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Q4 FY2025 · Earnings Call TranscriptMarch 19, 2026

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Nemetschek earnings call for the financial year 2025. I'm Moritz, your chorus call operator.

I would like to remind you that all participants will be in a listen-only mode and the conference is being recorded. The presentation will be followed by a question and answer session.

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The conference must not be recorded for publication or broadcast. At this time, it's my pleasure to hand over to Stefanie Zimmermann.

Please go ahead.

Stefanie Zimmermann

Thank you, operator, and hello, everyone, and a warm welcome. Thanks for joining our earnings call today to discuss the results for the financial year 2025 and the outlook for 2026 with us.

With me today are our CEO, Yves Padrines, and our CFO, Louise Öfverström. Today's conference call is being recorded.

A replay of the call will be available at our website after the call. Additionally, you will find the annual report, the presentation, and the press release on our Investor Relations website as well.

Now, let's get started. I would like to turn over to our CEO, Yves Padrines.

Yves Padrines

Thank you, Stefanie. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our financial year 2025 earnings call.

As usual, we have prepared a short and informative presentation on the highlights of the financial year 2025 that our CFO, Louise Öfverström, and I will briefly walk you through so that we have enough time to address any questions you may have during the Q&A session. Let me start with the key messages of the fourth quarter and the full year 2025 on slide number three.

We delivered a very strong finish to the year, driven by an excellent performance in our Build segment, which once again showed outstanding momentum, in particular at our brand Bluebeam. At the same time, the Design segment also continued to perform very well, supported by strong subscription dynamics, including continued demand for multi-year contracts, despite an exceptionally high comparison base in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Looking at the full year 2025, we continued our very strong growth path with a high double-digit growth, while further improving our profitability. The main growth drivers was a significant increase in subscription and SaaS revenues, particularly in our Design and Build segments, reflecting the continued success of our transition to a subscription and SaaS-centric business model.

Please keep in mind that while we achieved an attractive profitability in 2025, reported EBITDA was impacted, among other things, by an extraordinary non-operating effect in the low-teens million euro range related to the unexpected insolvency of a service and payment provider. Further innovation and in particular, artificial intelligence remain the key strategic focus for the Nemetschek Group.

We are increasingly evolving a leading vertical software player into a vertical AI leader, leveraging our deep domain expertise, unique data intelligence, as well as trusted customer relationships along with strong network effects. With this foundation, we see a tremendous opportunity to extend our TAM to address substantial workforce-related TAM across the industries that we address.

Looking ahead, Nemetschek is very well positioned to further strong and profitable growth. Based on our strong market position, the continued momentum in subscription and SaaS, and our accelerating AI innovation roadmap, we expect an above-market organic revenue growth, +14% to +15% at constant currencies for the financial year 2026, combined with a high EBITDA margin of 32% to 33%.

On the next two slides, you will see how these key messages translate into the development of our most important financial indicators in the fourth quarter as well as for the full financial year 2025. Starting with an overview of our fourth quarter results.

Overall, we delivered another strong quarter and a very good finish to the year. Starting with the ARR, or annual recurring revenue, in line with one of our key strategic priorities, transition to a subscription and SaaS-centric business model, our annual recurring revenue recorded an increase of +17.6%.

If we adjust for strong FX headwind we had in the fourth quarter, mainly stemmed from the weaker US dollar, our ARR increased by 22.9%. Thanks to this substantial growth in our recurring revenue base, we were able to strongly increase our revenue, despite the very high comparison base in Q4, by +18.8% on a reported basis and +16.7% on an FX-adjusted basis.

The main growth driver was once again the exceptional performance of the Build segment, in particular Bluebeam, and the continued good growth in the Design segment. The EBITDA increased by 12.4%, or +19.9% at constant currency, outpacing revenue growth and resulting in a very strong EBITDA margin of 32.9%, despite the ongoing transition to subscription and SaaS in the Design segment.

Finally, earnings per share increased by +25.2% to 56 cents, supported, among other things, by strongly reduced interest expenses year-over-year. We continue with an overview of our full year 2025 results on slide number five.

In a nutshell, 2025 was another very successful financial year and a strong confirmation the Nemetschek Group is on the right path, delivering very high and highly profitable growth, while making consistent progress across all our four strategic focus areas. Starting with the top line.

Reported revenue grew by +19.7% to €1.19 billion, making for the first time in the history of the group that we have exceeded the €1 billion revenue mark. Adjusted for FX headwinds, particularly from the weaker US dollar, revenue growth was at +22.6%.

In addition to the strong organic development, the growth also benefited from the inorganic contribution from GoCanvas during the first half of the year, as well as temporary positive effects related to the successful completion of the subscription transition of Bluebeam. The recurring part of our business once again proved to be the main growth driver, particularly subscription and SaaS revenues.

Consequently, revenue in this category increased by an impressive +51.2% to €858.7 million, or +55.6% at constant currency. Our EBITDA increased by +23.3% on a reported basis and by +28.9% at constant currency to €371.1 million, corresponding to a reported EBITDA margin of 31.2%.

Please also keep in mind that if we adjust for the extraordinary non-operating effect related to the unexpected insolvency of a payment and service provider in the first half of the year, the underlying profitability would have been even higher. Looking at the bottom line, earnings per share increased by +23.9% to €1.88.

On the right-hand side of the slide, you can also see our continued strong cash generation with a cash conversion of almost 109%, as well as the very high quality of our balance sheet. This very solid financial position, combined with our strong earnings and cash flow development, provides a high degree of resilience going forward and also enables us to act opportunistically and strategically should attractive M&A and venture investment opportunities emerge.

Coming to slide number six. Before I hand over to Louise, who will provide a deeper dive into our financial results, I would like to briefly address what is currently the most important topic for us: our transformation from a leading vertical software player to a vertical AI leader and how we will achieve this.

Let me state this very clearly upfront: at the Nemetschek Group, we are deeply convinced that AI represents a tremendous opportunity, and we are ideally positioned to capture it. Over decades, we have built deep domain expertise and strong integration into our customers' workflow by serving the AEC/O and media industries.

Especially in construction, a deep understanding of workflows, building codes, and regulations is absolutely critical. At the same time, this has enabled us to build long-standing, trusted customer relationships and strong network effects.

This trust, often built over many years, is what enables us, in contrast to startups or new market entrants, to successfully introduce AI-driven solutions in an industry that is inherently conservative, given the highly regulated nature of the industry and the associated liability risks. Finally, we benefit from access to vast industry-specific datasets across the entire building lifecycle, a key competitive advantage that is extremely difficult for new entrants to replicate.

Building on this strong foundation, let me now briefly walk you through the three key levers we are using to develop and scale across the Nemetschek Group. Starting with product development.

AI is not new to us. We have been actively developing AI capabilities for several years.

However, over the past three years, we have significantly increased our investment to further accelerate innovation. This enables us to continuously enhance our product portfolio with AI-driven solutions that deliver tangible value to our customers.

A recent key example is Bluebeam Max, our new AI-enabled solution, which we successfully launched commercially, as planned, a few weeks ago. It combines Bluebeam's AI development with the technology of Firmus AI and integrates agent-based AI into Bluebeam's PDF workflows, enabling early risk detection in pre-construction design reviews and helping increase efficiency while reducing costly rework.

As planned, the solution is initially being rolled out to direct large customers first, with a broader rollout across indirect channels and our web shop over the course of the year. In addition, we are accelerating our AI roadmap through targeted M&A, such as, for example, the acquisition of Firmus AI last October, as well as venture investment in AI startups, complementing our internal capabilities with leading-edge technologies and further strengthening our position in AI-driven innovation.

Finally, strategic partnerships are another important lever. On the technology and commercial side, we collaborate with partners such as Google Cloud to scale our AI capabilities.

At the same time, our academic partnerships with institutions such as Technical University of Munich, Stanford University, and Nanyang Technological University Singapore support ongoing research, innovation, and knowledge transfer in AI for the built environment. This ultimately enables us to expand our addressable market by unlocking the significant workforce-related TAM in our industries, while strengthening our competitive moat and building a scalable data and intelligence flywheel across our platform.

In addition, we are further enhancing our internal efficiency, driving tangible cost savings that enable additional investment in our long-term growth. With that, we now hand it over to Louise.

Louise Öfverström

Many thanks, Yves, and a warm welcome to our earnings call for the financial year 2025 from my side as well. Yves has already briefly touched on some of our key financial figures for the past financial year, I would therefore now like to take a closer look at the most important financial aspects of our 2025 results, as well as at the main underlying drivers.

Starting on slide eight, we have an overview of the development of our four segments in the financial year 2025. Let us start with our Design segment.

In 2025, the segment continued its strong growth momentum and grew 10.4%, 12.2% currency-adjusted, and that despite a high comparison base in the previous year, especially in the fourth quarter. The positive growth momentum in 2025 was driven by a strong increase in the segment's subscription and SaaS revenues due to the continued successful ramp-up of the subscription transition.

In addition, growth was partly supported by three-year contracts. These contracts are being used strategically only during the subscription transition in order to accelerate the migration of existing maintenance customers to a subscription-based model at our Graphisoft and Allplan brands.

Reported EBITDA margin of 28.1% contracted slightly year-on-year due to the associated short-term accounting-related dampening effects of the subscription transition and the extraordinary non-operating effect from the insolvency of a service and payment provider in the first quarter of 2025. When adjusting for these extraordinary service and payment provider effect, the underlying EBITDA margin would have been at prior-year level, despite the ongoing very successful transition to subscriptions.

Continuing with the development of our Build segment, which once again delivered a stellar performance during 2025, driven by sustained, strong customer demand across the board, but particularly strong for Bluebeam. In addition, the segment benefited in the first half of the year from the inorganic contribution of GoCanvas, which we had acquired as of July 1st in 2024.

It was also impacted by temporary positive effects following the very successful completion of Bluebeam's subscription transition. Consequently, and as expected, growth moderated somewhat, yet at a continued high level in the second half of the year, reflecting the normalization of temporary effects following Bluebeam's successful subscription transition and the resulting higher comparison base thereof.

For the financial year 2025, reported growth of the segment reached 41.3%. Adjusting for the strong FX headwind, mainly stemming from the weaker US dollar, growth reached an impressive 46.6%.

Reported EBITDA margin reached a strong 35.8% growth, an increase of around 400 basis points year-on-year, and despite the continued investment to support the future growth of this strong and highly dynamic segment. Let us move on to our Manage segment, which recorded modest growth, 4% for the full year 2025.

In the fourth quarter, however, we saw a re-acceleration of growth momentum in line with our plans of reshaping of this segment, with revenue increasing by 6.8%. This development was driven by a stronger momentum in new large customer orders and reflects all the measures we have taken to refuel, focus, and strengthen the segment.

This comes also with also in line with our strategic focus, and despite our continued investments in the segment's product portfolio and future growth opportunities, an EBITDA margin that expanded to 12%, up from 10.2% in the prior year. Last but not least, let us have a look and come to our Media segment, which continued to be impacted by mixed market dynamics, including cautious customer spending, particularly in the important US market.

In addition, the segment was also affected by the missing subscription sales in the first half of the year following the unexpected insolvency of the payment and service provider. As a result of this, revenue in the Media segment increased only moderately, 0.8% on a reported basis, or 2.9% at constant currency, to €121 million.

When adjusting for this one-off impact related to the service and payment provider, revenue growth for the full year 2025 would have been in the mid-single-digit percentage range and therefore well in line or slightly above market growth in this segment. Thanks to good and consistent cost control, the segment's EBITDA margin declined only slightly to 33.9%, despite the extraordinary non-operating effect in the first half.

If I exclude this effect, the EBITDA margin would have remained at prior-year level. As the continued internationalization of our business remains a key strategic priority for us.

On slide nine, we can clearly see that we have successfully strengthened and expanded our international presence in 2025 as well. Looking at our regional revenue development, we have seen a strong growth across all our target regions over the last 12 months.

In Europe, which still accounts for 48% of our group revenues, we continue to navigate partly more challenging market conditions in the DACH region, particularly in the Design segment. While we recorded an acceleration of growth year-on-year in our domestic market of Germany, growth outside Germany was again stronger and reaching around 20%.

Growth in Europe was well supported by a strong performance in our Build segment, particularly benefiting from the continued regional expansion of Bluebeam. In addition, although still from a relatively small base, our expansion into the Middle East region is progressing very well and is already showing promising growth since the inauguration of our new presence in the region in 2025.

In the Americas region, which once again recorded the highest growth among all regions at +24%, the important US market continued to benefit from a continued strong demand environment, particularly for our Bluebeam and GoCanvas brands, which remained the main growth drivers in the region for us. In addition, growth in the first half of the year was further supported inorganically by the GoCanvas acquisition that we made in the second half of 2024.

With currently 10% of our group revenues, Asia Pacific remains a key focus region for future expansion. While the entire region grew by 16% year-on-year, the important Japanese market showed a negative growth in 2025 due to a short-term, unaccounting-related effects from the subscription move of our Design segment, impacting the growth temporarily in that market in 2025.

In contrast, the rest of the region, and in particular here Australia and India, continued to enjoy both ongoing very good market conditions and recorded very high growth rates. As you can see, our internationalization strategy and the continued diversification of our global footprint is really bearing fruit and leaving us confident for the continued strong growth and expansion going forward.

As we move forward, we remain focused on capturing new growth opportunities, while, of course, simultaneously strengthening our leading positions in our existing key markets. We already alluded to the fact that the recurring revenues were once again the main growth driver in 2025.

That does not come as a surprise and is a strong and important testament to our successful business model transition. On slide 10, we can see a comprehensive overview of the progress made over the past year, but also over the longer term since the start of this key strategic priority, namely the transition to a subscription and SaaS-centric business model.

Starting on the left-hand side of the slide, you can see that our business model is now almost fully recurring, with a share of 92% at the end of 2025. We are already well advanced in our transition to subscription and SaaS, with the vast majority, 72% now, coming from revenues in the segment of subscription and SaaS.

Looking at the longer-term development, the chart clearly shows the speed and the scale of our progress in building up a fully recurring revenue base in our business model. Over the past four years, subscription and SaaS revenues have increased almost sevenfold, representing a CAGR of around 60%.

As you can see on the right-hand side, this strong development continued also in the fourth quarter in 2025, with a recurring revenue growth of 22.9% and an increase in subscription and SaaS revenues of even 37.2% on a constant currency basis. As expected, and in line with our strategic focus, the more volatile license revenues declined 25% year-on-year at constant currency and underlining our aspired continued shift from perpetual licenses to subscription models well.

To conclude our review of the results of the financial year 2025, let us have a joint look at a more comprehensive overview of our key P&L and cash flow items on page number 11. We have already addressed our main KPIs, such as revenue growth and EBITDA margin, in detail.

While revenue growth in the first half year of the year benefited not only organically, but also from M&A contribution, as well as temporary positive effects related to the successful completion of Bluebeam's subscription transition, our OPEX development and profitability were also impacted by some special effects. These included, for example, the acquisition of GoCanvas, as well as the insolvency of a service and payment provider, as already stated.

As a result, the full year development of certain cost lines does not fully reflect the underlying run rate going forward. Let's take, for example, here the largest component of our overall cost base, which is personnel costs.

Here, we saw a reported growth of 14.6% year-on-year for the entire financial year 2025, and that might appear elevated at the first glance. However, this was mainly driven by a strong increase of around 24% in the first half of the year, driven by the addition of more than 300 GoCanvas employees, who we were very happy to welcome to our group.

In the second half of the year, personnel cost growth normalized to around 6%, and reflecting further improvements in the underlying resource efficiency. A similar pattern can also be seen in other operating income and expenses, which increased by 24.9% for the full year.

This was also primarily driven by a significantly higher increase in the first half of the year due to the impact of the unexpected insolvency of the service and payment provider, leading to a one-off cost impact. Despite these effects, on a comparable basis, excluding amortization charges mainly related to the GoCanvas acquisitions, earnings per share before PPA increased by 23.5% to €2.15, very well in line with our EBITDA growth.

Our underlying free cash flow generation in '25 was again very strong, with a cash conversion of almost 109%, and was additionally supported by a favorable tax cash flow impact following the changes in the US tax regime. However, even when we exclude this positive effect in the US, cash conversion remains above 100%, and this is a strong level we also expect going forward.

It is therefore fair to say, I believe, that the development of our free cash flow before M&A, which increased by 32.7% year-on-year, once again underlines the high quality of our earnings well. Finally, due to our strong operating performance, we again further improved the quality of our balance sheet with an equity ratio of 45.6% and a net debt to EBITDA ratio below 1 time.

All in, strong financials mirroring a strong and successful, record-breaking year. With that, I'll hand it back to you, Yves.

Yves Padrines

Thank you. Louise has provided a very good overview of the underlying drivers that have enabled us to achieve or even exceed all of our targets for the financial year 2025.

It is also clear our targets for 2026 to be ambitious in light of our very strong performance last year and the resulting substantially higher comparison base. Before we come to the end of our presentation with our outlook for the financial year 2026, let me briefly highlight on the following slide why we remain very confident in our ability to reach our goals for 2026 and beyond.

In short, is the strength of our underlying operational business, combined with our clear strategic direction and strong innovation power, most importantly, our clear focus on artificial intelligence, which is embedded across all our strategic priorities. Let me briefly walk you through our different key strategic priorities shown on slide number 13, which build the foundation for our future growth, while at the same time illustrating how we are becoming a vertical AI leader in AEC/O.

Starting with innovation. Artificial intelligence is an important driver of innovation across the entire Nemetschek Group.

As already mentioned earlier in the presentation, Nemetschek benefits from a unique combination of deep domain expertise, long-standing customer trusted relationships, strong network effects, and access to large industry datasets. This unique position enables us to develop AI-driven solutions that deliver tangible value to our customers.

At the same time, we have significantly increased our investment in AI over the past years to further accelerate innovation across our portfolio, while ensuring that all developments remain grounded in trustworthy principles that place the human—our customers, our fans—at the center. Another important cornerstone of our strategy is to accelerate our AI roadmap by targeted M&A and venture investments.

With acquisitions such as Firmus AI, we further strengthen our technological capabilities and complement our innovation portfolio with leading AI expertise. Our next key priority remains continued transformation of our business model towards subscription and SaaS and further on as a vertical AI leader, which continue to be a major driver behind the strong growth in recurring revenues that we have seen across the group.

We are further strengthening our go-to-market approach, particularly by expanding our international presence and unlocking additional growth opportunities in high-potential regions such as India or in the Middle East. Another important pillar is our group-wide cloud platform and infrastructure.

Here, we are building a comprehensive ecosystem by eliminating information silos and enabling connected end-to-end workflows. It also creates the technological backbone for scalable AI capabilities across our portfolio and helps us to meet the increasing demand for AI-driven solutions.

Finally, in business enablements, we continue to enhance operational excellence across the Nemetschek Group. Artificial intelligence also plays an increasing role internally, for example, in software development, service, and support, and we are therefore increasingly leveraging AI to further enhance efficiency and harmonize processes across the group.

Taken together, these strategic priorities provide the foundation for continued innovation, strong growth, and long-term value creation. Coming to the end of our presentation on slide number 14.

Building on a very successful financial year 2025, which partly benefited from M&A contribution as well as temporary positive effects related to the successful completion of the subscription transition of Bluebeam, we aim to continue delivering attractive mid-teens organic growth in the coming years, while further advancing our strategic priorities, most importantly, our transformation into a vertical AI leader in the industries we serve. Looking ahead to the financial year 2026, this means that from today's perspective, the executive board expects a currency-adjusted revenue growth for the Nemetschek Group in a range between +14% and +15%.

At the same time, the EBITDA margin for the Nemetschek Group is expected to expand and be between 32% and 33%. Based on our strong fundamentals, we expect to continue our strong, attractive growth trajectory with high profitability going forward, even despite a high comparison base, as well as the ongoing subscription and SaaS transition of our business model.

Please keep in mind, these forecasts are based on the assumption that the global economy and industry-specific condition will not deteriorate significantly during the current financial year. In addition, it is expected that the war in the Middle East will not escalate further or persist for a prolonged period.

With that, I would like to thank you for your attention. We are now happy to take your questions.

Operator, please back to you.

Operator

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session.

Anyone who wishes to ask a question may press * and 1 on their touchtone telephone. You will hear a tone to confirm that you have entered the queue.

If you wish to remove yourself from the question queue, you may press * and 2. Participants are requested to use only handsets while asking a question.

Anyone who has a question may press * and 1 at this time. One moment for the first question, please.

The first question comes from Jared Maymon from UBS. Please go ahead.

Jared Hung

Good afternoon, Yves, Louise, and Stefanie. It's Jared on for Michael Briest at UBS.

Thank you for taking our questions. Our first one is on the contract assets and the multi-year deals.

In 2025, there was an increase of about 30 million to the contract assets. Should we think about that as a reasonable proxy for the volume of new multi-year contracts signed during the year?

As we move through 2026, do you expect contract assets to continue rising at a similar pace, or should we expect them to stabilize or even decline as existing multi-year deals unwind and then also billing patterns normalize? Second quick one, just on capital allocation.

Firmus AI was, I guess, implied around 40 times sales. How should investors think about that multiple in terms of the strategic value, growth optionality that that asset provides, and then also comparable companies?

Then what's the pipeline for kind of similar tuck-in or platform-expanding acquisitions going forward?

Yves Padrines

Let me take first your second question on the capital allocation. It is clear that we are scouting many, many type of M&A targets.

These are either small AI startups, either some of them we are invested in, but a lot of them we are not yet invested in, and they are currently planning potential exits. It is true that the multiples of such AI companies are much higher than traditional software or vertical software companies.

Nevertheless, if you take the example of our latest M&A on AI, which was Firmus AI, the multiple was around 15 times forward ARR, which is still reasonable. Then at the end of the day, we are also talking about startups which have not been able yet to scale too much, and therefore we are talking about very, very low revenue, and in some cases, almost no revenue.

Here, when we are looking at AI startups, we are mainly looking at buy versus make, accelerating our AI roadmap, and therefore it is more a technology acquisition than necessary buying a lot of revenue. Therefore, the valuation are maybe sometimes higher multiple, but the full amount of US dollar or euro is still reasonable versus our capabilities of our M&A power.

Of course, we are also looking at a bigger M&A activities, similar to GoCanvas size or even much bigger. Here it is not about necessarily AI, but making sure that we are able to complement our overall offerings, therefore increasing even more our domain expertise in some specific segments, for example, in AEC, also having more better trusted relationship with customers, and of course, at the end of the day, having more access to very strong data intelligence industry solutions.

Here, of course, when you look at more traditional software companies, they are more in the valuation multiple range as Nemetschek or even below.

Louise Öfverström

Let me then answer the question on the contract assets. The contract assets, as they represent the unpaid portion of the revenue that we have recognized in in relation to the multi-year contracts.

It's necessarily not necessarily a 1-to-1 combination, 1-to-1 translation of the additional revenues from multi-year contracts in 2025, but as a it's a very broad proxy. It goes in in that direction, as you're saying.

You stated the 29 million, this is the the increase in 2025. You should that note, though, that we, when we prepared the 2025 financials, also decided to specify the presentation of contract assets a little bit, and that's why there is also an increase that were not shown in 2024, approximately 3 million, that should, if you want to make it like-for-like, that should be in '24.

The increase you can see is about then 25, 26 million, something like that. If you look at that going forward, of course a part of that will, to say, go away in 2025 and you add new ones.

That's why the increase in 2026, we estimate some somewhere around half of the book value of this. Around the mid-teens is what you can expect for contract assets addition then in 2026.

I hope that helps.

Jared Hung

Very helpful. Thank you.

Then

Operator

the next question comes from George Webb from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

George Webb

Hi. Afternoon, Yves, Louise, and also Stefanie, and thank you for taking my questions as well.

Firstly, on the Build segment, as we look into 2026, how are you expecting new customer acquisition within the growth mix looking this year? Perhaps you can talk a little bit about both sides, both the kind of important sides of that coin, Bluebeam as well as GoCanvas.

Secondly, on Media, we've seen some of those headlines around the diversification measures you're doing in terms of the end markets you can sell into, but also kind of bearing in mind those AI considerations, how confident are you that Media business can accelerate and deliver high single or double-digit growth, and particularly thinking beyond 2026 when that payment service provider base comp effect drops out? Then just lastly with regards to AI, and particularly as we start to think through the agentic tools which have been coming out over recent months, curious as to the extent it's led you so far or is maybe influencing your decision-making around future hiring plans and the operating leverage that sits in the business.

Thank you.

Yves Padrines

Thanks, George. If you look at the Build segment, as you have seen, we have very, very strong momentum since few quarters, many years, and the momentum is growing, growing, and growing.

Of course, we have higher comparison based now, therefore, in term of pure revenue growth, you can expect that in 2026, the first half and especially Q1 will be higher in term of revenue growth for Build than the second half, where you will see kind of more normalization of the revenue growth. Nevertheless, of course growth is driven a lot by Bluebeam.

Of course, very pleased with GoCanvas. Growth is clearly in the +20% revenue growth, but clearly Bluebeam has a very, very strong potential.

This potential is, as not only in North America, where we still have the majority of our customer base, but where also the penetration of Bluebeam is only at 40% to 50% with large accounts, but then we have this long tail of subcontractors and smaller AEC firms in North America where we have a very, very big network effects, and therefore we still see some very strong user growth in North America. In addition to that, as we have this huge potential of growth internationally for Bluebeam, where we don't have very strong competition, but where we need to educate the market about, okay, what Bluebeam is and what Bluebeam can do.

It is not only a markup on PDF to do collaboration software. It is also a tool to help you on the quality output, on productivity gain, on doing quantity takeoff, doing estimating, etc., etc.

Therefore, great thing is that when people are using Bluebeam, there is a very quick productivity gain and very quick ROI, especially as the price is so low. We are always saying that the price of Bluebeam per year is less than the price of a coffee per day, it's much less than a price of a coffee per day.

Clearly the Build segment momentum is coming from new volumes, new users. Of course, new users coming from existing customers, but majority of the growth is coming from just new customers alone.

Especially internationally, but also in the US. Of course, this would be more in the US SMB when you talk about new customers, because all the large customers are currently Bluebeam customers.

Then internationally, yes, we're doing good in Sweden, for example, we're doing okay in UK, we are doing much better, especially the last 18 months, in France and Germany, but still here, huge opportunity of growth. Then Spain, Italy, Eastern Europe, Benelux, still a lot to do.

Asia, we are starting from very, very small base. We have almost nothing there, especially just a little bit in India, Japan no presence, Middle East we are just starting, Africa nothing, and of course Australia-Pacific doing very well, but where we see still a huge opportunity of growth for Bluebeam.

Yes, Bluebeam and the Build segment, we still see huge potential of volume growth for the coming years. Then, of course, and we can maybe answer that in one of your question which may come up, it's also how AI is going to be a tailwind also to increase our average revenue per user across the entire portfolio for Nemetschek Group, but of course first over time on Bluebeam with Bluebeam Max.

To answer then your question on Media. Clearly we have seen that Media in Q4 was still in a recovery mode, and the growth is better, as we can see already now in Q1 2026.

Has been much more normalized. We are expecting, for the full year of 2026, Maxon to have a revenue growth of high single digit, potentially close to the around 10% revenue growth at constant currency, because a big part of the revenue of Maxon is in the US.

Clearly, the end market of Maxon is facing a lot of issues, especially in media and entertainment since many years, yeah? Therefore they are spending much less, and this is not a threat necessarily coming from AI yet, it is just that all customers are spending less.

There is less high quality production of content, etc. This is why, as we decided to accelerate the diversification of Maxon and in particular now first in AEC, where we have launched Redshift ArchViz for Maxon, first on Vectorworks, and by this summer, it will be also available on Autodesk Revit, and then at the end of the year, also on Archicad.

Maxon Redshift ArchViz is state-of-the-art, of course we are saying best-in-class, rendering software solution for architecture. Then in addition to that, on the diversification front, we also announced earlier this year in January at CES in Las Vegas some preview of our Maxon digital twin products, which is still under development, but Maxon digital twin transform CAD and 3D models into photorealistic digital products.

It's designed for today's multichannel marketing pipelines. If you want, this digital twin is an upcoming standalone application which will power a new workflow for creating and using high-fidelity digital representation of real-world products, objects, a watch, or whatever, across modern marketing and brand design pipelines.

It is intended to help brands and marketing teams maintain visual accuracy, consistency, and creative control as products move across formats, platforms, and tools, from traditional design software to AI-enabled application. In addition to that, with Maxon, we also announced, as you may have seen at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a few weeks ago, a strong partnership with Tencent, with Tencent Cloud Hunyuan 3D AI engine, which we are now entering into Cinema 4D.

Tencent Hunyuan 3D AI engine is the best-in-class worldwide 3D AI model, which is really trained by, of course, a lot of data coming from Tencent, especially with all the games that they have. We are planning to launch that in the next few months, first with the integration with Cinema 4D, and then of course also fully integrated with the rest of the product portfolio, also with Redshift, Red Giant, and of course ZBrush.

This is going to help us not to diversify our portfolio, to really embrace and more tap AI functionality to help our creative artist customer and really use AI as a creative accelerator, but then also to tap Maxon into this high growth in AEC, because if you look at the AEC rendering software, rendering solutions for architecture, we are talking about very, very high double-digit growth of the market for rendering software for architecture. Of course, it will be still represent a small piece of the total revenue of Maxon for the short term, but we strongly believe that Maxon can still continue to have higher single digit, close to 10% revenue growth for the coming years, thanks to that.

Then on the AI agentic tools, clearly I will let also Louise comment here, but we have made a lot of progress the last few years. We are partnering, of course, with many different technology suppliers, including Microsoft, we're working with Anthropic, and of course also Google Cloud on this front to really be more efficient in software development, in customer support, and therefore as we are somehow improving on the cost side, but then we are of course reinvesting these cost savings in high-growth potential, especially high potential around AI, where innovation is key, and not cheap, as to hire key AI talent.

Of course focusing on the growth in general, especially on the go-to-market front and internationalization.

Louise Öfverström

I think the only thing I would add to that is really we already see very, very positive impacts also across the board in our functions really, where higher productivity, etc., by using AI tools. You can see the trend is a little bit also, you would see that going forward, the number of people we are hiring will go down, so that growth will be lower.

The people that we do hire, as Yves alluded to, they have a tendency to be more expensive as we hire, to say, the real A. In our area, it's all about domain competence, of course, domain of expertise, as has always been the case.

Also, of course, now when we look at other areas, the people that we hire needs to really be higher competency as well. You can see a shift there.

I think the positive thing is that we, across the board and across all functions, we see nice impacts already from the AI initiative that we have launched. I cannot really think about any function that has not been taking up that very nicely.

George Webb

That's great. Thank you.

Maybe if I could just very quickly come back on the prior contract asset question, Louise. You mentioned that mid-teens maybe expected increase in '26.

How much visibility do you feel you have around that, and is that what you've baked into the guidance?

Louise Öfverström

Sorry, I didn't get the first part of your question.

George Webb

Just on that, you said the mid-teens million potential increase in the contract asset balance in 2026. Just about the visibility, and then have you baked that into the guidance?

Yeah.

Louise Öfverström

Correct. That's also our assumption for the plan for 2026.

We cannot, as we have said before, we cannot really steer that, because it's not our intent, to say, to push that kind of contracts. We use that as a tool to get our maintenance customers onto subscription.

That's depending on market and really, to say, also, of course, as we move on, there are more and more markets that are maybe less conservative about subscription moves, etc. That's why it's difficult to say really this will really be the number, but we expect approximately what I alluded to before.

That's also our current best estimation and also baked into the guidance.

George Webb

That's very clear. Good luck for the year ahead.

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Operator

the next question comes from Nicolas David from ODDO BHF. Please go ahead.

Nicolas David

Yes, good afternoon. Thank you for taking my question.

I have two. On the first one, I would like to come back on the AI monetization strategy, and maybe taking Bluebeam Max as a tangible example.

Are you offering the AI components or features on this pricing at a pricing which is attractive right now in order to attract more customers and increase your moat, or are you already pricing that at what could be the mid-term value of that already? If it's the case, do you expect a meaningful impact on your top line by 2026 or maybe more 2027?

Also in terms of pricing, what would be, in theory, the ideal price uplift linked to those AI features? My second question is regarding Germany.

When you look at your numbers, it looks like you had a nice improvement already in H2 in Germany. Is it linked to deployment of Bluebeam or did you see also an improvement in the Design segment there?

What do you expect for 2026? Do you expect this recovery to firm up?

Yves Padrines

Thank you, Nicolas. On AI monetization, it's very depending on the brands and the strategy and the roadmap.

Let's go with the example of Bluebeam Max, as you requested. We launched Bluebeam Max few weeks ago, first as planned, first for our large Bluebeam enterprise customers, mainly first in the US.

Then by mid and Q2, we are going to also have Bluebeam Max available for our channel partners. Today it's only our own sales force able to sell that directly to our large enterprise customers.

It's more towards the end of the year that Bluebeam Max will be available on the web store for everyone. We are doing that in a phased approach to make sure that we have the relevant also feedback from the customers, etc., etc.

Now, how we are pricing Bluebeam Max. Bluebeam Max is a purely centric AI package.

We are really saying that as an AI package on top of the current Bluebeam packages. If you are a new user, a new customer, and if you want to have Bluebeam Max, you will pay, as an introduction price 2026, $590 per year per user, where if you take today the premium package of Bluebeam, excluding Bluebeam Max, the price is around $440 per year per user.

It's around $150 above the current price of a Bluebeam premium package. It's an introduction price, which means that we may potentially increase this price further in the future.

Of course we want to see first the reaction of the market. We introduced already Bluebeam Max to beta customers in end of last year, and of course in January too, got some very, very good feedback, we had hundreds of tester, and the beta user feedback is very, very positive.

The features are first of all on magic markups to prevent rework and repetitive workflows. This is really creating value for people who are doing heavy reviews and who are executing takeoffs.

We have features like automated stitching, we have also integration with Claude and in the future with other AI agent via MCP. We have also connection with Revit sessions, automatically connected with Bluebeam Studios.

We have smart overlay AI drawings comparison. We have smart review, AI plan checks, etc.

All of that really is really helping to gain a lot of time and therefore making more efficient and productive the people using Bluebeam Max. Already Bluebeam has a strong ROI, but here with Bluebeam Max, the feedback that we receive from the early users is that the ROI is even stronger.

Therefore, they will see the value and should be able to be ready to pay for it. That's big assumption.

Now, as the construction industry is highly, highly conservative. I used to say that hunting and fishing are less digitalized than construction, but now even fishing is more digitalized.

That's a bit the issue is that as it is a very conservative, highly regulated market, now let's see how much and how fast the adoption of AI features will be. The good news is that positive feedback.

Now, are we expecting big revenue out of Bluebeam Max in 2026? No.

We are forecasting that in a very, very conservative way, too. Of course, you can see that the potential could be highly significant in the future to really help us to increase our average revenue per user with Bluebeam over many, many years.

Now, of course, when you look at Bluebeam Max roadmap, today it's the pricing is $590 all in per user per year, again as an introduction price. As we are going to launch additional AI features, capabilities, and AI use cases on Bluebeam Max, you can see that the pricing would probably evolve to be hybrid, where people, yes, will need to license the tool, then in addition, there would be more consumption-based, token-based type of pricing, which would be kind of a hybrid model.

We're not planning to sell solely our AI features on consumption. There will be always a mix, especially for the short to mid-term, of licensing a tool, and that's also for the Design division, not only for Build, plus token-based, consumption-based pricing model.

Then to answer your second question on Germany. Yes, there is better momentum when you see the market and when you talk to customers.

Nevertheless, we are not fully there on where we need to be in the German market. There are still a lot of issues.

Yes, there is a lot of hope that the half billion investment is coming soon in the market, but we do not expect huge needle mover in 2026, hopefully in 2027. The good news is that there has been already in the last weeks and months better momentum with, for example, in Germany, an increase in building permits.

That's already a good sign. Nevertheless, still a way to go to see all these euros being invested and monetized properly in the market.

Then if you look at Q4 and also in 2025 in general, and also what we see now in 2026, the nice growth that we have in Germany is of course coming from Bluebeam, where we had a lower base, of course the growth percentage is bigger. Then also Design is helping significantly.

Of course some three years contracts, where there are some three years contracts in Germany, only again for Graphisoft and for Allplan, not for the rest of the Design brands. We are using also three-year contracts in Germany as it is probably also a little bit more conservative market than other market internationally to help our existing customers to move to subscription.

Then, of course, we had this last time buy of perpetual license for Design, especially with Archicad in Germany in particular, which also helped the boost end of Q4 2025.

Nicolas David

That's very clear and helpful. Thank you, Yves.

Operator

The next question comes from Alice Jennings from Barclays. Please go ahead.

Alice Jennings

Hi, good afternoon, and thank you for taking my question. I just had a question on AI.

Obviously you've spoken a lot about the opportunity of kind of becoming a leader in AI and some of the initiatives and the product portfolio, including Bluebeam Max. Could you possibly just take a bit of a step back, and if we think about kind of the medium to long term, how do you see AI as really transforming the business and also the industry?

For example, how do you expect your go-to-market strategy to change, but also the way that you sell the products? Then, yeah, I guess more generally, how will the way that you kind of run the business evolve in the age of AI?

Then just a second question on the outlook. You spoke about Media expecting to grow high single digits this year, but could you break down the growth by the other divisions in '26, Design, Build, and Manage?

Yves Padrines

Sure. If you look at AI, many, many impacts, and as we all know, this is a huge revolution, transforming the way we work, we live, we learn, and of course this will also change our end customer markets, including in AEC.

Now, obviously, the pro and the cons is the fact that it is a conservative market, and unfortunately our market is probably moving slower than other industry in term of AI adoption. In particular also because we are not really enterprise-centric type of business, but majority of the revenue is coming from small, medium-sized businesses.

If you look at our Design segment, is mainly coming from super small businesses, very small architecture firms with two, three, four, five, 10 maximum seats. Here, the good thing is that we see that the adoption is growing for AI features with our customers.

First, it started with architects. We launched over two years ago the AI Visualizer.

It was seen more as a gadget, but now that we are introducing more agentic AI solutions with our Nemetschek AI assistant across our portfolio, especially first with Archicad, they see that it's going to help them to really be more productive and efficient and kind of tapping the full power of, for example, Archicad or Vectorworks or Allplan versus what they currently use. As probably same case for you, when you use a software, maybe you use 20% to 50% of the capabilities of the features which are there.

Here, thanks to the Nemetschek AI assistant, when you prompt for specific task, it will use the full power of the tool. Of course it will help, for example, if you're an architect and you say, "Well, I just built this school now in Zurich, and I would like to take exactly the same design of this building to build this school now in Nuremberg in Bavaria."

Here, instead of spending days and weeks of trying to redo your BIM model, the Nemetschek agentic solutions is going to help you to make sure that all the specific regulation linked to Nuremberg and Bavaria are going to be automatically done, etc., etc. Our AI tools are here to really help them to have a completely different user experience, to have a co-pilot in their work, to really become an augmented architect, an augmented project manager, an augmented structural engineers, etc.

For this customer base, what is highly, highly important is reliability of the output that they get from these AI tools. The trust factor is huge.

The good thing is that our user base, which are defining themselves as fans, they trust the product, because they are using Archicad or Frilo or SCIA or Allplan for many, many years. If you are a structural engineer using SCIA and Frilo, you cannot accept that it's going to be only 99% reliable.

You need 100% accuracy, especially in engineering, etc. Here we have this trust approach, which is really a network effect, which is probably differentiating ourselves via a newcomer where they will not necessarily trust what is coming out from the tool, where here it is our tools and solutions that they are using many hours per day on a very regular basis, and they are fans of these tools.

Now, of course, what we would like to see as a potential disruption, the overall market, is to see instead of having just short term as we do agentic AI functionality to help our customers to be more efficient and productive using our tools in a segmented approach, which is what construction lifecycle is today, is to see how we can look at construction in a more systemic approach, which today doesn't exist really, because it is not systemic. It is highly fragmented, with many silos.

Here they are probably some sub-segment in construction, if you look at simple residential buildings, for example, where potentially we can have a more systemic AI flywheel type of solutions to streamline even much more the workflow between the different segments in this workflow, and therefore even accelerate further what AI capabilities can be, and therefore reduce time to market, reduce costs, and therefore be more efficient, productive, and efficient. Of course this is more a wish and something that we are working more on Horizon 2 or 3, but Horizon 1 is clearly to use all agentic AI capabilities and power to help our different segment type of customers across the lifecycle to be more productive and efficient and sustainable.

Now, on our side, and as any companies in the world, AI is going to change fundamentally how we are organized. Target operating models will change over time.

As we are really focusing on being more AI-first, of course, as Louise also explained, yes, you may see that over time we're not going to increase net year-over-year too much our headcount. Of course, we will still, but we will have more and more AI agent working across all our different functions.

It is how we are going to manage properly this hybrid workforce between human and agent, and therefore potentially also changing more and more our target operating model over time. Of course, this is not something that is going to happen too quickly, but we see already some fundamental improvement and changes, especially in software development, in customer support, on the go-to-market side, of course, if you look at digital lead generation, what agentic AI can help, if you look at how now also our sales teams and go-to-market teams are using currently available AI solutions for sales, etc., it is really helping them significantly to be more efficient and productive.

We see definitely a productivity gain and efficiency gain, and hopefully a top-line increase thanks for using internally more AI functions. More importantly, I think where AI is really changing the way we work short term now is in product management.

A product manager who is this CEO, general manager of their product line, now they can really, much faster, prototype new ideas in few hours, in few days maximum, with very, very small team. We're not talking about doing an MVP in one year or few months.

Just with a handful of person, you can already do a lot of things in less than a week or even sometimes in just few hours. This is really a huge change on how we are working.

The overall work of product management, especially in vertical AI companies such as what we are becoming, is a very fascinating new role compared to what it used to be, because now you don't only define, but you can do yourself type of prototyping with a very, very small team. Very exciting times.

Louise Öfverström

I think, Alice, you had a second question on the outlook for our other segments as well, let me just briefly touch upon that. We alluded to Media already, if I go into Design, and bear in mind that Design is still impacted by the very successful subscription transformation in 2026 as well.

The transition to a fully recurring revenue model, subscription-based model of the Design segment is expected to be seen at the end of 2027. So 2026 is still continuing there, so that's of course how to read the growth rates.

Despite this effect, we still expect a high single-digit or low double-digit percentage growth for the Design segment, driven by many of the reasons we just touched upon. For the Build segment, of course, the very strong momentum will continue.

We alluded to before what the additional extraordinary effects were in terms of relative growth rates in 2025 that we will not feel in 2026. That's a normalized level at a very high level that we see in 2026, and that's why we expect the Build segment as a total, the currency-adjusted revenue growth to be somewhere in the low 20s, low 20s percentage range, and which is of course at a much higher absolute level, right?

What Yves alluded to at the beginning as well. Then last but not least, we see this positive effects in Manage that we already saw in Q4 and the fourth quarter, as we already alluded to, that the measures that we are taking into this segment are really coming through, so that's why we expect a growth year-on-year in the low double-digit percentage range in this segment.

Alice Jennings

Very helpful. Thank you.

That's super detailed. Thanks.

Yves Padrines

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Operator

the next question comes from Nay Soe Naing from Berenberg. Please go ahead.

Nay Soe Naing

Hello. Good afternoon, everyone.

Thank you for squeezing me in. I've got two questions, please.

The first one is on the Bluebeam Max introductory pricing at $590 on your base tier $440. That sounds like a very nice price uplift, and obviously this is only an introductory offer price, the potential price uplift could be even more.

I was wondering how much of growth from pricing contribution should we expect for this year and beyond? My second question is maybe one for Louise.

We've spoken about the benefits from the multi-year agreements in Design in '25. It sounds like there's more of these benefits to come in 2026.

Do these benefits at some point turn into growth headwinds, and if so, when that might be the case? Thank you.

Yves Padrines

Thank you. On Bluebeam Max pricing, as I said, yes, it's introduction price, $590.

Are we going to increase that significantly or not? We cannot answer this question yet.

We need to see the reaction from the market, the adoption. It will probably increase, but it could be only slightly.

We don't know yet. Definitely for 2026, you should not see any important price uplift impact coming from that.

It will be very, very minimal. For 2027, we will see.

I think it's too early to say. In general, this is clearly a strong way, as to increase our average revenue per user.

Then, in addition to that, as you also know, not talking about AI with Bluebeam, we have a large legacy user base with 4 million users now. Not all are paid user, because some of them, they used to be perpetual license customer who were paying subscription, and then they stopped subscription.

Still, we have this big user base of customers, and if we are able now to upsell to some of them this Bluebeam Max solution, right? In addition to that, we could also in the future price increase, which we are not planning to, and it is not the strategy.

We are not planning to increase the current pricing of the current customer of Bluebeam. We will only start looking at that if we see that we have a huge impact on volume growth of new users and new customers over time.

That would be the lever, but for the time being, the average revenue per user increase will only come from new functionalities such as Bluebeam Max, but potentially others come in the roadmap in the next few quarters.

Louise Öfverström

Then let me take the question regarding the multi-year contracts. Yes, you're right.

We continue in 2026 for Graphisoft and Allplan, and, however, we see approximately the same volume as I alluded to before, we don't see an additional tailwind multi-year contracts in 2026. Looking ahead, of course, at some point of time, that effect will sweat out, to say.

That's clear. You will have to see also that already now, we have also balanced the effect of less perpetual licenses in the last year.

That's the balancing, and you also see we're growing a strongly growing segment in the Design division also, that this is just a small part, the multi-year contracts, is impacting the revenues of the Design division. We are also growing strongly also in our originating business, and that's of course until 2027 and beyond, where you will see this comparable effects where these three-year contracts, to say, disappear.

In that respect, that will then balancing out. We don't expect that that will be, to say, at some point of time a strong and severe hit out of that, but of course you have counterbalancing effects also in the next couple of years.

The Design division, as I said, is planning the transition to subscription to end in 20 with the end of 2027. We should be through with that transition.

Nay Soe Naing

Brilliant. Thank you.

That's very helpful. Congrats on a really strong end to the year as well.

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Operator

the next question comes from George O'Connor from JPMorgan. Please go ahead.

Joe George

Hi, guys, and thanks for taking my questions. I have two, please.

Firstly, just on Design organic growth of 6.5% in Q4, can you just confirm what organic growth was excluding the contribution from multi-year deals? Then can you also please confirm if there were any other tailwinds to growth during the period, for example, from final-time license sales in any of the brands?

Then second question is just on the phasing of Bluebeam and Build growth for 2026. You mentioned an expectation for stronger growth in H1 versus H2.

Are there any fundamental reasons that growth would be stronger in H1 versus H2, given that we're already now at quite a mature point in the subscription transition, and there doesn't seem to be a major difference in the organic growth comparables between H1 and H2? I guess, does the guidance just reflect law of large numbers and some conservatism, or is there a fundamental reason for slower growth in H2 versus H1?

Thanks.

Yves Padrines

Thank you. Maybe on the phasing for 2026 first.

Clearly here there is phasing. If you look at Design, the phasing is is a main fact that we have a lot of renewals coming end of the year.

When you have maintenance customer who were used to pay perpetual license, and then they're on SSA, a lot of them do their renewals in Q4. Therefore we have a very strong Q4.

Therefore, as it is a Q4 where we are planning to therefore also migrate a lot of these now existing maintenance customer to subscription, this will have a significant impact on on the revenue contribution. That's mainly the main factor on on Design.

Then of course, in Design, you have some volatility and it is very cyclic quarter over a quarter. Sometimes in case of, yes, some of these multi-year deals that we used to have in the past, you may have in one quarter or one month a lower comparable or higher comparable, etc.

Of course this will normalize in the future. That's the main reason in for the Design, the fact that Design in H1, growth will be lower than in H2.

Then if you look at Build, Build is slightly lower growth in H2. It's not coming from from the fact that the business is going weaker, because we still see huge momentum also planning forecasted for for Q3 and Q4.

We have a large number, and it's getting harder and harder to growth, of course, 30% on a strongly increasing revenue base. It's just the fact that, we have a bigger base, and therefore, the the percentage the number of users or new user growth might be still the same, but it's just that the base is higher, and therefore the percentage growth will go lower over time.

That's the main driver. Of course, if you go back to Design, we had also last year stronger perpetual license for some quarters, especially when we had end of end of sale of some of some products.

Also had some peaks in in some quarters in 2025. That's also impacting the seasonality of the growth for Design in in 2026.

Louise Öfverström

I think to end that with the Design organic growth that you said is all organic growth, but as to say, taking out the growth impact of the multi-year contracts for Design in Q4, that would be approximately slightly south of 4 percentage point out of the 6.5 that you mentioned is the contribution from that. Bear in mind the very, very high comparables that we had out of the Q4 2024 for Design.

That's why with these numbers, Design is still ahead of the original forecast for Q4. The underlying growth was still stronger.

You can calculate, to say, slightly south of 4 percentage points.

Joe George

Perfect. That's very clear.

Thanks very much.

Victor Cheng

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Operator

the next question comes from Balajee Tirupati from Citi. Please go ahead.

Balajee Tirupati

Hi, thank you for taking my questions, two from my side if I may. First one, I appreciate Nemetschek vision of becoming a vertical AI leader.

Towards that, how could you share your view on how important is integrated platform approach versus interoperability and open ecosystem? Then second question is on cash flow.

Nemetschek's cash conversion has consistently improved, and even adjusting for one-off effects in 2025, the conversion does appear to be ahead of 100% for both 2024 and 2025. Given this increased conversion has happened when multi-year deals have been accretive to revenues, it appears even more impressive.

As an analyst community, how should we think about conversion going forward? Is 100% or more than 100% cash conversion new structural normal for Nemetschek?

Thank you.

Yves Padrines

Want to start?

Louise Öfverström

I can start with the cash conversion, and that, as you say, you know how it is with cash flow, you always have some extraordinary effect, etc. I think you're reading us that, and as I alluded to before, we expect our cash conversion to be at or above 100% also going forward.

That is in line with our expectation and also our planning. That is of course driven by the recurring revenue models, right?

It's a little bit as a slight front load of cash before the revenues due to the, to say, over time recognition of revenue. You could say that when we are absolutely done with the transition to subscription, when we're on a fully subscription-based model, then you could see that, to say, that balances out a bit.

You should not forget that we are a strongly growing business, and that's why we expect, to say, in the next years, and let's say that's not only in 2026 and 2027, but, to say, for a longer term, we expect a cash conversion at or above 100%. Not necessarily the 109%, as I said.

There can always be a special effect. This is, to say, in this range is something that you should be able to calculate with.

Yves Padrines

On the vertical AI front, again, we have two approach. We have this brand-centric approach, where we integrate agentic solution on top of our tools, and we have also this platform approach.

As we are building this AI-first open multi-cloud layer across all our brands, which is centered on a group-wide AI assistant with also our horizontal collaborative data intelligence platform, which we're going to talk about in the next few months, which is going to drive this lifecycle intelligence from design to operation. We are clearly doubling down on our foundation model, especially our data foundation model, embedding the Nemetschek assistant as an agentic AI layer across all our portfolio from design to build.

If you look at the Nemetschek AI platform strategy, we are really focusing on a common AI layer and an AI assistant rolled out across all our flagship brands like Archicad and Allplan, etc., and which is going to give user a consistent agent-based experience and cross-brand workflow. It's also offering an open horizontal solutions, which is going to unify BIM, IWMS, but also third-party data coming from IoT, operational data, which is going to enable analytics, simulation, and AI-driven decision across the building lifecycle.

A third pillar is clearly our partnership also with large technology players, such as Google Cloud, but others, to really industrialize this AI-first capabilities and run also a multi-cloud environment and support global scale and sustainability goals.

Balajee Tirupati

Very clear.

Operator

Then today's last question comes from Maximilien Pascaud from AlphaValue. Please go ahead.

Maximilien Pascaud

Hi, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for taking my question.

I have only one, especially on the Build segment and the Bluebeam and GoCanvas synergy. I would like to know if it's possible to have the figures between the synergies between the two brands if we have some cross-selling in these brands.

That's it. Thank you.

Louise Öfverström

As you might recall, Maximilien, when we acquired GoCanvas, this was a very strong synergetic case, and we get these synergies also by really doing things together. We said from the beginning, we will not continue to steer GoCanvas, to say, standalone, because it's very much about bringing this together.

Where the synergy really lands, if you made it then on the original Bluebeam side or on the GoCanvas side, we don't really care, because for us, it's one segment, and it's a interoperable way of, to say, seeing those synergies and generating those synergies. It's difficult really to place numbers, and that's what we have said.

I think what I can allude to is that we had different categories of synergies that we had really targeted. Of course we are razor-sharp in ensuring that those are also coming through.

We really see that that is happening, we see good progress there, both be it that we use Bluebeam's channel partners, to say, to use for GoCanvas sales. That's one thing, but also the white-labeling of GoCanvas products to Bluebeam.

Also of course to access each other's customer base through upselling, expansion, and the like, and also, and that's also synergy, to use our international network also for the expansion of course of GoCanvas, something that they would have needed a lot of investment to build up by themselves. All in, we can see that this is going well in line with our plans, as we have put it in the integration scenario.

That's why we also see a very positive growth of the whole Build segment as well. We are very, very pleased, but it's difficult really to say this is exactly the amount of synergy coming from that or that, but we are, as said, we are very well in line with our assumptions as we had it when we did the acquisition.

You can also see that there are also the first products that we have now really combined, where you combine, to say, with single sign-on between, etc. I think all that is really what we said when we acquired the company, and we see that come through, and we're really happy to see that such a good acquisition into our books.

Maximilien Pascaud

Great. Thank you very much.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, this was the last question. I will now like to turn the conference back over to Stefanie Zimmermann for any closing remarks.

Stefanie Zimmermann

Thank you, operator. Thanks everyone for attending.

We are looking forward to catching up soon next quarter, that is just around the corner. If you have any further follow-up questions, please do not hesitate to contact Patrick or myself.

Let's conclude our call for today. Thanks again for joining.

Yves Padrines

Thank you, everyone.

Louise Öfverström

Thank you very much.

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, the conference is now concluded and you may disconnect. Thank you for joining and have a pleasant day.

Goodbye.