Your solution for internal comms

Axios HQ gives you the tools you need to elevate what matters most, keep your stakeholders aligned, and keep your organization moving forward.

AI-powered communication

Axios HQ updates are 40% shorter, on average, than typical workplace communications — with all the critical detail and sophisticated nuance your audience needs. Hundreds of leaders use it to plan, compose, and measure their essential communications.

PLAN Best-practice templates

See what Walmart, JPMorgan Chase, and other leaders send their readers. HQ’s community library is full of real communications to help you get started.

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PLAN Design customization and branding

Pull in the logos, colors and email-safe fonts that make your communication look and feel like… you!... without losing the format that keeps readers engaged.

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PLAN AI-powered brainstorming and outlines

Brainstorm the topics you know your audience needs. Then let HQ propose an outline for what your entire update could cover so you can start writing faster.

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COMPOSE Collaborative editing and assignments

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.

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COMPOSE Smart Brevity® Guidance

Our real-time editing guidance can reformat your text to be more scannable, rephrase sentences to be clearer, remove filler words to enhance impact.

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COMPOSE AI-assisted writing and translating

Whether you're revising updates from different departments or writing your own, HQ streamlines the length, style, tone, and language you want it to be.

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ALIGN Searchable system of record

Search anything you've sent. Whether you need to remember when you rolled out a benefit or what your sales numbers were last quarter, it's all in one place and easy to resurface.

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ALIGN Integrations and security

Sync your HR directory. Set up a custom domain. Enable SSO. HQ makes sure the right people get the updates they need, every time.

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MEASURE Analytics and competitive benchmarks

Open rates, clicks, poll results, and more keep a pulse on reader engagement. Benchmarks show how you compare to other organizations like yours.

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Internal comms FAQs

Why are internal newsletters important?

It has never been harder — or more important — to keep employees and stakeholders on the same page. Studies have shown email is still the dominant communication channel for organizations, and email-based newsletters are the only channel employees say they wish their leaders would use more often. They elevate what's essential, synthesize critical details, offer clarity and context about goals and operations, and create a single source of truth that's easy to resurface.

What kind of software can improve internal communication?

Internal communications are increasingly complex. Effective software goes beyond helping you send a message. It helps you plan, compose, deliver, track, and optimize the messages you're sharing to internal audiences. Axios HQ is rooted in years of science, study, and practical application proven to help organizations make their internal communications, clearer, more engaging, and more likely to be read and remembered.

How do you manage an internal newsletter?

Internal communications are a team sport. A cross-functional strategy called "Up, down, and around" can help organizations of any size produce and preserve the authority, brevity, and clarity that any critical communication needs to succeed.

Elevate what matters

See how Axios HQ can help you streamline your essential communications.

Our features will power your flywheel...

Axios HQ powers the four pillars of your Essential Communications Management strategy — helping you drive even greater stakeholder alignment and business results.

Plan: Identify what your employees and stakeholders need.
Compose: Distill updates to their core — but stay smart and specific.
Align: Create a source of truth so teams have what they need to act.
Measure: Comms are a critical initiative. Track, analyze, optimize.

...And our team will power your success

For your first 90 days, our onboarding specialist will help dig into your unique goals — then map how HQ can help you achieve them, including:

Content calendar and planning templates.
Best practices for effective HQ updates.
Proven tactics to boost reader engagement.
Performance benchmarks for teams like yours.
Help reviewing your first HQ update, pre- and post-send.

What our customers are saying

Leaders and communicators love HQ. But don't take our word for it — hear theirs.

"Our engagement went up 40%!"

“Axios HQ does so much of the work for you. I can just copy paste a paragraph someone sent me and the AI does the heavy lifting.”

Executive Director | Small

"An absolute must for companies"

“HQ transforms external and internal comms. The platform is easy to use, and you'll see positive changes right away.”

Operations Manager | Mid-market

"Best platform for department updates"

“HQ helped our team think differently. We've halved the length of our updates and seen double the impact. ”

Senior Associate | Enterprise

Over 400 organizations use Smart Brevity to plan, compose, and send essential workplace communications.

Walmart's 2022 ESG report

This 1.5-minute read for stakeholders focused on Opportunity, Community, Sustainability, and Ethics.

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bp's daily all-staff update This 6-minute read keeps thousands of employees informed, aligned, and engaged. Read it

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See how our AI-powered platform can help your organization plan, compose, align, and measure your essential communications.

Your solution for internal comms

AI-powered communication

Axios HQ updates are 40% shorter, on average, than typical workplace communications — with all the critical detail and sophisticated nuance your audience needs. Hundreds of leaders use it to plan, compose, and measure their essential communications.

Internal comms FAQs

Elevate what matters

Our features will power your flywheel...

...And our team will power your success

What our customers are saying

Read real Smart Brevity updates

Over 400 organizations use Smart Brevity to plan, compose, and send essential workplace communications.

Get started with Axios HQ