Elevate what matters
Axios HQ is AI-powered software that helps organizations manage their essential communications. Plan, write, and send more effective updates proven to boost trust, transparency, and alignment.

Workplace communication has gotten noisy
Your employees, clients, and stakeholders are being bombarded with more vital details and distracting noise than ever, and it’s getting tough to keep them informed, focused and aligned. The organizations that succeed all prioritize what we call Essential Communications Management.
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Leaders trust Axios HQ to break through
Hundreds of organizations use our software, templates, and AI-powered writing advice to manage their essential communications in four steps:
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Plan: Identify what your employees and stakeholders need.
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Compose: Distill updates to their core — but stay smart and specific.
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Align: Create a source of truth so teams have what they need to act.
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Measure: Comms are a critical initiative. Track, analyze, optimize.
AI rooted in research
and built on brain science
Axios HQ teaches you a communication style called Smart Brevity®. Refined in the Axios newsroom, we took the lessons — and data — of our best writers, and built an AI-powered tool that makes your essential updates more engaging.
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Smart tools for smarter communications
Axios HQ gives you all the tools you need to craft and manage essential communications that boost transparency, trust, and alignment.

AI-powered writing help
Generative AI is your assistant. HQ makes it your communication superpower. Our features help you brainstorm topics, generate original images, translate text to different languages, search what you've shared with your audience before, and a lot more.
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Smart Brevity guidance
Our proven editing guidance can reformat your text to boost scannability, rephrase your sentences to make them clearer, remove filler words to enhance impact, and more. It's like an on-call editor, ready to do the work with you.
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Best practice templates
See what Walmart, JPMorgan Chase, and other best-in-class leaders send their readers. HQ’s community library is full of real communications from teams big and small. Get inspired.
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Collaborative editing
Communication is a team sport. Add your colleagues, assign areas of your HQ updates, collaborate in real-time. You can even set deadlines and add instructions — all directly in HQ. One system to streamline it all.
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Sync your HR directory. Set up a custom domain. Enable SSO logins. HQ helps you to keep your audience safe and your sends reliable so the right people get the updates they need, every time.
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Powerful analytics
HQ helps you meet your readers where they are — and keep an eye on how they engage. Open rates, click rates, write-in feedback, poll results, and more keep a pulse on readers. Benchmarks show how you compare to organizations like yours.
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AI-powered writing help
Generative AI is your assistant. HQ makes it your communication superpower. Our features help you brainstorm topics, generate original images, translate text to different languages, search what you've shared with your audience before, and a lot more.
Explore the feature
Smart Brevity guidance
Our proven editing guidance can reformat your text to boost scannability, rephrase your sentences to make them clearer, remove filler words to enhance impact, and more. It's like an on-call editor, ready to do the work with you.
Explore the feature
Best practice templates
See what Walmart, JPMorgan Chase, and other best-in-class leaders send their readers. HQ’s community library is full of real communications from teams big and small. Get inspired.
Explore the feature
Collaborative editing
Communication is a team sport. Add your colleagues, assign areas of your HQ updates, collaborate in real-time. You can even set deadlines and add instructions — all directly in HQ. One system to streamline it all.
Explore the featureIntegrations
Sync your HR directory. Set up a custom domain. Enable SSO logins. HQ helps you to keep your audience safe and your sends reliable so the right people get the updates they need, every time.
Explore the feature
Powerful analytics
HQ helps you meet your readers where they are — and keep an eye on how they engage. Open rates, click rates, write-in feedback, poll results, and more keep a pulse on readers. Benchmarks show how you compare to organizations like yours.
Explore the featureSolutions for teams, org-wide
For anyone who has something essential to share, HQ can help you plan, write, and send it to the readers who need it most. And it helps leaders at every level learn to be clearer, more effective communicators.

How Delta keeps its in-flight staff informed
The airline sends its flight attendants a weekly Axios HQ update — a 2.5 minute read.
Read their case study