diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 157978cd..50a68c14 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ No installation is required. This will launch a Jupyter notebook with the quicks
     np.testing.assert_allclose(C_test, C_numpy, atol=1e-3)
 
     # benchmark all functions
-    hat.run_benchmark("hello_accera.hat", batch_size=5, min_time_in_sec=5)
+    hat.run_benchmark("hello_accera.hat", batch_size=5, min_time_in_sec=5, verbose=True)
     ```
 
 6. Run the benchmark to get the execution time results:
diff --git a/docs/demos/quickstart.ipynb b/docs/demos/quickstart.ipynb
index 2692797e..9a1fd651 100644
--- a/docs/demos/quickstart.ipynb
+++ b/docs/demos/quickstart.ipynb
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
     "np.testing.assert_allclose(C_test, C_numpy, atol=1e-3)\n",
     "\n",
     "# benchmark all functions\n",
-    "hat.run_benchmark(\"hello_accera.hat\", batch_size=5, min_time_in_sec=5)"
+    "hat.run_benchmark(\"hello_accera.hat\", batch_size=5, min_time_in_sec=5, verbose=True)"
    ]
   },
   {