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| In fact, I was pleased and humbled to say our team received the HousingWire Mortgage Tech 100 Award at the start of this year |
| Their focus on empowering our customer success is a driving reason that MeridianLink continues to deliver strong performance |
| Turning to our financial achievements in 2023, MeridianLink had an impressive year of profitable growth, supported by consistent cost discipline, a great achievement in the face of the challenging macroeconomic conditions |
| We executed well on our strategic initiatives set in the beginning of the year that were designed to serve our customers with greater efficiency |
| As a result, we generated strong demand finishing the full year with software bookings exceeding the record we set in 2022, and we made great progress releasing ACV from our new logo and cross-sell wins |
| We also had a fantastic year of innovation with multiple product launches and partnerships to strengthen the capabilities of MeridianLink One |
| But we really believe that 2024 is going to be a good year in terms of new logos |
| Our GAAP revenue grew 6% year-over-year to $74.6 million with an adjusted EBITDA margin of 42%, exceeding the top end of our EBITDA guidance |
| Our performance in the quarter demonstrates our ability to execute in key strategic areas of the business that accelerate growth while also demonstrating cost discipline |
| The pipeline is stronger than it’s ever been |
| First, engaging more deeply with customers, second, expanding the capabilities of the platform, and third, empowering customers to grow more quickly and better serve their communities |
| Starting with customer engagement, our Go-To-Market team achieved another strong bookings quarter with multiple high-value platform wins |
| The foundation we have set over the last 2 years to build and operate an efficient and high-performing Go-To-Market engine continues to drive growth |
| As I mentioned, we had record software bookings for the year, which was fueled by the cross-sell momentum of MeridianLink One |
| In Q4, we signed nine consumer lending customers to our mortgage lending solution, this is an excellent signal that our platform strategy and Go-To-Market is working |
| And the new logo piece, we feel really good about, actually, even though it doesn’t show up in Q4’s numbers |
| So – and I think that’s making good progress as well |
| So we are seeing mortgage volumes increase already, and we continue to think that, that will continue to improve through the year |
| And so I think selling into the installed base, continuing to sell, creating extremely happy customer success-oriented motions from us, building out the customer journey to expand and use more and more of our products is what we can control and what we’re focused on now |
| The team has remained steadfast in serving customers with best-in-class services and support to position their businesses for growth |
| Understanding both of these dynamics, we expect consumer lending will drive momentum in 2024 |
| So, from an income statement perspective, I feel pretty good about, again, foundationally, we are at the point of scaling |
| We have aimed to optimize our cost structure to support incremental growth, which we expect will, in turn, drive margin expansion as volumes impact the bottom line |
| This progress is clear in our adjusted gross margin expansion in Q4, which is more than 400 basis points higher year-over-year |
| We will continue to deliver award winning products and services to our customers and we are grateful for their trust and partnership |
| As Nicolaas mentioned in his remarks, we also finished another quarter with an impressive roster of new logo wins |
| Specifically, however, our lending software solutions finished the year even stronger with a net retention rate of 101% |
| We’ve also worked to tee up a strong customer success strategy to empower the customer growth journey through MeridianLink One |
| Our platform strategy of cross-selling mortgage lending to our consumer lending depository customers continues to be successful as demonstrated by the Go-To-Market wins that Nicolaas discussed |
| I think we will be in a very good position |
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| Revenue from these solutions accounted for nearly 24% of total revenue and declined 10% year-over-year |
| Revenue from those solutions accounted for nearly 20% of total revenue and declined 3% year-over-year |
| The mortgage-related revenue guide represents a decline year-over-year because we expect that it will take time, the recovery in volumes to push our customers above their committed minimums and therefore, impact revenue growth |
| But we are seeing downward pressure on the used auto market as well |
| This was driven by a 6% decrease in mortgage-related revenue, which represents 56% of total data verification software solutions for Q4 |
| This was driven by an 18% decrease in mortgage-related revenue, which represented 59% of total data verification software solutions in 2023 |
| On a GAAP basis, net loss was $42.5 million or negative 14% margin |
| On an organic basis, total customers declined 2% year-over-year |
| We’re seeing very minor delays in the sales cycle |
| Until we see the market respond to a substantial change in these drivers, we expect our customers to continue operating in a challenging credit environment |
| We saw maybe a little bit more churn than we would have hoped |
| And I know you mentioned that you had some increased churn from lower-value mortgage customers |
| And I think we’re almost at the tail end of what I’ve been talking about for the last quarter or two, which is financial distress, IMBs kind of, in total, a shift from – in our Go-to-Market strategy away from that and more into the depository base customers that are going to be with us for a long period of time |
| On a GAAP basis, net loss was $29.6 million or negative 40% margin, which includes a onetime non-cash tax expense of $29.4 million recorded in the quarter for the recognition of a valuation allowance on certain deferred tax assets |
| And new logo was low |
| This represents an estimated year-over-year change of negative 3% to 1% |
| We did see a little bit of consumer churn but not significantly so |
| And then just is there a way to think about what the revenue growth for this business can be? You guys have done a lot changing the Go-to-Market doing MeridianLink One operating in a difficult environment |
| The consumer was impacted and continues to be impacted, but volumes have been healthy |
| Although the assessment is still ongoing, after working diligently with our auditors, we expect to report in our upcoming 10-K a material weakness related to controls over revenue, specifically regarding customer contracts and billing |
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