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Notes on brand, audience and content that works

Practical writing on brand voice, how buying decisions actually get made, and the craft of content that sounds like a person. Drawn from thirty years of client work and from building BraVo.

How BraVo works
How BraVo works

Why layering compounds: how five decisions multiply into content that connects

Most content advice tells you to do one thing better. The gain is not in any single layer, it is in what happens when they stack.

14 August 2026 · 7 min read
How BraVo works
How BraVo works

Your brand needs a Jarvis

The appeal was never that Jarvis did the work. It was that he already knew everything, and still waited to be told.

14 August 2026 · 6 min read
Brand strategy
Brand strategy

The twelve brand archetypes, and how to choose yours

Archetypes are the most useful branding model in common use, and the most commonly misapplied. Here is what each one actually does to your writing.

14 August 2026 · 11 min read
Audience
Audience

Some want the headline, some want the proof: how communication style changes what you write

The same facts, presented four ways, for four people who will each dismiss three of them.

14 August 2026 · 8 min read
Content craft
Content craft

Why AI content sounds generic, and what actually fixes it

Everyone can spot AI writing now. The problem is not the model, it is what the model was given to work with.

13 August 2026 · 7 min read
Audience
Audience

Your audience is not one person: writing for the buying committee

Nobody signs off alone. So why does almost every campaign speak to a single imagined reader?

13 August 2026 · 8 min read
How BraVo works
How BraVo works

Inside the five layers: business, brand, audience, framework, channel

A reference guide to the model BraVo runs on, and what each layer actually changes about the words that come out.

13 August 2026 · 9 min read