--- title: "You Ask, I Answer: How to Create Slogans with AI?" author: "" date: 2026-03-10 url: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2026/03/you-ask-i-answer-how-to-create-slogans-with-ai/ categories: - "Brand" - "Creative" - "Generative AI" - "Marketing" - "Messaging" - "Videos" tags: - "youtube" --- # You Ask, I Answer: How to Create Slogans with AI? ## Summary In today's episode, I explain why AI often produces generic slogans and how you can prompt it to create distinctive brand identities. Here's what this means for you. You will learn how to bypass boring, high-probability language to capture your audience's attention. You'll also learn these concepts: how probability engines limit creativity, how psychographic data shapes effective messaging, and how linguistic patterns guide AI generation. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvSsjEGSJdw[/embed] ## Key Takeaways - You'll discover why AI defaults to high-probability language that lacks brand distinction - You'll learn how the OCEAN personality model helps you align slogans with customer psychographics - You'll see how analyzing linguistic patterns in successful industry examples improves AI outputs ## Full Transcript In today's episode, AC asks, can AI help with creating slogans? That's an interesting question. Um yes, with an asterisk. And the asterisk is that anytime you're doing stuff around brand identity, slogans, catchphrases, campaign names, logos, etc. What is your primary objective? You're trying to create something that is memorable and distinctive, right? AI, all forms of AI are probability tools. They have probability engines. Their goal is to return the highest probability answer to a question. By definition, if something is unique, and eye catching, there's an earworm or what have you, it is unique. It is low probability. The example I often give in my talks is uh it's it's high probability to describe that a patient had gastric distress. It is low probability to say, hey, it looks like they power washed their bathroom with Nutella. Right? No, nobody says that it's a very low probability expression. Well, it's higher probability now that I've said it in a few videos, but essentially, it's very low probability. A good logo is low probability. If you if you see a logo that is memorable, by definition, it is that that brand has spent probably exorbitant feat amounts of money with a designer to come up with something that cannot be mistaken for anything else. Think about the big logos that you know the Apple logo, right? The Nike logo, the Target logo. You don't have to think very hard to picture those things in your mind if you if you have the ability to do that. Um you know what those logos look like, you recognize them on site, and anyone who made something that looked kind of like that is a derivative. So a slogan is the same thing, right? Yeah, you have expressions like think different, just do it, um, fly the friendly skies. Uh once you, you know, uh once you stop, once you pop, you can't stop. Those are all things that linguistically are distinct, right? They have been reserved by their the brands that they are associated with, and you think of those in terms of those brands. If you think of like terrible slogans, terrible expressions in in the corporate world, what do they all have in common? They they are high probability things that say nothing. Look at most companies' vision and mission statements like we strive to uh to improve shareholder value, right? Um that's not low probability, that's extremely high probability because everybody wants to increase shareholder value. Uh so your ability to turn that into a slogan, God help you if that's your slogan. Um think about how many companies have, you know, traffic or service, whatever, that you can trust, right? Super high probability, and as a result, not distinctive, not interesting, not unique, and very if AI generates you something, it's gonna fit in that formula because that's what is out there, and there's so many companies. Go to any company's about page, look at their slogan slogan, and say, is that really actually unique? When Katie and I founded Trust Insights, we actually started with a kind of a weird little saying that has stuck around because it's low probability. We light up dark data. That's where you look at something like a McKinsey or an IBM IX or whatever, and you get the usual management consulting uh waffle of you know, maximize your returns and and develop this and uh all high probability language that sounds good, keeps everyone's asses covered who bought your product service, but says nothing. So, how do you create a slogan that is unique and low probability and still catchy? Well, for one thing, you can't say make a catchy slogan. That's not gonna work, right? Because again, all high probability things. You have to, at the very minimum, you should have an about your company written down somewhere. You should have a um, you should have an ideal customer profile or a buyer persona clearly written down, with in particular psychographics. The magic term you're looking here for is psychographics. You want something that can document their needs, their pain points, their goals and their motivations, and ideally their personality analysis. Prompt your favorite AI to say, based on you know, this customer or this background or whatever, help me devise what's called an ocean profile. Ocean profile, uh, which is also known as the big five personality test, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. You want to define that ocean profile for your customer because that's going to impact the slogan. A slogan, I'll give you a real simple example, but of those characteristics, openness and conscientiousness and neuroticism are uh ways people view the world. Uh, someone who is highly open, open to new ideas, adventurous, right? Someone who is has a low openness score, they are conservative, they uh they they don't want to take risks in the world, they want things to be just the way they are and and not change. Nothing wrong with that. That's a personality choice, right? Uh, that's just who people are, but that is a key tenet of good personality analysis, which is what you need for a slogan, because your slogan should emotionally appeal to the person that you're trying to appeal to, right? So if I have a slogan that talks about how awesome and exciting and new and fresh my company is and my audience, my my ideal customer has a low openness score, my slogan is gonna fall flat. Because they're they're gonna be mentally and emotional, like, I don't want that. I don't want new things, I don't want crazy adventures and high risk. I want sure bets. I want uh to feel safe and secure. I want to feel emotional safe, I want to feel psychological safety. And if your slogan fails to communicate that, or worse communicates the inverse, you're screwed. Um, it's it's gonna be a turnoff. Second thing you should do after you've got your ideal customer profile and your about us and all those basic knowledge blocks is start looking around at the slogans that resonate most in your industry and ask the AI tool of your choice to help you analyze them linguistically. What are the patterns in the language that fit best? For example, and and this is something I learned from song analysis from lyric analysis when I was learning how to do uh AI song composition. If you have no point of reference, then AI is going to generate super high probability stuff. If you have a very clear point of reference, um, then AI can detect the patterns and help you replicate those patterns because we're our pattern matching here. So uh as an example, I was looking at Eric Clapton's Wonderful Tonight, and I was looking at Ed Sheeran's perfect, right? Two songs thematically very, very similar. Uh, and in use cases, they are used very, very similarly. And I asked the AI of my choice, what is common about the lyrical structure? And one of the things it says is uh well, there are two things that both songs have very strongly in common. The first is a hyper-specific folk uh frozen in time point of view, like it's about a single moment in time and hyper-specific detail about one attribute of the subject of the song. That is super healthcare, right? That tells you how the pattern of language in that song. So if you wanted to make a similar style song, you could because you now know what the pattern is. You don't have to guess. As opposed to just saying, you know, make a catchy song. That's gonna go nowhere. That's you're you're not gonna get any good results out of that. So, in the same way, you want to look at slogans and you want to say what do these slogans have in common? What is the language pattern that resonates both in your industry? In your industry, not you know, Nikes just do it or apples think different, because that's different. That's a that's a different industry, unless you are in you know consumer goods or consumer electronics, in which case go for it. But ask the AI of your choice for those things, and then have it look at the consideration of okay. Here's what's in our industry. Here is what our ideal customer profile is. Here is all the things that we need to take into account. Here's the psychological needs of our ideal customer profile. Now, give me 15 to 20 slogan ideas with an explanation of why the idea fits the ideal customer profile, the language patterns, the psychological safety profile, etc. etc. In descending order by goodness of fit. That is the prompt. Put that in, or literally just put an entire episode in, as uh again, put the transcript of this episode into your favorite AI tool, and then you can start looking at the slogans it generates and giving it guidance to say, yeah, this is thematically good, but it's still a little weird, or that doesn't make any sense, etc. etc. Um, you'll have the opportunity to make those corrections, but that's how I would do it. I wouldn't just go in and say, you know, do this thing, you have to you have to sit and think and plan ahead and have all those materials on hand if you want to defeat the high probability in nature AI and you and come up with things that are very low probability. The more relevant specific data you give, the lower the probability of the results, and the more likely it will be something unique that you actually want. That's gonna do it for this episode. Thanks for tuning in. Talk to you on the next one. If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button. 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