QUARTZ · MEMO 04 · 2026SERIES A · CONFIDENTIAL
— filed 14 may 2026

# 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.press 01 / 10
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.

Markdown out, Markdown in. Always.

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07 · customer indexsection · gtm

## Customers, in a row.

№
team
country
seats
arr
since
01
Albrecht Press
FR
4
€ 4,720
22.04
02
Naitō Robotics — Eng. docs
JP / DE
18
€ 41,280
23.10
03
Andrejević Atelier
HR
3
€ 3,180
24.01
04
Nwachukwu Ltd. — Policy
NG / UK
11
€ 18,640
24.06
05
Arroyave & Bros
CO
7
€ 9,840
25.02
06
Quentin Veterinary, S.A.
FR
2
€ 1,920
25.04

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08 · arr · the long waysection · finance

## ARR — the long way.

Q1 / 2024
€ 78k Q2 / 2024
€ 121k Q3 / 2024
€ 187k Q4 / 2024
€ 274k Q1 / 2025
€ 372k Q2 / 2025
€ 491k Q3 / 2025
€ 603k Q4 / 2025
€ 706k Q1 / 2026
€ 842k

No paid acquisition since Q3 2024. Growth comes from word-of-mouth between docs teams; ARR adds an Albrecht Press every five working days.

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09 · colophonsection · team

## A small press. A long manual.

founder
  Quentin Albrecht · prev. lead writer, IETF working group on documentation tooling
co-founder
  Hester Naitō · prev. principal engineer, Naitō Robotics
head of design
  Margerit Andrejević · prev. typographer, Atelier Nord-Ouest
policy / legal
  Pemberton Nwachukwu · prev. counsel, IBM Africa

set in
  Instrument Serif · Inter Tight · JetBrains Mono
press
  Atelier Nord-Ouest · Bordeaux
edition
  04 · v 2026.05 · 2,400 numbered
contact
  q@quartz.press · +33 (0)5 56 21 47 88
auditor
  BDO France — Q1 2026 review complete

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10 · the askseries a · 2026

## 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.

— end · 2026.05.14

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