A quiet workspace, handed to the people who write the manuals.
Series A memo — for an audience of three.
We are raising six and a half million euros to spend the next eighteen months making documentation feel like writing again. This deck is the short version. The longer version lives in the manual.
Q. Albrecht · CEO · q@quartz.press01 / 10
02 · thesis & agendaq. albrecht
The world has enough note-taking apps. It has too few writing ones.
Quartz is a workspace for technical writers — the people who keep the manuals, the changelogs, the runbooks, the policy docs. They write the longest documents in any company and use the worst tools to do it.
01Coverp. 01
02Thesis & agendap. 02
03Six theses on a quieter doc toolp. 03
04Where we are, in numbersp. 04
05A line we believe inp. 05
06What it isn't / what it isp. 06
07Customers, in a rowp. 07
08ARR — the long wayp. 08
09Colophonp. 09
10The askp. 10
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03 · manifestsection · product
Six theses on a quieter doc tool.
01
The page is the unit, not the block.
If the editor reads like a database, the doc reads like one. Quartz writes Markdown to disk and treats the page as a single object — not 142 nested toggles.
— editor
02
Review belongs inline. Not in Slack.
Comments anchor to a line, resolve to an audit log, never spawn a thread that nobody can find two weeks later.
— review
03
History is a feature, not a tab.
Every save is a commit. Diff two revisions in three keystrokes. Roll back without writing a support ticket.
— history
04
Publishing is not a separate product.
The same page is a draft, a review, and a published doc — by changing one field, not by exporting to a third-party site builder.
— publish
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04 · in numberssection · traction
Where we are, in numbers.
paying teams · live
147teams
▲ +38 this quarter · +35%
Including engineering and policy teams at four publicly-listed European companies. Median seat count is twelve; the long tail is solo writers paying out of pocket.
arr · annual run rate
€842kARR
▲ +29% qoq
net retention
131%
gross margin
88%
churn · monthly logo
0.7%
▼ from 1.4% in Jan
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05 · pull quotecustomer · pilot 04
We replaced four tools with Quartz. Confluence for the docs, Notion for the drafts, Google Docs for the review, and Slack for the panic that the doc nobody had read was wrong.
— Hester Naitō, principal engineer · Pilot 04 · Munich
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06 · positioningsection · product
What it isn't. What it is.
— Quartz isn't
A wiki you have to maintain a sidebar for.
A knowledge graph nobody asked for.
An AI that suggests the third callout on the page.
A static-site generator with a CMS bolted on.
— Quartz is
A page. A title. A column measure that the writer can trust.
A history of every save and a diff between any two of them.
A line of comments anchored to the line they critique, archived when resolved.
Six and a half million euros, to spend the next eighteen months making documentation feel like writing again.
€2.4M to ship the publishing pipeline. €1.8M to grow a sales team of four. €1.4M to extend runway to thirty months. €0.9M to ratify our SOC 2 and translate the manual.