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# Internal Comms

> Write internal corporate communications with tone calibration.

A standardized format and tone framework for internal corporate communications built on the Pyramid Principle, so executives get the conclusion in the first ten seconds. It ships six ready templates for status updates, newsletters, FAQs, leadership briefings, and incident reports.

## Use cases
- Writing weekly or monthly team updates in Progress / Plans / Problems format
- Producing a scannable company-wide newsletter
- Building standard FAQ answers for a knowledge base
- Drafting leadership briefings and board updates
- Writing blameless, actionable incident reports
- Calibrating the same message to engineering, executive, and external audiences

## Benefits
- Get decisions faster by leading with the conclusion, not the backstory
- Replace fragmented messages with one self-contained, async-first update
- Build trust through transparent bad-news framing paired with action items
- Cut writing time with templates that fit any audience and tone

## What’s included
- Progress / Plans / Problems weekly update template
- Company newsletter template with TL;DR and outcome metrics
- Blameless incident report template with timeline and action items
- Bad-news framing, anti-vanity-metric, and async-first writing patterns
- Audience-tone table for engineering, executive, board, and partner readers
- Pre-publish checklist covering TL;DR, metric format, and clear call to action

## Who it’s for
Team leads, managers, and operators who write internal updates and want them read, understood, and acted on in seconds.

## How it runs
An update nobody reads is an update that never happened. Each message opens with the conclusion, carries metrics as value plus delta, and arrives async-complete so no meeting is needed to act on it.
1. Picks the communication type from six templates (3P weekly update, company newsletter, FAQ answer, status report, leadership briefing, incident report) and calibrates tone to the reader: technical depth for engineers, revenue impact for executives, quarter trend for the board.
2. Applies the Pyramid Principle before anything else: the conclusion or decision goes in the first lines, a TL;DR of three lines maximum sits on top, supporting detail follows below, so an executive can decide in a 30-second scan.
3. Fills the template with information-dense lines, not filler: every metric is presented as absolute value plus delta, every plan line carries a date, an owner and the current blocker, and a 5-line update is preferred over a 50-line report because it actually gets read.
4. Frames bad news with the transparent pattern: what slipped, the root cause, the lesson, the customer impact, and a concrete action item with an owner and a deadline. Hiding problems is treated as the failure mode, not the problem itself.
5. Makes the message async-complete: decision, rationale, risks and a feedback deadline are all inside the text, so no meeting is required to act on it, and a clear call to action (approve by, reply by) replaces vague update-only endings.
6. Runs the final checklist before sending: TL;DR present, conclusion first, metrics in absolute-plus-delta form, action item per bad news, PII masked, audience-appropriate tone and scannable structure with headers and bullets.

## FAQ
### We're a 12-person startup. Are leadership-briefing templates too corporate for us?
No. The Progress / Plans / Problems weekly update, newsletter, FAQ, and incident report templates work the same at any size. The audience-tone table just has fewer rows for you; the structure doesn't depend on headcount.

### What does the Pyramid Principle concretely change in my updates?
The conclusion arrives in the first ten seconds: decision or status first, supporting detail after. Templates enforce a TL;DR, a metric format, and a clear call to action, and the bad-news framing pattern pairs every problem with its action item so trust survives the message.

### Does it write external marketing or press copy?
No. The scope is internal communication only: status updates, company newsletters, FAQ answers, leadership briefings, and blameless incident reports. Anything aimed at customers or press is a different job.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

Related guide: [AI for small business](https://forgehouse.ai/guides/ai-for-small-business/)