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How to Customize Your Brand Voice on Reviews with AI

By
Stephanie Zhang
Stephanie Zhang
Posted
August 7, 2026
Keep every review reply on brand. Pick an AI voice, set phrases to use or avoid, and stay consistent as review volume grows.

Why Your Brand Voice Matters

Your brand’s voice is an essential part of how customers perceive your business. Whether you want to sound friendly, professional, or quirky, maintaining a consistent tone in review responses reinforces your brand identity. But manually ensuring every reply aligns with your brand’s style takes effort and time.

The Manual Approach: Challenging and Inconsistent

One way businesses try to maintain a brand voice is by writing out custom templates or manually adjusting each response to fit their style. This involves:

  • Manually editing AI-generated replies to ensure tone consistency.
  • Creating and distributing brand voice guidelines for customer support teams.
  • Training employees to use specific language and avoid certain phrases.

This method may work on a small scale, but as reviews grow in volume, maintaining consistency becomes difficult. Employees might interpret brand voices differently, leading to mixed messaging.

The Problem with Other AI Tools

Some reputation management platforms offer AI-generated responses, but they often:

  • Lack customization options for tone and personality.
  • Produce robotic, generic replies that don’t reflect your brand.
  • Offer limited control over words and phrases used in responses.

A Smarter Solution: Inform AI’s Brand Voice Customization

Inform AI makes it easy to ensure your review responses always match your brand personality. Unlike other tools, Inform AI gives you full control over your voice, tone, and phrasing—ensuring automated responses feel authentic and aligned with your brand identity.

The OpenAI ChatGPT logo, representing general-purpose AI writing tools

How to Set Up Your Brand Voice in Inform AI

1. Get Started with Inform AI

If you’re new to Inform AI, first sign up and connect your business:

  • Visit informreviews.net and log in with your Google account.
  • Navigate to Org Settings > Integrations and select the stores you want to automate replies for.
  • Additionally, if you like, enable Weekly AI Auto-Reply to allow automated AI-generated responses.
The Inform logo with the tagline Review Automation

2. Customize Your Brand Voice

To configure your brand voice, go to Org Settings in the left navigation menu. The first tab contains all your brand voice settings, including options for tone and specific phrases to use or avoid.

Choosing a Voice Style

Inform AI offers five distinct voice settings to match your brand:

  • Friendly (default) – Warm, welcoming, and conversational.
  • Quirky – Playful, fun, and full of personality.
  • Humorous – Lighthearted, witty, and engaging.
  • Formal – Professional and polished.
  • Optimistic – Uplifting and encouraging.

Each option includes a short sample response so you can preview the tone before selecting. Choose the style that best aligns with your brand image.

Inform AI Voice settings with five tone options: Friendly, Quirky, Humorous, Formal and Optimistic

Specifying Phrases to Avoid

Want to ensure certain words or topics never appear in your responses? Inform AI lets you specify phrases to avoid. Simply:

  • Enter words, phrases, or characters you don’t want in responses.
  • Press Enter to add them to your blocklist.
  • Inform AI will intelligently omit these terms and related concepts. For example, if you input “money”, it will also avoid using words like “cash”, “budget”, or similar terms.

Specifying Phrases to Use

Need to reinforce key messages or brand values? You can specify phrases you want Inform AI to include in every response:

  • Enter words, short phrases, or topics you want the AI to emphasize.
  • Press Enter to add them to your list.
  • Inform AI will naturally incorporate these phrases and related concepts into replies. For instance, if you input “thank you”, the AI will always express gratitude with variations like “thanks so much!” or “we appreciate your feedback!”
Inform AI Phrases settings, with separate fields for phrases to use and phrases to avoid

Frequently Asked Questions

How many AI voices does Inform offer?

Five presets — Friendly, Quirky, Humourous, Formal and Optimistic — plus a Custom option where you describe your own voice in your own words.

What is the difference between a preset and a custom voice?

A preset is a general tone. A custom voice is a description you write yourself, so you can mandate a sign-off, ban specific words, set a length, or hold a very particular register that no preset covers.

Can I use different voices for different locations?

Voice is configured per organisation, so all locations share it. If you need genuinely different tones per brand, separate organisations are the way to do it today.

Do the phrases to use and avoid work alongside the voice?

Yes. They are applied on top of whichever voice you pick, so your blocklist keeps working no matter how the voice is configured.

Why Choose Inform AI?

  • ✅ Completely Free for All – No expensive subscription fees like BirdEye. Additional add-on subscriptions available only if/when needed.
  • ✅ Authentic, Personalized Replies – AI understands customer sentiment and context.
  • ✅ Time-Saving Automation – AI-generated responses in seconds.
  • ✅ Brand Voice Customization – Keep responses consistent and on-brand.
  • ✅ Scalable Solution – Manage multiple locations effortlessly.

Take full control of your brand’s voice today with Inform AI at informreviews.net! 🚀

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