THE JOURNAL CONTENT · 19 SEPTEMBER 2026
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Tone of voice is a dataset, not a PDF

Brand books describe a voice. Models need examples of it. How we turn forty pages of guidelines into training data.

Brand guidelines being turned into examples a model can learn from
A brand book tells people what to sound like. A model needs to be shown. PHOTO · U [IN] AI LAB

01 — Why the brand book does not transfer

“Confident but never arrogant” is a useful sentence for a human copywriter and a useless one for a model. It contains no examples, no counter-examples and no boundary — three things a system needs before it can imitate anything.

02 — What we collect instead

Twenty to fifty pieces the company is happy to be judged by, the same number it would never publish, and a short note on what separates them. That contrast teaches far more than the adjectives do.

03 — How it is checked

Every piece of generated content goes back to the person who owns the voice, and their edits become the next round of examples. The brand book still matters — it is the argument for why the examples look the way they do.

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Olga Bialkovich Founder · AI and marketing strategy Olga founded the lead-generation product that now runs as U [in] AI, and she sets the direction of the lab: which parts of marketing are worth automating, and which stay with people. Her working claim is a practical one — a system built around the right profile and the right message takes up to 60% out of the cost of finding customers and partners.
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