By Tessa Carranza-Hawthorn

ARE YOU

You want to start a creative freelance business
Your business needs copywriting, content or brand strategy
Let us help you work it out

Word.Haus is a creative space offering brand strategy to businesses & education to emerging freelancers.

It’s a place where foundations are laid and ideas are built, brick by brick.

EDUCATION

Learn how to build a sustainable creative freelance career

Explore our self-paced courses and templates that actually teach you how to craft a profitable freelance career on your own terms.

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Download our free freelancing rates and pricing guide

Pricing Guide available in AUD

Our rates guide provides you with current market rates for creative freelancing in Australia. Crucially, Tessa also shares her philosophies on pricing your value and how to move away from pricing your time. And it’s all free free free.

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FOR STARTUPS & SERVICE-BASED BUSINESSES

The Brand-Trained Brain

Custom Built Copywriting & Content GPT

Welcome to the future of content creation.

The Brand-Trained Brain™ is a bespoke GPT trained on the very heart of your brand. It does not draw from generic material on the internet to write for your business. Rather, Word.Haus creates the creative foundations of your brand which are then used to train a GPT with your voice.

MEET WORD.HAUS FOUNDER

Tessa Carranza-Hawthorn

Learn directly from Word.Haus Founder, Tessa Carranza-Hawthorn and the experts that support her work.

Tessa is a Lawyer, Podcaster and Brand Strategist who doesn’t believe in square pegs or round holes. Her guiding philosophy is that with a pinch of creativity, everything is available to us. We just need to seek, source and get moving.

Become a Word Nerd

Word.Haus is more than just a business. We’re a place where words, in all their forms, find a home. 

Word Nerds can expect to receive curated samples of great poetry, quotes and suggested reads – whether it’s a novel, long-read journalism or an interesting Substack article. 

These emails are thoughtfully curated and not focussed on sales. They’re a monthly gift from us to you.

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COPYWRITING

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Testimonials

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— Client Name

"All aspects of working with Word.Haus are great, particularly how efficient they are and the streamlined comms."

— Amanda Youngs, Director, MiLife

"Tessa was great to work with, easygoing, responsive, and took feedback on board really well. We were really happy with the final outcome of both our tone of voice and brand personality documents. She captured the essence of our brand perfectly and made the whole process feel smooth and collaborative."

— Kurt Dudley, Co-Founder, Be A Little

"Tessa has been exceptional at articulating my brand to the consumer, especially as we were re-educating our audience as part of an industry shake up. Tessa was able to use language that clearly allowed the consumer to understand who we were and everything we stood. She has been great to work with over two brands and I've appreciated all her support and finesse."

— Corbin Barry, Founder, The Sage Space

"Working with Tessa was a seamless and fulfilling experience. She brings a rare blend of business acumen and creative excellence. Her process was clear and efficient from start to finish—exceptional communication, thoughtful expectation-setting, and a well-structured workflow. On the creative side, her ideation, strategic insights, and word-smithing were top-notch. And beyond her talent, she’s an absolute joy to work with! I’d recommend her to any entrepreneur looking for support across brand strategy and content creation."

— Amelia Kruse, Founder, Sageform

“Tessa’s creative brain adds so much fuel to The Peers Project fire! She’s extremely efficient, has a wealth of experience and brings a true creative flare to her work. It’s been an absolute delight to have her lead the creative strategy of our podcasts and we love making podcast magic with her.”

— Michelle Akhidnor, CEO & Founder, The Peers Project

Tessa has plugged in seamlessly with Cake’s team to provide ongoing content creation. She combines her technical legal knowledge with an intuitive ability to write fun, cake-y, SEO considered copy for our growing global audience.”

— Jase Atkins, CRO and Co-Founder, Cake Equity

“Tessa is a kick ass copywriter. She got me out of a tight spot on a pitch to a major international client. Tessa was able to take the deck, with many contributors and align the copy and messaging while linking it back to the client’s brand statements all on a super tight deadline”

— Edward Woolrych, Executive Producer, Rizer”

“Not only has Tessa edited the hell out of our content and copy to make our brand identity legit, she’s also an absolute legend to work with. I completely rely on her to make sure everything from website copy, socials, EDMs and event descriptions are on point. If you’re not working with her, you’re an idiot”

— Josh Howard, Founder & CEO, Single Use Ain’t Sexy

“Fantastic - turned quality work around really quickly. She really understands hipages’ tone of voice and tailors content to our audience while optimising it for SEO.”

— Samantha Nemeny, Content Marketing Manager, hipages