we don’t just find your voice. We give it somewhere to go.
■ Everywhere it needs to be said. Every touchpoint. Every channel.
Your voice. Unmistakably yours.
The voice was always there. Underneath the hedging, the softening and the copy trying not to offend anyone.
Tone of voice work finds it. Names it. Makes it impossible to dilute.
■ tone of voice
From usd $5,900
Into the inbox. Under the skin.
The inbox is intimate. The copy usually isn't.
Sequences, campaigns and one-offs. Written for the person reading at 2am when nobody is watching.
■ Email Copywriting
From usd $1,500
Copy that makes the right person feel found.
Not targeted. Not marketed at. found. Like the brand was always theirs.
■ website Copywriting
From usd $3,400
The words inside the product are the product.
Dating app copy has the same problem as most dating app profiles. Full of promise, short on feeling. Bland onboarding. Generic push notifications. Error messages that sound like nobody cared enough to write them properly.
The app that sounds genuinely human gives someone permission to hope. To believe they have a real chance at finding the person they're actually looking for. Not just a match. A connection worth showing up for.
Onboarding. Push notifications. Empty states. Error messages. Every word working toward one feeling.
I could actually find love here.
■ ux copywriting
From usd $3,200
The campaign was almost there. Then the copy arrived.
The creative direction is considered. The photography is extraordinary. And then the headline lands and suddenly the whole thing feels like every other campaign the category has already forgotten.
Tongue writes the line that changes that. The one that makes the visual work harder. The tagline that travels. The copy the competition wishes they'd written first.
■ campaign Copywriting
fees: enquire within
■ product/packaging Copywriting
The product doesn't apologise for what it does. The words shouldn't either.
Someone is holding the lube. The oil. The candle that cost more than they planned to spend and is worth every cent. They want it. They read the words and suddenly feel strange for wanting it.
That's not a small failure. That's the brand losing the customer at the most intimate moment available.
No shame. No sanitising. Every surface a brand voice moment. Every word earning its place.
From usd $1,900
■ Foreplay
One hour. Complete honesty. No runaround.
Bring everything that isn't working. The copy letting the brand down. The voice that feels off. The campaign that almost got there.
Tongue brings the nerve.
Usd $400
■ four counts of desire
guilty.
Every service up there, put to work. Four brands we invented and wrote in full. Read the menu, then read the receipts.
coax
email, product. built for 2am.
a sexual wellness brand for the slow yes.
invented by tongue studio.
tryst
email, ux, website, built for the comeback.
a dating app for being wanted, not swiped.
invented by tongue studio.
loosen
email, website, product. built for the wind-down.
a low-dose thc tonic for loose, not lost.
invented by tongue studio.
linger
email, website. built for being missed.
a fragrance house for what you leave behind.
invented by tongue studio.
FAQ
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Most copywriting studios research the categories they write for. Tongue lives in them. Sexual wellness, queer dating and consumer challenger brands aren't niches to be decoded — they're worlds we inhabit daily. The cultural fluency shows in the first sentence and every one after it. The copy doesn't approximate these worlds. It speaks from inside them.
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Sexual wellness brands. Queer dating apps. Consumer challenger brands. The ones normalising desires, identities and relationships that mainstream marketing has historically ignored or sanitised. The brief that makes most studios uncomfortable is the one Tongue was built for. If the work involves desire, identity or pleasure — and the brand is done apologising for what it is — this is the right studio.
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It starts with a brief. Not the one the client sends — the one Tongue writes after listening properly. Every project begins with a discovery call, a considered brief and a genuine immersion into the brand before a single word of copy is written. Deliverables arrive with a Loom walkthrough. Two revision rounds are included. A 30-day support window follows every project. The work is never phoned in. Neither is the process.
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Starting prices sit under each service. You're quoted in your own currency, USD, AUD, GBP or EUR, at local market rates, and the final number always depends on the brief.
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As far as the brief requires. The Tongue register sits closer to Feeld than Pornhub by default — sophisticated, frank, completely unapologetic. But the dial turns as far as the brand needs it to. A sexual wellness brand that needs explicit product copy gets explicit product copy. Written with the same intelligence, intentionality and cultural fluency that governs everything Tongue produces. The content level changes to serve the brand. The standard never does.