Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Innodata to Report Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2025 Results Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded on Thursday, February 26, 2026. I would now like to turn the conference over to Amy Agress, General Counsel. Please go ahead.

Thank you, operator. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Our speakers today are Jack Abuhoff, Chairman and CEO of Innodata; and Marissa Espineli, Interim CFO. Also on the call today is Aneesh Pendharkar, Senior Vice President, Finance and Corporate Development. Rahul Singhal, President and Chief Revenue Officer, is unable to be here today, but looks forward to joining us on our next call. We'll hear from Jack first, who will provide perspective about the business, and then Marissa will provide a review of our results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2025. We'll then take questions from analysts. Before we get started, I'd like to remind everyone that during this call, we will be making forward-looking statements, which are predictions, projections and other statements about future events. These statements are based on current expectations, assumptions and estimates and are subject to risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause these results to differ materially are set forth in today's earnings press release in the Risk Factors section of our Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and other reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to update forward-looking information. In addition, during this call, we may discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures. In our earnings release filed with the SEC today as well as in our other SEC filings, which are posted on our website, you will find additional disclosures regarding these non-GAAP financial measures, including reconciliations of these measures with comparable GAAP measures. Thank you. I will now turn the call over to Jack.

Thank you, Amy, and good afternoon, everyone. Q4 was another strong quarter for Innodata. We generated $72.4 million in revenue, reflecting 22% year-over-year growth. This brought our full year revenue to $251.7 million, representing 48% year-over-year growth for 2025. Our Q4 consolidated adjusted gross margin was 42%, exceeding our externally communicated target of 40%. Our adjusted EBITDA totaled $15.7 million or 22% of revenue, also exceeding analyst consensus by $1.2 million. In fact, our results exceeded analyst consensus across the range of key metrics, including revenue, adjusted EBITDA, net income and EPS. We ended the year with $82.2 million in cash, up sequentially by approximately $8.4 million. We achieved these results while making meaningful growth-oriented investments in both COGS and SG&A. In COGS, we carried capacity ahead of revenue ramp, which consistently proved to be the right move. And in SG&A, we invested in engineers, data scientists and customer-facing account leadership, which investments also proved prudent, yielding innovation that has expanded our opportunities. We believe our business momentum to be at an all-time high. We are seeing robust demand across the entire generative AI life cycle, spanning development, evaluation and ongoing model optimization. And we believe we are gaining traction with a broad and diversified number of large customers. As a result of market demand and growing traction, we anticipate another year of potentially extraordinary growth in 2026. We currently estimate our 2026 year-over-year growth to potentially be approximately 35% or more. This estimate reflects active programs, recently awarded wins, late-stage evaluations and opportunities where we have clear line of sight. Because we are early in the year and because LLM initiatives spin up quickly, we believe there may potentially be significant upside to this range. However, we prefer to guide conservatively and adjust upward as visibility increases. At the…

Thank you, Jack, and good afternoon, everyone. Revenue for Q4 2025 reached $72.4 million, up 22% year-over-year. Sequentially, revenue increased 15.7% from Q3's $62.6 million. Adjusted gross profit for Q4 2025 was $30.1 million, an increase of 6% year-over-year and 9% sequentially with an adjusted gross margin of 42%. Adjusted EBITDA was $15.7 million or 22% of revenue and net income for the quarter was $8.8 million. To reiterate, this is net of significantly expanded data science and engineering efforts that are yielding the types of innovations Jack just spoke about. We ended the quarter with $82.2 million in cash, up from $73.9 million at the end of prior quarter and $46.9 million at the year-end 2024, and we did not draw down on our $30 million Wells Fargo credit facility. As Jack mentioned, based on our current momentum, we presently forecast 35% or more year-over-year revenue growth in 2026. Thank you, everyone, for joining us today. Operator, please open the line for questions.

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from George Sutton of Craig-Hallum.

Jack, I feel like I just sat through an advanced AI data science class. So thanks for that. I wanted to step back a little bit because I think people have the assumption that some of what's working for you is somewhat temporary. And I think you've done an interesting job of kind of walking us through in past quarters from post-training as a start to then pretraining. And now there are dramatic other use cases, including things like robotics and autonomous agents. Can you just talk about the breadth of the things you're seeing and sort of where you see us in this continuum of data science opportunity for you?

Sure. Thank you, George. Thank you for the question. So as we look out near term, 2026, we see ourselves as being incredibly well set up by the innovations that we invested in, in 2025. And we see that innovation output as a flywheel. We're getting better. We're getting stronger. We're creating solutions that are solving problems that are the actual impediments that enterprises have when they're looking to integrate AI into their operations. So when you look across the spectrum of current capabilities in AI and future capabilities in things like agentic systems, physical AI, robotics, all of this boils down to challenges in terms of data engineering. Of course, there are going to be continuous improvements in architectures. There'll be bigger models. There'll be narrower models for domain-specific challenges. But at the heart of it, in terms of making systems reliable, making them safe at an enterprise level, it's going to be about innovations such as the ones we're announcing today in data sets that are used for valuation, data sets that are used for training and improving safety and reliability of models. So we think that we're at the very beginning and that our relevance is by no means diminishing, but only increasing. It's increasing not just at the level of foundation model builders, but it's clearly extending through the enterprise. We're super excited about where we are right now and about the uptake that the innovations that we're creating are having and are going to be having over the next several years.

That's great. And then just one other question. Having lived through the last couple of years where you started the years with an expectation and you then ended up meaningfully exceeding those initial expectations. Is anything set up differently going into 2026 relative to what you see in your sights relative to what you're committing to today?

No, not at all. We're following exactly that same methodology. We're really limiting our -- or we're taking a conservative approach to forecasting growth based on opportunities where we have a very clear line of sight, but where we can't predict a close rate, where we can't feel pretty confident in something happening, we're just not baking that into our guidance. Our aspiration is to surprise and to beat expectations. When I look at this year, I think it will likely be another year of doing exactly that. We're seeing enormous opportunity with a much larger set of customers. We think that, that's going to result in growth. I think it's likely that we'll be increasing guidance as we move through the year. And I think it's going to be a year where we accomplish very meaningful customer diversification. On top of that, as we already discussed, I think it's going to be a year where we're starting to see increasingly hybrid human/technologically-driven solutions. That spells or presents the promise, I believe, for increased recurring revenue. I think it promises greater margins over time, greater stickiness, a whole lot of things that will, over time, be, I believe, consistently improving revenue quality as well on top of everything else. In terms of the work we do with foundation model builders, we're seeing tons of traction, not just in our largest customer, but in others as well. We're very much aligned with what they're looking to accomplish and things like long context reasoning improvements. We have innovations that are contributing to that. So we're tremendously excited about where we are right now.

Your next question comes from Hamed Khorsand of BWS Financial.

So just the first question, you were talking earlier about scaling your operations as the revenue ramps. Do you have enough employees now? Do you see the need to add more employees? What's your time line as far as expecting gross margin to move up from here?

Sure. Thanks, Hamed. So I think it really depends on what we're seeing. I think if we begin to project internally growth rates that are very significant, we're going to be making investments in order to ensure that we capture those growth rates. I do think that as a result of digesting some of those people investments that we're making in COGS as a result of the innovations that we're discussing, different things like that, I do think that we're going to be seeing movement back toward our target gross margins over time.

Okay. And then is there a timing as far as this pipeline of deals that you're talking about with other customers other than your largest customer?

So there are pipelines, but we're -- the deals that I'm referring to are largely deals that we're closing or have closed. So we're not depending on -- we're not speculating about what will be happening. These are things that are actively underway.

Your next question comes from Allen Klee of Maxim Group.

For 2025, I think your adjusted EBITDA margin was around 23%. And I know it's important for you to reinvest back into the business for the health of the company. My question is, is there any reason to think that you would target a higher or lower adjusted EBITDA margin than what you did in 2025?

So we're very much focused on seizing opportunity right now. We believe that we can do that and stay profitable. But we also believe that it's more important to seize opportunity and to do some of the things that we are describing and prove out those innovations than it is to track adjusted gross margin percentages and try to maintain a certain percentage. So we're going to be actively reinvesting in the business. The more opportunities we see to some extent, the more we'll be reinvesting. We do believe, though, that maintaining profitability is something that we can do while we drive very aggressive growth and while we become more progressively more critical to a larger and widening set of customers.

Okay. One of the bullet points you had on the innovation was the structural foundation for margin expansion through automation, synthetic data generation and valuation platforms. Can you explain a little what you mean of which margin expansion are you referring to?

Yes. So we're referring to, over time, gross margin expansion. So a lot of the innovations that we're working on now and that we're bringing into the market are hybridizations of software and human teams. And I think that over time, we're going to be seeing the gross margins associated with those capabilities to be perhaps well in excess of the gross margins that we target today.

Got it. That makes a lot of sense. And the last question I had was just for first quarter '26, is there anything you'd want to point out in terms of -- that might stand out just in terms of, I don't know, revenues or expense spend.

Well, I'm not going to say it's next quarter necessarily, but I think very soon we're going to be seeing quarters that from a revenue perspective are beating what our revenue was for an entire year 3 years ago. So that's pretty good news right there. As we move through the year, I think you're going to be seeing more proof points and more evidence and more engagement that we have with some very interesting companies around the innovations that we're describing. I think that we'll start to demonstrate that we're somewhat migrating from a vendor to like a foundational layer within AI ecosystems, becoming someone that is able to unlock the promise of AI within enterprise engagements, a company that's able to help enterprises embrace complex agents that plan, call tools, execute complex workflows and create a lot of value. So I think this -- I think we'll be seeing that. I think we'll see evidence of that in the first quarter. I think we'll continue to see evidence of that through the year.

Maybe one last quick one. When you were talking about your largest customer, I don't know if I fully understand, you mentioned something about $20 million that maybe is going to be replaced with more than that? Or could you just explain a bit?

Yes. I think the point that we were making there is how important innovation is to our company today and how it's becoming increasingly important. There are things that we complete and we're starting new things. And by following the path of innovation by what did Wayne Gretzky used to say by skating to where the puck is going, we're able to deprecate things that the companies no longer require, but be there for them for the things that they're -- that are the emerging requirements. Again, we're seeing the emerging requirements to be more interesting from a business perspective and a revenue quality perspective and a differentiation perspective than the things that came before. So the investments are proving out, they're enabling us to scale and increase the breadth of engagements. They're enabling us to win new engagements and new customers that -- some of which we think are going to be very substantial. They're going to really flower this year. That's going to address the diversification issue. So we're -- when we look at 2026, we see a huge growth year. We believe that we're going to be increasing likely our guidance from what we're starting the year at. We think that the solutions and how we're embedded in workflows is going to be progressively more interesting and margin and revenue enhancing. And it promises to be a tremendous year on all of those fronts.

There are no further questions at this time. I will now turn the call back over to Jack Abuhoff. Please continue.

Thank you, operator. So yes, to wrap up, 2025 was a great year and 2026 holds the promise of being even better. In 2025, we delivered strong top line growth. We exceeded expectations across major financial metrics. We expanded margins. We strengthened our balance sheet. We invested successfully ahead of demand, and those investments proved wildly successful and set us up well for 2026. I believe that 2026 is likely to be an incredible year. We've guided to approximately 35% growth based on visibility today, but I believe there may be very considerable upside to that. We'll update you through the course of the year, much like we have done in the last couple of years. I also want to underscore our belief that this year, we will potentially diversify our revenue stream significantly. And we believe expertly engineered data ecosystems are going to be every bit as important as bigger models and new architectures will be in terms of advancing language models, media models, autonomous agents, robots, world models and other kinds of AI that hasn't even been conceived of yet. So we're very excited about what lies ahead. We're very confident in our positioning. We're very committed to building one of the most important and we think most capable AI enablement companies in the industry. It's going to be an exciting year. So thank you all for being on the journey with us. Look forward to next time.

Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes today's conference call. Thank you for your participation. You may now disconnect.