Backstory: Every company has poor communication. Especially during high growth periods where massive change occurs, founder's and owners are typically the most busy and stressed. Internal communication is unfortunately one thing that drops off, quick. I don't think it's a lack of care but effort and consistency. If a system helped these leaders communicate more effectively, with less effort, I think they would take advantage of it.

The Idea: Internal company correspondence 

Deep Dive: You would build a platform for founders and owners to communicate with their internal team. This would be very similar to an email service, message board and announcement feed except the input side would provide leading questions on a regular cadence. The software would prompt leaders to fill out sections such as:
  • Recent high ticket acquisitions
  • Sales figures
  • Churn
  • Recent hires
A few less financial:
  • Restating the company vision and how the company is tracking towards these goals
  • Culture events
  • Employee of the month or notable team effort
The key here would be to focus on a specific type of company, example: radical transparency - you could pose direct questions about financials and vision to inspire leaders to be honest and deep with their responses. 

The input side on this is key to get leadership buy-in and make it useful. You could potentially send text messages, aggregate the responses and have someone review them before the final report is sent out.

Validation: I've tried it all, from atlassian pages, notion, aha and regular meetings. All get left to dust or done the night before the meeting.

Monetization: You would charge a per seat fee.

Steps to Launch: I would pick very specific questions that you want answered in your own organization and use a google doc to run the first MVP. You could get all employee emails, put them in a MailChimp account, send leaders the google doc and compose the first internal email yourself. From all the feedback, you'd have a solid position to start building your product.