Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Freshworks fourth quarter and full year 2023 conference call. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there'll be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press s tar one, one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To ask your question, please press star one, one again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to our speaker for today, Joon Huh, VP of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good afternoon, and welcome to Freshworks' fourth quarter and full year 2023 earnings conference call. Joining me today are Girish Mathrubootham, Freshworks' Chief Executive Officer, Dennis Woodside, Freshworks' President, and Tyler Sloat, Freshworks' Chief Financial Officer. The primary purpose of today's call is to provide you with information regarding our fourth quarter and full year 2023 performance and our financial outlook for our first quarter and full year 2024. Some of our discussion and responses to your questions may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are based on Freshworks' current expectations and estimates about its business and industry, including our financial outlook, macroeconomic uncertainties, management's beliefs, and certain other assumptions made by the company, all of which are subject to change. These statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Such risks include, but are not limited to, our ability to sustain our growth, to innovate, to reach our long-term revenue goals, to meet customer demand, and to control costs and improve operating efficiency. For a discussion of additional material risks and other important factors that could affect our results, please refer to today's earnings release, our Form 10-Q from the quarter ended 31 March 2023, and our other periodic filings with the SEC. Freshworks assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this call, except as required by law. During the course of today's call, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations between GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures for historical periods are included in our earnings release, which is available on our investor relations website at ir.freshworks.com. I encourage you to visit our investor relations site to access our earnings release, supplemental earnings slides, periodic SEC reports, a replay of today's call, or to learn more about Freshworks. With that, let me turn it o ver to Girish. Thank you, Joon, and welcome everyone to Freshworks earnings call, covering our fourth quarter and full year of 2023. A year ago, we laid out our growth strategies to focus on product innovation, winning in enterprise, landing and expanding to drive revenue growth, and improving our operating efficiency. Over the course of 2023, we launched the Freshworks Customer Service Suite and a range of AI capabilities like Freddy Self Service, Copilot, and Insights, all in pursuit of our mission to power businesses with AI-enabled software that helps customers optimize their work and boost productivity. We landed or expanded with big brands like Big Lots, S&P Global, FILA, Cineworld, Forbes, LA Dodgers, Nucor, Giant Eagle, and Johnsonville Sausage. We significantly improved our operating efficiency and inflected our financial model. We went from using cash for operations in 2022 to generating $78 million of free cash flow in 2023. Turning to the quarter, I would like to thank the entire Freshworks team for delivering a strong fourth quarter as we outperformed across our key business metrics. Our revenue exceeded the high end of our financial estimates, coming in at $160.1 million for the quarter. We outperformed on Non-GAAP operating margin and delivered a record amount of free cash flow, generating $28.6 million in fourth quarter. For the full year 2023, we finished with revenue of $596.4 million and free cash flow margin of 13%. During today's call, I want to highlight three of our key differentiators and how they helped finish out the year with a strong fourth quarter. The first is the power of our Neo platform, which underpins our product portfolio, giving us the ability to serve enterprise buyers and cross-sell into more departments with multiple products. Second is our AI innovations, which are already helping customers achieve concrete productivity improvements. And third is our talented product development team in India that drives our innovation velocity and brings products to customers faster. Our Neo platform is a critical component of our success and provides all the services that power our product analytics and Freddy AI, offers extensibility and interoperability for our customers through marketplace apps, and offers a unified customer data model across our products. The development and launch of Customer Service Suite illustrates the power of our platform. Customer Service Suite combines three distinct Freshworks product capabilities: generative AI bots, conversational messaging, and ticketing in one integrated solution to meet the many needs of our customers. For example, ClickFunnels, a provider of sales, marketing, e-commerce, and analytics tools, replaced their previous support solution with our Customer Service Suite. The long developer times required to make even the smallest change forced the funnel marketing company to search for a more robust and agile solution. ClickFunnels chose CSS because of our integrated offering that is powered by AI capabilities, resulting in improved resolution rates. According to a Forrester Total Economic Impact report published in fourth quarter, Freshworks CSS customers surveyed could achieve over a 200% return on investment over three years. Our platform also helps us with rapid adoption of new technologies into all of our products. For example, we built generative AI capabilities across our products in just a few months. We started with Freddy Self Service through bots, and later introduced Freddy Copilot, built for Freshchat first and then extended to Freshdesk and Freshs ervice. We are excited about the AI opportunity and potential monetization as Copilot became generally available recently, and we plan to launch Freddy Insights later this year. With Freddy Copilot capabilities in the hands of our customers, we are encouraged by the early results. Several power user customers realized approximately 50% reduction in the resolution times for their customer service agents with the help of Freddy Copilot. As customers grow, many of them will use acquisitions as a part of their growth strategy, and when they do, they have a choice to either cobble together inherited, disparate software solutions or pick one unified solution that works for all, like Freshworks. For example, Frasers Group in the U.K., a retail customer that has grown over four decades and completed several acquisitions. It now represents 70 store brands, including sportswear, games, homeware, fashion, and beauty. After they chose Freshdesk in 2022 to consolidate 16 customer support systems into one, the company saved over $1 million in software licensing costs. Then, in recent months, Frasers Group added our AI-powered bot and can now deflect more than a quarter of their customer interactions from human agents, saving more time and money for the company. For our partners, we are seeing them utilize Freddy Copilot for developers to significantly accelerate the app development cycle. In fourth quarter, one partner, Konnectify, went from publishing 4 apps per month to building an average of 7 per month, a productivity improvement of 75% with the help of Copilot for developers. With the introduction of ChatGPT-4 last year, every company had the chance to reimagine its use of the latest AI technology. One of our strategic advantages in this moment was our access to high-quality talent in India. Our product and engineering teams were able to quickly innovate on our product roadmap. In 2023, this included integrating generative AI into our platform to leverage the latest large language models. This year, we plan to continue to advance our AI features across our products and platform. In CS, we expect to migrate more customers to our integrated customer service suite, which is designed to improve agent productivity. In Freshservice, we plan to enhance ESM, ITOM, and verticalized offerings to fuel upmarket growth and expansion across departments. We plan to make significant upgrades to our sales and marketing products to drive more inbound demand and cross-sell opportunities. Let me now turn it over to Dennis to share what we are seeing in the marketplace, how larger customers are driving our business growth, and how companies are expanding the use of our products. Thank you, Gi, and congratulations to the team for our strong finish to 2023. G talked about our enterprise-grade platform, AI capabilities, and the strategic advantage of our India teams. Now, let me spend some time talking about how these played out for us in our go-to-market success. Macroeconomic pressures and a greater emphasis on fast time to value are leading enterprise companies to choose a smaller number of platform solutions to build their businesses. We believe Freshworks is well-positioned to continue taking advantage of this trend. In 2023, we continued our progress in winning upmarket. In fourth quarter, we closed the year by adding 229 more customers, contributing more than $50,000 in ARR. This represents the highest number of quarterly adds for this customer cohort ever. We also closed a record number of new deals, over $100,000 in both IT and CS segments, contributing to our strong quarter. These include a US-based footwear and apparel company operating in over 120 countries, and a leading wholesaler to millions of restaurants, hotels, and catering firms. As G said, we win with large businesses because of the power of our Neo platform underpinning our multi-product offerings. This enables us to rapidly roll out new technologies like AI, all at a third the cost of larger competitors. Customers across a variety of industries are quickly realizing the benefits. In the CPG sector, Tata Consumer Products is a prime example of our enterprise customers leveraging improved automation workflows. As one of India's leading food and beverage companies, they are the world's second-largest tea manufacturer and operate Starbucks in India. Their legacy ITSM solution provided no control over admin configuration, making it difficult to create automation workflows. At the same time, the company faced an overwhelming volume of email and phone calls. Since adopting Freshservice, email queries have fallen by 21% in five months. In addition, Tata Consumer Products is one of the highest users of Freddy Copilot. For industrials, Klöckner & Co. supplies more than 90,000 customers worldwide with steel and metal products. The company is also digitizing and largely automating its supply and service chain. They needed to find a new self-service tool that's easy to use, fast, and a trustworthy daily assistant. Freshservice beat the competition, helping them optimize budget and repurpose funds for other IT initiatives. Shifting to expansion, we have several paths to grow our business with existing customers. These include agent seat additions, product cross-sells, addition upsells, and enhanced pricing. Our recent introductions of AI capabilities, including bot sessions and copilot add-ons, offer additional opportunities across our 67,100 customers. Digging into our fourth quarter numbers, we're pleased that our Net Dollar Retention increased 1 percentage point quarter-over-quarter to 107% on a constant currency basis. We closed several large expansion deals in fourth quarter as growth expansion improved from the prior quarter and reversed declining trends from earlier in the year. We also continued to improve our dollar-based churn incrementally from the prior quarter. Lastly, our multi-product adoption increased to 26% of our customer base. For example, we saw higher adoption for Freshservice for Business Teams, as accounts grew more than 50% quarter-over-quarter, ending the year with more than 1,000 customers. One of these customers is Brunel University London, a college highly recognized for its research. They serve up to 18,000 students and more than 2,500 staff across the academic year. Already a Freshservice customer, they saw an opportunity to improve and provide a more consistent service experience to departments beyond IT. These include health and safety, campus service, the student center, and student welfare. By adding business agent licenses and workspaces, they reduced the average ticket resolution time from a previous backload log of several weeks to around 4 hours, and achieved over 85% positive customer feedback. We're also seeing expansion from early Freshdesk adopters to the newer Freshworks Customer Service Suite. For example, Canadian-based Carlton One made the switch and has since achieved a 2-hour first response SLA. They are resolving over 1,000 tickets daily and landing a 60% first contact resolution rate through AI and bots. And finally, Freshworks interoperable products give us a natural expansion path across solutions. For example, Agiito, a mid-market travel management company in the UK, first bought Freshdesk. This was to replace an on-premise customer support solution that couldn't deliver unified analytics and limited collaboration across teams. Later, they added Freshcaller and Freshchat to unify support channels, and more recently, in fourth quarter, they rolled out Freshsales to generate more qualified leads. In addition to our powerful platform and multiple expansion paths, what we believe makes Freshworks unique is our go-to-market motions, which include both inbound, product-led growth, and field sales. Our inbound business is primarily marketing-led, while our field business is sales-led. As our company matures, we have hired two proven leaders across these distinct go-to-market motions that can help us scale. In fourth quarter, Mika Yamamoto joined us in the new role of Chief Customer and Marketing Officer to drive greater inbound activity, including responsibility for our customer support, SMB, and commercial sales. Under her leadership, this team will drive our inbound product-led growth motion. Our field sales team will be led by Abe Smith, who I'm excited to announce, has joined as our Chief of Global Field Operations this week. He's a sales executive with nearly 25 years of global experience at Zoom, Oracle, and Cisco, and will lead our talented field team to scale the business. With these changes in the organization, Pradeep Rathinam, our CRO, will be departing Freshworks at the end of this month. Paddy stepped up to lead and stabilize our go-to-market teams during a transition period and delivered a strong fourth quarter to finish out the year. After joining us in 2020 through an acquisition, Paddy made countless contributions, first as our Chief Customer Officer and later as CRO. We thank him and wish him all the best in his future endeavors. Now over to Tyler to go through the fourth quarter and full year financials and talk about how we're driving efficiency. Thanks, Dennis, and thanks again to everyone for joining us. As I reflect on fourth quarter and 2023, I was really pleased with our ability to adapt to a changing macroeconomic environment to deliver durable revenue growth while also improving our operating efficiency throughout the year. Specifically, we continued our product innovation cycles, injecting generative AI capabilities into our offerings. We retooled our go-to-market approach to more efficiently serve our diverse customer base. We brought on new leaders and team members to help drive additional growth. At the same time, we significantly improved our full-year non-GAAP, operating and free cash flow margins by 12 percentage points and 16 percentage points, respectively, compared to the prior year. For our call today, I'll cover the fourth quarter and full year 2023 financial results, provide background on the key metrics, and close with our forward-looking commentary and expectations for first quarter and the full year 2024. I'll include constant currency comparisons for certain metrics to provide a better view of our business trends. As a reminder, most of our discussion will be focused on non-GAAP financial results, which exclude the impact of stock-based compensation expenses and other adjustments. Starting with the income statement, fourth quarter revenue grew 20% year-over-year to $160.1 million. Adjusting for constant currency, revenue growth was 19%, as we saw the positive impacts from currency rates for the euro and pound against the US dollar over the past year. Similar to prior quarters, ITSM continued to drive the majority of our growth in fourth quarter. In addition, we were encouraged to see an improvement in our CS expansion activity quarter-over-quarter. Looking at our margins, non-GAAP gross margin remained flat compared to third quarter at 84%, as we are efficiently scaling the business. Similarly, for the full year 2023, we achieved strong non-GAAP gross margins of 84%, which represents a 150 basis point improvement from the prior year. Turning to our operating metrics. We have two key business metrics: net dollar retention and customers contributing more than $5,000 in ARR. Net dollar retention was 108% in the quarter, which includes a 1 percentage point benefit from FX, and came in ahead of our previous estimates of 105%. In fourth quarter, we saw improvements in both gross expansion and churn rates quarter-over-quarter. The higher expansion rate was mainly driven by strong execution from our field teams, closing a number of large deals with existing customers. This was despite the overall macro demand continuing to feel pressure in fourth quarter. Looking forward, we are planning for first quarter net dollar retention of 106%. Moving to our other key business metric of number of customers contributing more than $5,000 in ARR. This metric grew 14% year-over-year on an as-reported and constant currency basis to 20,261 customers in the quarter, and now represents 89% of our ARR. For our larger customer cohort, contributing more than $50,000 in ARR, we saw strong growth in this cohort of 31% year-over-year to 2,497 customers, and it now represents 48% of our ARR. Adjusting for constant currency, this cohort grew at 30%. As CEO Dennis mentioned earlier, we're excited about our ongoing success in winning upmarket deals. For total customers, we added over 500 net customers and ended the quarter with over 67,100 customers. The lower net adds in the quarter was primarily impacted by higher logo churn from smaller customers in the customer service segment. But we continue to see improvement in ARPA as we focus on attracting higher-yielding, more profitable customers. Moving to calculated billings, balance sheet, and cash items. Calculated billings grew 22% year-over-year to $180.4 million, and 20% on a constant currency basis. Factors including timing, duration of contracts, created a slight benefit of 2% to these growth numbers. Looking ahead to first quarter 2024, our preliminary estimate for calculated billings growth is 16%. For the full year 2024, we expect calculated billings growth to be similar to our expected annual revenue growth rate of 18% to 19%. During the quarter, we generated $28.6 million in free cash flow, and for the full year, we generated $78 million in free cash flow. This annual figure was nearly $70 million above our initial estimates we provided at the start of the year, as we realized efficiencies throughout the year. This improvement was driven by lower-than-expected headcount costs, improvements on our infrastructure spend, and consolidation of vendor spend, resulting in both ongoing efficiencies as well as some one-time benefits. For the full year 2024, we expect to generate approximately $110 million of free cash flow, with approximately $26 million of that in first quarter. We ended fourth quarter maintaining a similar balance to third quarter for cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities with $1.19 billion. We continued to net settle vested equity amounts, using $16 million during the quarter and $68 million for the full year 2023. This activity is reflected in our financing activities and is excluded from free cash flow. Since our IPO in 2021, we have used approximately $239 million in net settlement of vested equity. As we look forward to first quarter, we plan to continue net settling vested equity amounts, resulting in first quarter cash usage of approximately $21 million using current stock price levels. For the full year, we expect to use approximately $80 million to net settle vested equity amounts. Turning to our share count for fourth quarter, we had approximately 326 million shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis as of 31 December 2023, representing share growth of less than 1% from the prior year. The fully diluted calculation consists of approximately 297 million shares outstanding, 27 million related to unvested RSU and PRSU, and 2 million shares related to outstanding options. Let me now provide our forward-looking estimates. For the first quarter of 2024, we expect revenue to be in the range of $162.5 to 164.5 million, growing 18% to 19% year-over-year. Non-GAAP income from operations to be in the range of $12.5 to 14.5 million. And non-GAAP net income per share to be in the range of $0.07 to 0.08, assuming weighted average shares outstanding of approximately 305 million shares. For the full year, 2024, we expect revenue to be in the range of $703.5 to 711.5 million, growing 18% to 19% year-over-year. Non-GAAP income from operations to be in the range of $52 to 60 million, and non-GAAP net income per share to be in the range of $0.29 to 0.31, assuming weighted average shares outstanding of approximately 306.1 million shares. We want to provide our best view of the business as we see it today, and as part of that, I want to call out a couple of assumptions in our financial model. First, our forward-looking estimates are based on FX rates as of 2 February 2024, so any future currency moves are not factored in. Second, we have seasonality in our business, with expenses typically stepping up in second quarter as our annual merit increases come into effect. As a result, we anticipate non-GAAP operating income to be approximately $6 million in second quarter, $15 million in third quarter, and the remainder coming in fourth quarter to add up to the full year amount. Let me close by saying I'm pleased with all that we accomplished in 2023. We continued our rapid pace of innovation and enhanced our go-to-market efforts, all while making meaningful improvements to our operational efficiency. As we look to 2024, we are focused on our growth initiatives, and we're excited for the many opportunities ahead. With that, let us take your questions. Operator? Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star one, one on your telephone. Please wait for your name to be announced before you proceed with your question. One moment while we compile the Q&A roster. The first question that we have today is coming from Scott Berg of Needham. Your line is open. Hi, everyone. Really nice quarter on the sales side, and thanks for taking my questions here. I got a couple. Gee, I wanted to start with what you're seeing on some of the AI front, with some of the functionality that you have in beta. I think one of the concerns amongst investors in enterprise software is, the more prevalent these technologies become, the more they have a chance to eat at seats in a seat-based model like what Freshworks is. And you had commented that in one of your beta customers, they have a 50% improvement in resolution time frame. How do you think about the use or the impact of AI in terms of what your business looks like going forward? Is it just going to be a module that adds, maybe some ARPU uplift for customers, or, you know, is there some seat opportunity, maybe on the positive or the less positive side, that might be impacted as well? Yeah, thanks for the question, Scott. So let me start off by saying, right from the very early days, even before AI, one of the goals for, like, for Freshworks and in particular, on for most technology vendors in customer service or employee services, how can we help businesses drive more automation? Think about IVR driving automation in the call center and things like that, right? So from 2018, we have been helping customers in the Freshdesk, Freshchat business to drive more automation, and that's always a business driver. So what we have with GenAI and Freddy Self Service and Bots is the opportunity to bring a natural language, conversational automation of customer service. And some of the largest B2C companies are using our Freddy AI today for customer service automation. So we actually believe in this, and, it will actually help us, help Freshworks be a beneficiary in driving better automation. And along with a seamless transfer to a live agent, when the actual customer query goes beyond a simple automatable question. So I think, overall, you have to look at it as, how do businesses use automation as the first line of defense, and then seamlessly hand over to a human and, then handle all the complex workflows. We think, we have the best omni-channel customer service product in the industry today, and we will be a big beneficiary of that. Got it. Helpful. Then from a follow-up, Dennis, you mentioned you have a new field sales leader starting. You've obviously helped enact a number of changes to the organization since you came. But with this individual, are there a lot of moving parts that are going to be occurring here in terms of what your go-to-market strategy looks like in 2024? Or is this going to be more of an opportunity to make some subtle adjustments? Thank you. Well, I would say this is more of an opportunity to make subtle adjustments. We announced in fourth quarter that we made a change to separate our inbound business from our field business. That's to create more focus on both that SMB, primarily inbound business from field. Field, we've done quite well over the last year. We have some opportunity in that SMB inbound business, and that's why we brought Mika in. I think today's announcement with Abe is really, really the next step in creating focus on those two businesses as distinct. It's very different going out, negotiating big deals with, you know, large industrial customers, and on the other hand, managing a funnel that's generating thousands of leads every single week. So we want to bring focus to both of those businesses, and that's why we made the change. Very helpful. Thank you, and congrats again on the next quarter. Thank you. Thank you. One moment for the next question. And our next question is coming from Pinjalim Bora of JP Morgan. Your line is open. Oh, great. Thank you for the question. Good to hear about the improvement in the CX expansion side. I wanted to ask you if you can go a little bit deeper. Are you seeing seats start to grow and kind of accelerate there? Or is it- is that expansion characteristic largely driven by the Customer Service Suite, or maybe the pricing changes around bots? Hey, Panjalim, this is Tyler. You know, we actually, in the quarter, we had strong expansion. We called out CX. You know, it's a mix of all of the above, but we did have seat expansion specifically on that mid-market enterprise, which was driving a lot of it. Some of it was pull forwards, early renewals from first quarter with expansion, which I always see as a good sign, that, you know, they're coming... a customer coming up in renewal, and they're going to actually increase their ARR and renew early with us. And so that was encouraging. You know, CX has seen pressure on agents for a couple of years. We've been calling that out, and so we thought it was a really good quarter of execution on that side. Understood, Tyler. Another one for you. The guidance, can you maybe unpack some of the assumptions in the guidance? What are you thinking from a net retention perspective for the whole year on the logo perspective? Are you thinking about macro to be kind of the same? What should we think about from a pricing, leverage, point of view in that guidance? Anything you can add or help? Yeah. So I'll take that in a couple different pieces. On guidance, you mentioned net dollar retention. You know, we have been calling 105, and we really did think it was going to hit 105 in fourth quarter, and we had called that earlier in the year. And, you know, kind of coming into second quarter, third quarter, one of the reasons that we didn't get down to 105 is because we were doing really, really well on churn. In hitting our number for fourth quarter, it was really a combination of churn still getting better, as well as expansion kicking in a little bit. And now we're saying, "Hey, we're going to be at 106 in first quarter." And, you know, we do, we do think that's going to be the number, but previously, we thought we'd stabilize at 105, and now we think we're going to stabilize at 106. And it really is just a reflection of the health of the customer base. On the other areas of guidance on revenue, we are, you know, it's our best estimate based on what we see today, and that kind of 18% to 19% growth. And then billings for the year, we expect to actually track that. We did call out that first quarter, just the way that renewals are kind of falling, and also I just mentioned that we had some early renewals into fourth quarter that pulled some billings from first quarter into fourth quarter. That number is going to be a little bit calculated down, so we expect to be a little bit lower in first quarter, but it really is just around timing. For the year, we actually expect it to track revenue for the full year at 18-19. Understood. Thank you so much. Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question will be coming from Elizabeth Porter of Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Great. Thank you so much. First, I just wanted to ask on the AI monetization impacts. You have some of the usage-based revenue from bots coming in and the Copilot seat add-ons. And I believe Freddy Insights, you mentioned, is coming later this year. So what kind of attach or penetration rates are you assuming, or is this more of an upside driver to guidance? Thanks. Thanks for the question. First of all, I think in terms of adoption so far, we have thousands of customers that have opted into the beta programs for Freddy Self Service, for Insights and for Copilot. And not only have they opted in, but the usage rates amongst those customers is quite high. So we track things like active usage and so forth. We recently put those programs into GA, so you can purchase Insights, or sorry, you can purchase Copilot and Self-Service today on our website if you're a new customer, and then we're moving all the beta customers into paid programs over the next month or so. So we'll start to see the monetization flow through. But for now, we're very much focused on adoption. We're very much focused on the value that those products are providing to our customers. That's a good leading indicator for us. In terms of how we're thinking about it, for the full year, we haven't baked in a meaningful upside to the year from AI, because we wanted to see how things play out before putting anything into our number. Great. And then just as a follow-up, I wanted to hit on margin. You had some really impressive expansion over the last year. Looking ahead, guidance implies more minimal expansion, despite still some of that solid top-line growth. So first, just how should we think about the leverage in any incremental areas of investment in fiscal 2024? And then second, should we just be thinking more about some back-end-loaded linearity to hit your fiscal 2026 targets? Thanks. Yeah. So thanks, Elizabeth. This is Tyler. You know, we did make some huge improvements last year. Some of those improvements were kind of one time, and I, I think we've been pretty consistent. I don't kind of expect the same kind of stairstep improvement coming into fiscal 2024 here. We are still very, very focused on efficiency, but we also think that there's some areas to invest. You know, on the R&D side, it really is going to continue to invest in innovation, and we think that's a big advantage that we have. And on the sales and marketing side, you know, we are going to continue to lean in where we see opportunities, specifically in field and in hiring there, where we see appropriate. We have built in some areas of investment, but while also focusing on driving margin, or driving, you know, more dollars to the bottom line and driving more cash. Great. Thank you. Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question will be coming from Brent Bracelin of Piper Sandler. Your line is open. Hi, guys, this is Hannah Rudoff on for Brent today. Thanks for taking my questions. It's really encouraging to see that record 50K net adds this past quarter. I guess, what do you attribute that to? I imagine a lot of it is ITSM, but some of it was probably driven by that new CS suite as well. So, wondering if you could just talk about the dynamics you witnessed in that cohort. Yeah, you're correct. A lot of it's driven by ITSM, but we're seeing some promising results for CSS. You know, one of the companies that I talked about in the prepared remarks, Carlton One, that's a new CSS customer. They're a loyalty company up in Canada. Klockner, one of the larger steel companies in Europe, that's a new ITSM customer. Tata, also another customer we talked about earlier, that's another ITSM customer. I think it's not just something that we've done in the last quarter, but the investment that we've made in the product over the last couple of years, where we've built out an enterprise-grade ITSM suite, added on ITOM, ITAM, and then more recently, ESM with Freshservice for Business Teams. That really has driven growth of that product. Then with CSS, our customers have a best-in-class, fully integrated product that covers both conversational and traditional ticketing, enhanced by AI. And that's something that really is unique in the marketplace, where if I'm an agent in a single pane of glass, I can ingest and see comments from my customer coming in through WhatsApp, coming in through SMS, or email, or phone, and respond. And that has had a lot of positive acceptance in the market so far. Great, super helpful. And then, Dennis, what do you feel still needs to be done to continue to execute on this upmarket, upmarket motion that you're on right now? And is it just execution, or is there more that you still need to do? You know, we're gonna be making a meaningful investment in partners and partnerships. We announced a couple of weeks ago a partnership with AWS, where they're bringing us into new deals. We're working with them on deals. One of our largest deals with a large apparel maker this year was assisted by AWS. Our customers are able to retire AWS commitments in terms of credits that they've committed to spend over multiple years by buying our software. So that makes the buying process much easier for them. And for us, it speeds the time to sale. So that's an example of a large partner that we think can help us accelerate growth over time. I think just also getting you know, getting better and better at execution. We had our best quarter ever in North America. Not surprisingly, about six months ago, we brought in Will Anastas, who's leading our North America sales effort. So, we're seeing the benefit of some of the big hires that we've made in the last year as well, and we think that will continue with Abe coming in. You know, Abe is a tried-and-true field general, and I think he's gonna up our game even more, as we go to market. Great to hear. Thank you so much. Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question is gonna be coming from Brian Peterson of Raymond James. Your line is open. Hey, guys, thanks for taking the question. So I wanted to follow up on the seat dynamics that improved. You've also mentioned that the overall seat build in CS has been under pressure for a little bit. Do you think we're through that in the broader suite can expand going forward? Curious of your thoughts. Hey, Brian, this is Tyler. You're breaking up, breaking up a little bit, but I think you're asking about kind of seat degradation or just, expansion pressure, and is whether it's over or not. Now, we actually, you know, we saw really good expansion in, in fourth quarter, and, we-- you're right, that we've been talking about kinda agent addition, having, you know, kinda lower amounts over the last, you know, call it year and a half. That has not recovered from what it was several years ago, and we don't, you know, expect it to actually recover right away. There was good signs in fourth quarter, but we're not planning on that just coming back. 'Cause at the same time also, SMB did see some pressure and continue to see pressure, and that's one of the reasons for the, you know, the lower net adds is that at the very long tail of SMB, specifically CX, we saw some logo turn there. In general, what we've been talking about is focusing on figuring out how to expand with our customer base outside of seat addition. If seat addition and agent addition comes back to the levels it was a couple of years ago, that'd be fantastic, but we are very focused on, you know, introducing new products, introducing new feature functionality, moving customers up the addition stack and things like that, as well as, you know, getting them to use more across other divisions. And so that's what our focus is right now. It's not all the way back, but we did have a good expansion quarter. Good to hear. Maybe a follow-up to this, just on the field sales teams, any update on how you're thinking about the pace of incremental hiring in 2024, and any comments that you could make on product levels? Thanks, guys. I think you're asking about the pace of hiring in field is what I heard. You know, we have been hiring in the field and specifically in areas that we think there's opportunity, and we think there's areas to definitely lean in. We're gonna continue to do that. You know, our regional leaders are in place and have been for a while, so Abe's coming in and, you know, is taking that over, and he's gonna, you know, work through. You know, part of the plan is to continue to hire and build out quota capacity 'cause we think there's big opportunity there. Thanks, Tyler. Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question is coming from Alex Zukin of Wolfe Research. Your line is open. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the question, and congrats on a solid quarter. Maybe just the first one, Dennis or Tyler, can maybe just talk about the macro exiting fourth quarter, like, and entering the year. Has it changed? Has it gotten better? Is it different by geography in terms of what you're seeing? And to what extent do you feel like, you know, this was you guys executing, you know, meaningfully better versus the macro changing to the positive? And then I got a quick follow-up. Sure. So I think the trends we saw in fourth quarter were consistent with trends we saw earlier in the year, and that is that in enterprise and mid-market, we continued to see really solid traction. You see it in the 50K ad number. And part of that is because vendors are consolidating spend. They're looking for platforms that can do much more for them. They're looking to bring AI into their operations, their workflows, their help desks, and we can do that. And they're excited about the AI roadmap and what we already have out there in beta and now in GA. So all those things help there. I think on SMB, you know, SMB overall is a bit more challenged. I think that what we're hearing from our customers is the market is under a little bit more pressure if you're a smaller business. There are also things we can do better, and that's, again, going back to driving product-led growth to the next level, aligning marketing more tightly with our SMB efforts. All those things we think will pay off for us. So we think SMB is potentially a source of upside for us going forward. But what we saw in fourth quarter was consistent with prior quarters, where that was the part of the business that was not growing quite as quickly as what we saw in the larger customer cohort. Perfect. And then maybe just a follow-up for G. You've gotten the AI question a couple, a couple of times, but maybe just what are you seeing in terms of early adoption, or learnings from either... Are you seeing more in SMB versus in mid-market enterprise or vice versa, you know, faster versus slower? And what monetization motions, because you have a number of different ones that you're, you know, doing in the field. Which one of those are working the best early on, and that you see potentially kind of getting escape velocity later in the year? Yeah, so I would answer it in two parts. When you look at Freddy Self Service, that is seeing, like we are seeing success with the larger B2C companies, because B2C companies have, like, fewer use cases that are scaling across millions of customers, so it's ripe for automation. But if you look at our Freddy Copilot, that is seeing traction, because it's helping agents get more productive. That we are seeing, like, excitement and adoption across thousands of customers, across customer sizes or segments, SMB as well as mid-market. So, again, where would we get escape velocity? I am hopeful we'll get it in both, but we'll wait to see. It's still early days, and so we will continue to put our heads down and execute and deliver more value for our customers and get escape velocity through both. Perfect. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question will be coming from Ryan MacWilliams of Barclays. Your line is open. Hey, thanks for taking the question, and I definitely want to note your focus on upmarket customers. So it makes sense that, you know, much smaller customers below $5K are churning in the customer service segment. But any reason why those customers are leaving now? Are they just looking for cheaper alternatives, or is it some change in the competitive landscape? Yeah, I wouldn't say that they're necessarily looking for cheaper alternatives. I think, you know, there's natural churn as businesses frankly fail or shrink. And in SMB, you see quite a bit of that. I think we also have had, you know, customers who come in and try the product, find it doesn't fit for whatever reason, what they're looking for, maybe they're too small. And so I wouldn't say there's any one competitor that we find those customers migrating to, if that's your question. Excellent. Then just for Tyler, pleased to see net retention come in better than expected. What are some of the things you would need to see to, like, call a trough? And do you think for Fresh to get back to 110% NRR, we would need to just see a step up in macro? That's like what we're waiting for here. Hey, Ryan. So I think, you know, in terms of a trough, right now, you know, we called 106 for first quarter. We were previously calling 105. We do think 106 is kind of, from what we can see today, the low point now, where I think, you know, we'll hit it and then, you know, possibly stabilize from there. In getting it back up to 110, I think it's a combination of a couple of things. We're still gonna make progress on churn that, you know, we had said, "Hey, when we're public, we're kind of low 20s, total, you know, kind of gross churn, and that now we're mid-teens." And I think we can continue to make subtle progress there, but it's gonna be kind of like, you know, maybe a hundred basis points, two hundred basis points over a longer period of time. So it really is gonna be up to the expansion motion. And, you know, we've got a lot of initiatives there that are in play. We kind of called out what some of those are. In our Investor Day, we actually called out six things that we're working on. The sixth one was kind of, hey, if macro comes back. And t hat would be a no-brainer. I think we would just, you know, get to ride that wave organically. We're not counting on that, and, you know, we don't expect that to happen overnight, and so we are very, very focused on other ways to grow the customer base outside of that. And we do think that eventually we can bring it back up to 1 to 110 based on that, but it's gonna take a little bit of time. That's great. Appreciate the color. Thanks, guys. Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question will be coming from Pat Walravens of JMP Securities. Your line is open. Hi, this is Austin Cole on for Pat. Appreciate you guys taking the question. So I just wanted to kind of piggyback on the answer given to the incremental kind of operating efficiency guidance implied and looking at the flip side of that on the top line. You know, with all the kind of unlocks that you guys are discussing and the, you know, better than expected expansion, improving churn, you know, why might it not be, at this point, prudent to say that this business could grow 20% next year? Thank you. Well, our guide is to a little bit below that. You know, we do build up that guide based on what we see right now. And what we've said is we have a lot of initiatives in play, and those, you know, specifically six things that we called out in our Investor Day, that we said, "Hey, these are gonna be upside to, you know, what is close to a 20% growth rate." But they have to play out, right? And these aren't things that are gonna happen overnight, kind of like the AI monetization that we talk about, that, you know, we said, you know, fourth quarter is like, hopefully, we can come out in the middle of the year and give an update on, you know, what the early signs of monetization there are. We're very, very excited about the initiatives and what the longer-term results could be from those, but they're just gonna take some time to play out, and thus, we can't build them in yet. All right. Thanks a lot. Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question will be coming from Brent Thill of Jefferies. Your line is open. Tyler, everyone appreciates the margin you guys gave us last year, but a fifty point... a fifty basis point increase this year, I think many are scratching their heads. So just to push back a little bit, at your run rate, $600 million, I think everyone's questioning, you know, where all these investments are going. Is this 80% of the field, 20% of the product, 50% field, 50% product? How would you characterize that? Because the natural margin trajectory should be, in my view, a lot better. And again, respect what you gave us last year, so maybe it's just that's it, you just gave us a big margin bump and... But just trying... Yeah. Everything, I was trying to... No, totally get it, Brent. If you look at last year, we did get some one-time benefits, right? And so if you look at, you know, R&D stayed flat for the whole year, you know, year over year compare, and then sales and marketing, slightly higher, but really only $10 million higher, when you look at, you know, kind of 2023 to 2022. And we had said, "Hey, don't expect that same type of efficiencies driving into next year." Especially as we kind of, you know, last year, going into sales and marketing, we really reshuffled a lot of stuff at the beginning of the year and let things settle, and now we feel like they're settled, and it's gonna be time to lean in a little bit and make some investments. We don't want the impression that we're moving away from thinking about efficiency. We are... We, we are very focused on getting to the rule of 40 by 2025, which we called out, and specifically, free cash flow margin and growth. And if you look at what we're guiding to, we're, you know, just under 16% on free cash flow margin for the year and about 18% to 19% on revenue. And so, I feel like that's a pretty good path or trajectory to get us to what we said we're gonna be doing. And, you know, we're not gonna lose sight of that, and we're gonna obviously be as efficient as possible while we're growing. But we do think that if we have the opportunity to grow a little bit faster, we're gonna, we're gonna take that opportunity, and we have to invest first to be able to do that. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. One moment for the next question. Our next question will be coming from Taylor McGinnis of UBS. Your line is open. Yeah, hi. Thanks for taking my question. So if I look at the high end of the FY 2024 revenue guide, it's only a point below the fourth quarter exit rev growth rate, so it implies some stability in top-line growth. So can you talk about what gives you comfort that this outlook still embeds a level of conservatism or any change in the guidance framework? I think even despite the pull forward, you're expecting billing growth to remain more stable, too. So maybe you can just comment on, you know, what you're seeing in the macro or what your assumptions are for ITSM versus CS growth that's supporting that outlook. Thanks. Hey, Taylor, this is Tyler. You know, on the guidance, I think we've tried to get to a cadence that you guys will recognize. We are guiding to what we see, and it's not like we're trying to be overly conservative. We are trying to call it as we see it, and then we will obviously update that every single quarter. For the year, we do think you know, in terms of the growth rate stabilization, we do think we're at a point right now where, okay, expansion and things like that, we don't expect those rates to get worse. We just talked about Net Dollar Retention, that you know, we thought it was gonna be 105. We're actually calling 106 as kind of the bottom now. And we think we have, you know, pretty good view of the business, as it is in front of us. We, you know, again, I'm gonna point to some of the initiatives we're working on and how we're gonna grow faster. We just need to let these things play out, and we'll actually build those in, as we start to see returns on them. It's just too early to be able to do that. But in general, we feel really good about the business, and we're coming off a really good quarter, and, you know, we're pretty positive. Great. Thanks so much. Thank you. The final question for today will be coming from David Hynes of Canaccord Genuity. Your line is open. Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the question. I'm gonna pile on with another AI question. I don't know if it's for Dennis or G, but look, the value prop, the customer examples you're giving us, the early adoption seems very apparent. For the folks that aren't moving forward yet, is it a matter of organizational readiness? Are there price sensitivities in the market? I guess I'm particularly curious on the latter, just given, you know, some of the more advanced AI features are yet to come to market. You know, how sensitive are buyers to price at this point? Any color there would be helpful. Yeah. So this is Dennis. So far, as I said earlier, there's like thousands of customers have opted into the beta. So I think some to one degree or another, all of our customers have some level of interest. Now, some of those customers are gonna be a little more cautious. If they have become reliant on a human-driven interaction, or let's say they have a very high-value customer on the other end, and they prefer to have a human involved, then they're gonna be less likely to adopt Freddy Self Service, but they may adopt our Freddy Copilot product. So, I think it's just a matter of time before all of these opt into some trial of sort. And then it's a question of whether or not they see value in the product. And if they do, that's when we get into a nice discussion about, well, what, you know, what is the investment that they're gonna be making in AI? Are they gonna provision all their agents or some of their agents, and how does that work? So that's a huge opportunity for us this year, and we're seeing with some of the resolution rates, the improvement in call quality and customer interaction, and customer resolution, we're seeing a lot of value come from these AI products, and and customers are recognizing that value. So, we're gonna have to see how it all plays out, but you know, I'm pretty optimistic that this is a huge opportunity for us that's gonna really materialize over the course of the year. Yeah. Okay. That's helpful color. Then, Tyler, maybe a follow-up for you. It's—I think it's been asked a couple different ways, but you have this billion-dollar target out there for 2026. It implies some future acceleration in growth. Do we need to see the macro improve to hit that? Or do you think you can get there with the go-to-market enhancements, the enterprise push, AI, new products, all the stuff that you're doing today? Can you get there in the current environment? Yeah. Our plan is to be able to get there in the current environment. That's not based on macro coming back. Perfect. All right, guys. Thank you. All right, bye. Thank you. Yeah, thanks. Great. Thanks, everybody. This concludes today's conference call. Everyone may disconnect.