Your voice, on your terms
Embers now shows you the voice it writes in, and asks before it changes.
Nick Sims · June 28, 2026
Embers writes every note in your voice. That only works if the voice is actually yours, and if you can see it and fix it when it drifts.
For a while, it drifted quietly. Embers learned from every draft you edited and folded it straight back into your profile. Most of the time that's fine. But learn the wrong thing once and it shows up everywhere, and you'd never know where it came from. We watched a single stray edit turn into a sign-off that landed on every draft. Not good enough.
So we rebuilt it in two parts.
You can see and steer your voice. Open Settings, then Your writing voice. There's the whole thing: how warm or formal you read, your sign-offs, your phrases, the lines Embers leans on. Edit any of it. Add a closing. Ban a phrase. Decide whether your notes end with a soft offer or just a warm goodbye. One rule we hard-wired and won't bend: family and close friends always get the warm, no-ask close. That's not a setting. That's a promise.
It learns by asking, not deciding. Embers still pays attention to how you edit your drafts. That's the best signal there is for how you actually talk. But now it watches for a pattern instead of pouncing on one edit, and when it spots one, it asks. Keep closing the same way and it'll offer to make that your sign-off. Keep cutting a phrase and it'll offer to retire it. One tap yes, one tap no. Your voice doesn't move unless you move it.
The point isn't the settings page. It's the trust. A tool that writes as you should never get to decide who you are. It should ask, and get more you over time, with your hand on the wheel the whole way.