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RINGCENTRAL, INC. Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference 2026

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Hello? Okay. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. We have RingCentral here this afternoon. Vlad Shmunis, their CEO, and Vaibhav Agarwal, CFO. Welcome back to the conference, guys.

Speaker

Thank you. Awesome. Vlad, let's start with you.

Speaker

How do you define the next chapter for RingCentral, and what are the two to three priorities that will matter most to making it successful?

Vlad ShmunisCEO

Next chapter is to embed AI across the whole portfolio, externally, internally, to become just like an AI-native company. Obviously, we predate AI as an analysis, but we were a stat-native company, and we've moved the industry with that. I think we have a very good chance of doing this again, leveraging the best of AI. Again, that will be both customer-facing, as well as a major revamp of all internal operations to become substantially more efficient and to better serve the needs of the market as well.

Speaker

Okay. All right. Good level set. ARR from customers using at least one of your native paid AI products now represents 13% of ARR, and I think it's doubled over the past year. I guess, what's driving the adoption today, and I guess, what needs to happen for it to broaden meaningfully across your customer base? Maybe we start with you, Vlad, and then we'll move to Vaibhav.

Vlad ShmunisCEO

Yeah, look, we're happy with this progress, but there is a lot more to do. It's only 13%. It's not 30, it's not 90.

Vlad ShmunisCEO

Over time, we see it touching the entire portfolio. Doubling year over year is good. Hopefully, that will continue and maybe even accelerate. Look, there is a lot of demand. AI is absolutely becoming the new reality for everyone, certainly for vast majority of our customer base. How do you get to them? We have 600,000 companies, logos on the platform, so that's a lot. To get through to all of them at the right time, so many times we just get to talk with them around renewal times. Obviously, we're working on PLG type motions as well. We just think that there is a lot of goodness to come, and I think we've shared before, but about half of our new business, if you're looking at new logos, are taking AI. So our AI. Okay? I would say that would be the goalpost is to get from 13 to at least 50, and then we'll go from there.

Speaker

Is there anything to read across in terms of the types of customers that you're landing in these earlier stages, within the installed base or even from a new logo standpoint?

Vlad ShmunisCEO

Yeah. Look, so firstly, so far, our AI has been skewing more down market. There are some very notable exceptions, but majority, I think we're now 16,000 logos last quarter. Can tell you it's meaningfully more than that now. Most of them are smaller businesses, are SMBs. Where it plays the best, but frankly, this applies to almost our entire base anyway, is they are like B2C businesses, which makes us a B2B2C. Okay? So where Ring shines is when we're serving businesses whose customers are consumers who are calling or texting. We have massive amounts of traffic on our network. Some of the numbers we've shared, 40 billion minutes. We're sitting on billions of transcripts and recordings. We're processing billions of text SMS messages. That's across the globe. Hmm, okay.

Vlad ShmunisCEO

As long as consumers are calling their service providers, business providers, we are in a very good position to get in the middle of those transactions and to apply AI before a human picks up, assist a human if there is a human transfer, and then do post-processing and generate insights after the call is done. Okay, so basically, back to your question is, so what makes these customers special is they're the ones dealing with consumers, and they're the ones who need help putting an AI agent at every stage of this consumer-provider interaction, and we're just very strongly positioned there.

Speaker

Okay, great. I want to talk about AIR. I was at Enterprise Connect, I think, last year when you guys introduced that product. I got to see the demo. It was really compelling. Fast-forward to today, more than 16,000 paying customers. Maybe talk to us about, once a customer adopts AIR, what does expansion typically look like? Is it primarily greater usage, deployment across more parts of the organization, adoption of additional RingCentral products? And Vaibhav, feel free to opine as well.

Vlad ShmunisCEO

No. Look, like I say, for now- It's been mostly SMB, so expansion is usage.

Vlad ShmunisCEO

Okay. And there's absolute expansion, just a lot more usage, so it's in the wake of an outcomes-based approach.

Vlad ShmunisCEO

But it also resulted in stickier customers.

Vlad ShmunisCEO

Stickier customers over time will take more product. With larger enterprises, sky's the limit because they can be deploying multiple agents. We have various business models that we offer, but in the end, it is about outcomes, and there is just more outcomes to be had with larger enterprises.

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