Teachizy

Executive Summary

Teachizy works because a French regulation did the segmentation for it. The platform sells course creation software to French independent trainers and small training organizations (organismes de formation) [1, 2], a buyer who must produce audit evidence (connection logs, attendance certificates, completion certificates) to access France's public training funds under the Qualiopi certification regime, mandatory since January 1, 2022 [10, 11]. US incumbents (Kajabi, Teachable, Thinkific, Podia) price in USD, run English-only admin interfaces, and build none of this compliance tooling because the French trainer segment is too small to justify it at their scale [12, 13, 14, 15]. Teachizy stacked three mechanisms on that opening: a forever-free plan with a 9% sales commission that converts trainers at near-zero acquisition cost [1], EUR pricing at 49 euros TTC per month for unlimited usage (roughly a quarter of Kajabi's mid tier) [1, 12], and one-click Qualiopi evidence exports shipped within months of the mandate [5]. The result, per local TrustMRR Stripe-derived data: cumulative gross charge volume of about 2.50 million units across 27,759 charges from November 28, 2020 (four days after launch) through June 9, 2026, with annual charge volume growing 203% in 2022, 75% in 2023, 44% in 2024, and 25% in 2025 [25]. This is charge volume, not audited MRR. The company is bootstrapped: 5,000 euros of capital, confidential accounts, no funding announcements found [3, 4].

The operating pattern worth copying is regulation-as-segmentation: pick a buyer whose paperwork burden is created by local law, sell the paperwork as a feature, and let global incumbents' unit economics keep them out.