Adapt your tone for a specific different audience
The same true content needs a different register for a frustrated customer, an executive, and a technical peer — and it's rarely obvious how much to change.
- Use it for
- Anyone rewriting a piece of writing for an audience it wasn't originally written for.
The same underlying message often needs to reach very different audiences — a technical explanation rewritten for a non-technical buyer, a frustrated internal message rewritten for management, a clinical product description rewritten to feel premium — and getting the register right takes more than swapping vocabulary. This prompt adapts tone deliberately: formality, warmth, directness, and assumed background all shift together to match a specific named audience, not just a vague "make it more professional."
When not to use this
If the current tone is already right for the intended audience, this isn't needed — this is for writing that's landing in front of a different audience than it was written for.
Did this work?
The rewritten version reads like it was written for this specific audience from the start, and you can name what specifically changed in register, not just word choice.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.