Know what to send before you write a word.
A content calendar, best-practice templates and AI-built outlines. The Series Planner holds every update your organization has scheduled, with an owner and a send date on each one.
Explore PlanInternal communications software
One place to plan, write, send and measure every employee update
Axios HQ is the internal comms platform born in the Axios newsroom. It plans, composes, aligns and measures your updates in one workflow, with Smart Brevity® guidance built into every stage.
What internal communications software does
Internal communications software is the system a team uses to reach its own staff. It covers four jobs: deciding what to send, writing it, delivering it to the channels employees already use, and measuring whether anyone read it.
Most organizations do those four jobs in four different tools. The plan lives in a project tracker, the draft in a document, the send in an email client and the results in a separate analytics view. Context is lost at every handoff, and no single view shows whether the message landed.
Axios HQ does all four in one place. Our annual research on where workplace communication breaks down is published in the state of workplace communication report, drawn from 1,200+ U.S. executives and employees.
Plan, write, send and measure in one place
Four stages, one workflow. No tab switching and no starting over.
Write faster and land clearer.
AI drafts the first version from a topic, a set of notes or a long document. Smart Brevity® Guidance scores that draft live and says what to cut. Your team edits, comments and approves in the same editor.
Explore ComposeCreate once, send where it matters.
One send reaches email, Slack, Teams and SharePoint. Timezone sends deliver at the right local hour for every recipient. Everything you have ever sent stays searchable.
Explore AlignProve the work moved something.
Open rates, click rates and poll responses by audience segment, not just org-wide totals. Benchmarks compare you with organizations of your size and industry. Reports export for leadership.
Explore MeasureWhat customers measured after switching
Every figure below comes from that customer's own case study, linked underneath it.
72%
Yahoo: open rate on The Weekly Download
Open rates are strong at 72%. The Weekly Download provides all the context employees need upfront — no clickbait required — thanks to Smart Brevity.
Sarah Smith, VP of Global Internal Communications, Yahoo
Read the Yahoo case study →87%
Cox Communications: of staff say they understand company goals, up from under 70%
We went from less than 70% of our workforce understanding our goals all the way to 87% of them saying they do. A huge jump. And the only thing we did different was use the Smart Brevity principles.
Mallard Holliday, SVP of Corporate Communications, Cox Communications
Read the Cox Communications case study →97%
Nasdaq: open rate on Internal Audit's updates
HQ has revolutionized our employee communications. Smart Brevity transformed our content into digestible, authentic messaging that genuinely resonates with staff.
Will Briganti, Head of Internal Communications, Nasdaq
Read the Nasdaq case study →93%
Order of Magnitude: less production time per newsletter
What would have taken me five hours a year ago in a different format, takes me 20 minutes in HQ.
Cara Natterson, Founder, Order of Magnitude
Read the Order of Magnitude case study →Before you buy
What buyers need to know
It runs alongside your intranet
An intranet is where reference material lives and waits to be looked up. Axios HQ is the update that goes out and gets read. One send reaches email, Slack, Teams and SharePoint, so the update lands in the intranet as well as the inbox. Axios HQ also keeps its own searchable record of every update it has sent.
It is priced by organization, not per seat
Packages are built around your communication goals and sending volume rather than a licence count, so broad team access is never the thing that costs more. Three packages are published: Essentials, Advanced and Premier.
The AI drafts, and Smart Brevity® decides what survives
The AI assistant turns a topic, a Word document or a set of notes into a formatted first draft. Smart Brevity® Guidance then scores it against the standard and tells you which lines to cut. Speed comes from the model. Judgment comes from the method.
Your directory keeps the audience current
Connect the HR or identity system you already run and joiners, movers and leavers are reflected in your audiences without manual list upkeep. Axios HQ supports directory connections across systems including Azure, Active Directory, BambooHR, Breathe HR, CyberArk, Google, HiBob, JumpCloud, Okta, OneLogin, PingFederate, Rippling, SCIM and Workday.
Non-writers use it too
Executives, chiefs of staff and department leads send from Axios HQ, not only the communications team. The templates and the live guidance carry the standard so the writer does not have to.
Go deeper on the category
- The six internal communication tools most organizations run, and what each one is actually for.
- How the workplace communication platform categories differ, and how to pick between them.
- The directory and channel integrations Axios HQ supports today.
- What is in each package, and how packages are sized.
See it on one of your own updates
Thirty minutes. Bring a real update and watch Smart Brevity® Guidance score it live.