Case Study: Circa builds a living company wiki and streamlines collaboration with Quip

Developing the Future of News: How Circa Uses Quip

Circa is a 20-person hybrid news startup that builds a mobile app for evolving, succinct stories and relies on a mix of full-time staff and freelancers. To ensure consistent editorial standards, speed onboarding, and centralize product and engineering knowledge, Circa adopted Quip as its information hub, project collaboration platform, and documentation system alongside Slack.

Using Quip, Circa created a living company wiki—publishing its Editorial Standards and Ethics Policy, style guide, engineering documentation, and a shared “Ideas” folder—so anyone can view change history, comment, and access the latest standards. Quip’s centralized, versioned documents have streamlined onboarding, increased transparency and editorial consistency, and made cross‑team collaboration and feature ideation more visible across the company.

Circa

Matt Galligan

Chief Executive Officer