Thomas Siebel
Analyst · JPMorgan
Thank you, Paul. And hi, everybody. Thank you for joining us today. I'm very pleased to give you a briefing on the results of the quarter that we recently concluded. It was a great quarter. Our third quarter results displayed strength in all aspects of our business, including revenue growth of 42% year-over-year. New business activity was exceptionally strong. Our results were driven by substantially increased sales momentum, due to the successful refocusing of our sales organization, continually expanding customer count, the continual expansions of the C3 application footprints within existing customers, and increased industry diversification for our AI products and sales. Highlights of the third quarter include revenue. Total revenue for the quarter was $69.8 million, an increase of 42% year-over-year. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $57.1 million, an increase of 34%. Customer count increased 82% year-over-year to 218. Non-GAAP gross profit for the quarter was $55.8 million and 80% gross margin. And significantly, our GAAP RPO now represents 168% of Q3 annualized sales. Let me touch on customer wins and expansions. Business from contracts executed in the quarter showed substantially increased industry diversification. 32% was from utilities, 30% of our business was from chemical industry, 20% from agribusiness, 12% from financial services. I've spoken in the past about our emphasis to increase our business with small and medium customers, and I'm pleased to report that we made excellent progress in that regard. During the quarter, we executed 12 agreements of less than $1 million; 3 contracts between $1 million and $5 million; 2 transactions between $5 million and $10 million and 3 agreements in the range of $10 million to $50 million. Shell, which is one of our largest customers, continues to expand its C3 application footprint with over 10,000 devices currently monitored by C3 AI machine learning models and 23 large-scale assets in production deployment, including Pernis, the largest refinery in Europe and Nigeria LNG. Understand it's an asset, we're not talking about here by a pump or we're not talking about a valve. By asset we're talking about Pernis. Pernis, for those who you know, this is the largest refinery in Europe. I think they process 0.5 billion barrels of oil a day, and this would be an asset the size of, say, order of magnitude of, say, 10 aircraft carriers. So that's what they call an asset. And there are 23 assets that size currently in production. Shell currently processes 1.3 trillion predictions per month with the C3 AI Suite. And Shell expanded both the duration and the scale of its contractual relationship with C3 during the quarter. The Department of Defense awarded C3 AI a 5-year $500 million transaction agreement, accelerating the ability for any DoD agency to acquire the company's suite of enterprise AI application products and services basically without an RFP and without competitive bidding. We achieved a new production deployment with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency and secured additional business with the U.S. Space Force. LyondellBasell, one of the world's largest plastics and chemical company, signed a 5-year significantly expanded contract to accelerate the deployment of additional enterprise AI and machine learning applications across the company. Royal Philips, a global leader in health technology, closed a new and expanded contract with C3 to enhance resiliency, visibility and agility for Philips supply chains across the company's North American operations. Cargill substantially increased and extended its C3 AI contract to expand its deployment of C3 AI Supply Chain Suite applications. ENGIE, our energy services partner, expanded the use and extended the term of its C3 AI contract to deliver a broader range of AI-enabled end-to-end energy and sustainability think ESG solutions to serve both the public and private sectors. Swift, the global provider of secured financial messaging services, expanded its relationship with C3 AI, leveraging the C3 AI Financial Services Suite. Our business activity with our joint venture alliance partner, BakerHughesC3.ai continues to accelerate globally. I'll talk more about that later, and our customer count increased substantially year-over-year. Touch upon a few other corporate highlights. Sales in the third fiscal quarter, the company successfully refocused its sales organizations to its traditional strategic accounts engagement model, delivering immediate and positive results. Leadership, C3 AI appointed Lisa Davis to its Board of Directors. Lisa is a recognized global leader in industrial and energy industry, bringing more 30 years' experience to the company. She has served in various capacities and leadership positions with several of the world's largest corporations, including Texaco and Shell and as CEO of Siemens Gas and Power. We received some very significant AI tailwinds in the federal sector when the President signed into law in December, the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. And in that act, Section 227 requires that "the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that to the maximum extent practicable, commercial artificial intelligence companies are able to offer platform, services and applications and tools to the Department of Defense components through processes under Part 12 of the Federal Acquisition Regulations." We believe this represents a secular change in procurement policies for AI solutions for DoD requiring primacy in the selection and use of commercial off-the-shelf software solutions from commercial vendors like C3 AI rather than traditional custom development by custom project-specific developers that have been largely proven to be unsuccessful. We believe this will help to continue to accelerate C3 AI's federal business in the coming years. Importantly, C3 AI opened a new software development and professional services center in Guadalajara, Mexico. We plan to hire as many as 1,000 senior software and service engineers in Mexico over the next few years. C3 AI is making this investment to meet the growing global demand for enterprise AI applications and associated services and because the talent pool in Guadalajara is amongst the best in the world. Comment on cash reserves. With $1.02 billion in cash, cash equivalents and investments, C3 AI is well positioned to continue to invest in market leadership through enterprise AI innovation and brand equity and sales expansion. Let me talk for a minute about go-to-market partners. Our most significant go-to-market partners are Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud and Baker Hughes. Microsoft, we have closed over $250 million in business with Microsoft to date. As I speak, we are currently engaged in over 50 active joint customer discussions. Our qualified joint pipeline that we're ordering together globally is massive. AWS, year-to-date, we've closed over $70 million volume business with AWS, and our AWS joint selling activity has increased substantially in the public sector. Google Cloud, a relatively new partnership. We have 42 joint prospects in active engagement today. Google has assigned a team of 11 full-time professionals to coordinate sales activities with C3. We may literally daily to coordinate sales activities. Google is a platinum sponsor at C3 Transform, our International Users Group conference that will take place in March in Miami. And Thomas Kurian, the Google GCP CEO will be delivering a plenary keynote address at that conference. Baker Hughes remains our most strategic partner. They are also a platinum sponsor of C3 Transform. They will also be delivering a plenary keynote. As you know, in Q3, they expanded their partnership agreement with C3 to substantially increase both the term and the amount of their commitment to us. In the third quarter, 32% of our business was closed through the BakerHughesC3.ai partnership. That's up from 17% or 18% a year ago, and in dollar value, that represents a 700% growth year-over-year. To be clear, all of the business in the partnership in Q3 from the Baker Hughes partnership came from third-party users. None of the business came -- none of the growth in RPO came from Baker Hughes. Baker Hughes currently have 60 full-time professionals coordinating selling with us. Our pipeline and joint sales activities with which we are gauged remains quite healthy. Let me address one more time the -- I'll talk about the addressable market. We are looking at a huge addressable market. Recent data from IDC suggests that the total addressable market for enterprise AI software is exceptionally large to the tune of $365 billion this year and expected to exceed $590 billion in 2025. We believe that C3 AI is, if not the largest, certainly one of the largest participants in this rapidly growing market segment. We continue to be focused on establishing and maintaining market leadership and we believe the company is on track to achieve that objective. Bottom line, it was a great quarter. Sales, growth, partnering, technology leadership and the company is back on track. I wanted to inform you also that last Friday, the company accepted the resignation of Adeel Manzoor, our CFO of 12 weeks, who resigned for entirely personal reasons. Due to the sensitivity of the personal issues involved, we will have no further comment on this matter. That being said, I am pleased to inform you that Juho Parkkinen, our highly experienced Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, has been promoted to the role of acting CFO effective immediately. You'll find that Juho has exceptional expertise and experience in all matters accounting as it relates to C3 AI. And with that, I am pleased to turn that over to my colleague, Juho, to provide additional color on the quarter. Juho?