9/9/2026

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Operator
Conference Operator

Thank you for standing by and welcome to GLUE fiscal second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question, you will need to press star 11 on your telephone. You will then hear a message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, press star 11 again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. Now it's my pleasure to turn the call to the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Oliver Roll. Please proceed.

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Oliver Roll
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

Thank you, Operator, and thank you to all of you for joining our fiscal second quarter earnings conference call. We will be discussing Glue's performance for the second quarter ended July 31st, 2026, as well as providing guidance for our Q3 and fall year 2026. Joining me on today's call are CEO and co-founder Scott Beck and CFO Paul Seamon. Our executive board chair and head of technology, Pat Gelsinger, will also join the Q&A session. Before we begin, please be reminded that this call will contain forward-looking statements, including statements related to our business, future growth, strategic initiatives, key priorities, and our financial outlook for Q3 and fiscal year 2026. These statements are based on Blue's current expectations, but are subject to risks and uncertainties relating to future events and or the future financial performance of Blue. Blue assumes no obligation to update or revise them, whether as a result of new developments or otherwise. Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. A discussion of some of the risks that could cause actual results to differ materially from our forward-looking statements can be found in today's press release and are disclosed under the caption Risk Factors and elsewhere in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, and in our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Our SEC filings are also available on Blue's Investor Relations website at investors.blue.com and the SEC's website. In addition, during today's call, we'll discuss certain non-GAAP financial measures, including adjusted EBITDAs. We use non-GAAP measures in some of our financial discussions as we believe they provide valuable insights on our operational performance and underlying operating results. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, or in isolation from, our GAAP results. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP metrics to the most directly comparable GAAP metrics, as well as the definitions of each measure, their limitations, and our rationale for using them, are included in today's press release and will be included in our Form 10-Q to be filed for the quarter ended July 31, 2026. and now I'll turn the call over to Scott.

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Scott Beck
CEO and Co-Founder

Thank you, Oliver. And thank you for joining us today. Q2 was another solid quarter with revenue increasing 188% year over year to 46.6 million. Since becoming a public company, we've been able to improve our financial performance every quarter. We have met or exceeded guidance each time and are raising our full year revenue guidance once again. Our progress continues to demonstrate that our strategy and our execution is on track. One of the key drivers is our leadership and applied AI for the faith and flourishing ecosystem. This strengthens every layer of our platform, from trusted AI capabilities like Glue AI Studio to AI-powered solutions like Glue 360 to helping customers transform their organizations through agentic workflows. Our approach to applied AI reflects a broader shift in how AI-native companies are creating value. We are increasingly delivering the work and the outcomes our customers need, rather than simply providing a better tool. As AI models improve, that work becomes faster and more efficient to deliver, creating greater value for our customers and expanding operating margins for Glue. That makes continued advancement in the frontier models a powerful tailwind to our overall strategy and growth. When the models get better, we get better. We are seeing that in our customer momentum. Customers are trusting Glue with more of their technology and growth needs. They're engaging with more solutions across our platform, as well as adopting capabilities that we've added through acquisitions. All of this is translating into strong top line growth while we continue to operate with cost discipline and make meaningful progress toward adjusted EBITDA profitability. Since becoming a public company, we've improved adjusted EBITDA every quarter and continue to approach breakeven in Q3 and are committed to achieving adjusted EBITDA profitability in Q4. Our full-year guidance more than doubles revenue in 2026 year-over-year while holding operating expenses approximately flat in absolute dollars. To support that growth and profitability trajectory, we completed meaningful cost actions in Q2, building on the actions that we took last year. We are demonstrating that we can integrate new capabilities, meet significantly greater customer demand, and grow revenue without building a proportionately larger cost base. Behind these results is a large, growing, fragmented, and underserved market. According to Kentley Insights, Faith-based organizations generated over $265 billion in revenue in 2025. That's up 8.2% from $245 billion in revenue in 2024, roughly double the pace of U.S. GDP growth. At the same time, organizations are under increased pressure to modernize technology, operate more efficiently, strengthen donor development, and scale their missions. Our customer needs align directly with our strategy to power technology and to power reach with applied AI. Powering technology helps organizations modernize their systems, data, and workflows so they can spend more time focusing on their mission. Powering reach helps organizations strengthen marketing and engagement, expand awareness, and build the donor relationships that fund their missions so that they can increase their impact in the world. Underpinning both is our leadership and applied AI for the faith and flourishing ecosystem. Organizations are choosing us because they want a trusted partner that can deliver better outcomes with the resources they already have. That's exactly where Glue is positioned to add value. The people and organizations that we serve are amazing. They are changing lives for good and transforming communities in thousands of different ways around the country and around the world. These strategic customer relationships matter. We are closing larger, more strategic relationships that expand both the value that we deliver and the markets that we serve. We now have more than 30 customers representing over $1 million each in annual contract value. In Q2, we reached another important milestone with our first customer exceeding $10 million in annual contract value. In addition, with the acquisition of Cederstone, we've added over 250 new mid-market network capability providers or customers who are well positioned for cross-selling. We also expanded further into social services and youth-serving organizations where our technology, engagement, donor development capabilities lift the technology burdens and help them scale. There are many people and youth in this country who are really struggling, and these organizations are making an enormous difference in their lives and are better able to serve them in partnership with GLOO. These relationships create significant long-term growth opportunities as customers adopt more of the Glue platform. Universities continue to emerge as a strong growth vertical, with over 40 universities in our current client portfolio. Universities face many of the same challenges we see across the broader ecosystem. They have complex technology environments and fragmented data. They have pressure to operate more efficiently. They need to increase enrollment, and they need to strengthen their donor development. Those needs align very well with our platform capabilities. We've added and expanded several university relationships during this quarter, and we have a strong pipeline of additional opportunities ahead. We are not only adding customers, We are also deepening the relationships we already have. In this market, trusted relationships are a non-negotiable. Each capital partner we add to our platform brings its own deep, trusted customer relationships into glue. This creates an increasingly powerful ripple effect within our customers and within the segments. This supports our overall strategy that we call land, expand, and expand. This means once we land with a customer, we not only expand with that specific customer, but we also expand across the segment as well. For example, we already have many of our million-dollar-plus customers adopting solutions from multiple Glue business units and capital partners. This is an important indicator of the opportunity that lies ahead. AI is another strong tailwind for Glue. More organizations are turning to us to apply AI in practical ways that advance their mission, grow their revenue, and make their operations more efficient. We're bringing the power of agentic workflows to organizations in areas like donor engagement Help Desk Automation, Project Management, and many more. These are tangible applications of AI that also give customers better insights into their enterprises while reducing repetitive administrative work and allowing them to focus more on their mission-aligned outcomes. And importantly, as we increasingly deliver the work itself, we rapidly embrace the AI model improvements to even more efficiently deliver the work. Through our forward-deployed engineering model, we work alongside customers to solve specific operational challenges, and then we turn what works into capabilities that can scale across the ecosystem. On September 8th, the company announced GlueCode, a new agentic building capability within the Glue AI Studio that helps developers get more from their tokens by pairing purpose-built agents with the right models for each task. Developers will have the opportunity to use Glue Code at our annual Glue AI Hackathon in October, when we expect hundreds of developers to build new applications for the faith and flourishing ecosystem. Our acquisition strategy is a core part of building a stronger, more durable company. Since becoming a public company, we've completed five additional acquisitions, Westfall Gold, XRI, EMD or Enterprise Market Desk, our remaining ownership stake in Midwestern Interactive, and Cedarstone. That's with EMD closing in Q2 and Midwestern and Cedarstone, which have closed in Q3. Cedarstone is a good example of the cross-selling opportunities that we discussed earlier, with Masterworks providing a natural channel to bring Cedarstone capabilities to more customers. Each one adds capabilities expertise, customer relationships or market access that strengthens the broader Glue platform. As we integrate them, we create new growth opportunities and reduce duplication as we integrate their operations. Our acquisition synergies are working. They improve revenue, financials, and expand what we can do for customers while driving synergies across our platform. This is a powerful flywheel that will ultimately drive meaningful profitability for Glue. So when I look at Q2, I see significant momentum. Our market is massive, growing, and technologically underserved. Our largest relationships are getting bigger and broader. New verticals are opening up. Applied AI is moving into meaningful operational workflows. And the capabilities that we have added across Glue are increasingly working together as one platform. We still have a lot of work ahead of us, but we believe the direction of the business is clear and strong. We're building the leading technology platform, including our capital partners and business units, for the faith and flourishing ecosystem. And we're demonstrating that we can grow the platform with increasing operating leverage. We will remain focused on execution through the second half of the year and delivering on our commitment to achieving adjusted EBITDA profitability in Q4. With that, I'll turn it over to Paul to walk through our financial results in more detail.

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