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Quip

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Docs and spreadsheet app owned by Salesforce, now being shut down entirely.

Little protection left
Assessed 23 July 2026 · Evidence as of 23 July 2026
Not much stands between this business and its pressures.
On the recordSince 23 July 2026 · Checkable from March 1, 2027 · Every call on the record Checkpoint: Hard subscription renewal cutoff, no further renewals possible after this date
The call

Quip isn't being eaten by a rival, its own owner Salesforce has scheduled its death and is moving customers to Slack Canvas and Agentforce.

Quip is a workplace app that helps teams plan sales deals and solve customer problems together in one shared space. Salesforce, which owns Quip, decided to kill the product and move its features into Slack and a new AI tool called Agentforce instead. Because Salesforce is moving Quip's work into products it already controls, there is no way for Quip to stay independent or compete. The only thing that could change this is if Salesforce stumbles badly on moving customers over to Slack and Agentforce, but that seems unlikely given Salesforce's size and the fact that it owns both replacement products.

Why
01
AI pressure: Salesforce Agentforce. Salesforce is folding Quip's workflows into Agentforce and Slack Canvas as it kills Quip off outright, not competing with it. Could AI do the core job? Yes, likely.
02
Bigger players: Salesforce (parent company). Salesforce announced Quip's end-of-life in March 2026 and is pushing customers into Slack Canvas and Agentforce instead. Could a giant copy it? Yes, easily.
03
What protects it. None. Its own owner set the shutdown date and stopped new signups in February 2026.
What would change this call
Whether Salesforce ships promised Quip to Slack Canvas migration tooling through 2026. Shows how orderly the forced customer exodus from Quip will be.
Whether new Quip signups or renewals resume before March 1, 2027 cutoff. Would indicate Salesforce reversed its shutdown decision.
Whether Quip subscriber data is fully deleted per the mid/late 2027 timeline. Confirms Quip's complete discontinuation as a live product.
Key numbers
  • New signups stopped Feb 17, 2026 (2026-02-17)
  • Subscriptions unrenewable after Mar 1, 2027 (2027-03-01)
  • Bought for est. $750M in 2016 (2016-07-01)
Named risks
  • Total product retirement with hard subscription cutoff March 1, 2027. Severity: high
  • Data deletion for customers who fail to migrate before wind-down completes. Severity: high
  • No unique moat remains; core Live Apps feature frozen since March 2025. Severity: high
  • Salesforce Head of Agentforce departure raises execution risk on the replacement platform. Severity: medium
  • ShinyHunters breach affecting Salesforce Experience Cloud may affect trust during data migration. Severity: medium
Rivals, as read in July 2026
RivalDirectionEvidence
Slack Canvas (Salesforce-owned)gaining onSalesforce redirecting Quip workflows to Slack Canvas as of March 2026 announcement
Agentforce (Salesforce-owned)gaining onNamed by Salesforce as successor for account planning and case swarming, March 2026
NotioncontestingHistoric competitor in docs/collaboration space, no post-shutdown share data confirmed
Atlassian ConfluencecontestingHistoric competitor, no verified customer migration data as of May 2026
DemandFarm and SquivrcontestingVendor-claimed positioning as Quip account-planning alternatives, May 2026
Questions people ask
Is Quip shutting down?
Yes. Salesforce announced Quip's end of life on March 3-4, 2026. New signups stopped February 17, 2026, subscriptions become unrenewable after March 1, 2027, and customer data faces deletion roughly 30 days after a post-cutoff read-only and blocked-login period.
Will AI replace Quip?
Salesforce itself says so. On March 3-4, 2026 it announced it is redirecting Quip's core workflows, account planning, deal rooms, and case swarming, into Slack Canvas and its Agentforce AI agent platform, both owned by Salesforce, rather than continuing to invest in Quip.
Who owns Quip?
Quip has been wholly owned by Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE: CRM) since July 2016, when Salesforce acquired it for an estimated $750 million. It operates as a business unit, not an independent company, and Salesforce disclosed no separate Quip revenue figures.
What is Quip's biggest competitor?
Quip's effective replacement is its own parent's products: Salesforce is steering customers to Slack Canvas (acquired by Salesforce in 2021) and Agentforce as of the March 2026 end-of-life announcement, rather than losing share to an external rival like Notion or Confluence.
Is Quip profitable?
Unknown and now moot. Salesforce never disclosed Quip's standalone revenue or profitability separately from its Sales/Service Cloud reporting, and as of March 2026 Salesforce announced the product's full retirement, ending any future need for such figures.
When will Quip data be deleted?
Per Salesforce's March 3-4, 2026 end-of-life plan, after a customer's subscription ends (no later than March 1, 2027), Quip enters 90 days read-only, then 90 days of blocked logins, then about 30 days before data deletion, meaning data loss could occur by mid to late 2027.
Timeline
  • 2027-03-01Hard cutoff: Quip subscriptions become unrenewable
  • 2026-03-04Salesforce announces full Quip end-of-life
  • 2026-02-17New paid, free, and trial Quip signups closed to non-customers
  • 2025-07-01Zapier integrations for Quip discontinued
  • 2025-03-05Custom Quip Live Apps creation frozen
  • 2024-06-01Windows and Android Quip apps retired
  • 2021-01-01Salesforce acquires Slack, later positioned as Quip's successor
  • 2016-07-01Salesforce acquires Quip for an estimated $750 million
  • 2015-01-01Quip raises at least $30 million led by Greylock Partners
  • 2012-01-01Quip founded by Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs
Revision history
23 July 2026
First assessed. Little protection left. The text above is fixed as of this date and is not edited afterwards.
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