EmbargoIQ

EmbargoIQ is a web app (with optional Slack/Teams integration) that helps PR and comms teams manage embargoed announcements and media outreach without costly mistakes. It centralizes embargo details, approved talking points, and the exact journalist list, then monitors outbound email/calendar activity for risky signals (wrong time zone, missing embargo language, sending to non-approved contacts, attaching the wrong version). It also generates a clean “embargo brief” page for internal stakeholders and provides a one-click confirmation workflow for journalists to acknowledge embargo terms. This is a combination traditional + AI app: AI is used to classify messages, detect policy violations, and summarize changes, but the core value is workflow and compliance. Brutal truth: most PR tools chase “media database” dreams and lose; this focuses on a narrow, high-stakes failure mode that teams will actually pay to avoid.