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Analyst
Dylan Becker
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q3 (8 quarters).
- Questions
- 27on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 0%none of 27 questions
- Companies
- 4questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 8with questions
These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.
How to read these numbers
Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.
Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.
No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.
Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.
Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.
Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.
Questions asked
Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.
Showing 27 of 27 questions from 4 companies
IOTSamsara Inc.9 questions · 8 reporting periods · 0 of 9 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
what's enabling you to sustain and not only sustain, really accelerate the momentum from a revenue, net new ARR
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Sanjit credited strong product-market fit with large enterprises digitally transforming complex physical operations. Direct.
Calendar 2026 Q2
I was just curious to get your thoughts on maybe how you plan to price and monetize agentic capabilities over time.
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Sanjit said Samsara is experimenting with pricing for operational AI, SKU-based for waste intelligence, a data-product model for ground intelligence, and agents in beta.
Calendar 2026 Q1
How should we think about the impact to the business' international expansion plans?
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Sanjit answered directly: focus stays on large, ready-to-digitize North America and Western Europe markets.
if you could speak to how all of these things really allow you to accelerate the time to value with customers
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Sanjit answered directly: platform expansion widens value areas; customers already realize ROI within a year (8x ROI cited).
Calendar 2025 Q4
maybe if you could kind of double click on what that continues to unlock, how we should think about
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Sanjit said most public-sector physical operations sit at the state and local level, where customers share win stories, building momentum; it is a SLED, not Fed, opportunity.
Calendar 2025 Q3
if we look at the outperformance on the revenue line, kind of a notable step up here
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Dominic cited an unchanged conservative guidance philosophy plus bookings linearity from Q1 deals closing early in Q2, a dynamic not recurring into Q3.
Calendar 2025 Q2
how you think about maybe in a tightening macro, kind of the growing importance with fewer excess assets out there
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Sanjit agreed customers facing pricier procurement and changing lead times are driving up utilization and extending asset lifespan, which Samsara enables.
Calendar 2025 Q1
how you're thinking about kind of the network density benefit and your opportunity to go and capture kind of more assets
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Sanjit said data density aids new-product coverage and operational visibility; still low-double-digit penetrated with a decades-long runway to go broader and deeper.
Calendar 2024 Q4
how much of that is further brand awareness kind of driving and building out
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Sanjit said international market share is still low single digits with growing awareness and more market-specific features, but remains early.
VEEVVeeva Systems Inc.8 questions · 5 reporting periods · 0 of 8 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q3
being able to do more with the same, kind of, amount of your existing resources
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Peter said faster, more accurate implementations make the applications more valuable and predicted a renaissance for tech-enabled specialized services.
Calendar 2026 Q1
any kind of color on what you're seeing with traction and adoption of kind of bundling more services and software
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Peter explained CROs would OEM Veeva technology for their biotech customers. A big study could be $500K-$1M in technology. Three major study-by-study products: EDC, RTSM, and eCOA. Not new products but a new go-to-market focus and operating model.
I wonder how you kind of delineate between those and how you think about your ability serving kind of the end-to-end workflow across the industry
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Peter described the puzzle-piece advantage: each new Veeva product fits with existing ones, sometimes providing unplanned synergies. Drew analogy to Microsoft desktop, customers see things fit together and value that alignment. Right to win comes from operating model and discipline.
Calendar 2025 Q4
how do you think about kind of the innovation you're delivering to the safety space and how met with receptivity from a decisioning perspective
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Peter said customers are excited about safety architecture and AI overlay but very hesitant to change safety systems due to critical nature. Still in early customer phase, hoping for middle majority in a couple of years. Eight-year R&D investment creates competitive moat.
how you maybe think about the implications of that maybe driving more kind of wall-to-wall broad-based platform in the future
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Peter described Veeva as building an industry cloud with three integrated capabilities: software, data, and consulting. Customers prefer Veeva as general contractor over 100 different vendors. Unique approach no other vendor has tried.
Calendar 2025 Q3
how kind of the evidence of that live and successful implementation is resonating with customers
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Paul revealed nine top 20 committed (seven public + two verbal) vs Salesforce at three. Veeva wins become near-certainties; Salesforce wins require years of custom work with low completion probability. All three Salesforce wins have Veeva as contingency plan.
how you're kind of thinking about Veeva Systems Inc.'s platform approach, the network you've built, the scale you've built, giving you kind of that right to win
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Peter described structural advantage of ~50 deep applications on one platform. AI agents embedded in user workflow like Google has advantage in email AI. MCP enables cross-vendor agent interoperability.
Calendar 2025 Q1
how much that is kind of driving this appetite and interest, obviously, in the platform as well, too, with there's clarity kind of on the product roadmap
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Paul highlighted Service Center, Campaign Manager, and patient CRM as uniquely enabling customer centricity in one database for the first time in life sciences.
ROPRoper Technologies7 questions · 4 reporting periods · 0 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
why customers would buy from you versus somebody else with an agent as you are kind of that workflow orchestration layer?
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Neil cited system-of-record position, data, workflow depth, regulated-market trust, network effects and distribution as the moat.
Calendar 2026 Q1
maybe kind of just give us a broader sense of how the start of the year kind of layers in conviction
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Jason said strong start but only one quarter in. Q2 AS nonrecurring slightly more impacted, TEP comping high watermark. Second half improves with SubSplash and CentralReach turning organic plus easing AS comps. All blends into holding 5-6% range.
how the platform positioning and embeddability of agents maybe layers in kind of incremental confidence in that right to win around agents?
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Neil described three monetization paths: consumption-based for businesses like SoftWriters and Convoy where customer unit economics are consumption-driven, subscription plus overage for broader portfolio to balance adoption with budget predictability, and AI features embedded in cloud to pull conversions. Jason added CentralReach is furthest along, pricing AI per learner.
Calendar 2025 Q4
just kind of think about kind of the mix between capital deployments between bolt-on and platform if you can
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Neil ranked bolt-ons first for organic growth advancement plus back-office synergy. Noted 60% of bolt-on pipeline is proprietary/founder-driven, completely new motion. Platform side has enormous pipeline with high-quality assets but valuation is the open question.
How do you think about kind of that trade-off in those long-term economics?
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Jason explained Deltek putting AI functionality into cloud product is driving conversion consideration. Neil added no pronounced J-curve expected because on-prem base converts at 2-3x recurring, offsetting net new perpetual-to-recurring conversions.
Calendar 2025 Q2
Can you kind of just give us a general breakdown of again, the emphasis that your customers are kind of focusing on around productivity
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Neil cited high teens bookings as evidence of healthy end markets. Emphasized less macro-sensitive verticals (education, legal, insurance, healthcare) and unprecedented AI opportunity.
can you just kind of give us a broader overview. You have a lot of value across the network and platform. You're driving incremental adoption
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Neil explained payments opportunity is software-led across ProCare, Subsplash, and Transact. Emphasized it's coincidental, not thematic. ALCO is different, AI-native factoring for carriers.
UUnity Software Inc.3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 0 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
how much of that is initiatives that are already ramping and scaling and seeing success
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Management pointed to revenue as the direct output of product, data and model quality; direct.
Calendar 2025 Q4
you're going to exit fiscal '26 at $1 billion plus run rate within Vector.
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Management confirmed the framing and noted ex-ironSource Grow grew double digits sequentially; direct.
Calendar 2025 Q2
how your view on kind of like the strategic importance of the Create platform evolves around kind of the proliferation of content
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Management described AI as central to both Create and Grow via the platform's data; direct.
Challenge rate by company
Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| IOT Samsara Inc. | 9 | 0%none of 9 questions |
| VEEV Veeva Systems Inc. | 8 | 0%none of 8 questions |
| ROP Roper Technologies | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions |
| U Unity Software Inc. | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions |
Activity by reporting period
Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 1 | 0%none of 1 question | 1 |
| 2025 Q1 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q2 | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q3 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 2 |
| 2025 Q4 | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions | 4 |
| 2026 Q1 | 6 | 0%none of 6 questions | 3 |
| 2026 Q2 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 3 |
| 2026 Q3 | 2 | 0%none of 2 questions | 2 |
- 2024 Q41 question · challenge rate 0% (none of 1 question) · 1 company
- 2025 Q12 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q24 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q33 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 2 companies
- 2025 Q46 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 6 questions) · 4 companies
- 2026 Q16 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 6 questions) · 3 companies
- 2026 Q23 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 3 companies
- 2026 Q32 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 2 questions) · 2 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Revenue Growth10
- Demand9
- Cloud & AI8
- Competitive Dynamics7
- Innovation & R&D5
- Product Launch4
- Pricing2
- Geographic Expansion2
- Guidance Reliability2
- Margin1
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- Macroeconomic1
- Supply Chain1
- M&A1
- Capital Allocation1