Making an AI-Built Site Sound Like You

A site drafted by an AI tends to sound competent and a little anonymous. It writes tidy sentences about quality and care that could belong to anyone. The cure is not to fight the tool but to give it something specific to work with, and then edit with a firm hand. Your voice lives in the details only you know.

Feed it specifics, not adjectives

The most reliable way to get a distinctive draft is to supply distinctive facts. Instead of describing yourself as friendly and professional, say what you actually do on a normal Tuesday. Mention the neighborhood you serve, the three things people ask for most, the thing you refuse to do, and how a typical job begins.

An AI cannot invent those details honestly, so the more of them you provide, the less it has to fill with generic phrasing. Specifics are the difference between a page that sounds like a business and one that sounds like a brochure template.

Edit the headlines first

Headlines carry the voice. Read the draft headlines aloud and replace any that sound like a slogan with a plain sentence you would say to a customer at the counter. “Quality you can trust” says nothing. “Family bakery in Example Town, open Tuesday to Sunday” says everything.

Do the top of each page first. If the first lines sound like you, visitors forgive a few flat sentences further down.

Keep your own phrases

You have words you use every day: what you call your services, how you greet people, the names for your regulars’ favorite orders. Put those in. If you call it a “tune-up” and the draft says “comprehensive maintenance solution”, change it back. Visitors recognize real vocabulary, and it signals that a real person is behind the page.

Cut what you cannot back up

Drafts sometimes include claims you never made: awards, years of experience, promises about results. Delete anything you cannot stand behind. A modest true sentence is worth more than an impressive unverified one, and an unsupported claim on your own site is a risk, not a feature.

Rebuild with what you learned

Treat the first draft as a conversation. Read it, note what sounded wrong, add those corrections and details to your description, and build again. Each pass moves the page closer to how you actually talk. Two or three rounds usually beat one long editing session.

A worked example

This is an invented before and after, shown only as wording. Example Plumbing edits one paragraph.

Before: “We deliver exceptional plumbing solutions with unmatched professionalism.”

After: “We fix leaks, replace water heaters and clear blocked drains in Example Town. Call before nine and we can usually come the same day.”

The second version contains facts only the owner knows, and it sounds like a person.

Reading it as a stranger

Once the page sounds like you, read it as someone who has never met you. Does it say what you do in the first sentence, where you work, and how to reach you? Voice matters, but clarity comes first. A page with a warm tone and no phone number still loses the customer who wanted to call. Check that the personality sits on top of the useful facts, not instead of them.

Common mistakes

• Accepting the first draft unchanged.
• Describing yourself with adjectives instead of facts.
• Leaving in claims you cannot support.
• Replacing your everyday words with formal ones.
• Editing line by line instead of fixing the headlines first.

Try this today

1. Write five facts about your business that a competitor could not copy, and add them to your description.
2. Rewrite the headline of your homepage as a plain sentence you would say aloud.
3. Delete any claim in the draft you could not prove to a skeptical customer.

Field notes

• Specific facts give an AI draft a voice; adjectives do not.
• Headlines carry the tone, so edit them first.
• Keep the words you really use.
• Remove any claim you cannot support.
• Build, read, correct and build again.

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