works withSharon Alle

Language for a platform that lives between social and professional — Grapevine

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Grapevine

Language for a platform that lives between social and professional

"Where LinkedIn ends and real talk begins."

Client

Grapevine

Sector

Social & Career Tech

Discipline

Copywriting

Overview

Grapevine sits in a genuinely tricky space — it wants to be the place where professionals speak honestly, which means the language had to earn trust without losing edge.

What I did

Developed the full verbal identity: positioning language, tone guidelines, onboarding copy, and the in-product voice that would make users feel like they were in a room where they could actually say what they meant. The challenge was threading candid and credible without tipping into either extreme.

The outcome

A platform voice that felt like the smartest person in the room — not the loudest.