Quarterzip
3 known investors
Quarterzip provides AI agents that guide end-users through onboarding, support, and cross-product workflows by seeing their screen, listening to their goals, and executing tasks in real time. The platform serves enterprise software companies seeking to activate users at scale without expanding headcount.
Also known as Quarterzip.ai
Founders & leadership
Investors Β· 3
Also in the syndicate Β· 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Quarterzip develops what it describes as a continuous onboarding AI agent for software companies. The product ingests a customer's product and workflow knowledge, builds implementation playbooks, and then joins end users live over screen share and voice calls to guide them through implementation, onboarding, troubleshooting and support. The agent operates as a picture-in-picture window at the browser level rather than as an embedded in-app widget, which the company and third-party coverage say allows it to observe any tab or application the user sees and to guide workflows that span multiple products without SDK installation, browser extensions or access to customer code.
Beyond guided onboarding, the platform covers real-time support resolution and cross-product workflows, and aggregates call transcripts and sessions into a queryable data source that customers can use for usability insights, roadmap input and bug identification. Playbooks are described as updating automatically when the customer ships product changes. The company states that audio and video retention is configurable, including retaining nothing, and publishes security and trust materials.
Quarterzip frames the problem it addresses as "Activation Debt" β the cumulative cost of stalled onboarding, which the company's own industry analysis puts at an average of $537 million per company annually in unused software licenses, or roughly 50% of licenses going unused, and which it claims could unlock $8 billion in new annual recurring revenue and $80 billion in enterprise value across the software sector if addressed.
Founding story
The founders say the idea came from their experience scaling Redactive AI, where rolling out enterprise software turned their small team into full-time change managers running constant user training. Playbooks, product tours and custom training programs did not scale, prompting experimentation with AI agents to help customers reach value faster. After selling Redactive to RecordPoint, they concluded the problem was industry-wide and started Quarterzip.
Business model
Quarterzip sells its AI onboarding and activation agent to software vendors, positioning it as a way to deliver high-touch, personalized onboarding and support at scale without adding customer success headcount. Deployment is described as requiring no engineering work from the customer and going live within hours of setup. The website lists a pricing page, but no pricing details are present in the available sources.
Not stated in the available sources; the website lists a pricing page but no pricing terms appear in the material reviewed.
Traction
At launch in October 2025 the company reported working with more than 20 high-growth software and AI companies across the United States and Australia, citing faster time-to-value, higher activation rates and lower cost-to-serve. A November 2025-era third-party newsletter reported the company was live with Apollo and Grab and running hundreds of AI-powered onboarding sessions per day about a week after launch. The website cites metrics of 1.58x calls per user, a 22-minute average customer call time, and users being activated 2x faster.
Latest developments
Quarterzip launched publicly on 28 October 2025, followed by launch interviews and coverage on 29β30 October 2025. Capital Brief reported that Redactive's backers β Blackbird Ventures, Zapier, Felicis Ventures and Atlassian's venture arm β are all investing in the new venture. As of the sources reviewed, the team page lists 13 people including two co-founders.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Quarterzip describes itself as the world's first continuous onboarding AI agent and positions against static onboarding approaches β tooltips, product tours, rigid in-app flows β and against text-only chatbots, which it argues cannot see or hear the user. Third-party commentary characterises its use of screen sharing as a way to bypass enterprise integration cycles that constrain competing AI products.
Key claimed differentiators are real-time screen awareness plus voice rather than text chat, operation at the browser level enabling guidance across multiple applications rather than only within a single app, deployment without SDKs, browser extensions or customer code changes, and continuous rather than one-time onboarding.
Technology
The system is built on multimodal large language model technology, combining screen-share vision, voice interaction and the ability to take actions on a user's behalf. It ingests customer workflow and product documentation, past onboarding calls and help content to build playbooks, updates them automatically as the customer's product changes, and runs as a browser-level picture-in-picture window that consumes the user's screen share as its primary input rather than integrating via SDK, extension or API. Audio and video retention is configurable.
Go-to-market
The company sells directly to software vendors, offering demos booked through its website, and reports being live with customers within hours of setup and with no code changes required. Launch was supported by a press release and trade and startup-press coverage. Third-party analysis notes a product-led distribution effect: the agent's picture-in-picture window displays Quarterzip branding to every end user who passes through a customer's onboarding flow.
Enterprise and high-growth software and AI companies, with buyer functions spanning customer success, customer support and forward deployment engineering. Named or referenced users include FirstAML, EstateXchange, Apollo and Grab.
Geography
Based in Australia and the United States, with launch communications datelined San Francisco; customers span the United States and Australia.
History
Quarterzip was founded in 2025 by Alexander Valente and Andrew Pankevicius, who previously co-founded AI security startup Redactive AI. Redactive AI was sold to data management company RecordPoint in 2025; the founders confirmed their exit in late October 2025. Quarterzip launched publicly on 28 October 2025 via a press release datelined San Francisco, and coverage a week later reported the company had three co-founders and that proceeds from the Redactive sale, together with capital from Redactive's $11.5 million seed round, would carry over into the new business.
Risks & controversies
The market-sizing figures central to the company's positioning ($537 million per company in unused licenses, $8 billion in ARR and $80 billion in enterprise value unlocked) come from the company's own unpublished industry analysis and are not independently verified in the sources. The product depends on users granting screen and audio access, raising data-handling considerations the company addresses with configurable retention. No funding amount, valuation or revenue figures for Quarterzip are disclosed in any source.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Competitors Β· 2
by search overlap
Companies competing with Quarterzip for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline Β· 3
launches, deals, and filingsCapital Brief reported that Redactive's investors β Blackbird Ventures, Zapier, Felicis Ventures and Atlassian's venture arm β are all investing in Quarterzip, and that proceeds from the RecordPoint sale plus capital from Redactive's $11.5m seed round would carry over into the new business.
Former Redactive AI founders Alexander Valente and Andrew Pankevicius announced the launch of Quarterzip, which simulates a software onboarding call using multimodal LLM voice and video interactions. Announcement datelined San Francisco.
Quarterzip's founders previously co-founded Redactive AI, which was sold to data management company RecordPoint in 2025; the founders confirmed their exit in late October 2025 before launching Quarterzip.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
βΈResearch sources Β· 8
primary sources listed
- Quarterzipquarterzip.ai Β· web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Quarterzip do?
- Quarterzip builds AI agents that join users' screen shares and voice calls to guide software onboarding and activation.
- Who founded Quarterzip?
- Quarterzip was founded by Alexander Valente.
- Who are Quarterzip's investors?
- Quarterzip's investors include Blackbird Ventures, Felicis Ventures.