Chad R. Richison
Analyst · Barclays
Thanks, James, and thank you to everyone joining our call today. I'll focus my comments on our second quarter achievements and highlight our latest AI command-driven product, IWant. I'll then turn it over to Bob for a review of our second quarter results and an update on our full year guidance. We will then take questions. With that, let's get started. We delivered very strong second quarter results, and we are building on our momentum by continuing to strengthen recurring revenue growth and margin expansion in 2025. Outside sales continues to set records, and we recently released IWant, the most significant product in our company's history. We already have the most automated solution in the industry, and I want delivers even more value to our clients through AI and automation. I want will transform a client's relationship with Paycom and with its own business. Hopefully, everyone has seen the in demo we linked in today's earnings press release issued at the close of the market. If you did, you saw numerous use cases for in on the employee, manager, administrator and executive side of the software. You also saw how I want eliminates the need for a Paycom user to be trained on our software. With IWant's command-driven AI users either type in or leverage voice-activated functionality to command the system, and IWant is designed to immediately provide the answer with accurate results. This means that navigation and asking others for system information is rendered obsolete. A critical component of AI is the data it pulls from. And because IWant pulls from Paycom's single database, it eliminates problems created by inconsistent or duplicative data sets. On the manager side, IWant supports HR teams and organization leaders with instant employee information. For example, a manager can use IWant to pull data on when an employee returns from vacation, see who's clocked in for the day or analyze an employee's pay history. These are just a few examples of the power of IWant. Before IWant, executives like myself were dependent upon others to complete reports and provide critical decision-making information. Today, and IWant's executive mode executives using Paycom now have the information they need at their fingertips, enabling them to be daily users of our solution without ever having to be trained on the system. Just tell it what you want and IWant delivers, making executives even smarter and more effective. Now I can quickly find any information about my staff available in our single database because we track the entire employee life cycle and have data from applicant tracking, onboarding, Paycom Learning, expenses, benefits, time and attendance, payroll, schedules, surveys and more, all accessible through IWant. Early feedback has been phenomenal with clients calling this a total game changer. IWant's command-driven AI engine will increase usage among non-daily users in our system. And I fully expect IWant to increase satisfaction and client ROI. Voice-activated command-driven functionality is the future for all software and Paycom's future started last week. We invest in innovation to increase client value, and this is skilling strong sales for Paycom. Our sales teams continue to set new records every quarter, and I'm very pleased with their strong execution. Our sales force was recently recognized by Selling Power magazine as one of the best sales organizations in the country. This is a testament to our sales leadership, training and culture. Finally, Time Magazine listed Paycom amongst its best companies for a second consecutive year. Newsweek placed Paycom in the top 20 of their inaugural ranking of America's best online platforms and comparably recognized Paycom for best career growth and best leadership teams. I'd like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment that are reflected in these awards. We had very strong results in the first half and we are set up for continued strong momentum for the rest of 2025 and beyond. With that, let me turn it over to Bob.