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GDDYGoDaddy Inc.

AI revenue and adoption · Q1 2026 earnings call

Information TechnologyScaling
AI mentions
27
extracted from this call
Max specificity
5 / 5
financialized — dollar / segment level
AI revenue
Disclosed
run rate
GoDaddy framed AI as the central pillar of its transformation strategy across three dimensions: AI-native product launches (Airo AI Builder), a new agent identity infrastructure layer (Agent Name Service), and internal AI-driven operational efficiency. The company disclosed a $10M+ annualized bookings run rate for Airo AI Builder within weeks of beta launch and quantified specific Care automation improvements including a ~50% resolution rate improvement and 150%+ improvement in non-English markets. Management positioned AI as both a growth driver and a margin-expansion enabler, with AI-driven efficiencies funding incremental marketing investment.
AI Revenue Disclosure
Amount
10
Method: run rate
This new Airo AI Builder product offering has rapidly scaled to $10 million plus in annualized bookings run rate within weeks of its beta launch.
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Composite
82/ 100
#26 overall · #22 in Information Technology
Depth · 40%
80
stage: scaling · max spec: 5
Disclosure · 40%
75
rev: run_rate $10M · 7 quant outcomes
Breadth · 20%
100
4 scopes
Adoption scopes:product_standaloneinternal_useproduct_embeddedinfrastructure_build
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27 AI mentions from this call.

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

  • T5Prepared remarks· CFO· Standalone AI product
    As we look ahead, Airo AI Builder is beginning to contribute directly to bookings. As Aman noted, this offering is already generating millions of dollars in annualized run rate organically and without dedicated marketing support.
    Mark McCaffrey, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T5Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    This new Airo AI Builder product offering has rapidly scaled to $10 million plus in annualized bookings run rate within weeks of its beta launch.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Internal use
    In Care, we are advancing to the next phase of AI-powered automation. In Q1, we achieved key proof points across both support and sales. On the support side, we launched Airo Care, a new AI-native support technology across voice and chat that handles a wide range of customer queries. We validated it against our existing offering, delivering strong improvements in resolution rates. Our first test improved resolution rate by approximately 50%.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro Care
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Internal use
    On the sales side, our AI-native commerce Airo sales agent makes voice calls and handles the entire commerce sales experience without human intervention. We have optimized the agent over the last few months and last quarter, it delivered conversion rates comparable to human-assisted sales for smaller leads.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro sales agent
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Internal use
    Subsequent tests demonstrated that Airo Care can equalize the resolution rates between English and non-English markets improving performance in non-English markets by over 150% and strengthening Care as a global competitive advantage. Airo Care is now rolled out to more than 50 markets and 20 languages.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro Care
  • T4Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Jefferies· John Byun
    In terms of monetization, is it just the subs and the AI credit with the product itself? Or are you starting to generate anything from upsell or cross-sell by the GoDaddy products?
    On the run rate for Airo AI Builder, that's just the subscription and credits for Airo AI Builder. We have not baked in sort of attach or other products into that yet. All of that is to come.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T4Prepared remarks· CFO· Product-embedded AI
    our newer Airo cohorts are demonstrating that higher value with second product attach accelerating 30% faster relative to non-Airo cohorts.
    Mark McCaffrey, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro
  • T4Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Non-GoDaddy agents in GoDaddy's ANS implementation now number in the thousands.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAgent Name Service, ANS
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· JPMorgan· Eleanor Smith
    What do you think is GoDaddy's competitive advantage or right to win as it comes to the ANS, especially versus larger competitors?
    within the Agent Name Service open standard, we say that while people should register agents with ANS, they should be -- those agents should be discovered using DNS, which is Domain Name Service. Domain Name Service is a directory on the Internet that everybody uses. It's one directory. It replicates everywhere. Agent registries are popping up in every company. So how do you bring that together? You bring that together by connecting those registries to the one directory. And if we connect it to the one directory and in that directory, put the agents under the domain name then the domain name becomes core to the identity and trust relationship that agents have now and into the future, which as the world's largest domain registrar, it's obviously good for us if domains plays that role.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAgent Name Service, ANS
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Internal use
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Morgan Stanley· Katie Keyser
    Does that change your kind of international growth opportunity at all? And I guess, just broadly, how does AI-enabled multilingual Care kind of change or accelerate the approach to entering markets
    having Airo Care, which natively provides our ability is definitely going to allow us to compete much better in international markets. And we're really, really excited about this first data point where by taking AI or Airo Care and using it within our messaging system, actually, that's the test that I talked about in the prepared remarks. That test being able to perform almost equally globally is great news for us because it's so difficult for us to provide that high level of service that we have that huge NPS that we have in smaller markets, in Asian markets where we may not have a big presence. If we can do that with Airo Care, we can definitely be more aggressive in those markets.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro Care
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Oppenheimer· Ken Wong
    on the $10 million plus of Airo Builder ARR a lot of your kind of stand-alone AI Builder platform, we've seen them scale up extremely fast. And I realize it's super early, but what's the right way to think about kind of what this business or this product could potentially grow to?
    what's magical about the Airo AI Builder and our customers is that our customers have lots of ideas, but it's very hard for them to go through menus and templates and figure it out. So if they can just in natural language explain or just say, I would like this, Airo AI Builder goes and does it for them and it's sort of a magical amazing experience for that. So what happens is the same subscriber ends up using it more and more publishing, republishing and buying more credits.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    We are expanding distribution of Airo AI Builder on godaddy.com and have begun selling it through Care. In Care, we drive higher adoption of premium plans compared to our online channels and receive direct customer feedback, both positive and constructive to improve the product. As a next step, we are ramping targeted paid marketing in May, funded through efficiencies elsewhere in the business.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Internal use
    We are driving the most immediate impact in software development where AI is enabling the rapid creation of customer-facing applications with fewer dedicated teams. We are also testing the replacement of smaller third-party SaaS tools with internally built solutions on Airo AI Builder, particularly across corporate functions with the goal of reducing both cost and operational complexity.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    The second major product initiative we introduced last quarter is the upgrade of Websites + Marketing, bringing AI-native capabilities into the product, while maintaining strong cost discipline for both customers and GoDaddy. This upgrade combines AI-driven capabilities with a powerful editor enabling customers to create and manage their presence more efficiently.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsWebsites + Marketing, Airo
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· B. Riley· Naved Khan
    how is pricing evolving? Is it something that's set in stone? Or is that something that you're testing and might change?
    The current plans include a starter plan that you can get started with for free with a few credits or just free plan and then a starter and a professional and an ultimate plan and it has a subscription and a credit system with it. So we think we have a good setup here and for the foreseeable future, we're going to stick to it.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    ANS extends the role of domains as a digital identity provider in an Agentic Open Web. We signed a couple of partnerships over the last quarter with real-world use cases and are working hard on aligning key players on the open standard and the use of Domain Name Service or DNS for agent identity and discovery.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAgent Name Service, ANS
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Customer demand signal
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Raymond James· Kishan Patel
    As chat bots, AI mode and other AI-native discovery surface continue to gain scale. Have you observed any notable changes in top of funnel traffic patterns, customer acquisition behavior or conversion paths.
    we do see some impact to traffic in search because of the move to AI mode, but we were able to offset that impacted traffic by improving conversion on our side. So that same relationship has continued. We haven't seen any further change in that or the trajectory of that versus what we saw in previous quarters.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Infrastructure build
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Oppenheimer· Ken Wong
    is there the potential to potentially utilize GoDaddy's hosting capacity for additional workload, AI workloads, given the market scarcity there
    Airo AI Builder does use GoDaddy hosting. It's one of our competitive differentiators. We can provide a hosting at scale, that's secure, that's at a great cost. And so there's definitely sort of excitement from our side to be able to take something like Airo AI Builder and power it with our hosting solution.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T3Q&A· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Analyst questionparaphrased· B. Riley· Naved Khan
    how much of the traffic are you exposing to the website -- to the Airo Website Builder? Is this still something you are testing and iterating or you already kind of rolled it out broadly?
    from godaddy.com, we are still sending only a small amount of traffic into this new experience. Our largest funnels on godaddy.com are our domains path and they are our create path, which is the website path. And both those paths currently go into the existing champion version of Websites + Marketing.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder, Websites + Marketing
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Airo AI Builder introduced last quarter on Airo.ai is an AI-native experience that enables customers to move from idea to execution in minutes, automatically creating websites, applications and core business capabilities across identity, presence and commerce.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T3Prepared remarks· CEO· Standalone AI product
    Customers are building, publishing and purchasing incremental credits as they deepen their use of the product. Momentum continues to build week after week as we expand Airo AI Builder's functionality and distribution.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro AI Builder
  • T3Prepared remarks· CFO· Internal use
    This reflects our ability to drive continued operational leverage and AI-driven productivity gains, while increasing our investments in our AI-native products, marketing and compute costs.
    Mark McCaffrey, GDDY earnings call
  • T3Prepared remarks· CFO· Internal use
    Operational execution, supported by AI-driven efficiencies and favorable product mix continues to drive margin expansion.
    Mark McCaffrey, GDDY earnings call
  • T2Q&A· CFO· Internal use
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Baird· Vikram Kesavabhotla
    how should we think about the opportunity for those efficiencies to flow through to EBITDA and free cash flow in the near term versus being reinvested back into the business
    we have the ability to expand our margins, we have for the past few years. We're continuing to see operational efficiencies by the adoption of AI internally. And then we're playing the -- or paying our attention to the disciplined approach we've had in the past around investing in innovation, but using data points that show our path to return on those data points before we invest.
    Mark McCaffrey, GDDY earnings call
  • T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Product-embedded AI
    We are leaning into this shift, positioning GoDaddy as the platform that helps entrepreneurs turn intent into action through AI-powered experiences and outcomes. Our AI transformation builds on our core strengths of a trusted global brand, leadership in domains, scaled infrastructure, proprietary data, strong engineering talent and a world-class care organization.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
    ProductsAiro
  • T2Q&A· CEO· Internal use
    Analyst questionparaphrased· Baird· Vikram Kesavabhotla
    how should we think about the opportunity for those efficiencies to flow through to EBITDA and free cash flow in the near term versus being reinvested back into the business
    the areas that we're looking at, whether it's software development or Care or our use of applications or marketing, all of these areas are accelerated with AI and we see great opportunity to deliver a better outcome for our customers at a lower cost this year and into the future.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY earnings call
  • T2Prepared remarks· CEO· Customer demand signal
    Customers are increasingly using LLMs across their workflows and getting familiar with chat-based interfaces. We are leaning into this shift, positioning GoDaddy as the platform that helps entrepreneurs turn intent into action through AI-powered experiences and outcomes.
    Amanpal Bhutani, GDDY 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. Declined to provide detailed unit economics breakdown (subscription vs. credit mix) for Airo AI Builder, citing early-stage dynamics.
  2. No quantification of AI-driven cost savings in absolute dollar terms despite direct analyst question on EBITDA flow-through.
  3. No disclosure of compute/GPU capex specifically attributable to AI workloads.
  4. No breakdown of ARPU contribution from Websites + Marketing pricing vs. other bundling initiatives.
  5. ANS partnership details (partner names, deal terms) not disclosed beyond 'a couple of partnerships.'
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