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EPAMEPAM Systems, Inc.

AI revenue and adoption · Q1 2026 earnings call

Information TechnologyMonetizing
AI mentions
20
extracted from this call
Max specificity
5 / 5
financialized — dollar / segment level
AI revenue
Disclosed
run rate
AI was the dominant strategic theme on this call, with EPAM reporting over $125M in pure AI-native revenues in Q1 2026, representing the fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential growth and a ~20% sequential increase from Q4. Management reaffirmed a $600M full-year AI revenue target and announced a strategic multiyear applied AI partnership with Anthropic, including a dedicated practice with 250 forward-deployed engineering 'Black Belts' and a target of 10,000 Claude certifications by year-end. The company framed AI as both a product/delivery transformation and an internal operating model shift, while acknowledging that new commercial constructs around token economics and outcome-based pricing remain works in progress.
AI Revenue Disclosure
Amount
125
Growth
~20% QoQ; fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential growth
Method: run rate
pure AI revenues exceeded $125 million in Q1, up nearly 20% sequentially from Q4. This momentum gives us a strong line of sight to our $600 million target for the full year
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Composite
87/ 100
#9 overall · #9 in Information Technology
Depth · 40%
100
stage: monetizing · max spec: 5
Disclosure · 40%
85
rev: run_rate $125M +~20% QoQ; fifth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential growth · 3 quant outcomes
Breadth · 20%
65
2 scopes
Adoption scopes:product_standaloneinternal_use
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20 AI mentions from this call.

Extracted verbatim from the EPAM Q1 2026 earnings call transcript. Speaker, section, and specificity tier surfaced for each mention.

  • T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    pure AI revenues exceeded $125 million in Q1, up nearly 20% sequentially from Q4. This momentum gives us a strong line of sight to our $600 million target for the full year, even with the broader macro variability we have factored into our outlook.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
  • T5Prepared remarks· CFO· Standalone AI product
    AI native and AI foundational revenues continued to contribute to year-over-year growth with more than $125 million AI native revenues in the quarter. This is the fifth consecutive quarter of sequential double-digit growth.
    Jason Peterson, EPAM earnings call
  • T5Q&A· Other· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Guggenheim· Jonathan Lee
    You highlighted large multiyear deals in the pipeline that are larger in scale than what EPAM has historically pursued. What gives you confidence in your ability to close and execute on those agents do you have the sales muscle, governance frameworks and delivery infrastructure to manage those programs and that magnitude?
    our current AI native business or portfolio, which is over $125 million per quarter is run higher profitability than EPAM average. So that's what we see.
    Jonathan Lee, EPAM earnings call
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    bring the right AI and GenAI programs from use case concepts to full-scale production deployment for a large global insurance company. Here, our DI platforms serve us both domain playbook and a significant accelerator, integrating both upstream and downstream systems to ensure seamless end-to-end automation to assist the reinsurance clean department in first order of loss processing. EPAM automated billing reconciliation and streamlined reinsurance treaty analysis proving the real-world potential of AI in a highly regulated industry. After implementation, time to process first order of loss events decreased by 75%.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    modernize and upgrade global streaming infrastructure for a leading streaming platform client within the media entertainment, serving 10-plus million concurrent users across 50-plus countries. With our partner, AWS, we successfully transformed a fragile single-region platform into a self-healing global system sustaining 99% uptime without manual interaction. The solution deployed active, active ES across more than 6 regions with automated IAC governance and standardized site reliability engineering practices. Together, we helped our client achieve 70% less configuration drift and 0 downtime deployments.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    PartnersAWS
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    PDLC transformation for Nelnet, a global company specializing in consumer finance, student loan servicing, telecommunications and education to explore the potential of GenAI tools to boost PDLC efficiency. To do that, EPAM developed a program to identify baselines and performance productivity benchmarks based on EPAM's AI/Run transform, Nelnet achieved a 31% productivity increase, accelerated back-end development by nearly 2x and empowered its teams to scale AI-driven innovation across the organization.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    ProductsAI/Run Transform
  • T4Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· TD Cohen· Bryan Bergin
    On the Anthropic relationship. So good to see that come through. Can you talk about how different that model is relative to your heritage delivery approach?
    I think Anthropic is going to be a very important relationship for -- we are -- I think we are following a playbook, which we've done before. We are -- we prepared preprepared engineers with our internal development. Once commercial products became available and certification quickly. We pivoted towards uncertified or engineering team. I just checked this morning, we are over 1,400 certified cloud architects as of this moment.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    PartnersAnthropic
    ProductsClaude
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    As an Anthropic services partner, EPAM is building a dedicated practice for more than 10,000 cloud-certified architects, including the specialized cadre of 250 forward deployed engineering Black Belts. To date, over 20,000 EPAMers have completed training via entropic economy and more than 1,300 are already Claude certified. We expect to reach 5,000 certifications by end of Q3 with 10,000 by year-end.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    PartnersAnthropic
    ProductsClaude
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Looking across our top 100 clients, traction remains strong as more than 80% of our engaged in AI initiatives. Our AI frameworks and tools continue to support hundreds of active AI-native projects. Note, we had more than 100 new AI-native project launched in Q1, illustrating our active pipeline and healthy replenishment of new opportunities.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Morgan Stanley· James Faucette
    On margins, I think you -- Jason, you've talked about like what you're planning to do, but especially on these longer duration projects and if we're starting to factor in tokenization or token costs, excuse me, how do you think about like the levers that you need to control?
    you need to control multiple aspects. You need to, first of all, control the model usage, what task, which model you are using what is the frequency of that model. You need to have the right blend of model. So what we are building out is this blending capability, which is which where for each particle task, you need to select the right model, which is able to execute, but cheap enough to deliver the ROI. At the same time, you also have to recognize that you can buy the same token from the same model from multiple sources. So you need to have the multi-sourcing capability, someone came to a trading desk, which allows you to purchase the same model, same capability from various sources.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Truist· Arvind Ramnani
    Just with these advancements and model capabilities we have seen both across Anthropic and open AI just in the most recent model releases. Are you all proactively going to some of your clients and saying, like, hey, we can use some of these of improvements in sort of AI to kind of lower head count on certain projects?
    we are going to the clients with very advanced engagement model. This is what I highlighted when you were in the IA Day, we demonstrated dark factory capabilities. And yes, we are proactively talking to our clients, how we can introduce them how we can actually provide them a dark factory based for the autonomous applicable maintenance and support capabilities, how we can automate a large part of the testing flows.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    PartnersAnthropic, OpenAI
    Productsdark factory
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Wells Fargo· Jason Kupferberg
    So those large opportunities. There's vendor consolidation deals. It sounds like there is -- I don't know if there's 2 or 3 of them, maybe you can clarify that...
    it's no longer just 3 or 4. We're actually talking about close to 10 opportunities at this point of time. These opportunities are outsized in terms of range, all of them are non-T&M, so different commercial models, combining AI, token in the picture themselves. They are -- it's a variation of business transformation, vendor consolidation and the size is really outside of EPAM's norm, what we typically do.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    ProductsAI/Run Transform
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    We earned two 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards for helping clients achieve measurable business outcomes through advanced AI and cloud technologies. The sustainable award highlighted our use of AI and geospatial technology to address environmental challenges, while databases, ML awards celebrated or scalable methodologies for enterprise cloud migrations including our work with Deutsche Bank.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    PartnersGoogle Cloud
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Truist· Arvind Ramnani
    I just wanted to ask, right, like I mean it looks like you kind of lowered the guidance on sort of existing customer weakness... is there any sort of like revenue cannibalization or workflow cannibalization or displacement of some of the legacy work as some of the AI work ramps up?
    clients shifting some of the IT budgets towards AI spending and also the increasingly automating parts of the SDLC, for example, testing itself. And probably, they are diverting investments away from digital platform, e-commerce platform build-outs towards new AI native products or a native platforms construction. So that's the shift what we are seeing right now.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    EPAM is seeing an oxalating large-deal pipeline focused on AI-enabled vendor consolidations, where EPAM has significant opportunity to gain market share. These multiyear deals are larger than our historical norm are expected to scale over time and include a range of commercial models.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
  • T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    AI/Run, then from being an SDLC transformation pay book to powering a series of AI/Run transform motions that bring significant structure and volume to our clients' own adoption apertures. ROI-driven Playbook uniquely brings together our engineering excellence with AI native delivery, coupled with strategic consulting and advisory teams, deep technical expertise and partner ecosystem technologies.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    ProductsAI/Run Transform
  • T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Our aspiration is to become the go-to partner for enterprise a transformation with a focus on 3 strategic pillars, which are helping reshape the company. These pillars include establishing ourselves as a leading AI delivery software engineering services provider, transforming ourselves into an AI-native organization and capitalizing on our AIT structure to expand go-to-market offerings.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
  • T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Internal use
    EPAM is fundamentally retaining how the company operates, which goes beyond scaling AI adoption across 60,000 people. With our Client Zero mentality, we are engineering an entirely new operating model one that dynamically blends human talent, AI capabilities and advanced agentic systems to run the business foster better and lower cost across all geographies.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
  • T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    We also just announced a strategic multiyear applied AI partnership with Ontic to accelerate the delivery of safe, reliable enterprise-grade AI for our clients.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
    PartnersOntic
  • T1Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    The gap between the rapidly developing foundational AI capabilities and the ability of enterprises and societies to adopt AI safely, reliably and with sustainable growing volume will drive some of the largest technological investments humanity has ever made.
    Balazs Fejes, EPAM earnings call
Q&A Dynamics

What management wouldn’t quantify.

Analyst questions where management declined to share a specific number. The pattern of refusals is often as informative as the disclosures.

  1. Management declined to provide gross margin or operating margin breakdown specific to AI-native revenues, despite noting AI-native margins are above corporate average.
  2. Token economics and commercial model for Anthropic partnership not fully defined; CEO acknowledged it is 'an open subject' with no specific revenue recognition framework disclosed.
  3. No breakdown of AI-native revenue by vertical or geography provided.
  4. Full-year $600M AI revenue target not disaggregated between AI-native and AI-foundational components.
  5. No quantification of the size or total contract value of the large vendor consolidation pipeline deals (~10 opportunities mentioned).
  6. Analyst (Arvind Ramnani, Truist) asked about revenue cannibalization from AI; management acknowledged the dynamic qualitatively but provided no quantification.
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