Macy Cate Ferrando
the person behind the mouth

Hi, I'm Macy Cate Ferrando.

Smart Mouth Co. isn't a big agency pretending to be personal. It's just me. Which means when you work with me, you get the person who's done this, not an account manager reading off a deck someone else built.

how I got here

Four companies, four sizes, one question: how do you keep a voice sounding like a person once more people (and now machines) are writing it?

I've spent my career learning what happens to a brand's voice at every single stage of growth, from a completely blank page to systems that touch millions of customers a day.

At POPSUGAR, I founded and grew the commerce content org through six straight years of record revenue, which meant learning, fast, how to keep a voice consistent across a growing team instead of just my own head.

At Birdies, I stepped in after the brand was already established and gave its copy voice a full makeover, then built the guidelines from scratch, grounded in the founder's own instinct for what the brand should sound like.

At Yahoo, I set the editorial standards: the unglamorous part, writing the rules down so a voice can survive without you in the room.

At Walmart, I led copy on campaigns for an audience of millions and helped shape how AI touches creative work at enterprise scale. That's where the question stopped being theoretical.

POPSUGAR
Built the commerce content org
Birdies
Voice makeover + guidelines
Yahoo
Editorial standards
Walmart
Campaign copy + AI
why this exists

Your voice got you your first customers. It's also the first thing to go once you stop writing every word yourself. My job isn't to hand you a generic brand voice. It's to protect the one that was already working, and build a system so it survives you handing off the pen. And half the time now, the pen is ChatGPT, so part of the system is a context file built from your own voice, not a generic prompt everyone else is using too.

a few honest things

For the curious.

The professional stuff is above. This is everything else.

the newest thing
Mom, to a daughter who is, factually, my personal doll.
also true
Wife to a finance bro with a heart of gold. Based in Silicon Valley.
currently obsessed with
Taking bets on when Rihanna's album finally drops. Just finished all 5 seasons of Hacks in 2 weeks.
off the clock
Wandering Anthropologie, scrolling TikTok, or singing very tone-deaf made-up songs to my daughter.
brand voices I study
Reformation, Recess, Tushy, Tower 28, Oatly, Never Fully Dressed, Snackish.

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