Most People Use AI to Create Content—Smart Creators Use It to Build a Brand

These 5 use cases show how AI becomes your strategist, designer, and editor.

I've accidentally built a personal brand by sharing my AI experiments publicly here on my newsletter.

Every framework I develop, every tool I test, every insight I share creates a distinct voice in the AI space. But this happened organically over months—what if you could be more intentional about it?

That's exactly what today's guest,

James Presbitero

has figured out. While I focus on building AI workflows, James has cracked the code on using AI to build a compelling personal brand.

Here's why this matters: In a world where everyone has access to the same AI tools, your differentiation isn't technical—it's personal. The people who stand out aren't just good at prompting; they have a clear, consistent voice that cuts through the noise.

If you want to learn more how to build your personal brand in the age of AI, check out James's newsletter below and get access to the Active Prompt Vault wih 25+ more advanced prompts for writing, content marketing, and personal branding.

Take it away, James.

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Hello, it's me James!

What separates a scattered content creator from a compelling thought leader is simple: clarity, consistency, and resonance.

And those qualities come from branding.

But branding itself is the bottleneck for most aspiring thought leaders.

You know you need a brand, but you don’t know where to start

You know a brand is more than just a logo. It’s how people perceive you, your values, and the impact you want to make.

But when you try to actually build that brand? You're immediately met with a maze:

• What should my positioning be?

• How do I design something recognizable?

• What’s my voice? How do I make it unique?

The default answers are often unsatisfying:

• Pay someone to do it for you. However, hiring a designer or copywriter is expensive, and it often requires extensive back-and-forth to get it right. Even then, it’s a hit or miss.

• Hire a brand strategist. A great option, but rarely affordable for early-stage creators.

• Learn everything yourself. Very possible, but highly time and effort-consuming. With the many other hats you wear as a business owner and creator, this can lead to burnout, procrastination, or paralysis by over-research.

When you're juggling your work, your mission, and your creative output, the branding work always seems to get pushed aside.

But without a brand, you're just another voice online.

• Without clear positioning, people forget you.

• Without visual cohesion, people scroll past you.

• Without a defined voice, people don't trust you.

And when that happens, your mission loses the reach it deserves.

The solution: Use AI as your strategist, designer, and editor

You don't need to outsource everything—or do it all yourself.

You just need to delegate strategically to AI.

Most people use AI to generate generic content. Smart creators use it to define, elevate, and amplify their brand.

Here are five use cases that show how.

1. Clarify your brand positioning with AI

Before anyone believes in your message, you need to be clear on what that message is.

Use GPT to walk you through a series of reflection prompts:

• What do I stand for?

• Who do I serve?

• What’s the core transformation I want to create?

The right prompt turns GPT into a strategic partner that mirrors back your ideas, pokes holes in weak spots, and helps you refine your positioning.

Done right, you'll come away with a short, powerful summary of your brand's essence.

Here's the best prompt you can use for that:

The prompt itself is too long to add here. Get the full 400-word master prompt at the Active Prompt Vault for free, when you subscribe to Write10x.

2. Establish your Unpromptable Voice with a hyper-personalized GPT

The biggest threat to AI-generated content is sameness.

Your protection is you. Your inherent humanity—your thoughts, experiences, opinions, mission, vision. It's the things that AI can’t copy, and the way they bleed into your words.

I call it your "Unpromptable Voice."

You can build this by training your own personalized GPT model given all the possible information about you, your brand, and your processes. For me, I lay this out in four foundational "modules":

• Your personal profile. This feeds the AI your human stuff: your backstory, values, voice, quirks, motivations, and worldview.

• Your writing profile. Where you define your writing preferences—things like sentence structure, typical openings, how you transition, how you conclude.

• Your business case. The concept behind your business. This answers: Who is your target audience? What problems are you solving?

• Your content system. Here, you define how you ideate, write, format posts, repurpose content, and publish, among other things.

Each document should contain as much detail as possible, organized so your AI can easily retrieve it when needed. It's a long process, but with a GPT trained on your identity, values, and writing style, you'll never have to fight the blank page again.

3. Communicate your mission with an optimized headline and bio

Bios are deceptively hard to write. Headlines, too.

You want to sound confident, not self-centered. Professional, but human. Strategic, but approachable. And most of all—authentic.

The challenge is that it's hard to write objectively about yourself. That's where GPT comes in. Not to replace your voice, but to reflect it back to you more clearly.

Use GPT to generate a series of bios—from formal to casual—and workshop them until one feels like a mirror. Let it give you 3–5 options and then tweak from there. You might be surprised at how close one version gets to the truth you’ve been trying to articulate for years.

Then, take the one that feels most aligned and adapt it. Ask GPT to reshape it into formats for your:

• Email signature

• LinkedIn headline and about section

• Twitter or Threads bio

• Podcast or webinar intros

Here’s a simple prompt to get started:

The prompt itself is too long to add here. Get the full prompt and 25+ others at the Active Prompt Vault for free, when you subscribe to Write10x.

4. Create your signature look with a prompt template + image AI

Visual consistency builds recognition faster than anything else.

If you want people to remember your work, you need a consistent aesthetic that complements your voice. Your visual language should signal who you are and what you're about—without needing an explanation.

With AI tools like Midjourney or even ChatGPT 4o with image generation integration, you can create stunning, on-brand visuals without hiring a designer. These tools respond to detailed creative direction, so the more you describe the mood, tone, and style of your brand, the more accurate the output.

Use this visual prompt template to get highly personalized results:

The prompt itself is too long to add here. Get the full prompt and 25+ others at the Active Prompt Vault for free, when you subscribe to Write10x.

Here's how it should look like:

Want something bolder? Switch up the prompt to match your vibe. Once you dial it in:

• Save your favorite images to a swipe file.

• Identify recurring visual patterns and themes.

• Build a simple visual style guide for yourself.

You don't need to become a designer—you just need enough structure to make your brand visually consistent and instantly recognizable.

Then, reuse those visuals across platforms: banners, headers, thumbnails, carousels. When your content looks like you, people remember it longer—and trust it faster.

5. Develop a highly personalized engagement & connection strategy

AI isn't just for writing—it can help you build a responsive, thoughtful engagement system that nurtures your community.

Instead of posting and waiting for reactions, you can use AI to proactively design how you show up in conversations that matter.

Here's how to get started:

The prompt itself is too long to add here. Get the full prompt and 25+ others at the Active Prompt Vault for free, when you subscribe to Write10x.

Connection isn't just about volume—it's about showing up on purpose. When done well, this kind of personalized engagement builds loyalty, deepens trust, and grows your influence over time.

AI helps you scale intention—not just activity.

Smart creators use AI to magnify their brand

What you get isn't just content automation—it's brand amplification.

You develop the foundation of a standout brand without paying thousands of dollars to freelancers, agencies, or consultants.

That means you can:

• Grow your network with consistent and strategic messaging

• Earn trust with cohesive, mission-aligned content

• Show up online as a fully formed thought leader

• Create faster without sacrificing authenticity

• Make a tangible contribution to your mission and community

Because at the end of the day, branding isn't about performance—it's about clarity.

And when you use AI to support that clarity, you give your voice the structure it needs to actually reach people.

Let AI handle the logistics.

You bring the vision.

That's how smart creators build unforgettable brands.