Axios HQ launches first-of-its-kind internal communication assistant and hires its first CPO

Axios HQ the team that “makes internal comms work” with software, training, and strategic consulting has developed a groundbreaking AI-powered assistant to enhance its software. It is built for communicators by communicators.

“HQ’s assistant nails the first step — elevating the quality and clarity of communication. The next phase will be to bake in our proprietary guidance on communication strategy, planning, and measurement, to support communicators at every step.”

• The assistant merges a decade of Axios and Axios HQ’s human expertise with cutting-edge AI, proprietary data, and modern communication best practices.
• It launched less than eight months after HQ hired its first Head of Machine Learning to define the next phase of its generative AI strategy.

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What makes HQ’s assistant unique: Most AI is a taxonomy of internet data. HQ’s assistant is a taxonomy of the human mind — categorizing the insights that its journalists, strategists, and comms consultants have tested for years and proven can help any organization strengthen its internal comms strategy, better achieve its business goals, and amplify its workforce connection.

What it can do:

• Offer strategic advice. It can analyze your ongoing communications and remind you about topics you haven’t touched in a while or a project it’s time to share updates on.
• Analyze lengthy content. It can turn any text — like a report or meeting transcript — into an outline for an upcoming communication.
• Coach key collaborators. Whether they start with a draft or just an idea, it can help them write a quality update on any topic that’s important to the organization.
• Refine updates for your audience. It can work with you to flesh out your updates, adding details that matter to your readers and removing the others that don’t.

Axios HQ CEO Roy Schwartz: “We’ve created a tool that businesses didn’t know they needed, and now organizations are telling us they can’t live without. That comes down to quality. A large, growing dataset of best-in-class communications underpins our assistant’s advice — which can only improve over time. Better yet, each customer has their own version of our assistant, so the more they use it, the more tailored its advice will be to their goals and their audience.”

HQ’s first Chief Product Officer is ready to drive the next phase of growth, too. Paul Pedrazzi joined the company this month, bringing more than 20 years of product innovation and leadership experience from orgs like Salesforce, CA Technologies, Achievers, Taleo, and more.

• “This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Every industry is figuring out the role AI should play in its businesses. AI is proving to be incredibly powerful, but communication is still most effective with a human touch. So the challenge is: How do we combine both — IQ and EQ — in an elegant way that elevates professional communicators?”
• “HQ’s assistant nails the first step — elevating the quality and clarity of communication. The next phase will be to bake in our proprietary guidance on communication strategy, planning, and measurement, to support communicators at every step.”

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The bottom line: Axios HQ, the Smart Brevity guidance inside it, and the assistant joining its feature set have the power to amplify any professional communicator’s experience. It is the go-to solution for more than 700 organizations that trust it to improve the quality of their internal comms, enhance reader engagement, drive productivity, and build better business outcomes.