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| We think that strategically continuing to invest in R&D and improve our market position, especially in artificial intelligence, generates the most long-term value for the company as well as, of course, investing in marketing and winning new customers |
| But we're excited that we're going to start seeing a greater revenue mix of subscription versus total revenue and faster sales cycles, thanks to these two products, and we've got more in the pipe |
| Smart Search has been especially strong, with seven sales in just the last two months in a pipeline of more than $700,000 in annual recurring revenue |
| And our current quarter, which was outstanding and very excited about it, is not going to be able to just generate a big spike in our Q2, from a revenue perspective, even know that was from a booking |
| Roger Kahn So this most recent quarter was a little bit better than twice as big as our previous quarter and annual recurring revenue that was one |
| So this is the year, 2024, when we really started to join the domination of our search platforms, lots of smaller customers, steady growth, predictable growth and the ability for us to continue to make investments in marketing and [Indiscernible] predictable revenue streams and therefore, predictable cash flows |
| We're excited about the business' ongoing growth prospects |
| This is a competitive advantage that shortens our sales cycle, increases our total addressable market |
| So we've got a great market right there that can increase our Smart Search revenue by over 30% all by itself, in addition to us being more competitive to other search products in the market |
| And we've got substantial new sales and continuing momentum that is to fill that hole, and we expect to start seeing growth |
| We're also efficiently selling to our existing customers with products like Smart Search to further drive revenue without incurring large marketing expenses |
| Customers can add Smart Search to their existing hot search license for an additional subscription fee, which gives Bridgeline an opportunity to significantly grow our HawkSearch revenue from our current customer base above and beyond the fact that Smart Search helps us win more new customers because along with Rapid UI, it allows a new customer to make an immediate improvement to their own revenue |
| Although cumulative subscription revenue is flat due to legacy product burn, HawkSearch has outstanding customer retention, is winning new customers rapidly and upsell opportunities within our customer base |
| What Smart Search does is, and this is my background, artificial intelligence, I'm really passionate and excited about this, it leverages huge advancements that have happened in the last 18 months around what are called large language models and artificial intelligence |
| Multi-store front gives HawkSearch an advantage in the franchise and chain store market and recently led to a furniture store in Europe to select HawkSearch |
| A retailer specializing in agriculture and farming products, chose HawkSearch and Smart Search to boost sales across their 25,000-product catalog |
| It delivers a clear value proposition to our customers |
| We look forward to continued growth and success in fiscal 2024 and beyond as we continue our focus on revenue growth, product innovation, customer success and delivering shareholder value |
| Nail Gun Depot, a leading home improvement retailer, chose HawkSearch to auto-complete and granular relevancy tuning that will grow its revenue significantly and streamline product discovery process for their large, complex product catalog |
| Overall, our marketing and lead generation is focused on narrow industries such as building supplies, where we can become the industry leader to make future sales even more efficient |
| It increases our total addressable market |
| So the value for our customer is increasing their online revenue |
| I have to say, this is a very exciting time in computer science |
| So I thought -- and the gross margins are quite nice |
| Our first quarter of fiscal 2024 had the strongest subscription sales since I joined Bridgeline |
| Roger Kahn It took a year for them to wind down, which was good because we were able to get additional revenue along the way and December was there last month, which had the final decrease of specifically $25,000 in MRR |
| And second of all, we have the ability this fiscal year to become cash positive for that closed, so there isn't a recurring or structural cash during challenge at all |
| And it continues to have double-digit growth |
| So those narrow markets are an efficient way for us to win new customers |
| It's an opportunity for people to understand artificial intelligence to do exciting things for people who understand their customers and their markets and what those specific needs are to make a real impact |
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| And finally, adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was negative $117,000 compared to a positive $115,000 in the prior-year period |
| Professional services revenue was down this quarter to $670,000 in part because we invested in making our products out of the box with the Rapid UI release last quarter that allows new customers to install HawkSearch with no implementation costs |
| But those types of products will bleed down, and they create a little clips of revenue because of just the size that they have, and those clips will be more apparent |
| Services revenue was $669,000 for the quarter ended December 31, 2023, a decrease from $854,000 in the prior-year first quarter |
| But pragmatically, we talked about deterioration of $530,000 I think, in that range on the current assets over one quarter |
| Changes in economic, business, competitive, technological, regulatory and other factors could cause Bridgeline's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the projections or forward-looking statements made today |
| And one of the challenges that they have is that their customers don't even know what they want to buy, sometimes |
| And when we look at some of our legacy products, they have lower revenue retention and large customers that have maybe $20,000, $30,000 in monthly recurring revenue, $300,000 in annual recurring revenue |
| And as a consequence, you won't have as effective results from most sites, if you leave the keyword search out of it for basically cultural reasons |
| Net loss was $0.6 million or $600,000 for the quarter ended December 31, 2023 compared to a net loss of $100,000, $0.1 million, in the prior-year period |
| Cost of revenue was $1.2 million for this quarter, a slight decrease from $1.3 million in the prior-year period |
| And -- but we don't see any need to reduce expenses |
| And one of the reasons we don't sell those anymore is that whole marketplace is so expensive |
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