Led copy on campaigns for an audience of millions, and shaped how AI touches creative work so it still sounds human.

Four scales, one person, no account managers in between.

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The problem

You know something's off when…

01

Your email team writes nothing like your social team, and everyone's quietly pretending not to notice.

02

Every new brief starts from a blank page, because nothing about "how we sound" is written down anywhere.

03

Your AI tools produce copy that's technically correct and unmistakably no one's voice at all.

What you get

Five deliverables. Nothing that sits in a folder.

PHASE 01

Voice Diagnostic Report

Where your voice breaks today, scored across five dimensions, plus the white space your competitors haven't claimed.

PHASE 02

Voice Pillars & Tone Spectrum

3–5 pillars, each with the line your brand won't cross. Not "friendly" and "bold."

PHASE 03

Copy Bank

Before/after rewrites across your formats, or brand-new assets written from scratch.

DELIVERED

Quick Reference Card

The one-page version your team will pin above their desk, because a 40-page guide nobody opens twice isn't a deliverable, it's a paperweight.

BONUS

AI Voice Kit

A context file built straight from your diagnostic, ready to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or whatever your team's already using, so the voice holds even when I'm not the one writing it.

Want the full system? The audit covers Diagnose, Define, and Draft. Need ongoing governance after that? Onboarding new writers, QA-ing copy against the guide, keeping your AI tools on-voice. That's the Voice Architecture Retainer.
How the Scaling Stage package runs (two weeks)
DAY 1–3

Diagnose

Samples in, tone-mapped and scored against competitors.

DAY 4–5

Define

Pillars, tone spectrum, and lexicon drafted.

DAY 6–8

Draft

Your copy rewritten, or written from scratch.

DAY 9

Review call

Walkthrough together, revisions noted live.

DAY 10

Deliver

Final report, guide, and quick reference card, sent.

client testimonial “

Our Instagram, website, and emails finally sound like the same brand instead of jarringly different tones.

Haley Fritz Founder, Breezys Read the testimonials
Investment

Priced to your stage, not your size.

Founder, Scaling, Retail-Ready. Each stage carries a different risk of losing your voice, so scope (and price) grows with that, not with an arbitrary size tax.

Founder Stage
Solo & Small Teams
Get your voice out of your head and onto paper before someone else has to guess at it.
$3,200
Flat fee · 1 week from kickoff
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Scaling Stage · most booked
Growing Teams
A small team writing across channels, the exact moment your voice starts to fragment.
$7,500
Flat fee · 2 weeks
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Retail-Ready
Multi-Brand & Enterprise
Big-box retail, multiple regions, or a dedicated content org, where an off-voice line ends up printed on packaging.
From $28K
Scoped after a call · 4–6 weeks
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Plus a one-day Copy Sprint from $2,000 and an AI Copy Context File at $2,800, all with full details on the services page.

have something more specific in mind?

Something else entirely?

Multi-brand portfolio, franchise system, ongoing retainer, or something I haven't listed? Skip the guesswork and tell me what you need.

Email me for a quote
Questions

What if our brand doesn't have a voice yet?

That's fine. We start at Define instead of Diagnose, and build the competitive scan from scratch rather than an existing-copy audit.

Do you actually write copy, or just tell us what's wrong?

Both. The Copy Bank is rewrites of your own copy, in your formats. You get finished copy, not a list of notes.

How fast can we start?

Founder Stage delivers one week from our kickoff call, Scaling Stage in two weeks, Retail-Ready in 4–6. I keep only a few spots open per month so those timelines hold.

Ready to sound like one brand again?

Let's talk about an audit! I'll make it quick and easy on you, pinky promise.

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