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| Continued reductions in system deployment time as demonstrated by the system we recently deployed in just 20 months, leaves us well-positioned to support customer demand |
| And as we get better, then we'll have braggingly happy customers and then the stuff that we're doing that people said I've never seen this before gives us instant credibility |
| In our first quarter, we reported strong financial results and posted equally impressive operational results |
| So, our build instructions, our test procedures, we're standardizing that more and more from deployment to deployment, and that's really enabling the improvement from our partners |
| Our ramping of additional customers, we've indicated 1 to 2 a year and that is metered by our ability to want to provide excellent customer service and satisfaction to the backlog that we have |
| I would expect to see continued improve that throughout -- continued improvement on that throughout the year |
| And when we turned it on, it was above customer expectations for quality |
| So in terms of profitability, we're seeing progressive, improvement to the software margin |
| While SymBot can perform more transactions per hour and has improved the liability over our previous generation bot, SymBot will also improve our ability to deploy systems more quickly and efficiently with even higher customer ROI |
| And in terms of the longer term profitability, we continue to be on a trajectory to improve and you're going to see that start to improve in the second half of the year, and year-over-year continued improvement in our profitability |
| This is driven by a rapid revenue growth and gross margin expansion along with stable operating expenses |
| Operating leverage improved again sequentially as we achieved a 3.8% adjusted EBITDA rate compared to a 3.4% rate last quarter |
| This demonstrates the high leverage in our business model showing that we can be profitable with such a small number of active sites with recurring revenue, while also being invested for the much larger number of systems still in deployment |
| Our recurring revenue streams again contributed to positive gross profit |
| Gross margin increased sequentially by 90 basis points to 20%, driven primarily by improvement in system gross margin |
| Our first quarter revenue grew to $369 million up nearly 80% compared to the same quarter last year and reflects an accelerated pace of growth from last quarter's 60% year-on-year growth |
| So we expect accelerating recurring revenue growth as we head into our second quarter |
| We continue to see significant opportunities to gain efficiencies over time and to build capacity as we continue to add partners to our outsourcing network |
| What we're seeing is better inventory, higher quality products coming from our suppliers, which means that we're actually pushing the suppliers to do a lot more testing in their factories as opposed to on sites |
| New customers that we're signing on, we're looking to improve that, recurring attach rate as we've talked about in the past |
| To that end, our network of outsourcing partners is executing well |
| So you saw our second profitable quarter, 430 that's up from where we were |
| Our recurring revenue streams grew 5% sequentially and 45% year-on-year |
| For the Second quarter of fiscal 2024, we expect revenue of $400 million to $420 million and adjusted EBITDA between $12 million $15 million which represents revenue growth of over 50% and improved adjusted EBITDA margin of over 700 basis points, both on a year-on-year basis |
| We will continue to innovate, execute and scale to deliver for our customers as we grow and drive increased profitability in a capital efficient way |
| By stabilizing, we indicated don't expect that continue to grow to six to seven to eight every single quarter, but we will see improved number of systems as we grow over the next couple of years |
| Our first quarter non-GAAP system gross margin increased 110 basis points from last quarter |
| And what we want to make sure we do is that we adhere to schedule and that we're able to deliver that high quality |
| So as most of you know, over the course of our deployment our cash inflows tend to be very front loaded, and so that's driven our favorable cash flow as we've ramped |
| SymBot also helps extend the capability of our system and sets the stage for our entry into new markets such as non-ambient food |
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| As a reminder, these results still reflect significant costs associated with lower margin innovation projects like BreakPack, the burden of pass through costs to protect gross profit dollars, but can weigh on a reported gross margin percentage and costs associated with rapidly scaling our operations |
| So I preface this by saying it's a high class problem, but, and you guys delivered revenue at like the high end basically of what you said you would |
| And so we don't want to continue to take on more and more statements of work and additional customers and not have the ability to deliver on the $23 billion backlog that we have |
| So you should not expect to see that continue |
| As we've talked about in the past, we expect that 20-month cycle over the long-term to get down to 12-months or lower |
| It was in a not we had we went from 12 systems in deployment to 15 in deployment, but those last three happened, in December, so we didn't see the real benefit |
| It just seems like as you bring on new partners, it's going to bounce around a bit |
| But in terms of your question on the attach rate, we still have, I'd say, a third of the 15 systems that we've got deployed or really early proof of concept systems where our attach rates were significantly lower |
| Maybe just starting with R&D, it's been on a bit of a declining path for the past few quarters |
| Adjusting for our 53-week year in 2023, recurring revenue streams reflect nearly a 12% sequential growth, but still below the 25% sequential increase in completed systems, because these systems were completed in the back half of the quarter |
| And I just want to like it's a little bit of a tough question, Carol |
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