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Axios HQ Overview

What is Axios HQ?

Axios HQ is an internal communications solution built by communicators for communicators. We help organizations in all industries reach their business goals and outcomes by combining software, training, and editorial consulting. Effective communication leads to better team alignment, improved retention and morale, and enhanced productivity. That's why we built a solution to help your organization develop and deliver an essential communication strategy – from planning to creating, sharing, and optimizing your internal comms. Our team has combined a decade of Axios and Axios HQ's human expertise, proprietary data, and comms best practices with cutting-edge AI. This powerful blend is proven to help any leader strengthen internal comms, better achieve business goals, and amplify workforce connection. Axios HQ's solution helps communicators overcome everyday challenges with: • Best-in-class communication templates and industry examples • Smart Brevity® Guidance for writing and editing • Built-in survey and feedback tools for community engagement • Benchmark data and recipient analytics • Access to customer exclusive events with communications experts

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HQ is an easy-to-use tool, rooted in years of research, that helps you send clear, more effective internal communications. Its scannable emails boost focus and memory — and give busy colleagues the information they need in half the time. 🧠Axios HQ uses machine learning to help distill essential updates to their core. What lands in your team's inbox is a clear and concise email — with all the news they need to stay productive. 💡Did you know? Readers are 2x more likely to open an Axios HQ email than other internal updates.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Our business is driven by the success of our clients achieving their communication goals. Because we're founded from decades of expertise by communicators, we understand the daily challenges organizations experience.

Our solution includes proven writing and editing tools with best practices to increase readership and understanding of communications. We help you spend more time being strategic with Smart Brevity writing guidance and prompts, and easy-to-use templates, versus spending time on tactical processes, designing and fixing templates, and writing from a blank space every time.


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Axios HQ
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Year Founded
2021
HQ Location
Arlington, Virginia
Twitter
@AxiosHQ
857 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
123 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Axios HQ is the first internal communications management platform to equip organizations with the tools, data, and best practices to be world-class communicators.


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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy to use - great support"
The built-in smart brevity features and easy audience integration with our HRIS system. Also, the sales and support team are responsive when you ne...
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Jay A.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Big believe in Smarty Brevity Format"
Super helpful in guiding us through a Smart Brevity format for communication to our company.
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Matthew P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
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"Game Changer"
Axios HQ has so many great features, but the two that stand out most are the ability to design emails that look professional and easy to read, and ...
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Axios HQ Demo - Smart Brevity Guidance
With machine learning and our Smart Brevity methodology, HQ can catch issues — like clunky formatting or long sentences — and suggest tweaks to make your newsletter updates more effective. Why it matters: This built-in guidance helps you write and format with greater speed and precision — so y...
Axios HQ Demo - Best-practice templates
See how leading organizations communicate with staff and stakeholders — and the types of updates they include in: • All-staff communications. • Project-level progress. • Sales insights. • Investor updates, and more. You can select, edit, and send any of them — or create custom templates...
Axios HQ Demo - Analytics
Staff and stakeholder engagement is tough to track. HQ makes it easy. Reader-level data gives you access to: • Open and click rates. • A one-click survey to track sentiment. • Write-in feedback for deeper insight. It also offers benchmarks, so you can see how your performance compares t...
Axios HQ is powerful solution to streamline internal communications. Learn how Axios HQ solves the day-to-day challenges leaders and teams experience.
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Axios HQ is powerful solution to streamline internal communications. Learn how Axios HQ solves the day-to-day challenges leaders and teams experience.
Axios HQ helps communicate more effectively without the message getting lost. Smart Brevity drills down the communication with simplicity and transparency.
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Axios HQ helps communicate more effectively without the message getting lost. Smart Brevity drills down the communication with simplicity and transparency.

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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

The ease of writing. I save countless hours with my copy for internal and external newsletters. The smart brevity and AI features help me find what I need to write about and give me a good starting point. The customer support is also top notch with the chat feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

Contact implementation. I hate to compare but i wish there was a similar contact mangement as Contact Contact has. Each newsletter is different and I wish there was a central audience section where you can assign series too or even mass delete/unsubscribe if they are not active emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

The constant implementation to make the already great features better. AI suggestions, tailored smart brevity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

The platform is incredibly intuitive and easy to onboard and train new members. The chat feature is really helpful when it comes to answering questions and recieving support. I'm also very impressed with the metrics you're able to extract for analyzing readership and user behavior with our communications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

It's a pretty new product! There's a healthy amount of quality of life improvements on their roadmap that I can't wait to see implemented, such as a calendar view of all communication series. However, the team is very good at providing consistent monthly updates and helpful resources as new features are added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

Axios HQ is able to consolidate all of our different communications series from around our organization into a single place. We able to onboard team members that are not a part of our communicaitons team, with ease, while able to keep branding, style, and messaging consistent across the firm. It's also easy to dive into areas we need to improve our communication efforts, based on the engagement data we are able to view in the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

I love the ability to review analytics - I always check out the read rate! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

The inability to attach documents to communcations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping our communication concise, streamlined and direct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

I love that Axios HQ is constantly updating its platform based on feedback from its users. Axios HQ allows me to easily compose a one-off or newsletter. I can add photos, links, polls, and more that are displayed cleanly and make it easier for employees to digest my company's communications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

Axios HQ could do a better job at organizing audience lists as well as more customizations within the design of each communication Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

They solved the problems I had with adding multiple photos and cropping them. That streamlined the time it took to add photos to the platform. Also, they do a good job at fixing bugs routinely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel B.
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Senior Director, Member Services & Engagement
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

The Smart Brevity format and the UI in which it is presented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

Lack of ad options make management a bit difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our readers are busy members of the c-suite in their companies. They don't have time to filter through lots of email and need us to curate for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sara S.
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Speakers Bureau Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

It's very easy to use and we have access to direct support if needed. The Axios team has been great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

The only thing that I don't like is that every newsletter has to have a different audience and you cannot edit audiences across the board. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used to use a Google list.serv, but it's nice and easy to use Axios to have everything in one platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

I work with clients who use Axios HQ as the staging for their email newsletters. The Axios HQ platform serves as a great collaboration tool to allow us to clean up the text, work through questions on content, and get the content ready to be sent to external readers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

I think some some additional collaboration tools would be helpful for users who are going through multiple drafts with their content. Also, it seems like some of the options (like version history) go away once an email is sent. It would be great, looking back, to see who made a particular change (especially if the change created an issue with the content). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

Collaboration with internal and external contributors and polishing for final email send. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Urail W.
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Deputy Director
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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

Axios is very user friendly and it keeps communication short and to the point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

It takes time to get used to navigating the service but it is great once you get the hang of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

We do not have a "communications team", and this helps with making sure things are precise and clear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

I like the reading time so our users know how long it takes before opening an email from us. This has increased our open and click-through rates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

I feel like since they are newer the tiers of plans can be confusing on what you need or should get. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has replaced MailChimp as our main way to send our bulk email communications to our partners and clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Axios HQ?

Axios HQ has made our internal communications process simpler and more manageable. Smart Brevity has seeped into our comms, even outside of Axios. The layout is super easy to read and the newsletter/email design has been seamless with Axios's template library.

My favorite thing about Axios HQ is the customer service. Their willingness to constantly improve the platform and ensure we accomplish our goals hs been a breath of fresh air compared to other email marketing platforms I've used in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Axios HQ?

There are a few formatting options and UI improvements that can make the tool better. However as mentioned, the Axios HQ team improves their platform regularly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Axios HQ solving and how is that benefiting you?

It has made our communication process faster, easier, and more straightforward. We no longer need to overcomplicate comms, so I appreciate Axios making my workload more manageable! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.