W. Bryan Hill
Thanks, Alex, and good afternoon, everyone. In the second quarter of 2025, we continue to drive strong revenue growth and outperformed our profitability objectives. In the second quarter, we achieved total revenue of $112.1 million, representing year-over-year growth of 36% and organic growth of 28%. We improved adjusted EBITDA to $11.9 million compared to $4.6 million in the year ago quarter. Subscription revenue grew 35% in the second quarter and represented 95% of total revenue. We increased ARR by 32% and exited the quarter at $424 million. We currently have approximately $68 million of ARR backlog for implementation, the majority of which will occur over the next 12 months. Included in our backlog of 40 new digital banking clients representing 1.3 million digital users, we exited the quarter with 280 live clients and 20.9 million registered users on our digital banking platform, representing registered user growth of approximately 2.3 million or 12% compared to last year. Over the last 12 months, we implemented 31 financial institutions and 5 clients left our platform. As a reminder, because of the long-term nature of our contracts, we have 3 to 4 quarters of visibility into upcoming client attrition. Currently, we expect a churn total of 4 clients in 2025, representing less than 1% of ARR. We also have 2 clients merging with existing Alkami digital banking clients where we will retain the digital users. Over the long term, we model digital banking ARR churn at 2% to 3% per year, which we have historically outperformed. Our churn produced higher-than-expected termination fees in the second quarter. And while this was in our 2025 full year expectations, the timing between quarters can be uncertain. As a reminder, the primary driver of our churn is related to M&A within our client base, and we tend to benefit from this activity. In 2025, we expect to net over 300,000 users from financial institution consolidations. We ended the quarter with an RPU of $20.28, up 17% compared to a year ago, driven by the acquisition of MANTL and add-on sales success. We continue to see broad-based demand across our product portfolio. This is reflected in our sales pipeline, new logo and client renewal success, our ability to cross-sell new products into our installed base and now the rate at which we are seeing the market adopt the MANTL onboarding and account opening solution as well as our marketing and data analytics solution. For the second quarter, we signed 9 new digital banking platform clients and renewed 6 existing clients, representing 15 online banking contract signings. One renewal during the quarter was for a top 5 client with over 700,000 digital users. We expect a total of 25 renewals in 2025. MANTL added 23 new clients in the second quarter, including 3 attached to Alkami digital banking wins and 6 that are existing Alkami digital banking clients. Our add-on sales effort continues to increase as a percentage of total sales. For the first half of 2025, our add-on sales effort, excluding MANTL, represented over 60% of new sales for the quarter. This compares to 55% for the first half of 2024. Our remaining performance obligation was approximately $1.6 billion, representing 3.7x our live ARR and up 30% compared to a year ago. Now turning to gross margin. For the second quarter of 2025, we delivered non-GAAP gross margin of 65.1%, representing nearly 200 basis points of expansion compared to the prior year. We achieved gross margin expansion through continued improvement in our hosting costs driven by platform investments as well as operating leverage across our post-sale operations. Moving on to operating expenses. For the second quarter of 2025, operating expense of $61.5 million or 54.8% of revenue represented year-over-year operating leverage of approximately 340 basis points. We primarily drove operating leverage across R&D and G&A, where we continue to realize operational scale. We are on track for adding engineering talent at our global capability center located close to New Delhi and India's national capital region. We now have approximately 70 Alkamists at this facility with an expectation of over 175 Alkamists as we exit 2025. As we discussed the last several quarters, during 2025, we expect to invest approximately $5 million in this facility. We are still planning to complete the transition from our outsourcing partner during 2026 and we do not anticipate any impact on our 2026 financial targets, although we do expect to see a positive impact on margins beyond '26. Related to sales and marketing expense, we typically conduct our client conference in the second calendar quarter, resulting in approximately $3 million in seasonally higher expense during this quarter. However, in 2025, our client conference bridged 2 quarters, resulting in smaller, seasonally higher operating expenses in both quarters. In terms of go-to-market efficiency, we continue to rank among the best in SaaS. Including our MANTL acquisition, sales and marketing expense is expected to be between 15% and 16% of revenue for 2025. Our adjusted EBITDA in the second quarter was $11.9 million, better than the high end of our expectations and representing an adjusted EBITDA margin of 10.6%. The MANTL acquisition was 190 basis points dilutive to our adjusted EBITDA margin, in line with our expectations. We expect a positive adjusted EBITDA contribution from MANTL in 2026. MANTL will continue to be dilutive to adjusted EBITDA margin over the next few years, albeit at a declining level. Turning to our balance sheet. We ended the quarter with $87 million of cash and marketable securities. During the second quarter, we used a portion of our cash on balance sheet to reduce our revolver by $10 million, bringing our current balance to $50 million. Now turning to guidance. For the third quarter of 2025, we are providing guidance for revenue in the range of $112.5 million to $114 million, which represents total revenue growth of 31% to 33%. For adjusted EBITDA, we are providing third quarter guidance in the range of $13 million to $14 million. For full year 2025, we are providing guidance for revenue in the range of $443 million to $447 million, representing total revenue growth of 33% to 34% and organic revenue growth of 25% to 26%. We have not changed our full year revenue guidance from last quarter due to the component of the second quarter beat related to the previously mentioned timing of termination fee revenue. We are also providing full year adjusted EBITDA guidance of $51.5 million to $54 million, representing a raise of $1.8 million above the midpoint of our previous full year guide. In conclusion, we are pleased with our impressive revenue growth and margin expansion. We remain positive about the demand environment and our continuing ability to acquire, grow and retain our clients. This gives us confidence in our ability to achieve our long-term financial objectives and drive shareholder value. And now I'll hand the call to the operator to take your questions.