Klaviyo, Inc. Series A

Klaviyo, Inc. Series A

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Q2 FY2026 · Earnings Call TranscriptAugust 5, 2026

Operator

Hello, and welcome to the Klaviyo Q2 2026 earnings call. We ask that you please hold all questions until the completion of the formal remarks, at which time you will be given instructions for the question-and-answer session.

Also, as a reminder, this conference is being recorded. If you have any objections, please disconnect at this time.

With that, I would like to turn the call over to Brad Sills, Vice President, Investor Relations. Brad, you may begin.

Brad Sills

Welcome, everybody. We appreciate you joining us.

Joining me today are Klaviyo Co-Founder and Co-CEO Andrew Bialecki, Co-CEO Chano Fernández, and CFO Amanda Whalen. Andrew, Chano, and Amanda will first share their views on the quarter, and then we'll open up the line for your questions.

Our earnings press release, investor presentation, SEC filings, and a replay of today's call can be found on our IR website at investors.klaviyo.com. As a reminder, our commentary today will include non-GAAP measures.

Reconciliations to the most directly comparable GAAP measures can be found in today's earnings press release or earnings release supplemental materials, which can be found on our Investor Relations website. Additionally, some of our comments today contain forward-looking statements that are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, which could change.

Should any of these risks materialize or should our assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual company results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. A description of these risk factors, uncertainties, and assumptions, and other factors that could affect our financial results are included in our filings with the SEC.

We do not undertake any responsibility to update these forward-looking statements except as required by law. Andrew, that concludes my introductions.

We're ready to begin.

Andrew Bialecki

Thanks, Brad, and welcome, everyone. Let's start with the headlines.

Klaviyo has scaled to nearly $1.5 billion in annualized revenue run rate, growing quarterly revenue 26% year on year. We signed our largest deal ever last quarter, an eight-figure multiproduct contract with one of the fastest growing brands in e-commerce.

More than 205,000 brands now rely on Klaviyo. We offer our customers an autonomous B2C CRM.

We've vertically integrated the data infrastructure, experience infrastructure, and the AI and agents to decide which experiences to deliver each consumer to drive better engagement, revenue, and growth. Our customers are proving that the right infrastructure, with all of your customer context, and the right agents can deliver stunning consumer experiences that stand out and turn visitors into customers and keep them coming back.

We're continuing to bet on being the source of truth for a business's consumer context, and embedding that real time into agents and end-consumer experiences. Using the scale and volume of our consumer data points we have to tune and guide AI models and agents, and building all of this faster and with more tailored guidance to each of our customers through our internal use of LLMs and agents.

Every business will have an agent that decides, delivers, and autonomously optimizes the experiences their customers have. That's the promise of an autonomous B2C CRM.

I'd like to take a few minutes to share some updates on both the infrastructure and agentic layers of our products. Our data infrastructure now stores more than 9 billion consumer profiles, and ingests and indexes more than a quarter of a trillion data points every quarter.

We know context is the key for high-performing agents and experiences. We've spent the past few months improving the scalability and burstability of Klaviyo's infrastructure to handle data and messaging workloads that require personalizing and powering up to 100 million marketing messages and experiences in less than 20 minutes.

This helps our largest enterprise customers with massive audiences, as well as AI agents that want to ask more questions and do greater personalization. Having clean data and context is important too.

We've taken that a step further by using machine learning and AI to train models to predict consumer behavior, and this powers features like personalized send times, channel preference, audience optimization, and personalized product and content recommendations. Many of these features are included as part of our data and analytics products, which includes marketing analytics, and those products are collectively growing ARR more than 100% year on year.

Our customers are finding there is real, demonstrable ROI and growth from using AI to improve the marketing and experiences they deliver to consumers. Our marketing platform and infrastructure continue to deliver.

While our messaging volume continues to scale into the hundreds of billions of messages per quarter, our compliance and deliverability infrastructure are continuing to improve. Delivery and engagement rates improved year on year, while unsubscribes, spam, and bounce rates decreased.

We're also seeing the flexibility and scalability of our marketing platform being leveraged by enterprises and advanced users, both human and AI. Multichannel campaigns have increased nearly 50% quarter over quarter, and marketing flows have seen a 48% increase in the number of messages and decision point actions added to those automations.

Our B2C CRM platform sets the table for agents, ones our customers have built outside of Klaviyo, and those we've built for our customers. In June, we launched our Composer agent to all of our customers, and the response has been very exciting.

As a reminder, Composer is our purpose-built agent harness that's trained to excel at analyzing your customers and past marketing, and taking those learnings to create and optimize marketing campaigns and automations. In the first month since launch, Composer already has over 95,000 users.

Very encouragingly, nearly a quarter have turned into recurring weekly Composer users. We've given all of our customers 10,000 credits to experiment and use with Composer, and the feedback has been overwhelming.

We're shipping updates multiple times a day to improve Composer's performance, breadth, and usability. As recently as last week, credit consumption grew 30% week over week.

Usage is broad, from entrepreneurs to enterprise, including 27% of our mid-market and enterprise customers being Composer users, and exhibiting strong repeat usage. To share two examples, a fashion brand used Composer to design and send two marketing campaigns about shoes that were back in stock.

They used Composer to select the audiences and consumers those would go to, asked Composer to calculate the best time to send those campaigns, had Composer run in a loop to review, audit, and optimize their campaigns, ran a test send, and then scheduled both campaigns, all from our agentic interface. Another enterprise US retailer used Composer to audit the performance and logic of marketing flows, and made adjustments that increased performance by tens of thousands of dollars, all in a matter of hours.

This is real agent ROI. I want to comment here on some of the reasons Composer is gaining traction.

First, we've built the ability to understand the structure of data, the ontology and semantics, into Composer to improve our agents' reasoning abilities. Second, Composer understands the style of a brand, what we call their taste, because it has the direct context of marketing and business decisions they've made in the past.

Third, Composer is available where and how users want to work. Fourth, it has access to aggregated knowledge we've curated about what makes marketing and consumer experiences convert.

Focusing on these areas, we believe there's a long runway in front of us to improve agent performance and grow usage. As an example, in just the past few weeks post-launch, we improved the percentage of generated campaigns users ended up using as part of their marketing to 46%, up from 35% just a few weeks ago, as a result of improvements to taste, alignment, and validation.

We have a long list of these types of gains in front of us. Finally, Customer Agent, which gives every business an always-on agent for their customers, covering both support and sales conversations, has seen adoption grow 40% quarter over quarter, and weekly resolution volumes grow nearly 80% since early June.

Boston Proper launched their Customer Agent, and within two weeks had generated 3x ROI in incremental revenue by being embedded on their website, while also resolving autonomously more than half of their support tickets. Earlier this year, we built out an AI agent, which we've embedded into Composer, to help brands automate the setup and ongoing optimization of their Customer Agent.

We believe customer agents are going to be ubiquitous, but many businesses aren't versed in how to configure or improve an agent, and how to measure its performance and quality. For businesses of all sizes, from entrepreneurs and SMBs to enterprises, we're leading in building agents to train the agents that understand your business and can automatically configure, experiment, and optimize agents you deploy to customers that not only handle support cases, but also delight customers and drive revenue and growth.

All of this has resulted in our customers generating nearly $50 billion in attributed revenue, or Klaviyo attributed value, KAV, in the first six months of the year. We've done this while building agents for ourselves, allowing us to increase ARR per Klaviyo by 28% year over year.

We're finding ways to increase our capacity, and with that, our ambition is increasing as well. The opportunity to give every business an agent to help them grow their business and delight customers is clear.

As we announced earlier today, I'm excited to build on our results so far with the acquisition of the Agency team. I've known the founder of Agency, Elias Torres, for over a decade, and he's been on the forefront of AI agents for customer experiences, and is a technologist and a builder I deeply respect.

They'll be joining Klaviyo as our Chief Product Officer, and together, we'll build on the momentum of Composer, Customer Agent, and the entire B2C CRM. Before I hand it over to Chano, I'm excited to welcome Erica Smith as our next CFO.

I'd also like to say a big thank you to Amanda for her leadership over the last four-plus years growing and scaling Klaviyo, championing our customers, and furthering our mission of empowering businesses and creators to own their destiny. With that, over to you, Chano.

Chano Fernández

Thanks, Andrew. I'm about two quarters into this role, and the go-to-market changes we've made are showing up in the numbers.

We strengthened sales leadership and brought up more rigor to our process. In Q2, we saw gains in sales efficiency, both in the Americas and globally.

B2C CRM is a $160 billion-plus market opportunity, and we're capturing more of it every quarter. Moving upmarket, expanding internationally, cross-selling, and pushing beyond retail represent a great long-term growth opportunity for us.

Agents open up an entirely new layer on top of that. Let me walk through where growth is coming from and what's next.

Enterprise momentum is where these changes are showing up first. Many of the enterprise conversations we're having start with the same problem: a business looking to replace a legacy system because it can no longer keep up.

In Q2, our larger customers, those with $50,000-plus ARR, grew 36% year over year to 4,477. This group now represents approximately 40% of total ARR.

Our $1 million-plus ARR customers continue to outpace growth of the overall customer base. This quarter, we were thrilled to welcome Warner Music Group, one of our most significant new contracts to date.

They have over 1,400 artists and millions of fans, and every artist needs to reach their audience in their own voice. Our platform makes that possible by consolidating everything a business knows about its customers in one place, so that every relevant team can act on it real time.

Their head of e-commerce and merchandising recently shared that Klaviyo's tools are second to none, and will be integral to supercharge the e-commerce business they are building. We also won Claire's, replacing two legacy vendors in a competitive bid across email, text, and analytics.

That's our enterprise motion working as designed. We're building champions inside the brand, educating executives on the value of consolidation, and clearing procurement and CIO approval.

We're also selling deeper into the existing customer base, with strong expansion led by text messaging. We're also winning downmarket, as can be seen with strong net adds, which were up 29% year on year.

We're seeing more multiyear commitments and more products being sold across our base, as our 205,000-plus customers increasingly use Klaviyo as a full, complete platform. Which brings me to our second growth lever: multiproduct adoption.

In Q2, nearly 20% of ARR came from customers using three or more products. This is important because our multiproduct customers retain more than six points better on gross retention than single-product customers.

Our largest ever omnichannel deal closed this quarter, an eight-figure, two-year agreement with one of the fastest growing brands in e-commerce and a top seller on TikTok Shop. They're running their entire program on Klaviyo: email, text, and marketing analytics, because of the value of unifying on one data-powered platform.

We're also extending Klaviyo's relevance beyond traditional e-commerce. This quarter brought our first NFL franchise, the San Francisco 49ers, plus hospitality names like SweatHouz.

Every business that wants a direct, personalized relationship with its customers is a business we can serve, and that keeps widening the market in front of us. That brings me to our third growth lever: international.

Revenue outside the Americas was up 35% year on year. With the go-to-market and product investments we've made to internationalize Klaviyo, the runway ahead remains significant.

EMEA revenue outside the UK was up 41% year on year, and we move into Q3 with our strongest large-deal pipeline in EMEA yet. K London drew more than 1,000 attendees, and our Paris and Berlin events were at capacity.

We're backing that momentum with a new France office and an EU data center coming in the second half of the year. In EMEA, The Body Shop expanded from the UK into email, WhatsApp, and marketing analytics across Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, and the Netherlands.

In APAC, we closed one of our largest new logos deal ever in the region with Country Road Group. I was in the region and met with their team, I heard firsthand what choosing Klaviyo meant for them.

It was a competitive multistage RFP win that consolidated five brands' fragmented stack onto one platform, sourced through our first global AWS Marketplace deal. The focus is to get the same big-deal motion and country-by-country expansion moving at the pace EMEA is moving at today.

In the Americas, we're focusing resources where we see the biggest opportunities: enterprise, a stronger cross-sell motion, and new verticals. We're also investing in product specialist roles so our teams can go deeper with customers as they adopt more of the platform.

Before I close, echoing Andrew's note, Amanda, thank you for everything you built here. We're grateful you will stay in an advisory role through November.

We're thrilled to welcome Erica Smith as our next CFO on September 1st. She brings deep software experience at the scale we're hitting into, and the handoff is going to be seamless.

With that, I'll turn it over to Amanda.

Amanda Whalen

Thanks, Chano and AB. The growth we're building for the long term is broad-based as we expand across enterprise, international, and multiproduct, and make advancements with our agentic solutions.

Q2 was a strong quarter, with revenue of $370.6 million, up 26% year over year and ahead of our guidance, driven by notable strength in text messaging, WhatsApp, and growth in marketing analytics. It was a strong quarter for new business, driven by sizable enterprise deals and cross-sell momentum across the base.

This is proof that customers of all sizes are increasingly valuing Klaviyo as their B2C CRM platform. As Chano mentioned, in the enterprise, we're winning new customers from larger legacy vendors.

The pipeline in this segment is growing, and we have the team and the platform to serve this market at scale. The value that customers realize from our platform continues to expand.

Our attributed revenue, or KAV, per message continues to grow, driven by increasing personalization powered by automation. Our customers continue to shift their messaging volumes towards automated flows, which generate 10 times more revenue per message compared to static campaigns.

Because our usage-based model is directly aligned with customer success, as customers realize more value, they grow and expand, and we grow alongside them. Net revenue retention was 109% in Q2, reflecting strengthening gross retention, increasing text messaging expansion, and our strongest quarter of cross-sell since our IPO.

These were offset by the lapping of last year's profile enforcement, which will continue to impact NRR through Q1. It's important to remember that NRR is a trailing 12-month metric, and the leading indicators of our business are strong: customers are staying with us, expanding with us, and buying more products from us.

Turning to the P&L, non-GAAP gross margin was 73.4%, down three points year over year, driven by strong growth in text messaging along with higher carrier fees, which we chose to fully absorb in prior quarters. In Q3, we updated our mobile pricing to pass the higher carrier fees onto customers going forward, along with other changes to reduce friction in our mobile pricing mechanics.

The new pricing will start to flow through gradually as we cycle through renewals. Due to timing and various puts and takes, this will be neutral to 2026 revenue and gross margin, but an overall positive impact for our customers and for the business.

While growth in the text business impacts gross margin, it's an important channel for Klaviyo. Text has strong unit economics, driven by its lower cost of acquisition and higher rates of expansion.

It also positions us as our customers' omnichannel platform of choice, driving higher retention and enabling a long runway to cross-sell other products with higher margins over time. Non-GAAP operating expenses were approximately 60% of revenue, down roughly three points year on year.

Relative to last year, we saw leverage in sales and marketing and G&A, while R&D as a percentage of revenue increased slightly from investments we're making behind product innovation to drive our next phase of growth. The results of these investments can be seen in our increased pace of product launches in the quarter, including the important advances with Composer and Customer Agent.

Non-GAAP operating income was $50.9 million in Q2, representing a 13.7% non-GAAP operating margin. We continue to drive efficient growth at scale, with another quarter of operating at the Rule of 40.

Turning to the balance sheet, we generated $83 million of cash and ended the quarter with a total cash balance of $833 million. We used approximately $240 million in cash to repurchase shares during the quarter, leaving us with $160 million in capacity under the $500 million buyback authorization we announced in March.

We've remained active in the market, and expect to continue repurchasing our stock under this program, as we believe our current valuation represents an attractive opportunity. Our strong cash position provides us with the flexibility to also continue investing in growth and pursuing M&A that accelerates our roadmap, as Andrew noted earlier with our acquisition of Agency.

Turning to our outlook, based on the Q2 outperformance and the broad momentum we're seeing, we are raising our full year 2026 revenue guidance by $12 million at the midpoint, higher than our beat this quarter. We now project 2026 revenue between $1.526 billion and $1.534 billion, representing 24% year-over-year growth.

We are revising our full year 2026 non-GAAP operating income guidance down to a range of $212 to $218 million, with non-GAAP operating margin of approximately 14%. This amounts to a $10 million reduction from the midpoint of our prior outlook, and includes $10 to $12 million in costs associated with our Agency acquisition, as well as continued investment behind product innovation.

For Q3, we expect revenue in the range of $377 to $381 million, representing growth of approximately 21.5 to 22.5%. We expect non-GAAP operating income of $40 to $43 million, or a non-GAAP operating margin of 10.5 to 11%.

We expect non-GAAP gross margin to be down slightly in Q3 versus Q2, followed by a greater than normal seasonal step-down in Q4 as we continue to see text growth outpace total company. To close, this was a strong quarter as customers increasingly lean into Klaviyo as a platform solution.

Our business model is built for the long term, with compounding growth across enterprise, international, and multiproduct adoption. With agents, we're at the very start of our next S-curve.

The B2C CRM market is large, and the opportunity ahead for Klaviyo is significant. On a personal note, this is my last earnings call as CFO at Klaviyo.

I still remember my first whiteboarding session with Andrew. I left that conversation convinced of the power of the model, the size of the opportunity, and the strength of the team.

Everything since has reinforced it. It's been a privilege to build this business alongside you, Andrew, and Chano, and this entire team.

I'm grateful to all of you on the line as well. I leave with confidence in the business, and confidence knowing it is in strong hands with Erica as she steps in.

Thank you. With that, we'll open the call for questions.

Operator

Thank you. At this time, if you would like to ask a question, please click on the raise hand button, which can be found on the black bar at the bottom of your screen.

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Our first question comes from Elizabeth Porter from Morgan Stanley. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

Elizabeth Porter

Great. Thank you so much for the question.

Amanda, I just want to say it's been great to work with you and wishing you the best of luck in the next chapter. For my first question, I wanted to dig in a bit on Composer.

It was really great to hear about some of the adoption metrics. Historically, we think about the number of campaigns a brand could run really being constrained by just that available marketing headcount and production capacity.

As Composer removes some of that bottleneck, what have you seen from the early adopters in terms of that campaign creation velocity, and how that's translating to potentially higher customer contract volumes and incremental platform usage? Thanks.

Andrew Bialecki

Thanks, Elizabeth. We're obviously a month out from launch, and the results have been, I think, really great.

Like you said, let me frame it up for folks. The way we think about Composer is it helps with really, let's say, three different things: one is doing the research that sort of comes before actually building a marketing campaign or automation, actually then generating that campaign of our marketing flow, and then the third is actually helping verify, make sure that it's right, that it's optimized, and ongoing optimization.

We've actually spent a lot of time on those first two categories of helping customers do the research, figure out which customers might be interested in which products or services, where there are opportunities, and then also with the actual creative generation. We've been very excited to see the number of campaigns people are building.

We talked about some examples. Something that's become pretty common for these weekly active users is people coming in, building either prompts with Composer to sort of figure out what they want to do or bringing prompts they've integrated from other places, maybe from another document or another chat that they've had, and then generating that.

What's great is often times those briefs, they've got an idea of what they want to do, but like I shared in the example, they may say things like, "Well, I'm not actually sure what the right time to send this is, or who exactly is the right audience." What's great is they can use all the information they have stored in Klaviyo, all the historical data, to basically allow Composer to pick that.

Then when you think about a little bit of the question on how does that flow through into incremental usage, one thing we've definitely seen is that customers, they're rate-limited by the ideas they have and then how fast they can execute. We are seeing folks that use Composer, they're using more of Klaviyo.

Now, because our core pricing axis is the profile, we're finding is that's driving more engagement per profile, and therefore, more Klaviyo attributed value and more attributed revenue. That's why we're watching that, that's why we're seeing a lot of folks use Composer.

We think some of that will flow through and help, for instance, we see some folks sending more text messages because Composer's creating those campaigns, but we actually think a lot of the value is going to come from that increased attributed revenue. Ultimately, people are going to spend on Composer credits to help them do that ideation and generation, knowing that it's going to drive that incremental revenue and sales.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Raimo Lenschow from Barclays.

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Please go ahead.

Amanda Whalen

We can go ahead to the next one.

Operator

Our next question comes from Arjun Bhatia from William Blair & Co. Please unmute your line and ask your question.

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Arjun Bhatia

All right. Thank you very much.

I'm curious maybe two-parter, just on SMS. It seems like that's seeing a lot of solid traction.

I'm curious if there's been an inflection there or it's just maybe a factor of Klaviyo moving further upmarket and seeing enterprise success. Then the follow-up for Amanda, I'm curious on the gross margin front, what the pass-through of the carrier fees, how much of that is weighing on gross margin this quarter?

If there's any way we can quantify that to just help us with our models, that would be super helpful. Thank you very much.

Andrew Bialecki

Thanks for the question. I'll take the first part on text.

That's the right read. We've definitely seen really great growth from text and now also WhatsApp as a channel.

We've seen those messaging channels grow, and what customers are telling us when hearing them is, "Hey, we want to put all these messaging channels in one platform." We know Klaviyo has that centralized profile.

I can use all the same personalization. I can use it across channels.

I can coordinate across channels. I've shared the stat that we're actually seeing a pretty dramatic increase, I think it's 50%, quarter on quarter, of people building multichannel campaigns.

This idea from maybe a couple years ago that you'd run these channels independently, we're seeing a lot of our customers say that that doesn't work for them. That's as part of our vision around what is the B2C, the consumer CRM.

Then yes, we are definitely seeing a lot of larger enterprises also choose to consolidate. They might start with Klaviyo for email, but now they're moving over text messaging and WhatsApp.

They're then using our marketing analytics products for personalization, and then obviously using Composer to stitch all of that together. That's a very common pattern we're seeing comes to people consolidating their marketing tech stack.

Amanda Whalen

Yep. To your question on gross margin, Arjun, the way that I would think about that is that there were three primary drivers that were happening during the quarter.

Those were carrier fee impact, investments we were making in infrastructure, and the increasing presence of text in our business. On carrier fees, as we mentioned, we made a change in Q3, and we are now pricing our mobile business to pass through the carrier fee increases that we have seen to our customers.

As you look out over the balance of the year, we would expect that to be neutral both to gross margin and to revenue, just due to the timing of how it flows through renewals as contracts come up for renewal. On infrastructure, we're making investments to drive product innovation and to drive growth.

I think the track record that you have seen from us over time is that we make these investments from time to time, and then we've got a strong track record of having them deliver leverage as we continue to grow, and the team is very focused on that going forward. Then the last is text, and the increasing portion of text that that's making up of our business.

As Andrew just said, we're seeing tremendous success there. That is a strategic choice that we're making.

Text, for us, is a really strong business because it's got good standalone unit economics, and it plays an important strategic role in the broader portfolio. On a standalone basis, it comes with a lower CAC because it's primarily cross-sold, and it comes with higher expansion because as customers get accustomed to using it, they continue to grow their expansion and grow their usage at a pretty rapid pace.

Then strategically, having a multiproduct customer really positions us as those customers' broader B2C CRM platform, their omnichannel platform and partner of choice. That drives stronger retention, as Chano mentioned, over six points higher for customers who are multiproduct.

It drives the runway and the potential for us to cross-sell more higher-margin products in there over time. Bottom line is that gross margin was driven by this combination of different strategic choices.

Carrier fees are now being passed through. The strategic choices that we're making with the growth in text drives positive benefits for the business over the long term.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Tyler Radke from Citi.

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Tyler Radke

Hi there. Sorry for the delay, had to find the mute button.

Amanda, again echoing the pleasure in working with you. Can you just dive in a little bit more on the op margin side of the equation, and understand there's some dynamics with mix and in SMS, but strategically, how are you thinking about the right framework for investing in growth and in anything we should read into that in terms of margin expansion beyond 2026?

Amanda Whalen

Yep. Thanks so much, Tyler, and thank you so much for the kind words.

It's been wonderful working with you as well. On operating margin, the way that I would think about operating margin this year is that we are making some very deliberate choices to make investments behind eight our acquisition of Agency, driving strategic growth, and importantly, behind product innovation and building the capabilities that are really going to drive growth over the long term.

In the back half of the year, what you see is that investment in product innovation, it shows up in this infrastructure investment that we just made, it's showing up in our R&D, and it is driving great results. We're really pleased with the pace of innovation, the way that it's picking up, the results that Andrew talked about on the call with Customer Agent adoption up 40% quarter on quarter, over a quarter of our mid-market and enterprise customers using Composer, and the great traction that we're seeing in enterprise with some of the big strong lands like Warner Music Group and Claire's and the 49ers, all of which are enabled by the investments that we've made in our scale and burstability, just as Andrew referred to earlier.

Those investments are really showing strong early results and helping us drive this potential growth over the long term. Now, Agency did impact, as we mentioned on the call, about $10 to $12 million of P&L impact this year.

That's included in the outlook that we shared. As you think about leverage over the long term, I would focus on the fact that if you exclude that from our numbers this year, we're still driving over a percentage point of leverage year on year.

This is a business that can continue to grow strong, make these investments in innovation, and drive leverage over time.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Samad Samana from Jefferies.

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Samad Samana

Hi. Good evening, and thanks for taking my question.

Maybe let's dig into the Agency acquisition, especially given that Elias will be the Chief Product Officer going forward as well, especially as I think about that in the context of AB with the Co-CEO model focusing more on the product side. Maybe help us understand what Agency brings more specifically, and the decision to add a Chief Product Officer with AB's focus as well, just because we think that, obviously, there's a lot going on with AI, it's great to bolster the bench, but help us think about what the division of labor will look like.

Thank you so much.

Andrew Bialecki

That's great. That was kind of the headline for us when I talked with Elias about this.

It really is that, hey, how do we attack on or build on more dimensions at once? First, Elias is somebody I've known for over 10 years.

We've built and scaled companies together. Somebody I know well, we work really well together.

What was interesting was we got to talking about what we believed about the future about agents, and we both are strong believers that every business is going to have an agent, an agent that can both help them grow and run their business, make great decisions, and then also an agent that can personalize and deliver experiences to every single one of those customers. We think this is going to be ubiquitous, as I said in the opening.

The question is just how do we get there faster? That was the entire intent.

Then when it comes to dividing things up, we work really well together. We're both engineers.

We both love working with customers. One of the things that Chano and I have talked a lot about is as we continue to do more in enterprise, I'm spending a lot of time with customers, helping figure out what we need to build for them, make sure that we can serve some of the very high-scale, but very unique needs they have.

When it comes to agents, I think both across Composer, Customer Agent, we have a lot of surface area, a lot of ambition, and this is going to help us just go faster.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Raimo Lenschow from Barclays.

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Raimo Lenschow

Thanks. Can you hear me now?

Operator

Please go ahead.

Raimo Lenschow

It's more bringing Chano in as well. If you think about it, in a way the setup is much broader if you have Customer Agent, Composer agents, because it's just more full-set CRM.

How does it help you in your conversation on the enterprise? You mentioned some legacy replacements as well.

Just talk a little bit about how that broader vision from Klaviyo is just helping you engaging with larger customers. Thank you, and all the best for Amanda.

Chano Fernández

Thank you, Raimo, for your question. The trend that we're seeing in enterprise is a consolidation.

That is one area. The second area is an innovation play, and that comes all together with a better together story.

The enterprise companies are looking for someone that bring kind of the innovative play on a one single platform. They understand much more the value of the one single data in terms of the context, and what that provides for the outcomes that the agents will provide.

We bringing that value all together is definitely a significant plus in terms of the conversations we are happening, in terms of how many platforms we can replace. You take someone like Claire's, we replaced two legacy platforms.

You take someone like Warner Music, it was even more. You take someone like Country Road Group, it was kind of a few number of platforms and legacy as well that we're taking over.

Clearly what they want to see is we do have a vision as well in terms of how AI is going to be basically helping them to drive much more Klaviyo attributed value and much more revenue. Composer and Customer Agent are definitely two very strategic components, right?

In most of the cases, it is a rip and replace, most on the enterprise, and they are looking for someone that can bring the strategic vision and can bring basically the full power of the better together story because it provides a much better TCO with great outcomes in terms of value. It's of tremendous help, and it's a very key reason why we win, jointly with the architecture and the infrastructure, and certainly is one of the improvements that we've done and the investments that we're doing.

The stack around 100 million messages in less than 20 minutes is quite staggering, and quite significant for many of our enterprise customers in terms of the reliability, and basically the volume at which we can operate. As they grow, that gives them as well peace of mind that we can support them on the journey going forward.

Andrew Bialecki

Let me give you just one example of what we're seeing. Actually, Composer adoption, we've seen is actually faster with our larger customers in enterprise.

The reason for that is not only they're using it to create net new marketing campaigns and content, because they just have such a large volume, but also we found that for larger enterprises, they have such a complexity in terms of the automations they want to run, the number of campaigns they use. They have more data, they're doing more personalization, they're using our marketing analytics AI models to better personalize content.

A very common pattern for Composer we've seen is folks will use that and run it on some cadence, weekly or every couple of weeks, to understand, first of all, what do they have built? I've talked to some customers where somebody's new to the business, they say they just got hired, and they use Composer to actually explore how that brand is doing marketing and ramp up.

Then they can make changes with more confidence from Composer because, we talked about, not only does it create, it also validates the work. We've seen a lot of these kind of review and audit use cases.

It's early. It's only been 30 days.

I'd say two things we're seeing with Composer is, in the enterprise, there's already a lot of usage and adoption because it helps people wrangle the complexity and allows them to do more. Also, we're also seeing a lot of new customers who are brand new using Composer to just get started if they really don't know anything about marketing.

That's obviously for our entrepreneurs.

Chano Fernández

Maybe, Raimo, to give you one concrete example, right, was with Country Road that I mentioned on the script, and I asked the CIO, "Why do we win?" Right?

We were competing with the typical suspects in terms of large markets, right? His answer was, "You won.

We decided for you because of your AI vision and openness, your interoperability, especially as well with some of the forward players like the Anthropics and OpenAI's, and the connections that you bring, and because of the robustness of your infrastructure. Those were the reasons why you guys won."

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Matt VanVliet from Cantor.

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Matt VanVliet

Good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question.

Guess when you look at the rate of adoption you're seeing on the various agents and Composer that you have now, how should we think about the monetization of that over the next year or two? How much uplift are you getting at existing customers as they use the platform more?

Any customers you've had land with those products, how is the average ARR for those customers trending versus similar cohorts without agents fully deployed?

Andrew Bialecki

Sure. I'll speak a little bit to the monetization, and Amanda can explain where that's built in or how we're handling that with guidance.

For Composer, Composer we think of as it's intelligence to help you run and grow your business. It's a credit-based model.

Actually, when we released Composer, we gave everybody about $100, 10,000 credits to use over 90 days to start to experiment. We think that's a very good model.

Klaviyo has always been focused on how do we help our customers, our businesses grow faster? We measure that through Klaviyo attributed value, attributed revenue.

One of the things we're able to do is show folks that, hey, if you use more of our Composer intelligence and models, literally you'll get better results, either because we're helping them generate net new marketing or customer experiences that they couldn't think of, right, they didn't know about or they didn't have time to create, or we're helping make their existing marketing better. There's real ROI.

We've already seen a number of customers start to pay for Composer, even though we're still in this kind of this 90-day trial period. I expect we'll see that grow over time.

Our ultimate goal is we want to be the intelligence that our customers rely on, and then obviously tightly coupled and integrated into our marketing and data infrastructure. It's what they use to understand who their customers are, decide what marketing, what experiences to deliver, and then constantly optimize those.

We think that's a very, very large market. When I talk to our customers, they're constantly feel like they don't have enough time to understand and execute various analyses or build new marketing.

If they had AI to help them do this, and it's revenue-accretive, that's something that they want to use. Then for Customer Agent, the pricing model is a little different.

That is outcome-based and resolution-based. For our Customer Agent, our customers pay every time our AI resolves a conversation on its own.

If it proxies back to another contact center or help desk software, our customers don't pay for that. What's driving growth there is really two things: the first is, as Chano mentioned, we're building a lot more pipeline with enterprise, and that's both for marketing, but as well for service and for Customer Agent.

What's really cool is we're starting to see a lot of use cases for Customer Agent where people want to use them together. They're using Customer Agent to collect information that they're then going to leverage in marketing, and vice versa.

One thing we really believe in is just how do we automate and make it a great customer experience. We've done a lot of work to build out not only an agent builder to make it easier to build agents, a lot of folks don't have experience with that, but even we've invested the last couple months in an agent that will train other agents.

We think this is the future of how customer agents are going to be built and deployed, not only the first time that you kind of configure them and set them up, but also how you ongoing optimize them or teach them new things. What that's led to is a big increase in what we measure, resolution rates.

We've seen since we deployed that, we've had one customer, large enterprise business, went from a 52% resolution rate to a 79% resolution rate in seven days. That didn't require extra engineering effort, it's because of our agent that's helping them understand where the gaps are, allowing them to input, share the information, connect the tools and data sets they need, and get smarter and faster.

As we drive up that resolution rate, that drives up more volume. It also means that it's easier for us to run these kind of proof of concepts and pilots with enterprise customers.

Then the last thing I'd say is that we want everybody to have a customer agent. We know even smaller businesses, they still get a lot of customer questions that they don't have the time and the bandwidth to answer, and they need a customer agent to represent them.

With that, because we have now this agent that can help you build an agent even if you're not deeply technical or aren't up to speed on all the latest and greatest on agent tech and nomenclature, because you can do that, we're seeing a lot more customers deploy agents as a result when they start to use our agent trainer. It's still growing.

Composer is only 30 days out. I think we're all very excited about the progress we've seen even in the last couple of weeks for both of those products, and we do think they'll be large revenue drivers over time.

Chano Fernández

Let me add a little bit of color, for example, on Customer Agent and what we're doing with some of our enterprise customers. As I mentioned, there were significant improvements that were brought on Customer Agent, making certainly a much more robust and viable product for our enterprise customers.

We went and discussed with our top 40 enterprise customers to start with, in terms of let us prove you that we have a great agent that can provide much better results than the ones that you're using today. We engaged in a conversations with them.

We then follow up with a proof of concept, and we are now in the high single digits on some of those kind of conversations on that journey, and that certainly will keep increasing during the course of the next few weeks. They are testing it.

We're helping them to fine-tune during a month or so. Then once they see the outcome, we expectation is that some of those customers will start converting.

Of course, I don't want to make here any forecast, but clearly some of those customers are very large in the numbers of millions of conversations on a yearly basis. Certainly, we believe that the solution is ready and we can drive that value.

Amanda Whalen

Yep. Then we want to say just quickly on the uplift, it's meaningful.

It's a meaningful uplift to their total average ARR for customers. As normal for products like this, there's a wide variety depending on the adoption, because it's outcome-based and it depends on how frequently customers are using it and how much they're relying on it, but we are definitely seeing a meaningful contribution there in terms of the customers who have adopted it.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Terry Tillman from Truist.

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Terry Tillman

Hey, can you hear me okay?

Chano Fernández

Yes.

Terry Tillman

That's exciting. Glad it worked this time.

Hi, AB, Chano, and Ryan. Welcome aboard, Brad and Erica, and Amanda, good luck with whatever you do next.

That's been great working with you. My question's going to be on the enterprise business.

I'd like to double-click on that. It's good hearing about an eight-figure, I think it was a two-year deal.

I think last quarter, you all had a mid-seven-figure transaction. Those are sizable.

I think, Chano, you said that you've got some newer sales leadership there. What about actually the sales capacity?

Do you have all the right people on the field, or are you still building out that sales team? Also, I think last year in Boston, when you had the customer conference, I think it was a division of Accenture that was actually going to start partnering with you all.

Maybe agencies are helping you? Just lastly, on this enterprise side, is there anything missing product-market fit, or do you feel like you have everything at this point?

Thank you.

Chano Fernández

Great questions, Terry. Thank you so much.

First, let me start with sales leadership. As we brought in a new CRO, a new head of Americas.

Some these guys have worked with me before, and they really know enterprise business quite well. They'll be helping out with attracting and bringing in a great talent on board as well in terms of sales leaders and across the board.

As you rightly say, yes, last quarter we have a really very large deal. This quarter we have our first ever eight-figure deal that is a two-year.

We also have inside basically our largest transaction ever in EMEA, and our large pipeline, ever year to date as well, that we're looking especially in our international business. Those are all good early indicators.

Let me remind you that, as I always say, this enterprise business is going to be a journey, right? We are moving our sales basically go-to-market motion from being very transactional to a client of being much more sales consultative.

We're moving from a single stakeholder to a multistakeholder relationship. We're moving them from less senior people to much more senior people that they need to liaise with, much more kind of business case driven.

That takes time, right? All early signals and all the progress that we're making, and when I look at the number of deals that we do have, it doesn't matter how you cut them, over $500,000, $1 million, again, which is outpacing our regular business in terms of growth, all is looking great, even in terms of the pipeline, or is looking good in terms of the journey, but it will be a journey, right?

In terms of the sales capacity, we do have the sales capacity we need. I am not someone that like to add just feet on the street without productivity.

I can also tell you that we remain flat, but definitely our productivity per head is much higher than it was kind of a year ago. That is how I like it to be, and how I want it to be, because what I want the sales teams to do is make sure that they do qualify deals properly, and a good outcome is we win three out of four of which we participate, because these cycles are expensive, right?

We're going through that process where we're training, we're educating, we are learning, but we do have the right leadership in place, we do have the right sales capacity in place. Certainly, we're a growth company, Terry, when we feel like we are producing all the right deals and we get to the productivities per head that are at maximum, as we see more territories and more opportunities for expansion, and that will come, we will have to invest, and we will invest in order to gain and win those opportunities.

Overall, we do have the pieces on the puzzle in place, right? We're also working with new agency partners.

You heard our partnership, it doesn't matter with Accenture, but there are also some the agencies in the marketing business that are working with much larger customers that we didn't have relationship with. We're also expanding, obviously, our ecosystem.

At the same time, we're doing our investments in infrastructure, right? Those are some of the volume investments that we talked before.

That is our EU data center in EMEA. A much better guardrails in terms even of security, safety, compliance, specially in terms of some of the requests that are come more from some of the largest companies.

It is a journey as well there, and it will take a bit of time. Early signals and early data and early facts are good and are solid, but if you think about it, this opportunity is massive for us, and we're just in the early innings.

I can only be excited for the long-term opportunity that this provides to Klaviyo, and I like how the team is performing, but I expect that we will getting much better over time as we really engage in many more sales cycles and understand better how we win.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from DJ Hynes from Canaccord Genuity.

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DJ Hynes

Hey, thank you, guys. Amanda, I wanted to ask about net revenue retention.

Look, I realize it's early for Composer, Customer Agent to contribute, but everything else I'm hearing, right, improving gross retention, SMS strength, multiproduct customers, would make me think that NRR could start to gradually inflect up. I guess the questions are, A, how much is profile enforcement overhanging on that metric?

B, does the intra-quarter picture tell us something different than the trailing 12-month metrics? C, I know it's not a metric you guide to, but is it right to think that net revenue retention should go up from here?

Amanda Whalen

Yep. Thanks, DJ, and it's a great question.

On NRR, just as you said, we're seeing strength and we're seeing strong performance and improvement in the metrics that, for us, are the ones that matter for the long-term health of the business. That's improving gross retention, strength in text expansion and customers' usage of text, and cross-sell, which has been particularly strong and increasing over time.

This quarter, those benefits were offset by the lapping of profile enforcement. As you think about NRR going forward, I would think about that impact of profile enforcement gradually winding out of the metric, since it's trailing 12 months, through Q1 of next year.

As we think about the business going forward and back to how do we think about long-term outlook here, what we feel very positive on is the fact that customers are staying with us, they are expanding their business with us and their usage of our product, and they are buying more products from us. I think those are the ones that are really going to drive NRR over the longer term.

Operator

Thank you. Our next question is from Derrick Wood from TD Cowen.

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Derrick Wood

Great, thanks. I guess this is for AB.

International continues to be a really bright spot, and over the last couple years, we've heard from you about your journey with expanding languages and local support and sales teams in various countries. Can you just talk about what the next phases are on the international front, just as we're thinking about both the product and the go-to-market sides to sustain this momentum?

Andrew Bialecki

Absolutely. That's one big area where we see there's a lot of market share out there and our share is relatively small.

International continues to grow really nicely, about 35% year on year. A couple of things, I'll talk a little bit about the product side and then a little bit of what we're doing on the go-to-market side.

On the product side, one of the things we find with a lot of international businesses is, not only are we helping them transact in different currencies, but also they're working across many markets. We've done a lot of work to help businesses that are working across multiple regions manage things like their product catalogs across those regions.

Oftentimes, they have different rules or different strategies, and sometimes even different teams that manage those different businesses. For instance, with Klaviyo Organizations, we went further in allowing folks to understand whether you're multi-brand or multi-market, understand all of your customers, even leverage that data across region, to understand how different regions are performing.

Some of the things we've done around scale, we're expanding our footprint of our data centers, where we house data and run our software, expanding that into Europe. Chano mentioned some of the great marketing and we've always loved putting on user conferences, both for our existing customers and partners and users, but also for folks that are thinking about Klaviyo.

We expanded that this year to cover all of Europe. We've added some sales headcount, some Klaviyos that are now in France and Germany.

I'd say internationally, our main focus right now is probably more in Europe than it is in Asia, although we see opportunities all over the world. Maybe the last thing I'll mention that's just kind of been another maybe bright spot is when we launched WhatsApp, we knew that that was going to have a lot of pull in Europe, but we found that that has even opened up some new markets.

I was just talking with the team last week, and we closed a major deal that has a big WhatsApp component down in Brazil. That's opened up more of the Americas to us as well.

I think there's a lot of room to go there. Obviously, when Chano and I joined up, one of the things we both believe in is we believe we should be able to get Klaviyo to a point where the majority of our revenue comes ex North America, and I think we're very much on that track.

Chano Fernández

I would add that, again, the opportunity internationally is very exciting. I think it's the very early innings as well.

There are some large markets like Germany, even Spain and Italy, where we're doing well, but when you look at the market share, because didn't have any teams in the ground, in some places like Germany we do have now, the opportunity is significantly larger. When you go in APAC, definitely Australia is a great market for us.

Outside of Australia, we've been making some leadership changes that I think they will pay down the road, in terms of producing much more growth in places like Southeast Asia, Singapore, and potentially other places like Japan that I've been recently visiting. That's very exciting.

While it's great to see kind of the growth that internationally is producing, and when I think about long-term demand, the opportunity that international represents is definitely much larger than what we're seeing today.

Operator

Thank you. Our final question is from Brett Huff from Stephens Inc.

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Brett Huff

Good evening, AB and Chano, and welcome, Erica, and good luck, Amanda. Thanks for taking my question here in the end.

I'm asking another of the AI questions from a little bit different angle, as the market, as you all know, continues to litigate the potential for disruption, especially within the SMB and maybe just medium-sized customers. The stats you gave on Composer adoption being really good in enterprise was interesting, but we still get a lot of questions just more philosophically on, are we seeing any compelling data points, anecdotal or more systematic, about how your smaller customers are choosing AI from you versus another vendor, be it an LLM or, etc.?

Any update on that?

Andrew Bialecki

Absolutely. I'll give you a kind of a stat or some data on that.

We've been watching in the last month customers, new signups, right, folks that are trying out Klaviyo for the first time, and a lot of those are smaller businesses, right, entrepreneurs that are just getting started. Probably not surprisingly, those that are using Composer are the ones that end up being more successful with Klaviyo literally in the first few weeks, and end up converting to paid customers.

This is still early, and we're weaving Composer into more of the UI of Klaviyo. Intuitively, we think this makes a lot of sense.

What we found when I talk to some of these entrepreneur, SMB customers, a lot of them they're not even sure, when they know they need to do marketing or they need to set up Customer Agent for customer support, but they're not sure what to do or where to start. We talked about some of the benefits that Composer has over a general-purpose model.

This fact that we organize a business's data, we understand the products or services they sell, we understand who their customers are, we have all of this data about past orders, transactions, customer preferences, and our model has organized that and can reason about that. The fact that we have an understanding of what that business likes from past marketing they've done, and obviously if somebody's brand new, we also can help them define what their brand looks like.

Then finally, actually even only recently, in the last two weeks, we've upgraded the system behind the scenes that provides kind of the Klaviyo proprietary knowledge about what works in marketing. We're finding a lot of customers are querying into that to understand from Composer, I mentioned things like what's the best time to send, who should I send to, all these things that maybe questions they didn't know to ask or they don't know the answers to, and we just have a better data set.

One of the things we're quite bullish on is that for SMBs and these smaller businesses, they're actually going to look for more domain- or task-specific AI. Obviously, we want to offer that with Composer, and embedding in Klaviyo is great because it means that they get a software interface that kind of feels both agentic, but also has that kind of point-and-click elements if they want to drag and drop and design.

We've also opened up Composer where it integrates into other agents and other systems that they use. We think there, it's just now we're going to drive Composer usage just because you can think of our agent as the expert at understanding your customers and the expert in marketing.

That's one of the things we said, it doesn't really matter where you want to work, you're still going to be able to get value out of Composer. Anyways, we're I think also very excited about what we're seeing from our entrepreneurs and SMBs.

I think for them, a lot of it is just educating them on even what's possible with AI. I think we have an advantage there because a lot of them are actually used to using our interface, and we've kind of merged the two, our agents and our kind of more traditional interface together.

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Brett Huff

Thank you.

Operator

That was our final question. I will now hand back to management for closing remarks.

Andrew Bialecki

All right. Thanks, everybody, for joining us today.

Amanda, thank you for helping us continue to grow Klaviyo. As we like to say, we're 1% done.

Look forward to seeing everybody next quarter.

Operator

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