Latest / The Missing Manual Show

How to Bake Your Voice into AI (Part 2 of 3)
In Part 2 of our Agentic AI series, we get tactical. Julia and JCK discuss the Brand Voice Artifact—a project designed to ensure AI never misses your tone, style, or specific "guardrails" again.
We explore how Julia used her book, transcripts, and frameworks to create a custom "Gem" in Gemini that acts as her professional voice clone, and how JCK uses "Usage Guardrails" to push back on the AI when it gets too generic.
What you’ll learn today:
How to collect 'The Dots' (transcripts, writing samples) for your AI.
Creating a Brand Artifact vs. a simple prompt.
The 'Nuance' check: Getting AI to…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.