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Grid Dynamics Holdings, Inc. (GDYN)

Q4 2025 Earnings Call· Fri, Mar 6, 2026

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Cary Savas

Operator

Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to Grid Dynamics Fourth Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. I'm Cary Savas, Director of Branding and Communications. [Operator Instructions] Joining us on the call today are CEO, Leonard Livschitz; CFO, Anil Doradla; CTO, Eugene Steinberg, COO, Yury Gryzlov; and SVP, Head of Americas, Vasily Sizov. Following the prepared remarks, we will open the call to your questions. Please note that today's conference call is being recorded. Before we begin, I would like to remind everyone that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements. This includes our business and financial outlook and the answers to some of your questions. Such statements are subject to the risks and uncertainty as described in the company's earnings release and other filings with the SEC. During this call, we will discuss certain non-GAAP measures of our performance. GAAP to non-GAAP financial reconciliations and supplemental financial information are provided in the earnings press release and the 8-K filed with the SEC. You can find all the information I just described in the Investor Relations section of our website. I'll now turn the call over to Leonard, our CEO.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Thank you, Cary. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. I'm delighted to share that Grid Dynamics closed 2025 with another landmark performance. In the fourth quarter, we beat Wall Street expectations on both revenue and EBITDA delivering record revenue of $106.2 million and a strong $13.7 million in non-GAAP EBITDA. Remarkably, we finished the full year with a record revenue of $411.8 million, which is 17.5% growth year-over-year. 2025 non-GAAP EBITDA was $53.8 million. In Q4, our top 3 customers included two global technology companies and the largest payment technology company. All of them are leaders in the AI space. Our performance is a result of our AI expertise, the strength of our accelerators and keen domain knowledge. In Q4, our AI revenue grew 9% over Q3 and now represents 25% of our overall revenue. For the full 2025, our AI revenue reached over $90 million, representing 30% year-over-year growth. In 2026, we anticipate continued AI revenue growth. There are three key factors driving our bullish outlook on AI. First, AI coding agents and automation, significant enterprises build versus buy calculus that were built at a lower cost. The shift aligns with Grid Dynamics core strengths in building solutions for Fortune 1000 companies, leveraging specialized talent and intellectual property. Second, our efforts with GAIN are resulting in a richer blend of outcome and output-based engagements. Crucially, these new engagements enable us to decouple pricing from effort. We have successfully deployed software platforms across multiple industry verticals. Our AI engagements now strategically combine the strength of our human capital with the value of our platform assets. The market reception for these software platforms has been strong, with customer demonstrating a clear willingness to pay. This positions us well to grow recurring revenue, deepen customer retention and extend…

Eugene Steinberg

Analyst

Thank you, Leonard. Good afternoon, everyone. We are actively executing across three horizons. AI first engineering, Agentic Enterprise and Physical AI. In Q4, we shipped across all three, and these foundations position our AI business for 2026. Horizon 1, AI first engineering. Horizon 1 is the core of our current business. The engineering work that source the majority of our clients today. We are accelerating productivity across the organization through AI first native tooling and investing decisively in the continuous upskilling of our engineers. Enterprises are no longer debating the merits of adopting AI for software development. But rather how to do it without losing control of quality, security and institutional knowledge. It is in this context that we launched Rosetta, our AI native software development framework. Rosetta is part of our GAIN initiative and provides a governance layer for AI coding agents. Rosetta automates contract setup, enforces consistent workflows and manage his engineering knowledge at both the engineering and organization level. It operates within the client's own security perimeter and works across all major coding platforms. Developers get consistent project aware agent behavior from day 1. Engineering colleagues get centralized governance and visibility across the entire agent footprint. With Rosetta clients benefit from decades of institutional expertise seamlessly embedded in the way engineering workflows. We have several engagements underway and a scaling gain as the standard delivery backbone across all engagements in 2026. Grid Dynamics separations is client 0 for our AI solutions. Cerebra, our internally developed Agentic platform launched in Q3. It is built on Google AI stack, Gemini enterprise, ADK and A2A. Within Grid Dynamics, Cerebra is being used by our sales recruitment and knowledge management organizations, automating proposal development, technical prescreening and research at scale. Clients adopt faster than the platform has already been stress tested…

Anil Doradla

Analyst

Thanks, Eugene. Good afternoon, everyone. We recorded fourth quarter revenues of $106.2 million, slightly above the midpoint of our guidance range of $105 million to $107 million. This represents a sequential growth rate of 1.9% and a year-over-year growth rate of 5.9%. There were 30 bps and 22 bps of FX headwinds on a sequential and year-over-year basis, respectively. Non-GAAP EBITDA was $13.7 million or 12.9% of revenue and was at the higher end of our $13 million to $14 million guidance range. In the fourth quarter, there was a negative impact from FX fluctuations on a year-over-year basis. We are exposed to a currency basket across Europe, Latin America and India. While we utilize both natural hedges and an active hedging program, the net year-over-year impact on our EBITDA was a headwind of approximately $1.5 million. On a sequential basis, there was a tailwind of approximately $160,000 to our EBITDA as the dollar strengthened relative to the British pound and euro. Looking at performance of our verticals. Retail remained our largest vertical, contributing 28.7% of total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2025. While revenues in this vertical increased by 5.3% on a sequential basis, there was a decline of 6.9% on a year-over-year basis. The sequential increase was broad-based across our retail customer base. TMT, our second largest vertical accounted for 28.3% of total revenues for the quarter. The vertical delivered strong results with growth of 5.3% on a sequential basis and a 27.5% increase on a year-over-year basis. The strong year-over-year growth was primarily driven by our top 2 technology customers. The finance vertical accounted for 22.9% of total revenues in the quarter, growing 5% on a year-over-year basis. This growth was primarily driven by increased demand from our large fintech customer and large banks. Turning to…

Cary Savas

Operator

[Operator Instructions] The first question comes from Maggie Nolan of William Blair.

Margaret Nolan

Analyst

So you've had impressive growth in AI revenue and you're above $90 million for 2025. So I'm wondering if projects are moving into production at scale and then what is the nature of these projects? And how is the demand among customers?

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Thank you, Maggie. Thank you for kind words. Look, we extensively discussed in various forms what AI represents to Grid Dynamics and what is the opportunity for us going forward. Fundamentally, what makes a big difference for Grid Dynamics for 2026 on is that we're not only moving from the small development project to full scale implementation, but also we introduced our platforms, which has been noted during this particular time. And that kind of scales the confidence with the clients to give us more of the solutions where we represent our engineers combined with their own tools as a new way to building the solution faster and more affordable for the clients. Perhaps some words from Eugene.

Eugene Steinberg

Analyst

Yes. It's a great question. And there are two main zones, which are most exciting for me. One is AI-powered customer experience. The reason behind that is that this is the zone where the impact from source personalization, Agentic commerce is very obvious and memorable by our clients. And this is where clients see ROIs in weeks, not in months or years. And that allows us to expand those accounts very, very quickly based on this successes which we see in this domain. Second is enterprise AI platforms, not as visible as front end work or AI-powered customer experiences. But this is a foundational layer, which helps our companies to organize their data, build AI agent factories on top of this data and then go into developing business agents on top of those platforms. And what we see in our projects is as those platforms mature and go to production clients start to scale very, very quickly building AI agents, and we are helping them to develop the AI agents. And we are going from 1 to 10 to 20 of those specific customer facing, which will collect agents very, very quickly. So this expands our work and allows us to move very, very quickly.

Margaret Nolan

Analyst

Great. And then anything else you would comment on as you move into 2026, kind of how you expect the trend to evolve any way that you can maybe tie that back to the numbers or maybe some of your margin expansion goals you've mentioned.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Yes. So we bombarded you, Maggie, with a bunch of names during this press release, right? So we were talking about merchandise experienced platform, we were talking about bitemporal database, we're talking about Incarna robotics AI platform, subsequent growth of the Rosetta, it's automation within GAIN model, the platform against Cerebra, which picks up our internal process, bringing Grid Dynamics as a client 0 for implementations. What is it all about? Those are not just buzzwords. It's just a way to understand for our clients that there may be a little bit more scarcity in the market of clarity what to do. But when you work with Grid Dynamics, we represent basically three key functions. First, we are domain consultants. So we understand what the customer problems are, and we are tailoring the solutions with that as a important contribution for Grid Dynamics as a mix between Grid Dynamics trained engineers, the standard tools and platform from the market and customized tools, which will bring based on our platform and development. The combination of three leads to a few things. First of all, it's a shorter time to implementation for our clients. And second, it moves away from our traditional talent material offering where we're putting together contribution based on the planned outcomes, which ultimately leads not only for them to gain momentum and have a better financial return but a high value add for the margin expansion for Grid Dynamics. Those are three elements.

Cary Savas

Operator

The next question comes from Bryan Bergin of TD Cowen.

Bryan Bergin

Analyst

The first one I'll just get a high level. So just with everything that's going on in the market, services, software-based pressure, the whole kind of SaaS apocalypse fears that are out there. I want to kind of sanity check it with you first. Based on what you're seeing in your client conversations and what they're doing in contracting, what's your perspective as it relates to enterprises increasing their custom build preference versus buy the platform solutions. And if your clients are demonstrating a rising preference for custom builds, what are like the implications for your dynamics?

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Very good. So I will start, and then I'll have Vasily to give you a few examples because there's nothing better than to show what exactly happened. So from the high-level perspective, obviously, we recognize that there is a very strong expectation that the cost of implementation will go down. Then people start throwing some comments. There is a decline of SaaS software companies or offerings. There is a decline of IT services needs because everything is going to magically appear. Well, all these statements are not false. I mean there are more and more tools available in the market. But what's the custom part is, is that creation of the tools and solutions, having our internal platforms makes Grid Dynamics much more efficient to really customize solutions for the individual clients and tests. And the reason we're doing this because it's very nice from the high-level perspective to look at these all wonderful models, but it's experimentation going to production is quite pricy. And many of the clients are hesitant to throw a lot of money without a clear outcome. And that's where Grid Dynamics comes in with the combination of people, processes and tools. And that's how we believe that even though there is an overall look that overreaching look that there are potential some decline of the needs, the company will agree dynamic needs is actually growing, and I'll have Vasily to bring some examples.

Vasily Sizov

Analyst

Sure. Thank you for the question, Bryan. You are right on point, we definitely see increased demand of our custom-built software. And if in the past, the customers were looking into improvements or enhancing their core platforms, core applications right now, given the overall kind of cost of development is getting reduced by utilizing AI native environment and SDLC. Companies like Grid Dynamics definitely benefit from this trend by getting involved into implementations and rebuilding of the typically SaaS, I would say, applications as a custom built and more custom-tailored solutions for end customers, things like HR systems or travel dashboards and et cetera, which were traditionally outside the investment areas for the companies -- for the clients.

Bryan Bergin

Analyst

Okay. Okay. That's helpful. And then a follow-up. I'll kind of -- I want to dig in on the growth outlook for the year and unpack it a bit. Anil, you made a comment, you're bullish in your outlook. Just to clarify that comment, are you assuming anything meaningfully changes in the underlying demand backdrop to hit any of these targets? And help us just kind of bridge the 1Q performance here. Is there a billed day dynamics or anything seasonal in the first quarter as you think about that first quarter implied growth rate relative to what you're talking about for the year?

Anil Doradla

Analyst

Yes, Bryan. Q1 is a very simple story here. It's the seasonality and also in our time and materials business, T&M, there was fewer working days relative to Q4. So that's -- it's very simple. Now you're absolutely right. We are positive on how we're looking at the full year. There are two components of it. One is that some of the recent trends in our pipeline growth. Second thing is all the gentlemen that have spoken about on our AI trends, right? I'll let them build up on that. But where we are today, how we look at the year we feel more positive. And the final thing is that if you look at the range I provided, it's a little wider, right, relative to last year, we made it a little wider because we understand that during the course of the year, there's some positives, there's not so positive. So we kept it a healthy range.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

So let me be more specific, right? So I think Anil answered a very simple question about Q1, and it's a very substantial reduction of the working days. So it's not something like normally happens traditionally here. But there is a bullish outlook for very simple reason. The pace of adoption of AI solutions and AI applications by Grid Dynamics customers, clearly outpaces the decline of maybe a little bit more hedged retail business. It happens simultaneously and this is no secret because if you look at the rate of growth of our client verticals, you can see to notable changes. It's a tack and more important, the financial vertical, which goes specifically into the fintech and capital markets, which is quite new and growing for us. So when we look at the total equation, the rate of growth and AI-related businesses. The contribution from our partnerships. Our improved performance in terms of the new type of agreements, fixed bids, performance base, other elements. And on the back side, some of the depreciation of more of traditional paged business, we've been there for years, we came up with bullish but conservative approach. And what's the conservative part of that? I think it's very important to understand. We've learned a little bit our lesson from 2025, right? I mean we actually believe we're going to be better than midpoint. But what it means for us? It means for us that in addition to all the facts, we need to understand the revenue dollars which are coming with the customers. And as the business grows, as you know very well, we also deploy our engineering talent across the globe, follow-the-sun strategy. And different regions have different price points and different elements of the business. So as we continue to scale our business, we want to make sure that early on, especially when we're introducing this a little bit variability of Q1, we do not get you guys question, are we safe or not? We are very safe.

Cary Savas

Operator

The next question comes from Puneet Jain of JPMorgan.

Puneet Jain

Analyst

So given like the recent news flow around Entropic Claude, are you seeing like any changes in your client behavior, increased urgency among your clients to embrace AI? And second, I know like you talked about the GAIN framework. I know it's built on proprietary as well as third-party tools. So to -- like all these developments like the evolution of AI ecosystem. Does that raise the bar on what GAIN can do for your clients in terms of productivity savings?

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Very good. Let's start with, again, Vasily as the last time to give a little bit more of the multilayer approach. And then from the technology perspective, I think Eugene can comment as well. So, Vasily, please.

Vasily Sizov

Analyst

Yes. Maybe let me start with GAIN framework. So as you know, we announced it in the middle of 2025. And during the 6 months of 2025, we were rapidly developing this framework and running pilot implementations with our customers. As you heard in the prepared remarks, we implemented a series of software assets, which became now the part of this platform, which we are offering to our customers. So I would say in 2026, we see this will be the year of rapid adoption of the GAIN platform across our customers. And in fact, it became the de facto standard approach, which we use for the outcome and output-based engagements. Essentially decoupling billable headcount from the revenue growth. So we definitely see performance improvements. We transfer some of that to our customers, and some of that contributes to our improved profitability.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Eugene?

Eugene Steinberg

Analyst

Yes. And when it comes to the actual improvements which we are seeing from Agentic coding systems and Claude and of course Entropic kind of others, of course, many of our customers are embracing it, and we are bringing those capabilities with them together with Rosetta, which is a layer on top of if. They are not competing with those Agentic Assistance on the foundation layer, but we are making them better, stronger and embed our own institutional knowledge in those systems with every engagement. And of course, impact of that very much depends on the actual nature of the project. So if you are going into greenfield POC kind of solution, your gains are immense, like 10, 15x compared to traditional ways because you are creating in an unconstrained environment doing whatever you want. If you are working in a brownfield project with still well-defined goals, technology modernization and migration, you still have a very strong improvement because the agents are tools. They are doing things much faster for you. And you see maybe 2, 3x improvements in the performance of the teams. However, when you are coming to the engagement and environments where the majority of the complexity is in the communication or orchestration. This has been -- it's much more challenging to realize the improvements from pure coding and creation of artifact. So it all varies very much depending on the portfolio of your solutions.

Yury Gryzlov

Analyst

Just quickly to add to what Eugene and Vasily mentioned, I think it's very important. We mentioned several times in our prepared remarks as well. I think this transition from T&M based approach to outcome-based and output based. That's -- it's very important to emphasize because this is definitely real. We see that a lot. It happened during the 2025 in transition to 2026. And we see that this year, we will see much more of those -- many more of those engagements going forward. And that's why, as Vasily and Eugene mentioned, our GAIN framework together with verticalized solutions and the platforms that we are leveraging that will be very, very important this year.

Puneet Jain

Analyst

Okay. Got it. And let me ask like follow-up to Bryan's question on the rest of the year beyond Q1. So based on our math, like it seems like the full year guidance at its midpoint implies like 5%, 5.5% sequential growth beyond Q1. So can you disaggregate that? Like what drives that growth like in terms of like whether it's like you talked about like earlier like the pipeline, billing days and all that. Can you talk about like what drives that 5%, 5.5% sequential growth beyond Q1 to get to the midpoint of full year numbers?

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Puneet, make a few comments and, of course, we'll have Anil to back it up with the numbers. As I mentioned to Bryan, we do very seriously to make sure that we are reasonable but conservative in our forecasting. Okay. The pipeline is very robust. And the pipeline which we have right now, not only robust, but it shows a great opportunity with AI-related products and projects across multiple verticals and multiple clients. There is always a seasonality, right? So Q2 is better than Q1, and Q3 is better Q2 and then Q4 may have some additional flows like what happens in Q4 last year and all the stuff. But we kind of disaggregate the seasonality and behavior from adoption of AI. And we look at our pipeline as it stands today. So there is a very little assumption, Puneet, that there is going to be some enormous number of white swans or some Hail Mary or something extraordinarily great happens during the course of the year. Obviously, not everything on our books today, but majority is and we have a very nice number of our own tools, accelerators and platforms, which are going to continue to roll out during the year. So to summarize it, we are not hoping for the numbers. We have a strong pipeline to AI-related projects, particularly in the technology and fintech space. There is a growth in manufacturing, which is cutting quite robustly as well. And we see that adoption, as again, Bryan asked before, of the custom-developed solution on a combination of the deployed engineers and train program and our internal tooling brings us much higher acceleration. So the same people, the same trade capacity of the people can have several terms on the execution during the year. That's kind of the high level, but very clear understanding what does that pipeline mean? But maybe Anil will back it up with some numbers.

Anil Doradla

Analyst

Yes. Look, I think the key thing is what Leonard said, right, we look at the revenues from a bottoms-up and a top down. And what we have as we go from '25 to '26 transition is this AI factor. And when we looked at that AI revenue kind of bottoms up, top down and look at the trajectory, I wish I could give a number, but it's a very healthy number as we go into '26. That is our foundation for our modeling in '26. Now when you look at the variations we said, right, we have this wider variation this year. We understand in the course of the year, things can happen. So as you go from the high end to the low end, we bake in some level of conservativeness with some of our clients, especially on the larger side, depending upon how we look at the business today. But again, this is top-down, bottoms-up with some conservativeness, but in '26, the fundamental difference is that we've got this AI trajectory and look at -- as Leonard pointed out, look at the fastest-growing segments, TMT and financial verticals. That's the key.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

So just again, to put another number, Puneet, because I think it's important. I'll give you a little bit of a prequel, right? So mathematically, it does look a little bit aggressive. But realistically, it's a very unusual quarter to report, right? It's the year-end. So we are in March. So you can suspect that we're probably know numbers in Q1 a little bit better than typically when we present our earnings data a few -- 2, 3 weeks earlier. So what happened is we see a healthy March. And the impact of this seasonality and less of the working days kind of behind us. So the rate of growth, which you see is based on the lower performance of the first, let's say, 2 months of the quarter. As I was joking, would be lovely to have a Q2 4 months then you can throw all these stuff in the first 2 months of the year, but really, really healthy quarter. So the rate of growth from March on is more, I would say, traditional, which makes us more comfortable with providing the guidance like we are.

Cary Savas

Operator

The next questions come from Mayank Tandon of Needham.

Mayank Tandon

Analyst

Great. Anil, you gave guidance on EBITDA for the first quarter, but not for the full year. So I just wanted to check with you, should we expect the same sort of pattern as you mentioned on revenue growth in terms of margin expansion? And do you have any sort of framework on how to think about what the levers are for margins going forward?

Anil Doradla

Analyst

Yes. Thanks for that question, Mayank. So as you know, last quarter, we talked about margin expansion in 2026, right? Q4 to Q4, we talked about 300 bps. Within the company, there's several efforts right from internal productivity, right from geographic optimization, where we're working very diligently on our margin expansion. And that's largely driven by the change of our workforce over the last 3, 4 years, which you all know about. Along with that, we have investments too. Eugene is talking -- Eugene is doing some amazing work in a number of platforms he's rolling out on AI. So it's the balance between the two. So if you look at our trajectory, margin expansion, margin continuation is what we are modeling. As the revenue picks up, obviously, you have a little bit more positive leverage there on the EBITDA margins. But the cadence at which these things will play out, you will see in the course of the year, I just don't want to give that level of specificity at this point. But the trajectory should be moving upwards and in line with what we had promised last quarter.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

And of course, it's not constant currency situation. So you may want to comment.

Anil Doradla

Analyst

So the other important thing everyone should understand is that in '25 versus '24, there was a big headwind on FX. So if I look at the cost and revenue on a net basis, that was close to $8 million overall for me, year-to-year. If I look at the last day of '24 and compare it with what happened on '25. So we're working through that. That's another thing that we're working through.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

So to summarize it, I gave you guidance, direction of 3% improvement plus. It still stays. I hope we can do better than that. There's a lot of activities happening. But we're not going to pull the plug and show artificially some numbers related to less investment into Agentic AI or the Physical Robotics AI. These elements are vital for our business, but operational efficiency, the contract efficiency, which we discussed with AI and also distributing workforce more efficiently around the globe. All the three elements. But the driver is fundamentally AI efficiency. That's really the #1 of 3. And I think, Yury wanted to...

Yury Gryzlov

Analyst

Yes, I just wanted to comment on the same -- pretty much along the same lines as I mentioned, right, about fixed-price engagements, right, and outcome-based engagements. That's obviously come typically, with a higher margin. So that's why it's also -- it's part of this program as well. And this year, again, it will be quite substantial.

Mayank Tandon

Analyst

Got it. And then just very quickly, I wanted to ask about your comments around M&A, Anil. You mentioned that obviously, you have a really good balance sheet and you have the work just to go out and do acquisitions. Are you finding that with the recent market volatility, multiples have come down? Are expectations a little bit more realistic on some of the potential targets that you might have had in mind?

Anil Doradla

Analyst

Yes. Somehow the private companies, they received the memo a little later than the public companies. So the memo they finally got, but it took a little time. We are having a good pipeline. Look, we've said that, but I think the number of exclusivities that we have today is as high as it's ever been. It's not done until it's done. When it comes to valuation, things have come in, they're better than what it was 6 months or 10 months ago. But it's still back and forth. Again, Mayank, the most important thing, strategic focus, strategic fit to what we're doing, especially in the AI world that we're entering. That's our bar standards are very high, and we're just not going to buy because we have to buy. We're going to do it if it's strategically fitting.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Yes. I think what Anil didn't tell you it is very obvious we're not buying revenue. This is very, very clear. The relationship we got into the exclusivity with several of the targets, they are very specific in their fashion to address two things. One is the technology components, which we need to add. And the second one is the knowledge of the verticals we would like to be strong with that. So it's not about one size fits all. It's not about just going -- swallowing a big company and report a great number, because usually, it doesn't happen like this. But it's a very specific technology plus verticals. And it seems as the message you mentioned coming from somebody who tells them, okay, now has attained their expectations, I think we're going to be in a better shape because last year, it wasn't satisfactory.

Cary Savas

Operator

The next question comes from Logan Schuh of Jefferies.

Logan Schuh

Analyst

My question revolves around your discussion of kind of moving from labor scaled IP to -- or labor scaled growth to IP scaled growth and kind of the shift from time and materials to outcome based. I'm just wondering what kind of implications that have on your plans for hiring in 2026 and beyond? And then also, where do you think the business model evolves to over the longer term? I mean we have some competitors going all in on kind of subscription-based Agentic delivery, some different competitors saying, no, we don't see it fundamentally changing. I was just wondering where you guys kind of landed on that spectrum?

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Okay. So Logan, I will just say a couple of words, but I think this is a good question for a round table. It's almost like I feel like as a fire chat, not the earnings call because there are a lot of elements, which is a very loaded question because you're right, we're kind of the last of the group to kind of present our earnings results and you have -- you're full from everyone telling you something. So it will not be very difficult to tell you what we think. So look, the model has changed already. There is no way back and people who will consistently say that, A, nothing changed, or we're going to continue to build the large size of team and more people you have as merrier, will probably face some challenges, especially on the large size. Now I've been saying that for a long time, and it actually works for Grid Dynamics benefit. We're not only a technology-driven company and an innovation-driven company, we're a nimble company. Our size is fairly optimized. Obviously, there is a place for growth. But we're not having any managed services. We're not having some very low-end contracts. And some contracts which were not as progressive or technology contribution, migration all this fashion, they are falling off. And that's why you see this kind of changing of the orders in both ways. But where we see our model, and I hope Vasily will give you again a few examples, is that it's going to be a combination. So it's not the perishable goods of quality engineering. It's a combination of capabilities, trained people and the solutions we have in advance of customer needs, understanding their marketability. We continue to play our role with the partnerships. We understand deeply…

Vasily Sizov

Analyst

Yes, just a few comments. Imagine if the customer has a project, let's say, which is provided as a bid for fixed price. And you come and bid for that, let's say, with the pricing 25% to 35% lower than otherwise it would be delivered with a traditional workforce in the T&M manner, let's say, we're like just regular fixed price for the regular engineers. But actually, you have the productivity of 35% to 45% higher. So that's the clear path for improvement of the profitability, but how do you do that? You implement certain SDLC new processes on how you develop the software. You deploy a special team, which is very well trained, you introduce certain artifacts and assets, which would understand or would fit their vertical we are working in, also understand the coding policies, all the existing code base, et cetera, which would help developers to work to deliver higher productivity. And that's essentially like on the high-level GAIN model and what the path Grid Dynamics is going with. Essentially verticalized solution, high-performance teams, very well-educated engineers on the modern technology and delivering outcome and output based engagement.

Logan Schuh

Analyst

Great. That was very clear. And then I wanted to ask about the partnerships. I know they're -- 19% of revenues were partner influenced. I just wanted to kind of get a sense of how those partnerships have evolved over time, maybe how you see them evolving in the future?

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

Okay. So the person who is responsible for partnerships, we will bring him in next time, it's a Rahul Bindlish and he will say we're looking okay. Who is going to say on our partnerships, right? Thank you for asking this question last because it's actually a very wide part of our growth. When a few years ago, we started talking about one partnership. We're basically exploring what it means to read the next. And starting with Google, it was great. I mean we have a great experience. We have a great partnership. We have a great positioning of understanding of the modern tools, collaboration. We have matured significantly ever since. So when we talk about the influence revenue, we're talking about our positioning where we not only contribute to the value of the clients which utilize solutions from our clients and solutions talk about cloud solutions or their modern, large language models or other features. But the elements associated how we are adding our layers, our technology know-how, our technology platforms on the top of their offering, which helps them to penetrate customers faster and helps us to understand earlier what their growth is going to be. Saying that, we also started to contribute more efficiently to their own developments, on their own products, which is very critical because that's how it drives our business, not only having our partners our vehicle for growth within industry, but is the growing clients themselves. So from there, we pretty much cover all the hyperscalers. And that's great because it means the customer has a value with Grid Dynamics to get a bespoke solution for the best fit for everyone. And this is good because ultimately, not every offering fits all, and we are very comfortable to be really good friends with the clients and fair partners with our major hyperscalers. On the top of it, we're adding more meaningful partnerships and perhaps Eugene can make one of the notable ones because I think it usually gives us a little bit more advantage to fill the gaps on the fast-growing AI implementation where the big guys allow a bit more flexibility for some specialized programs to step in. And since it's going to be probably the last time I speak where Eugene will wrap it up for you, I just want to say one thing which is important, I think, for everyone. It's going to be a good year. We believe in Grid Dynamics. We are having a strong and growing team and I really count on you guys believe in us as we do it ourselves. So thank you with that, and Eugene, please wrap it up.

Eugene Steinberg

Analyst

Yes. Thank you, and this is a great question. And indeed, we -- as Leonard said, we are helping many of our partners to build the value-add components and penetrate new customers and new industries. One notable example is, for example, our partnership with Temporal, which is our workflow management system at its core, very robust, very scalable and very powerful. And we apply this system at scale while building enterprise agentic AI platforms, which opened quite a lot of interesting opportunities for Temporal to grow into this sector, and we help them to go into major accounts together. And now we enjoy -- it's a good partnership as well.

Cary Savas

Operator

Thank you, Logan. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the Q&A session for today. I will now pass it over to Leonard for closing comments.

Leonard Livschitz

Analyst

This quarter, we demonstrated that AI first transformation is delivering real measurable value. We continue to upskill our talent and embed AI driven efficiencies through platforms. By running our AI first operational models, we are proving the same value proposition we advocate for our clients. We entered the next phase of our journey with a clear road map, a future approved workforce and a steadfast commitment to deliver long-term value for our shareholders. Thank you, and we look forward to updating you on our continuous progress.