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DATE

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. ET

CALL PARTICIPANTS

  • Chief Executive Officer — Ajei Gopal
  • Chief Financial Officer — Rachel Pyles

TAKEAWAYS

  • Total Revenue -- $359 million, up 15.7% year over year driven by healthy demand across customer segments.
  • Non-GAAP Operating Income -- $61 million, representing a 17% non-GAAP operating margin and a 650 basis point year-over-year margin expansion.
  • Free Cash Flow -- $56 million, achieving 20% growth year over year.
  • Current Remaining Performance Obligations (RPO) -- Grew 21% year over year, with the increase attributed primarily to longer average contract durations.
  • Current Deferred Revenue -- Increased by 17% year over year.
  • Large Deal Momentum -- Six-figure annual recurring revenue (ARR) wins grew 24% year over year, marking a shift toward larger-scale customer engagements.
  • Fiscal Q2 2026 Revenue Outlook (period ending June 30, 2026) -- $364 million to $366 million, implying 13% year-over-year growth at the high end.
  • Fiscal Q2 2026 Non-GAAP Operating Margin Guidance -- Expected to be 17.5%-18.5%.
  • Fiscal Full-Year 2026 Revenue Guide (Raised; period ending Dec. 31, 2026) -- Increased to $1.499 billion to $1.53 billion, reflecting 13.6% year-over-year growth at the high end.
  • Fiscal Full-Year 2026 Non-GAAP Operating Margin Guide (Raised) -- Lifted by 50 basis points to 18%-18.5%, which suggests 390-440 basis points of expansion versus prior year.
  • Fiscal Full-Year 2026 Free Cash Flow Margin Guide -- Maintained at 19%, implying approximately 280 basis points of year-over-year expansion.
  • AI Product Developments -- Procore AI agents now execute complex workflow tasks, with new features such as Triggers for automated event-driven workflows and a contract review agent launched in under 30 days and customer-tested.
  • AI Commercialization -- Specialized overlay sales team currently handles AI go-to-market; plan to expand broader field sales enablement starting in fiscal Q3 2026.
  • International Initiatives -- New building information model (BIM) federation and streaming tools launched, targeting European upmarket needs and positioning for ISL-19650 compliance.
  • Strategic Partnerships -- Announced integration with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)'s VSX Blueprint, targeting end-to-end digital thread and infrastructure optimization in AI factory construction.
  • Contract Wins and Expansions -- Trinity Group expanded its construction volume commitment to $1.1 billion (a sixfold increase); Helm Group significantly expanded volume and standardized on Procore after initial rollout success.
  • Operational Progress -- Over 2,000 companies implemented updated Procore Scheduling since its February launch, making it one of the most rapidly adopted products in company history.
  • Shareholder Return Strategy -- Capital allocation emphasizes high ROI organic growth, targeted acquisitions, and opportunistic share repurchases to compound free cash flow per share.

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RISKS

  • Procore anticipates "modest headwinds to gross margin given the increased compute expenses to support these workloads," though management expects internal AI-enabled efficiencies to offset these costs over time.
  • CEO Gopal said, "There is inherently some latency in government contracts," indicating a delayed financial impact following the FedRAMP Moderate authorization despite the longer-term opportunity in the government vertical.

SUMMARY

Procore Technologies (PCOR 11.93%) reported double-digit revenue, margin, and free cash flow growth, increased large deal wins, and raised full-year guidance for both revenue and profitability. Management provided specific detail on rapid AI product integration, including new workflow automation and contract review agents, and concrete plans for expanded AI commercialization beginning in fiscal Q3. International momentum continued with BIM solutions tailored to European regulatory requirements and new strategic alliances, including a high-profile integration with NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA). Targeted capital return, the formal appointment of new CFO Rachel Pyles and CRO Walt Hearn, and ongoing initiatives to drive durable, profitable growth were emphasized as foundational to longer-term leverage.

  • CFO Pyles clarified that both currency effects and the Datagrid acquisition had "immaterial" impact on consolidated top-line results for the period, with organic growth reported in the 15% to 16% range.
  • Management's guidance philosophy remains unchanged, described as "a beaten raise methodology," with fiscal Q2 outlook anchored to high conviction and no underlying expectation of material change in growth trajectory.
  • AI-driven internal efficiency gains are underway in R&D, with additional cost leverage expected to materialize company-wide by 2027.
  • Contract duration extending in prior quarters has elevated RPO growth; management anticipates reported RPO and revenue growth rates will converge over the next three to four quarters as duration stabilizes.
  • Recent product and packaging updates, such as bundled tiered offerings, are described as "early days" but have been "positive" in streamlining the sales cycle and aiding incremental monetization.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

  • Agentic AI: Autonomous AI-driven software agents embedded in Procore's platform to execute construction workflow tasks and decision-making, leveraging proprietary construction-specific data.
  • CRPO (Current Remaining Performance Obligations): Unsatisfied performance obligations expected to be recognized as revenue within one year, used to assess near-term booked business visibility.
  • BIM (Building Information Model): Digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of a construction project, supporting design, planning, and management.
  • ISL-19650: International standard for managing information over the whole lifecycle of a built asset using building information modelling in the context of European construction.
  • FedRAMP Moderate Authorization: U.S. government certification allowing service providers to handle controlled unclassified information for federal contracts meeting specific security standards.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Ajei Gopal: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Continuing our momentum from 2025. Q1 saw strong performance that exceeded the high end of our guidance. For Q1, we delivered 15.7% revenue growth and 17% non-GAAP operating margin, which represents 650 basis points of year-over-year expansion. I'm particularly pleased with these results given the ongoing headwinds from a challenging construction environment. On our last earnings call, I outlined why Procore will be an AI winner. Our flagship products and early investments in AI, including our acquisition of Datagrid, has positioned us well to capitalize on the disruptive technology.

Building on our flagship system of collaboration with nearly 3 million active users and a massive proprietary dynamic data set, Procore AI can deliver outcomes simply not possible with traditional software. In that call, I walked through a real example of a customer using our AI agents as a digital coworker capable of executing complex high effort tests with [indiscernible] a critical advantage for an industry facing a severe labor shortage. This also opened a meaningful new dimension to our TAM as Procore AI can access construction labor budgets well beyond the industry's software spend. Our path forward is defined by a powerful economic duality, upside opportunity through AI monetization and downside protection through our volume-based model.

I believe Procore will unlock unprecedented value as the definitive winner in the Agentic AI era. I would like to begin today's call by discussing the great progress we have made with Procore AI on last call. Then I want to discuss our continuing success with our flagship solutions. Finally, I'll discuss our intention to continue to improve margins and free cash flow per share. Let me start the Procore AI, which include our recent acquisition of Datagrid. I am pleased that the technology integration has proceeded rapidly leveraging the foundational security and platform investments we had made earlier in Helix.

We have taken the best of both products to provide customers with new capabilities and are now executing on a combined product road map for Procore AI. Our solution enables customers to deploy embedded Procore AI agents that can execute tasks such as RFI analysis submittal cross-checking and compliance auditor. We recently released agents in the triggers, which enable customers to define automated event-driven AI workflows transitioning from reactive to proactive test execution across their projects. We are piloting a new voice AI interface designed for field workers who want hands-free access to project data on the job site.

We also recently introduced a specialized contract review agent that can efficiently analyze construction documents that flag any risk in the contract. By building on the foundations already established in Procore AI, we were able to introduce this workflow in fewer than 30 days, and it is already being tested by customers. As the hard Procore AI is a reasoning engine purpose-built to construction. It understands the language and logic of the project. For example, when an RFI is how a submittal connects to a drawing, how a change order gets approved. On top of that, it works as a [indiscernible] system that holds context across multiple steps. It don't just answer a question, it understands the threat.

For example, why is the middle was sent, what is obligate and what needs to happen next. Think of it as a digital coworker that encodes the logical construction decision making, reasoning about the project the way and experienced practitioner would. This data and contact can only be accessed within a system of record and coloration like Procore. That capability is backed by a tool library of dozens of construction-specific capabilities, including co-compliance capulators, drawing analyses and documents cross-referencing engines. And it is still early. As we continue to develop Procore AI, going deeper into our proprietary data and broader across project types, the reasoning engine will only become more capable.

We expect our solution to continue to improve with every layer we unlock, and we have a long runway ahead of us. Turning to go-to-market. We made a deliberate decision to launch Procore AI through a dedicated specialist team working today as an overlay alongside our core sales force. The team is very small and intentionally so. The goal was to learn what the commercial motion looks like before scaling it. We are now working on translating those learnings into enablement for the broader sales force and we expect much of our sales organization to be selling Procore AI in Q3. I'm excited that customers are adopting our Agentic solutions in addition to our flagship offering.

A great example of this is within the estimating department and one of our Enterprise customers Crest operations. Crest is already seeing transformative ROI from Procore AI. For their most complex projects, bidding is an audios process involving thousands of data points across massive sets of doing. By leveraging Procore AI, Crest has done a manual process that could spend weeks of effort down to an automation that can take as little as 20 minutes. This isn't just an incremental improvement in speed. It is a fundamental shift in their competitive advantage, allowing them to bid more accurately respond to opportunities faster and ultimately drive a level of ROI that was previously unattainable. Moving to our flagship solutions.

In Q1, we have driven more innovation at a faster pace than ever before. We expect that these new product capabilities will help to drive sales, increase customer satisfaction, and improve retention. I'll start with the largest and most mature part of our business today, U.S. general contractors. We are focused on improving our platform by enhancing products like quality and safety and by extending Procore Connect to support RFI in addition to drawings. I'm particularly pleased with the general availability of the updated Procore scheduling, our natively connected scheduling solution that has already been implemented by over 2,000 companies since February launch, making it one of the fastest adopted products in our history.

Together, these releases defend and extend our leadership while opening new expansion opportunities in civil and infrastructure construction. In Q1, Trinity Group a long-time GC customer expanded its construction volume commitment to $1.1 billion, a 6x increase. Trinity is evolving from a heavy user of siloed tools into a platform-first organization to support rapid growth and the growing complexity of large-scale bills and is increasingly relying on the Procore platform to help run its business. Now let me move beyond general contractors. On our last call, I focused on owners, including data center operators, this time, I would like to discuss new functionality available to specialty contractors as well as international customers.

For specialty contractors, we introduced materials management which provides end-to-end supply chain visibility for self-perform contractors from procurement and better management through delivery tracking to the job site. This is part of our broader investment in a purpose-built self-perform platform that unifies resource management, financial and scheduling for the specialty and self-perform contractor market. This represents a significant step in our strategy to serve the heavy construction market where equipment costs can be just as material as labor for some projects. Also in Q1, Helm Group, a leading specialty and mechanical contractor in the Midwest, ranked #61 on the E&R 600 significantly expanded its construction volume commitment after 18 months of successful usage.

The company which specializes in major projects like data centers and Northwestern University's new football stadium initially started with only a portion of its construction volume. Following a successful initial rollout of project management tools, Helm Group decided to standardize on Procore. The primary goal of this expansion was to achieve increased labor productivity, mitigate risk and streamline project management operations in a single location. Moving to international markets. We launched a new BIN model federation and streaming viewer, which enable customers to federate and navigate large 3D building information models directly within Procore. A key requirement for winning upmarket in Europe.

This is the anchor of our European common data environment strategy, which combines bin, asset management document management and product execution into an ISL-19650 compliance solution. This positions Pro port as the connected construction platform for markets where CD clients is a contractual requirement. In Q1, we signed a new contract with Collin Construction Limited, a large general contractor headquartered in Dublin. Collin had been using over 25 disconnected point solutions and is now standardized on Procore's unified form to solve reporting and mobile access challenges. The customer anticipates saving over 46,000 labor hours over the next 3 years, the equivalent of more than 13 full-time employees as well as decreasing nonrecoverable change order by 25%. Moving to strategic partnerships.

In Q1, we announced that we are integrating the Procore platform with NVIDIA on [indiscernible] VSX Blueprint to accelerate the building of AI factories and other critical infrastructure. This integration will establish a digital thread throughout the entire construction life cycle to build safer, faster and smarter infrastructure. The combination of Procore and NVIDIA solutions will enable teams to rapidly model design changes using a high fidelity, physically accurate 3D digital twin resulting in infrastructure that comes online faster and is optimized for pet performance. This has started our strategy of developing meaningful relationships with leading vendors that will reap rewards in the long term.

Next, I would like to briefly talk about our use of AI to enable us to grow more efficiently in the future to increase the speed of the organization and to improve margins. Today, every Procore employee has access to at least one AI platform from the leading vendors. In R&D, we're in the middle of incorporating AI to transform our operating model. The part of that organization that have already gone through this position are able to deliver products faster and more efficiently than before. The rest of the organization will follow R&D leads, and we expect to see and efficiencies from these changes to provide our financial model with incremental leverage in 2027 and beyond.

Rachel will expand on this opportunity in a moment. And speaking of Rachel, I'd like to take this opportunity to formally welcome her to the team as our new CFO, along with our new CRO, Walt Hearn. Rachel and Walt, our business and technology [indiscernible] and each held a key leadership role with me at ANSYS. They are highly qualified individuals who is successful in vertical software. We have all worked together and know how to meet challenges and deliver value as a team. I'm excited they are joined Procore at this critical time. I have been CEO of Procore for about 6 months now, and my enthusiasm of the job, the company and the construction industry has only grown.

I remain optimistic for Procore's future, which is reflected in our financial performance for Q1, where we exceeded the high end of guidance and increased our full year outlook. A special thanks to my colleagues at Procore of their hard work and dedication to our customers and stakeholders. Looking to the future, Procore plans to grow its presence in the construction industry become wider in the AI era and continue to compound free cash flow per share. And with that, I'd like to turn the call over to Rachel. Rachel?

Rachel Pyles: Thank you, Ajei, and good morning, everyone. I am incredibly excited to be joining Procore at such a transformative moment. Before we dive deeper into the numbers in the overall business, I would like to briefly touch on why I joined Procore and my approach to the CFO role. Joining this organization represents a rare opportunity to serve as the CFO for a category leader that is digitizing the industry that builds the world. Beyond Procore's established leadership position, I see a compelling financial profile with clear levers for long-term value creation. Furthermore, my prior history with Ajei and Walt ensure strategic alignment from Dave Batten allowing us to move decisively as we scale.

I'm thrilled to be part of this journey and look forward to building on the strong foundation already in place. My philosophy as CFO will be anchored in the pursuit of durable, profitable growth. Given Procore's market opportunity, this should remain our top priority. The pursuit of durable growth will be underpinned by disciplined and thoughtful capital allocation strategy, specifically to reiterate our capital allocation philosophy. First, we will prioritize high ROI organic growth investments. Second, we will remain targeted with acquisitions that accelerate our strategic road map. Finally, we are committed to returning excess capital to shareholders via opportunistic share repurchases.

By aligning our investments with this framework, we aim to consistently compound free cash flow per share, ensuring that our category leadership translates directly into long-term value for our shareholders. Moving on to our Q1 results. Total revenue in Q1 was $359 million, up 15.7% year-over-year. Q1 non-GAAP operating income was $61 million, representing a non-GAAP operating margin of 17% and up 650 basis points year-over-year and free cash flow was $56 million, up 20% year-over-year. As for our key backlog metrics, current RPO grew 21% year-over-year and current deferred revenue grew 17% year-over-year. Turning to commentary on our results. We delivered another quarter of durable revenue growth driven by healthy demand across our customer base.

This performance was underpinned by 3 primary strengths. First, we secured several significant new logo wins that highlight our increasing market share. Second, we saw a meaningful shift towards larger-scale engagements with a 6-plus figure ARR wins growing 24% year-over-year. And finally, we generated strong pipeline in the quarter. This momentum in high-value customer wins and overall pipeline strength gives us confidence in our trajectory and sets that a favorable foundation for 2026. Our strength in the quarter also contributed to strength in CRPO. This metric continues to benefit primarily from longer average contract duration. When normalizing CRPO for this dynamic, the year-over-year growth was consistent with both Q1 revenue growth and ending ARR growth.

Once contract duration stabilizes, reported and normalized CRPO growth will eventually converge with revenue growth. Our performance this quarter unexplored our commitment to driving long-term shareholder value. By delivering durable top line growth, combined with strong year-over-year margin expansion, we improved our growth in year-over-year free cash flow. Those items, coupled with limiting our share count growth via disciplined equity compensation and our share buyback activity drove meaningful improvement in our North Star metric, free cash flow per share. We believe this approach of compounding free cash flow while managing our share count remains the most effective way to maximize returns for our shareholders over time.

Looking ahead and to expand upon Ajei's commentary, we view AI as a fundamental catalyst for our long-term financial profile. On the top line, we expect AI to serve as a tailwind to revenue growth as we monetize high-value capabilities and deepen platform engagement. Regarding our margin profile, we do anticipate modest headwinds to gross margin given the increased compute expenses to support these workloads. However, we expect this to be more than offset by the tailwinds to our operating expenses as we leverage AI to drive internal efficiencies and scale across all functions.

Ultimately, the convergence of durable growth and an optimized cost structure reinforces our conviction that AI will be a powerful tailwind to free cash flow per share, creating a highly efficient engine for long-term shareholder vacuum. With that, let's move on to our outlook. For the second quarter of 2026, we expect revenue between $364 million and $366 million, representing year-over-year growth of 13% at the high end. Q2 non-GAAP operating margin is expected to be between 17.5% and 18.5%. For the full year fiscal '26, we are raising our revenue guide to a range of $1.499 billion to $1.53 billion, representing total year-over-year growth of 13.6% at the high end.

We are also raising our non-GAAP operating margin guidance for the year by 50 basis points to be between 18% and 18.5%, which implies year-over-year margin expansion of 390 to 440 basis points. Finally, we are maintaining our free cash flow margin guidance of 19%, which implies year-over-year free cash flow margin expansion of approximately 280 basis points. To wrap up, we are pleased with the quarter and are excited about the momentum we have created for the remainder of the year. We are confident that we can continue to provide durable growth, margin expansion, limited share count growth and compound free cash flow per share. With that, let me ask the operator to open it up for questions.

Operator: [Operator Instructions] Your first question from the line of Joe Vruwink with Baird.

Joseph Vruwink: [indiscernible] congratulate Rachel on your appointment. I wanted to start with a few things on financials. One is good to see the upside, but the magnitude of upside in revenue and CRPO is, I suppose, a bit less than the prevailing experience where you've been beating by 3% to 4% anything to read into that? And then the second is just on the outlook. You're bringing up the full year by more than the 1Q upside but it looks like that overage or upside remainder is weighted to the second half. Maybe what's informing your expectation there?

Rachel Pyles: Thanks, Joe. I appreciate the question. Excited to be here. First, what I would say about our overall financial deal, we were really pleased with the results. If I think about we had strong pipeline, we had strong new logos. So just overall excited about the performance. In terms of the revenue upside that you saw, that was really consistent with what you saw in Q4 in terms of a beat so nothing really different there. And then if you think about our guide, Q2 at the high end is consistent with the Street estimates. No change in our guidance philosophy. We're still going to give you guidance that we feel a high level of conviction in.

Joseph Vruwink: Great. And then I wanted to ask on broker scheduling and maybe a bit more feedback since general availability. I remember -- there is discussion at ground break, just spotlighting this particular area is one that's really differentiated in terms of pulling in the full Procore platform capability and AI to the extent that this gets adopted or maybe see as a landing point, does it open richer cross-sell opportunities or maybe give customers more obvious and explicit exposure to what Procore AI can do?

Ajei Gopal: Yes. I mean absolutely, Joe, thanks for the question. Look, we're excited about broker scheduling. Firstly, we were able to get the product out and we were able to see very quick adoption because it's essentially natively connected into the platform, and that gives customers tremendous benefits when they take advantage of the product. And obviously, we're in a position to, as part of our strategy, continue to add more AI capabilities, and that will obviously reflect in the flagship products as well.

Operator: Our next question comes from Saket Kaila with Barclays.

Saket Kalia: Welcome, Rachel. Ajei, maybe for you, maybe just to zoom out a little bit. I'd love to get your views on kind of where we are in this construction cycle. There are tons of factors, of course, to consider. But I know you spend a lot of time with customers, what are they saying to you right now just about project starts this year and how they're thinking about the environment?

Ajei Gopal: Saket, thanks for the question. So I would say that the construction environment has been pretty stable, certainly from the -- in the time that I've been with the company now with -- in the conversations that I've had with customers, it's been pretty stable over the last couple of quarters. What I would say, though, is that there's different levels of excitement about certain portions of the business. In fact, last time I talked about data centers, and even though data centers represent a relatively small amount of the overall construction volume, there's a lot of excitement about data centers.

And certainly, there we are in the center of the conversations I mentioned in the script in the prepared remarks, I mentioned our relationship with NVIDIA, where we are working with them on a blueprint to accelerate the building of AI factories and other infrastructure. So those kinds of activities create a lot of excitement because there's those data centers are front and center right now. But otherwise, it's a pretty stable demand environment. And obviously, I'm excited about those conversations with customers because it does reflect their trust in Procore and their perspective on how we can help them as we move forward together.

Saket Kalia: Got it. That makes a ton of sense. Rachel, maybe for you. It was great to see CRPO growth kind of continue at 20%. And of course, you noted the duration benefit there as well. Maybe the question is, how do you think about the glide path for maybe that growth rate starting to converge with revenue growth?

Rachel Pyles: Yes, thanks, Saket. That's a great question. So CRPO has remained strong. We are starting to see that average contract duration start to normalize. So between Q4 and Q1, duration stay kind of roughly flat quarter-over-quarter. If you look forward kind of once that duration does stabilize, it will probably take around 3 to 4 quarters following that stabilization before you see the CRPO and the revenue growth kind of comes together.

Operator: Our next question comes from Dylan Becker with William Baird.

Dylan Becker: Maybe, Ajei, for you to start. It sounds like kind of platform consolidation remains a key theme in kind of the customer conversations and expanding volume. And I think that makes sense, right, in the context of leveraging your agents, utilizing more of the platform to deliver more of that -- realize maybe more of that value. I guess to what extent is that AI conversation playing a role in kind of catalyzing adoption from an industry perspective? And maybe validating the perception or buy-in into Procore AI strategy to help those customers solve for productivity, if that makes sense.

Ajei Gopal: Yes. So if I understand the question, let me just -- let me sort of address it, and then if I miss the point, please ask more. But when I've had a number of conversations with customers about the overall platform and about AI, in general, certainly in the context of construction. When you talk to customers, many of them I mean, they don't really have the time or the inclination to become experts for AI and construction. They look to us as being their technology partner. They've worked with us for years. They trust us. And their objective is they just want to be able to build better projects, that's their business.

And they want to make sure that their vendors, their tech vendors and their tech partners are in a position to do their job, which is to bring them the best and the latest technologies, including, of course, AI to be able to help them perform what they need to do. And so the fact that we are able to provide Agentic AI capabilities that have such compelling value.

The fact that we're able to provide Agentic AI capabilities from within the context within security within the framework of their system of record, of their system of collaboration where they store their data, with the area where they rely on to participate with all of their partners and our projects, I think that gives them a lot of comfort as we are making these investments. So we can have those conversations with them. They see what we're able to do. And that's been very positive for us. And I'll give you an example of customer engagement. We just had one of our largest customers here in Austin for hackathon last week.

And they brought together about 85 of their employees, and it was a multi-day event. And we were able to, in the context of the platform, we were able to post their creation of agents and they've built something like 300 custom automation agents that they were able to pull together for their particular use case. So that just gives you an example of how customers are able to take advantage of our genetic capabilities under the overall umbrella of the Procore platform.

Dylan Becker: Very helpful. And maybe to kind of stick with you or Rachel, love your kind of perspectives here. But as kind of an extension of that, you called out kind of some of the commercial learnings and how you're kind of deploying agents maybe being deployed a bit more broadly in the go-to-market muscle in the third quarter. I guess maybe kind of any learnings in receptivity around what the monetization strategy is going to look like. And then I think -- you also called out the internal efficiency leverage is kind of be felt more into 2027 and beyond.

But maybe just kind of reconciling or how we should think about the timing between 2026 and 2027 for some of these benefits to layer in?

Ajei Gopal: So in terms of the go-to-market, it's pretty much what I said in the script, which is we wanted to make sure that we completed the -- or we made significant progress on the technical integration between the projects. And as you know, we did the acquisition of Datagrid earlier this year that the data grid platform with the data capabilities were integrated into the Helix work that we've done earlier. So there was a lot of good positive energy there from that integration work.

Coming out of that, we have obviously an updated product capability where we're now with a small overlay sales force, as I described, of a very small number of people talking to customers in conjunction with the sales force, but really as an overlay so that we can get the value proposition, the ROI down. And then the expectation, of course, is in Q3 that we'll be in a position to roll it out to the larger sales force. Our expectation is for our genic solutions that we'd be in a position to be able to monetize that and some capacity-based consumption-based licensing structures. In contrast with our ACV-based pricing licensing structures for our flagship offerings.

And so that's the path going forward. As far as the -- I'll let Rachel address the rest of the question.

Rachel Pyles: Yes, absolutely. So Ajei, I think highlighted a lot of the top line benefits that we're expecting from AI and from the token-based model we rolled this out across the sales force and engage our customers. So I'll speak a little bit more about kind of the margin impact. So I think that as we see more agents deployed, we're going to start to see some gross margin headwinds that come from that. Now I think over time, those will really be managed in 2 ways. So first, I'm optimistic that those overall costs themselves will come down kind of over the long term.

Similar to, I think, about a little bit like cloud computing, when cloud computing, everyone moved to the cloud, costs were up, but then over time, those came down and optimistic that will happen here. But even more importantly, on our side, the benefits that we expect from deploying AI within our own workflows across all parts of our organization, I expect will more than offset any headwinds that we see from the gross margin. So I'm really excited about that opportunity and it gives me even more conviction about our margin expansion kind of over the long term.

Dylan Becker: Ultimately, is this more of a fine tune? Or should we expect major changes going forward again? I'm just trying to kind of gauge the approach.

Ajei Gopal: Great question. Thanks. So as I've been looking at the company, look, my core takeaway is that we have a really strong foundation. We certainly have great relationships with customers. We have built a great platform on which to be able to build our products and we've built a great platform in which to be able to sell and support our products. And so I think we're in a good place, of course, where we are today. But the reality is that the world that we're in continues to change the market conditions continue to change. Technology continues to evolve.

And I believe that every company needs to be in a position to change to reflect market circumstances and the need to continue to move faster. And so what I felt was important as we go to this next stage was to make sure that I could bring on a couple of executives who I know well, who would allow us to be able to move really fast in a complex business environment, we stand what it means to run a global business. And certainly, you have that with Walt and Rachel I've worked as well for a number of years. given where we are with the opportunity, we need to continue to be able to move fast.

And I expect Walt to provide leadership along the different dimensions of growth our organization as he has in the past working together with me. So I'm excited about his participation with the company. I'm excited about the foundation that we have and I'm excited about our ability to continue to evolve our business to take advantage of the optionality in front of us.

Dylan Becker: And just a quick follow-on with Rachel saying the guidance at hasn't changed, but you're seeing decelerating growth at least in your guide. So many are asking, are you embedding the potential disruption of more changes in this guy in the front half of the year. Is that why it's so conservative on the total year deceleration?

Rachel Pyles: So if I think about just coming back to our guidance philosophy, we consistently have a beaten raise methodology, and that's what you're seeing us do here. So really nothing different than what we've done historically.

Ajei Gopal: So our expectation is to continue to execute as we improve our business. And so there isn't any subliminal message here.

Operator: Our next question comes from DJ Hynes with Canaccord.

David Hynes: Ajei, do you think the network effects of the business model get any stronger as AI is increasingly embedded into workflows and collaborators get insight into those capabilities. In other words, like is it only the payer that will realize the benefits of Helix and your AI agents? Or does the whole ecosystem equally benefit, which could be a good thing for generating broader demand?

Ajei Gopal: Well, when you think about Procore, Procore is intrinsically a system of collaboration, right? Because if think about the nature of construction. Construction is essentially multiple parties getting together on a project of one and with strong commercial relationships between the parties with an ongoing sequence of changes and modifications, et cetera, based upon the realities of the day-to-day activities that are taking place on the construction side. And so it is intrinsically a system of all parties collaborating in a very safe and secure manner where changes are -- have financial consequences and therefore, need to be audited and managed effectively. That is a -- that is kind of a very unique -- it's a very unique environment.

It's not just a sort of a system of record that's available to just a single party. And as such, when we're in a position to take advantage of and create a genetic workflows the benefit accrues to all of the people who are collaborating on the project because, obviously, as we create digital coworkers, for example, which is one way to think about agents. If you think about digital cowork is helping that allows people to be able to make decisions faster more effectively, that creates more speed that creates more accuracy in the overall collaborative effort on the construction side.

David Hynes: Yes. Yes. Okay. Makes sense. And then, Rachel, I'm not sure if I missed it, but can you give us a sense for how much data grid and FX impacted both revenue and CRPO in the quarter. I think investors are trying to wrap their arms around inorganic ex FX growth rate in the quarter. So anything on that front would be helpful.

Rachel Pyles: Yes, absolutely. So first with FX, FX on our overall consolidated business was immaterial. If you think about where you see FX it comes through in our international business, there was about a 2 percentage point impact in that business. But from a consolidated perspective, it was de minimis. On the Datagrid side as well, data grid, as Ajei said, we're just finishing the integration and going into GA shortly those capabilities. So Datagrid was really immaterial to the overall results. Our organic business continues to grow 15% to 16%.

Operator: Our next question comes from Adam Borg with Stifel.

Adam Borg: Maybe, Ajei, just on the macro going back to that, we talked about it being stable over the last 6 or so months. I'd love to talk a little bit more about the government vertical, in particular, especially following the FedRAMP modern authorization earlier this year.

Ajei Gopal: Yes. Yes. Sorry, you said you want to talk about the government vertical and then I lost you [indiscernible] ask the question.

Adam Borg: Apologies. Yes, just the government vertical, especially following the FedRAMP Moderate authorization earlier this year.

Ajei Gopal: Okay. Yes. So look, I think the FedRAMP thing, we were very excited about the FedRAMP authorization that we got earlier it is fundamentally a longer-term play for us because it allows us to participate in some of these government contracts. There is inherently some latency in government contracts, but it is in order to allow us to participate with them, we need to have that authorization. So government agencies require the authorization, the GCs that build on their behalf required authorization. We're certainly able to have these conversations with customers but the impact takes a little bit of time before from the time of announcement to the time that you can actually see it as well.

Adam Borg: Super clear. And maybe as my quick follow-up. Earlier this year, Procore began offering 4 bundled packages each with 3 tiers. Just curious how that new package and pricing is -- really new packaging has been receptivity from the customer base.

Ajei Gopal: Yes. So we had a chance to roll that out earlier, and the feedback from customers has been positive. I think it gives us an opportunity from a proper perspective to really position the right capability for the customer, depending on what they're looking for. And it certainly gives us an opportunity to generate incremental monetization as our customers move up that packaging stack. So it's still early days, but we're pleased with the capabilities that we have. And frankly, I guess the other point is that the intent behind the packaging was to really streamline the sales cycle.

So it provides an ability for customers to be able to digest kind of a bundled value price as opposed to wondering about multiple a la carte items. And that gives customers a very clear path to being able to add an adoptable products. And so that combination, I think, is something that I think works so well for the customer and frankly, works out well for us as well.

Operator: Our next question comes from Matthew Martino with Goldman Sachs.

Matthew Martino: Ajei, I wanted to touch on international for a moment. With Walt now in the seed, where do you see the most meaningful opportunities to strengthen the international franchise from your here? And how do you think about the trajectory of that part of the business over time? I know you announced some new products as well to capture the upmarket in Europe. So if you could tie all that together.

Ajei Gopal: Yes. So on the new products, just to slide together, we announced a CDE in Europe. And in fact, last week, I believe, we had an innovation conference in London, where customer feedback on the CDE was very positive. I think we had something like 170 regional customers and prospects. We had strategic partners and I think that continues to help reinforce our central role in the construction type system because, certainly, in that geography, the CDE is an important aspect of the tech ecosystem. And so that's one of the reasons why we're very pleased with that. I would say that, overall, if I were to Think about our go-to-market.

I mean, obviously, international has been a relatively smaller part of our business relative to the opportunity. And it's obviously an area where we will spend some more time. I think the U.K., Ireland is where we're spending some initial momentum, but we do see opportunities in EMEA and with Walt in seat, I think we'll have an opportunity to continue to accelerate that part of the business, and we're looking forward to seeing that.

Matthew Martino: Got it. And then, Rachel, for you, you laid out a capital allocation framework across organic investments, targeted M&A and opportunistic share repurchases. So as the new CFO stepping in, how are you thinking about the relative priority of those 3 buckets in the current environment?

Rachel Pyles: Yes, absolutely. Thanks for the question. As I think about it, I really do them in that order. So first, focusing on organic growth and making the right investments there. And then to the extent that we the M&A becomes available that helps us accelerate our strategic road map, we will definitely pursue that. I think about those 2 things kind of one and then the other M&A, you can't always predict when it's going to happen and when it's going to be available. But certainly, we'll look to pursue those opportunities. And then finally, third would be the strategic opportunistic share repurchases.

Operator: Our next question comes from Daniel Jester with BMO Capital Markets.

Daniel Jester: Maybe, Rach, just starting with you on the seasonality of margin performance this year. I think last quarter, it was suggested that maybe the fourth quarter exit rate of margin expansion this year might be a little bit lower from sort of typical events and things like that. Any updated color on how we should be thinking about the margin trajectory this year.

Rachel Pyles: Yes, absolutely. Thanks for the question. So we're confident in kind of our overall margin profile. As you imagine all expenses are linear. And so margin does move around in the quarters. But from an overall perspective, you're very confident in our full year margin expansion numbers.

Daniel Jester: Okay. And then, Ajei, just on the comments about specialty contractors that you made. It's great to hear about that. And I think in the past, I think there's a lot of focus on owners and as great opportunities for Procore. Maybe can you just double-click on the specialty contractor opportunity and how you can maybe see that additive to growth this year?

Ajei Gopal: Well, we certainly -- with respect to specialty contractors, I think we've had, from a product perspective, incremental releases that we talked about. I talked about materials management on the call. And obviously, I talked about equipping telematics. Both of those are areas of products that I think will help with our specialty contractors. I mean we give them essentially a place to manage documents to attract labor to track equipment to coordinate the DCs to get paid faster. So there's a lot of value that we're in a position to provide 2 specialty contractors. I'm excited about the area, and this is this is obviously one of the areas of focus for us as we go forward.

Operator: Our next question comes from Jason Celino with KeyBanc Capital Markets.

Jason Celino: So maybe my first question is kind of the incremental operating leverage comment that you expect to see in 2027 from AI. When we think about this internal AI adoption, I guess where is Procore on that journey today? Or said another way to drive that incremental leverage next year. are those AI efficiencies that you've already implemented? Or is that based on a road map of AI adoption you look to take on?

Ajei Gopal: So let me just jump in here a little bit to talk about kind of where we are today in terms of our use of AI. Look, when you think about -- and I mentioned this in the script, but I'm excited that within our R&D organization, we're in the middle of transforming our operating model using AI. And my expectation is that as we go through that transformation, the rest of the organization will be in a position to follow the lead the R&D organization has -- is driving.

And to be honest, we are already seeing the benefits of that and the part of the R&D organization that has adopted a very different model from a more traditional model, taking advantage of Agentic capabilities. We're starting to see increased speed in terms of product delivery, increased capabilities. So that value and benefit is something they're excited about. We're in the middle of that taking place. And obviously, the rest of the organization will follow. And we expect, obviously, the speed and the efficiencies from those changes are the basis of some of the financial leverage that we talked about for the next year.

Rachel Pyles: To kind of add on to what Ajei said, he mentioned R&D is going first and then the capabilities out to the rest of the organization. But I would also note that we do have AI capabilities in other parts of the organization and our employees have access those tools, although not quite as advanced as on the R&D side. As we go into '27, I'm excited about seeing that all come together and seeing the efficiencies really across all parts of the organization. So I don't -- you're not going to see the leverage coming just from one place. It will really be coming from all lines across the P&L.

Jason Celino: Okay. Great. And then in prior questions, you've talked about seeing a stabilized macro, but maybe going a step deeper in your conversations with customers, how are they managing the increase in oil prices. Obviously, it adds to the project cost, and it doesn't sound like it's affecting near-term project starts, but curious how conversations are going in more recent discussions.

Ajei Gopal: I mean I think the important thing to recognize is the projects that we are involved in working with customers on all long-term projects. And so there it's not about what happens that's perhaps contained to one quarter or another. So no customers have really, in my conversations have really talked about this as being a long-term consideration. And so we continue to see a stable demand environment for the products and from our customers.

Operator: Our next question comes from Ken Wong with Oppenheimer.

Hoi-Fung Wong: When looking at the shape of the guidance, it does seem to imply second half acceleration from 2Q. Should we think of that as just purely mechanical? Or are you guys -- as you think about the business, as you look at what's in the pipeline that there is some business momentum, there is some improvement and an inflection coming in that back half? .

Rachel Pyles: Thanks, Ken. It's really mechanical. So consistent with what you've seen us do in the past, we did a beat and raise this quarter. Again, that no change in our guidance last year. We're continuing to give you guidance that we feel a high level of conviction in.

Hoi-Fung Wong: Got it. And then Ajei, I think it was someone alluded to earlier, but again, great to see you pair up with Walt again. As you and Walt look at the current go-to-market, any additional changes you think that needs to be made whether it's in terms of the organization or just the approach to selling. Any thoughts there that you can share with us?

Ajei Gopal: Well, Walt has been officially in the seat for a little over a month, April 1. So he's still evaluating the organization, the team, et cetera. But look, Walt understands the vertical software motion, he spent years in vertical software. Obviously, we work together in a vertical company -- vertical software company. So he understands the motion. He understands the customers and how to have those conversations.

And he was, frankly, with me working -- we were working very closely together on the journey that we went through in our last company to be in a position to take the sales organization and continue to scale it both internationally as well as across multiple customer segments and continue to expand the business. So I'm excited about Walt's capabilities but certainly, what I can tell you is that even as we make changes, and obviously, every sales leader will find areas of ongoing improvement as we make changes we will -- my expectation is that we will continue to execute as we improve, and I'm excited about that.

Operator: We have reached the end of the Q&A session, and this concludes today's call. Thank you for attending. You may now disconnect.