# Voice card

Generic AI sounds like a press release. A **voice card** is a short note about how **you** sound, pasted at the top of a chat so the assistant stops averaging the internet.

Build it once. Reuse it every time.

## Build your card (ten minutes)

From three emails **you actually sent** (not templates), extract:

1. **Tone** — warm, direct, formal, plain, etc.
2. **Length** — short paragraphs? one screen?
3. **Never** — words or habits you hate ("just checking in," exclamation piles, corporate filler)
4. **Always** — how you greet, how you sign, one thing you always do

Write half a page max. First person. Specific beats impressive.

## How to use it

Paste the voice card at the **top** of the chat, then your job:

```
[Voice card]
<paste your card>

[Job]
<what you need today>
```

## The one edit rule

If the output sounds wrong, **fix the voice card first** — not a longer argument in the chat. People rewrite the job line when the real problem is the card.

## Done when

Someone who knows your mail would say: *That sounds like you wrote it.*