diff --git a/apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/newsletters.ts b/apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/newsletters.ts
index 481a07dfd4..a7290e5409 100644
--- a/apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/newsletters.ts
+++ b/apps/admin-x-framework/src/api/newsletters.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ export type Newsletter = {
     show_header_title: boolean;
     title_font_category: string;
     title_alignment: string;
+    show_subhead: boolean;
     show_feature_image: boolean;
     body_font_category: string;
     footer_content: string | null;
diff --git a/apps/admin-x-framework/src/test/responses/newsletters.json b/apps/admin-x-framework/src/test/responses/newsletters.json
index 96a971542e..49c51b2668 100644
--- a/apps/admin-x-framework/src/test/responses/newsletters.json
+++ b/apps/admin-x-framework/src/test/responses/newsletters.json
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
             "show_header_title": true,
             "title_font_category": "serif",
             "title_alignment": "center",
+            "show_subhead": true,
             "show_feature_image": true,
             "body_font_category": "serif",
             "footer_content": "",
diff --git a/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/advanced/labs/AlphaFeatures.tsx b/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/advanced/labs/AlphaFeatures.tsx
index 1b0d609505..5c632a9e74 100644
--- a/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/advanced/labs/AlphaFeatures.tsx
+++ b/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/advanced/labs/AlphaFeatures.tsx
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ const features = [{
     title: 'ActivityPub',
     description: '(Highly) Experimental support for ActivityPub.',
     flag: 'ActivityPub'
+},{
+    title: 'Subhead',
+    description: 'Using custom excerpts as subheads in editor and newsletter',
+    flag: 'subhead'
 }];
 
 const AlphaFeatures: React.FC = () => {
diff --git a/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterDetailModal.tsx b/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterDetailModal.tsx
index fa6b1a38c3..ebb5bf11b4 100644
--- a/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterDetailModal.tsx
+++ b/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterDetailModal.tsx
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ const Sidebar: React.FC<{
     const {mutateAsync: uploadImage} = useUploadImage();
     const [selectedTab, setSelectedTab] = useState('generalSettings');
     const hasEmailCustomization = useFeatureFlag('emailCustomization');
+    const hasSubhead = useFeatureFlag('subhead');
     const {localSettings} = useSettingGroup();
     const [siteTitle] = getSettingValues(localSettings, ['title']) as string[];
     const handleError = useHandleError();
@@ -423,6 +424,14 @@ const Sidebar: React.FC<{
                         title='Body style'
                         onSelect={option => updateNewsletter({body_font_category: option?.value})}
                     />
+                    {hasSubhead && 
+                        <Toggle
+                            checked={newsletter.show_subhead}
+                            direction="rtl"
+                            label='Subhead'
+                            onChange={e => updateNewsletter({show_subhead: e.target.checked})}
+                        />
+                    }
                     <Toggle
                         checked={newsletter.show_feature_image}
                         direction="rtl"
diff --git a/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterPreview.tsx b/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterPreview.tsx
index 7e94bbea2c..339961966c 100644
--- a/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterPreview.tsx
+++ b/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterPreview.tsx
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ const NewsletterPreview: React.FC<{newsletter: Newsletter}> = ({newsletter}) =>
         showFeedback={showFeedback}
         showLatestPosts={newsletter.show_latest_posts}
         showPostTitleSection={newsletter.show_post_title_section}
+        showSubhead={newsletter.show_subhead}
         showSubscriptionDetails={newsletter.show_subscription_details}
         siteTitle={title}
         titleAlignment={newsletter.title_alignment}
diff --git a/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterPreviewContent.tsx b/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterPreviewContent.tsx
index fe7d9f4b01..dbd46cfe59 100644
--- a/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterPreviewContent.tsx
+++ b/apps/admin-x-settings/src/components/settings/email/newsletters/NewsletterPreviewContent.tsx
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ const NewsletterPreviewContent: React.FC<{
     headerTitle?: string | null;
     headerSubtitle?: string | null;
     showPostTitleSection: boolean;
+    showSubhead: boolean;
     titleAlignment?: string;
     titleFontCategory?: string;
     bodyFontCategory?: string;
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ const NewsletterPreviewContent: React.FC<{
     headerTitle,
     headerSubtitle,
     showPostTitleSection,
+    showSubhead,
     titleAlignment,
     titleFontCategory,
     bodyFontCategory,
@@ -75,6 +77,7 @@ const NewsletterPreviewContent: React.FC<{
     const showHeader = headerIcon || headerTitle;
     const {config} = useGlobalData();
     const hasNewEmailAddresses = useFeatureFlag('newEmailAddresses');
+    const hasSubhead = useFeatureFlag('subhead');
 
     const currentDate = new Date().toLocaleDateString('default', {
         year: 'numeric',
@@ -131,6 +134,9 @@ const NewsletterPreviewContent: React.FC<{
                                     )} style={{color: titleColor}}>
                                         Your email newsletter
                                     </h2>
+                                    {(hasSubhead && showSubhead) && (
+                                        <p className="mb-4 text-[1.6rem] leading-[1.7] text-black">A subhead that highlights the key points of your newsletter.</p>
+                                    )}
                                     <div className={clsx(
                                         'flex w-full justify-between text-center text-md leading-none text-grey-700',
                                         titleAlignment === 'center' ? 'flex-col' : 'flex-row'
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-koenig-editor-lexical.hbs b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-koenig-editor-lexical.hbs
index ed82e5e453..3c05f1fd7f 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-koenig-editor-lexical.hbs
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-koenig-editor-lexical.hbs
@@ -56,6 +56,22 @@
                 {{on "paste" this.cleanPastedTitle}}
                 data-test-editor-title-input={{true}}
             />
+
+            {{#if (feature 'subhead')}}
+                <GhTextarea
+                    @class="gh-editor-subhead"
+                    @placeholder="Add a subhead..."
+                    @shouldFocus={{false}}
+                    @tabindex="1"
+                    @autoExpand=".gh-koenig-editor"
+                    @value={{readonly this.excerpt}}
+                    @input={{this.updateExcerpt}}
+                    @focus-out={{optional @blurExcerpt}}
+                    @keyDown={{this.onExcerptKeydown}}
+                    data-test-editor-subhead-input={{true}}
+                />
+                <hr class="gh-editor-title-divider">
+            {{/if}}
         </div>
 
         <KoenigLexicalEditor
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-koenig-editor-lexical.js b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-koenig-editor-lexical.js
index abc7eb7c4b..6426944c3f 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-koenig-editor-lexical.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-koenig-editor-lexical.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {tracked} from '@glimmer/tracking';
 
 export default class GhKoenigEditorReactComponent extends Component {
     @service settings;
+    @service feature;
 
     containerElement = null;
     titleElement = null;
@@ -30,6 +31,10 @@ export default class GhKoenigEditorReactComponent extends Component {
         return color;
     }
 
+    get excerpt() {
+        return this.args.excerpt || '';
+    }
+
     @action
     registerElement(element) {
         this.containerElement = element;
@@ -112,29 +117,66 @@ export default class GhKoenigEditorReactComponent extends Component {
     // - Enter, creating an empty paragraph when editor is not empty
     @action
     onTitleKeydown(event) {
-        const {editorAPI} = this;
+        if (this.feature.get('subhead')) {
+            if (event.key === 'Enter') {
+                event.preventDefault();
+                const subheadElement = document.querySelector('.gh-editor-subhead');
+                if (subheadElement) {
+                    subheadElement.focus();
+                }
+            }
+        } else {
+            const {editorAPI} = this;
 
-        if (!editorAPI || event.originalEvent.isComposing) {
-            return;
-        }
+            if (!editorAPI || event.originalEvent.isComposing) {
+                return;
+            }
 
-        const {key} = event;
-        const {value, selectionStart} = event.target;
+            const {key} = event;
+            const {value, selectionStart} = event.target;
 
-        const couldLeaveTitle = !value || selectionStart === value.length;
-        const arrowLeavingTitle = ['ArrowDown', 'ArrowRight'].includes(key) && couldLeaveTitle;
+            const couldLeaveTitle = !value || selectionStart === value.length;
+            const arrowLeavingTitle = ['ArrowDown', 'ArrowRight'].includes(key) && couldLeaveTitle;
 
-        if (key === 'Enter' || key === 'Tab' || arrowLeavingTitle) {
-            event.preventDefault();
+            if (key === 'Enter' || key === 'Tab' || arrowLeavingTitle) {
+                event.preventDefault();
 
-            if (key === 'Enter' && !editorAPI.editorIsEmpty()) {
-                editorAPI.insertParagraphAtTop({focus: true});
-            } else {
-                editorAPI.focusEditor({position: 'top'});
+                if (key === 'Enter' && !editorAPI.editorIsEmpty()) {
+                    editorAPI.insertParagraphAtTop({focus: true});
+                } else {
+                    editorAPI.focusEditor({position: 'top'});
+                }
             }
         }
     }
 
+    // Subheader ("excerpt") Actions -------------------------------------------
+
+    @action
+    updateExcerpt(event) {
+        this.args.onExcerptChange?.(event.target.value);
+    }
+
+    @action
+    focusExcerpt() {
+        this.args.onExcerptFocus?.();
+    }
+
+    @action
+    blurExcerpt() {
+        this.args.onExcerptBlur?.();
+    }
+
+    @action
+    onExcerptKeydown(event) {
+        if (event.key === 'Enter') {
+            event.preventDefault();
+            this.editorAPI.focusEditor({position: 'top'});
+        }
+    }
+
+    // move cursor to the editor on
+
     // Body actions ------------------------------------------------------------
 
     @action
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-post-settings-menu.hbs b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-post-settings-menu.hbs
index 06963c9eba..4367293fa5 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-post-settings-menu.hbs
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-post-settings-menu.hbs
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
                             {{/if}}
                         {{/if}}
 
-
+                        {{#unless (feature 'subhead')}}
                         <GhFormGroup @errors={{this.post.errors}} @hasValidated={{this.post.hasValidated}} @property="customExcerpt">
                             <label for="custom-excerpt">Excerpt</label>
                             <GhTextarea
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@
                             />
                             <GhErrorMessage @errors={{this.post.errors}} @property="customExcerpt" data-test-error="custom-excerpt" />
                         </GhFormGroup>
+                        {{/unless}}
 
                         {{#unless this.session.user.isAuthorOrContributor}}
                             <GhFormGroup class="for-select mb8" @errors={{this.post.errors}} @hasValidated={{this.post.hasValidated}} @property="authors" data-test-input="authors">
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js b/ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js
index 48416986f0..b0240287bb 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/controllers/lexical-editor.js
@@ -284,6 +284,11 @@ export default class LexicalEditorController extends Controller {
         this.set('post.titleScratch', title);
     }
 
+    @action
+    updateExcerptScratch(excerpt) {
+        this.set('post.customExcerptScratch', excerpt);
+    }
+
     // updates local willPublish/Schedule values, does not get applied to
     // the post's `status` value until a save is triggered
     @action
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/models/newsletter.js b/ghost/admin/app/models/newsletter.js
index 4c725c0399..3098f5a84c 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/models/newsletter.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/models/newsletter.js
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ export default class Newsletter extends Model.extend(ValidationEngine) {
     @attr({defaultValue: true}) showHeaderTitle;
     @attr({defaultValue: true}) showHeaderName;
     @attr({defaultValue: true}) showPostTitleSection;
+    @attr({defaultValue: false}) showSubhead;
     @attr({defaultValue: true}) showCommentCta;
     @attr({defaultValue: false}) showSubscriptionDetails;
     @attr({defaultValue: false}) showLatestPosts;
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/services/feature.js b/ghost/admin/app/services/feature.js
index 318a398807..84a8e1834c 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/services/feature.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/services/feature.js
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ export default class FeatureService extends Service {
     @feature('onboardingChecklist') onboardingChecklist;
     @feature('ActivityPub') ActivityPub;
     @feature('internalLinking') internalLinking;
+    @feature('subhead') subhead;
 
     _user = null;
 
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/styles/layouts/editor.css b/ghost/admin/app/styles/layouts/editor.css
index ee0c1b7427..42302f7edd 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/styles/layouts/editor.css
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/styles/layouts/editor.css
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ body[data-user-is-dragging] .gh-editor-feature-image-dropzone {
 .gh-editor-feature-image-caption {
     width: 100%;
     min-height: 24px;
-    margin: 0 0 1.7em 0;
+    margin: 0 0 1.2rem 0;
     padding: 0;
     outline: none;
     border-width: 0;
@@ -717,12 +717,25 @@ body[data-user-is-dragging] .gh-editor-feature-image-dropzone {
     opacity: .5;
 }
 
+.gh-editor-title-container {
+    position: relative;
+    max-width: 740px;
+    width: 100%;
+    margin-right: auto;
+    margin-left: auto;
+    border: none;
+    background: transparent;
+}
+
 .gh-editor-title {
     display: block;
     width: 100%;
+    max-width: unset;
     min-height: auto;
-    margin-bottom: 1.2rem;
+    margin: 0 0 1.6rem;
+    padding: 0 0 4px;
     border: none;
+    background: transparent;
     color: var(--black);
     font-size: 4.8rem;
     letter-spacing: -0.017em;
@@ -732,6 +745,18 @@ body[data-user-is-dragging] .gh-editor-feature-image-dropzone {
     box-shadow: none;
 }
 
+@media (min-width: 500px) and (max-width: 768px) {
+    .gh-editor-title {
+        font-size: 3.6rem;
+    }
+}
+
+@media (max-width: 500px) {
+    .gh-editor-title {
+        font-size: 2.8rem;
+    }
+}
+
 .gh-editor-title:focus {
     box-shadow: none !important;
     border: none !important;
@@ -741,6 +766,55 @@ body[data-user-is-dragging] .gh-editor-feature-image-dropzone {
     opacity: .5;
 }
 
+.gh-editor-title::placeholder {
+    color: var(--lightgrey-d1);
+    font-weight: 700;
+    opacity: 1;
+}
+
+.gh-editor-hidden-indicator {
+    position: absolute;
+    top: -1px;
+    height: 2.4rem;
+    margin-left: -6rem;
+    color: var(--midgrey-l2);
+}
+
+.gh-editor-title-container .gh-editor-hidden-indicator {
+    top: 1.8rem;
+}
+
+.gh-editor-hidden-indicator svg {
+    height: 2.4rem;
+}
+
+.gh-editor-subhead {
+    display: block;
+    width: 100%;
+    max-width: unset;
+    min-width: auto;
+    margin: 0;
+    padding: 0;
+    border: none;
+    background: transparent;
+    color: var(--darkgrey);
+    font-size: 1.9rem;
+    font-weight: 440;
+    line-height: 1.4em;
+    letter-spacing: -.018em;
+    overflow: hidden;
+    box-shadow: none;
+}
+
+.gh-editor-subhead:focus {
+    box-shadow: none !important;
+    border: none !important;
+}
+
+.gh-editor-title-divider {
+    margin: 1.6rem 0 4.8rem;
+}
+
 .gh-editor .tk-indicator {
     position: absolute;
     top: 15px;
@@ -927,21 +1001,6 @@ body[data-user-is-dragging] .gh-editor-feature-image-dropzone {
     }
 }
 
-@media (max-width: 500px) {
-    .gh-editor-title {
-        font-size: 3.4rem;
-    }
-}
-
-.gh-editor-title {
-    padding: 0 0 4px;
-}
-
-.gh-editor-title::placeholder {
-    color: var(--lightgrey-d1);
-    font-weight: 700;
-    opacity: 1;
-}
 .gh-editor .editor-preview {
     height: auto;
     margin-top: 4px;
@@ -1168,61 +1227,6 @@ figure {
 /* Labs
 /* ---------------------------------------------------------- */
 
-.gh-editor-title-container {
-    position: relative;
-    max-width: 740px;
-    width: 100%;
-    margin-right: auto;
-    margin-left: auto;
-    border: none;
-    background: transparent;
-}
-
-.gh-editor .gh-editor-title {
-    display: block;
-    width: 100%;
-    max-width: unset;
-    min-height: auto;
-    margin: 0 0 1.2rem;
-    border: none;
-    background: transparent;
-    color: var(--black);
-    font-size: 4.8rem;
-    letter-spacing: -0.017em;
-    line-height: 1.1em;
-    font-weight: 700;
-    overflow: hidden;
-    box-shadow: none;
-}
-
-@media (min-width: 500px) and (max-width: 768px) {
-    .gh-editor .gh-editor-title {
-        font-size: 3.6rem;
-    }
-}
-
-@media (max-width: 500px) {
-    .gh-editor .gh-editor-title {
-        font-size: 2.8rem;
-    }
-}
-
-.gh-editor-hidden-indicator {
-    position: absolute;
-    top: -1px;
-    height: 2.4rem;
-    margin-left: -6rem;
-    color: var(--midgrey-l2);
-}
-
-.gh-editor-title-container .gh-editor-hidden-indicator {
-    top: 1.8rem;
-}
-
-.gh-editor-hidden-indicator svg {
-    height: 2.4rem;
-}
-
 .gh-setting-error {
     margin-top: 1em;
     line-height: 1.3em;
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/styles/layouts/post-history.css b/ghost/admin/app/styles/layouts/post-history.css
index b9a3c1f219..590550a85f 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/styles/layouts/post-history.css
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/styles/layouts/post-history.css
@@ -199,3 +199,7 @@
 .gh-post-history-hidden-lexical {
     display: none;
 }
+
+.gh-post-history .gh-editor-feature-image p {
+    margin: 0 0 1.2rem;
+}
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/templates/lexical-editor.hbs b/ghost/admin/app/templates/lexical-editor.hbs
index 015bbe9969..8db8681d03 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/templates/lexical-editor.hbs
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/templates/lexical-editor.hbs
@@ -61,10 +61,12 @@
             --}}
             <GhKoenigEditorLexical
                 @title={{readonly this.post.titleScratch}}
+                @excerpt={{readonly this.post.customExcerpt}}
                 @titleAutofocus={{this.shouldFocusTitle}}
                 @titlePlaceholder={{concat (capitalize this.post.displayName) " title"}}
                 @titleHasTk={{this.titleHasTk}}
                 @onTitleChange={{this.updateTitleScratch}}
+                @onExcerptChange={{this.updateExcerptScratch}}
                 @onTitleBlur={{perform this.saveTitleTask}}
                 @body={{readonly this.post.lexicalScratch}}
                 @bodyPlaceholder={{concat "Begin writing your " this.post.displayName "..."}}
diff --git a/ghost/core/core/shared/labs.js b/ghost/core/core/shared/labs.js
index 41f4dfede6..0eaee7caa5 100644
--- a/ghost/core/core/shared/labs.js
+++ b/ghost/core/core/shared/labs.js
@@ -51,7 +51,8 @@ const ALPHA_FEATURES = [
     'tipsAndDonations',
     'importMemberTier',
     'lexicalIndicators',
-    'adminXDemo'
+    'adminXDemo',
+    'subhead'
 ];
 
 module.exports.GA_KEYS = [...GA_FEATURES];