Intapp - Q2 2023
February 6, 2023
Transcript
Operator (participant)
Good day, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Intapp fiscal second quarter 2023 webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker's presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you need to press star one one on your telephone. You will hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, David Trone, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.
David Trone (SVP of Investor Relations)
Thank you. Welcome to Intapp's fiscal second quarter 2023 financial results. On the call with me today are John Hall, Chairman and CEO of Intapp, and Steve Robertson, Chief Financial Officer. During the course of this conference call, we may make forward-looking statements regarding trends, strategies, and the anticipated performance of our business, including guidance provided for our fiscal third quarter and full year 2023. These forward-looking statements are based on management's current views and expectations, entail certain assumptions made as of today's date, and are subject to various risks and uncertainties, including those described in our SEC filings and other publicly available documents that are difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Intapp disclaims any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements except as required by law.
Further on today's call, we will also discuss certain non-GAAP metrics that we believe aid in the understanding of our financial results. A reconciliation to comparable GAAP metrics can be found in today's earnings release, which is available on our website and as an exhibit to Form 8-K furnished with the SEC prior to this call. With that, I'll hand the conversation over to John.
John Hall (Chairman and CEO)
Thank you, David. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here with us today as we share our results for our second fiscal quarter. I'm pleased to share that once again, we've achieved strong quarterly results, supported by Cloud ARR growth, SaaS and support revenue growth, the acquisition of new logos, and the continued growth of our existing client accounts. As an intro for any of you who may be new to our story, Intapp targets an underserved and overlooked, but actually very large, $3 trillion industry of professional and financial services firms. Professionals in these firms are the investors and advisors who work in the world's private capital investing, investment banking, legal, accounting, and consulting firms. These professionals work in specialist and cross-specialty teams every day to support the global industry of deals and disputes.
Most of our target firms are or were originally set up as partnerships, not corporations. As a result, they operate both internally and in their go-to-market model very differently from traditional corporations. On top of this, our target firms are a highly regulated industry and need to manage a wide range of statutory, professional ethics, and client compliance obligations that are unique to them. Intapp's industry cloud has been designed specifically for the unique operating and compliance needs of these firms. We are highly differentiated from traditional CRM and ERP systems, which were built for companies selling a tangible product. In contrast, our industry cloud understands that our clients' firms' business is based on leveraging their collective specialized knowledge, expertise, experience, and relationships to win business and to deliver value for their clients and investors.
Our industry cloud helps these firms to increase their revenues and returns, operate more efficiently and profitably, manage risk and compliance more effectively, and leverage their collective knowledge for competitive advantage. Intapp is leading cloud transformation for this global deal-making, legal, and advisory industry, and our strong Q2 results continue to validate our strategy. Here's how we did. In our second quarter, our Cloud ARR grew 42% to $191.8 million. Cloud now represents 64% of our total ARR of $301.3 million, which is up 26% year-over-year. We earned second quarter SaaS and support revenue of $61.6 million, up 31% year-over-year, and total revenue of $84.7 million, also up 31% year-over-year.
We now serve more than 2,200 premier firms across our target verticals. Despite the current climate of broader economic concern, we continue to see steady demand for our purpose-built solutions in our Q2 results. We gained some direct insight into what's driving this steady demand at our two day Intapp City Tour event in New York in November. Our event was attended by clients from our private capital, investment banking, legal, accounting, and consulting firms, as well as our partners and industry experts. Participants had a chance to share and learn from each other about the challenges, opportunities, and initiatives that each of their firms is pursuing.
Presenters included keynote speaker Luke Flemmer, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, Ian Clark, Managing Director and Global Chief Technology Officer at Lazard, Angie Goyenechea, Senior Investment Associate at Women's World Banking, and Jamie Fowler, Chief Transformation Officer at Grant Thornton, who shared their experiences creating efficiencies within their complex organizations, operating successfully in their highly regulated industry, and winning business by leveraging their knowledge, intellectual capital, and relationships for competitive advantage. Many of our attending clients shared that they do not anticipate their digital transformation initiatives slowing down even while facing an economic downturn. Instead, they see the increased capabilities and efficiency provided by the adoption of cloud technology as essential to enabling their firms to weather any challenging economic conditions.
The event also included a dedicated day-long session attended by members of our large partner ecosystem, which plays a crucial role in our strategy to deliver optimal value to our clients. It featured a discussion between the Microsoft team and Intapp's Chief Product Officer, Thad Jampol, on innovation and Intapp's industry cloud strategy, which delivers a path for these firms as they pursue digital transformation. Their discussion underscored the importance of our strategic partnership with Microsoft, which continues to develop and mature. Last quarter, we were officially recognized as a top-tier partner of Microsoft, which fewer than 1% of partners ever achieve. Deployment of all our Intapp solutions to Azure is progressing in line with our plan as a key part of our partnership strategy. We worked with some of our new partners to advance our industry cloud and innovation roadmap in the quarter.
We released our new Relationship Paths capability, which helps firms source and win new business by leveraging their current network of professional connections using applied AI to intelligently surface deeper paths to high-value contacts. The feature helps professionals in our firms to source potential warm introductions by evaluating our partner Equilar's database of 1.5 million executives and board members and combine that with the firm's own proprietary relationship information. Relationship Paths expands our relationship intelligence capabilities to enable higher quality outreach to help professionals build new and deeper relationships, and to drive growth and greater success in winning new business. In the second quarter, we also integrated capabilities from our Billstream acquisition to enhance our Intapp Time solution.
Together, these solutions help firms integrate compliance across time entry and prebilling processes in a way that accelerates the work to collect cycle, as well as improving realization rates and driving profitability, which offer compelling hard ROI benefits for any firm in the current climate. Our clients who are embracing these operating efficiency features have also noted that the design of our solutions has an additional benefit of enhancing both the professionals and the clients' experience with the firm in the smoothness of the billing and collections program. We are also continuing to advance our industry cloud's compliance capabilities designed specifically for the regulated industry we serve. We further enhanced our market-leading Walls product to allow for self-service by our professional users. Automated ethical walls and information barriers are a critical compliance requirement designed to protect sensitive client and investor information.
Our enhanced lawyer portal for Walls ensures that partners, lawyers, and associates can process critical ethical barrier requests in real time, removing potential bottlenecks and avoiding slowdowns in client onboarding processes and firms' ability to respond rapidly to their clients' requests. Demonstrating our ability not just to design, but to deliver our innovative solutions. In Q2, we went live with a number of large and notable client implementations. We celebrated go-lives of DealCloud for the asset management arm of one of the world's leading investment banks, as well as a large global financial advisory and asset management firm, and go-lives of our risk and compliance solutions in our industry cloud for one of the world's top strategy consulting firms. Notably, all three of those deals closed just in Q1, demonstrating our ability to shorten our time to value, even on large or complex client implementations.
Our rapid time to value enables our clients to operate more efficiently in the current climate, to manage regulatory compliance quickly, and to grow effectively. Our innovation was also recognized with several awards in the quarter. Notably, our DealCloud solution was named as Best Deal Origination Technology in Private Equity Wire's US Awards in October, and DealCloud also won Enterprise Product of the Year for the financial software category at the 2022 Best in Biz Awards in December. Both awards validate DealCloud's ability to support the unique and complex needs of deal makers, helping them effectively and efficiently source and originate deals from any location. Turning now to notable client wins. We continue to add new logos, grow existing client accounts through upsell and cross-sell, and expand our international footprint. I'd like to highlight several of the new logos we acquired in our second quarter.
In Q2, we welcomed global venture growth firm B Capital as a new client. Founded in 2015 and led by Howard Morgan, Sheila Patel, Eduardo Saverin, and Raj Ganguly, B Capital invests as an integrated team across 9 locations in the U.S. and Asia. They chose to shift from a legacy system to DealCloud across their deal, IR, operations, and business development teams because it possesses the robust data infrastructure, IR functionality, and reporting capabilities B Capital needs to support the long-term growth of their business. European investment banking franchise SEB is another new client who selected DealCloud to replace its legacy system. Previously using a large horizontal CRM, SEB struggled from a lack of user adoption of the system, which wasn't tailored for the way its professionals work.
Additionally, that CRM required a level of IT support that was impacting its ability to support other IT projects and initiatives that could drive growth. SEB chose DealCloud because of its reputation as the market leader, the way our technology is tailored to the way the firm operates, its flexibility, and the fact that it will significantly reduce ongoing IT support requirements. They'll be implementing the software across M&A, leveraged finance, and capital markets teams to improve connectivity and collaboration and better leverage data and institutional knowledge. Last quarter, we also continued to expand our footprint in the consulting industry with another new client win. A top global management consulting firm executed a multiyear contract for our risk and compliance solution, which enables the firm to better identify and process complex conflicts for use cases like M&A, bankruptcy, adverse parties, or conflicting relationships.
While this is a new consulting firm logo for us, it's notable that many of the firm's professionals had previous experience with Intapp at other professional firms, including law firms in the industry. Their familiarity with our brand and their trust in our capabilities helped to speed the deal and illustrates how deal and disputes professionals networks bring us referrals across the vertical industry we serve and supports our continued expansion and logo acquisition throughout this market. Finally, I'd like to highlight the recent addition of accounting, business, and wealth advisors Kreston Reeves to our client portfolio. Based in the UK, Kreston adopted Microsoft Office 365 to enable a secure, collaborative, modern work environment. They quickly realized their need to extend the platform's capabilities with solutions tailored to their unique needs as an accounting firm.
Kreston selected our collaboration and content solutions to help maximize their Microsoft platform investment and to create a collaborative document management solution. To conclude, having reached the halfway point of our fiscal 2023, we're pleased with our consistent growth and performance. We are pursuing a deep and underserved $24 billion global TAM. Our revenue model remains highly predictable, our durable end market continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to investing in digital transformation despite the global economic uncertainty. We continue to add new clients and to grow existing client accounts, we're continuing to pursue the significant growth opportunity ahead to help our industry embrace cloud transformation. Our purpose-built industry cloud platform has compelling value for our specialized clients, helping them to increase revenues and returns, operate more efficiently and profitably, manage risk and compliance more effectively, and leverage their collective knowledge for growing competitive advantage.
As always, I'd like to thank our clients, our partners, our investors, our board, and our employees, whose teamwork and dedication led to our strong Q2 performance. Thank you all very much. Okay, Steve, over to you.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Thanks, John, and thanks everyone for joining us today. As John noted, we had a strong quarter with our Cloud ARR up 42% year-over-year, and our total ARR up 26% year-over-year. Before I go through our financials, I'd like to quickly review a few fundamentals of revenue recognition in our financial model, just as a reminder. Cloud ARR is recognized as SaaS revenue ratably following a new sale or renewal. On-premises ARR is recognized in two parts: 50% as subscription license revenue, recognized upfront at the time of the sale or renewal, and 50% as support revenue, recognized ratably and included in our SaaS and support revenue line. Because it is recognized ratably, SaaS and support revenue is more predictable quarter-to-quarter, while subscription license revenue can vary based on the timing of revenue recognition. Okay, moving to our numbers.
SaaS and support revenue was $61.6 million, up 31% year-over-year, reflecting both new sales to new clients and upsells and cross-sells to existing clients of Intapp's purpose-built cloud solutions. Total revenue was $84.7 million, up 31% year-over-year, driven primarily by continued strong sales of our cloud solutions, as well as by solid growth in professional services revenue. Subscription license revenue was $11.0 million compared to $9.3 million in the prior year period, reflecting annual and multi-year renewals inclusive of CPI-based price increases. Professional services revenue was $12.1 million as compared to $8.4 million in the prior year period, reflecting an increased growth rate consistent with our current pace of software implementations.
Overall, we continue to execute our land and expand model, ending the quarter with more than 2,200 clients, 561 of which had ARR of more than $100,000, up from 457 in the prior-year period. We upsold and cross-sold our existing clients such that our trailing 12 months net revenue retention rate was above our projected range of 110%-114%. We have decided to increase our range to 113%-117%. This quarter's net revenue retention rate was within that range. Before discussing gross margins, expenses, and profitability, please note that I will be discussing non-GAAP results going forward.
As a reminder, our GAAP financial results, along with the reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP results, can be found in our earnings press release and its supplemental financial tables. Second quarter results were as follows. Total non-GAAP gross margin was 71.5% as compared to 68.5% in the prior year period, primarily reflecting an increase in our services gross margin and a previously executed organizational realignment of a portion of our client success team from cost of sales to sales and marketing. Non-GAAP operating expenses were $57.7 million, a $13.2 million increase year-over-year as we continue to invest in sales, marketing, and product development to support our growth.
Non-GAAP sales and marketing expense was $25.7 million, a $7.0 million increase year-over-year as a function of increased headcount and related sales commissions to capture new business in our growing markets, along with the previously mentioned organizational realignment. Non-GAAP R&D expense was $18.7 million, a $5.6 million increase year-over-year as we increased headcount and made investments in our product roadmap. Non-GAAP G&A expense was $13.2 million, a $0.6 million increase year-over-year as we began to see some leverage and scalability in the business. Non-GAAP operating profit was $2.8 million as compared to our second quarter fiscal 2022 non-GAAP operating loss of $0.2 million as we continue to generate some modest initial profitability in the business.
Non-GAAP net income per fully diluted share was $0.03 in the second quarter of fiscal 2023 as compared to a loss that rounded to $0.00 in the second quarter of fiscal 2022. In terms of the balance sheet, we ended the quarter with $51.6 million in cash and cash equivalents. Now turning to guidance. For the third quarter of fiscal '23, we expect SaaS and support revenue of between $63 million and $64 million, and total revenue in the range of $87 million-$88 million. We expect non-GAAP operating profit in the range of $0.5 million-$1.5 million, and non-GAAP per share results in the range of -$0.01 to +$0.01, using a fully diluted share count weighted for the quarter of approximately 75 million common shares outstanding.
For the full year fiscal 2023, we expect SaaS and support revenue of between $246 million and $250 million, and total revenue in the range of $340.5 million-$344.5 million. We also expect non-GAAP operating profit to be in the range of $4.5 million-$8.5 million, and non-GAAP net income per share in the range of $0.02-$0.06, using a fully diluted share count weighted for fiscal year 2023 of approximately 73 million common shares outstanding. With that, John and I look forward to taking your questions.
Operator (participant)
As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star 1 1 on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Our first question comes the line of Koji Ikeda from Bank of America. Your line is open.
Natalie Howe (Equity Research Associate of Payments and Consumer Finance)
Hey, this is Natalie Howe for Koji. Thanks for taking my question and great job on the quarter. Last quarter, you guys said you are not seeing the lengthening of sales cycles right now. Is that still the case now? Are there any verticals and geographies outperforming, and any that are feeling the impact of the macro more than others? Thank you.
John Hall (Chairman and CEO)
Hi, Natalie. Thanks for your question. We have not seen a lengthening of sales cycles. We continue to monitor that. We think that our clients are pretty committed to following through on their cloud transformation program, and we've been talking to them about that, and that was one of the questions that we were asking at our City Tour event in New York in the winter was, you know, what's going on inside your firms and how are things going? We were very encouraged by the general tone that folks are following through on their cloud transformation initiatives because they see some real benefit to themselves operationally to better position to weather any kind of economic uncertainty. They see in our platform some real advantages if they can take advantage of its capabilities. That gave us some confidence.
That being said, we're gonna continue to watch. To your second question about the subverticals. There's good strength across the board. We're fortunate to be relatively broad-based across the professional financial services industry. The law firms, the accounting firms, the consulting firms, the private capital, private equity firms tend to be very stable. We have said in the past that it's the investment banks that may see a little bit of variability, and we're watching that carefully. At the same time, a lot of them are doing these improvement initiatives to position themselves better. We're gonna continue to monitor that. Overall, it's been pretty steady.
Natalie Howe (Equity Research Associate of Payments and Consumer Finance)
Thank you. That's it. Please.
John Hall (Chairman and CEO)
Thanks.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes line of Kevin McVeigh from Credit Suisse. Your line is open.
Kevin McVeigh (Managing Director)
Great. Thanks so much, and really terrific results all around. Hey, I don't know if this would be for John, Steve, or David, but really happy to see you increase the bands on the NRR. Maybe disaggregate the components and kind of what gave you the confidence to do it now.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Sure, Kevin. You know, we've been seeing good performance better than we had forecasted for a few quarters in a row. It looks like this has settled into a pattern that we can count on, and we just thought this is a good time to raise it up and reflect sort of a new range that we expect we will be in here. You know, it's pretty balanced. It is both cross-sells and upsells, and both professional services and financial services. We really are kind of hitting on all cylinders in the sense of selling to our existing clients as part of our land expand strategy. It's really working well, and which as you can see, we continue to add a lot of new logos every quarter too. That's really it. It's pretty straightforward.
We probably indicated in the past we might be thinking about something like this. We decided to go ahead and do it.
Kevin McVeigh (Managing Director)
No, it's a great outcome. You know, you're obviously seeing just it feels like a structural change in kind of the average client size. If you think about the in excess of $100,000, is there any way to frame out, Steve, how much of that is new logos as opposed to maybe existing clients being pulled up from additional modules? Just, could you help us maybe.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Yeah.
Kevin McVeigh (Managing Director)
-maybe quantify that?
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Well, I'll observe something that someone pointed out to me the other day, which is, you know, our new client logo rate looks like it's growing on the order of 10%. We give a rounded number there. The 100K clients are growing at 20%, and it's because it's a combination of new logos that land north of $100,000 any quarter, and then upsells from previous land and expand clients that might have started below $100,000. We get the benefit of both in that number as a starting place.
Kevin McVeigh (Managing Director)
Really, really nice outcome. Thank you.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Thanks.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question will come from the line of Terry Tillman from Truist. Your line is open.
Terry Tillman (Managing Director)
Yeah. Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. Hopefully you can hear me okay, and I'll echo congratulations on the quarter and the outlook. I had two questions. The first one might be a little bit multi-part, but it seems like it's pretty important, so I wanted to kind of delve into it in a little bit more detail. Microsoft, what I'm curious is, you know, where are you in terms of the cycle of them starting to, you know, work well with you all and the teams kind of collaborating and starting? Where are they in terms of influencing business for you? The second part of that is, I think you mentioned earlier a customer that was rolling out Microsoft Teams, and it sounded almost like you all were brought in. Do you see more dynamism around them helping you into new logos or equally install base?
Is there any one kind of go-to-market that seems more intriguing? I had a follow-up.
John Hall (Chairman and CEO)
Thanks, Terry. The Microsoft relationship is going well. We have a multi-track plan that we put in place with them jointly when we started the partnership just over a year ago. We've begun collaborating on the technology side, on the cloud side, and in our go-to-market. There are relationships from each of those organizations inside our company with different parts of the Microsoft team. To your question about go-to-market, they absolutely are collaborating with us in the field.
We're very excited about that and vice versa, because we have a position in the professional and financial services industry with an industry cloud value proposition that augments the whole Microsoft 365 Teams Azure capabilities in a way that makes it more specific for this end market that historically has been very Microsoft friendly, but has had to do a lot of work to try to adjust the Microsoft platform to really work for the way that the partnership-based firms operate. We're able to solve that problem. The Microsoft field reps are excited to have us come in, and we're bringing our team together with them at many accounts. They've introduced us in places, to your question, and we've also brought them in for an opportunity for them to expand their Azure footprint, for example, at some of the firms.
There's a good collaboration going there. As to new logos or installed base, it's both. We've had good successes in some of the stories that I was telling in the overview, where they worked with us both to win new business and also to help us grow some of the accounts that we have with new capabilities.
Terry Tillman (Managing Director)
That's great to hear. I guess the follow-up question, we get the question a fair amount in terms of just the ongoing kind of cloud transformation in your own business. That sounds positive in terms of clients seem like they're still wanting to move forward with their digital transformation initiatives. What about in terms of some of your larger customers that still may be on-prem? You know, how are you thinking about over the next couple of years in terms of a greater propensity to move to cloud? What I'm getting at is, you know, 64% of the total ARR is cloud. Just trying to get a sense on how that should kind of evolve over the next couple of years towards cloud. Thank you.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Sure. I'll take that one, Terry. Well, first of all, you know, as we may have said before, 64% of our cloud is Cloud ARR. More than that is more than 80% of our customers have at least one product in the cloud. We have hybrid customers that are on their way to making the migration, as you described. For some of our larger customers, what we've been doing and seeing mostly recently is when some of those clients are ready to buy or implement some new capability, that's often a time to sign up a fuller cloud migration for whatever they still have on premises and might wanna fully move to the cloud. It's an ongoing sort of organic assessment as we go along.
We continue to sign up and sell migrations continuously each quarter. I think our progress is steady towards getting to the cloud for the whole client base.
Terry Tillman (Managing Director)
Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes from the line of Brian Schwartz from Oppenheimer. Your line is open.
Brian Schwartz (Managing Director and Senior Analyst)
Yeah. Hi, John and Steve. Thanks for taking my questions this afternoon. Congratulations on a really strong quarter. John, I had a question about the upselling activity in the NRR. I actually, my question is around the cadence of when those opportunities are coming. Are you seeing any speeding up at all in the cadence on when customers are coming back to you to make additional purchases from that, their original purchase?
John Hall (Chairman and CEO)
Hi, Brian. Thanks for the question. Yes. I think the cloud program has put us in a position to help people get up and running faster if they wanna bring up additional modules in the cloud. We've always had good upsell and cross-sell from our clients, whether it was in the on-prem generation or cloud. We are encouraged about the opportunity to help people once they've got the industry cloud running, to help them adopt more capabilities quickly. That's one of the many reasons that the model is a good model, and we're excited about the evolution there.
Brian Schwartz (Managing Director and Senior Analyst)
Thanks, John. One question, Steve, for you. Just a question around the assumptions for the macro in your outlook. Is your expectation in the guidance that the strength the business is seeing and the steady demand in the macro that persists throughout the year? Or are you discounting at all the macro in the updated guidance that you gave us today? Thanks, Steve.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Well, I think the way I would respond to that, Brian, is I think that we are always a little bit careful. I mean, we have, we certainly have, as John has said and we've said, pretty strong pipelines. The business is good. The tone of that is the same as it's been, you know, last quarter for us, if you will. We continue to monitor it, though, and none of us know for sure. We're being careful about that. There's no particular shift in the way we're modeling our thinking going forward in terms of macro right now. We're just watching carefully.
Brian Schwartz (Managing Director and Senior Analyst)
Thank you very much.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes the line of Alex Sklar from Raymond James. Your line is open.
Alex Sklar (Analyst)
Thanks. John, I wanna follow up on your remarks around the Billstream enhancements and the hard ROI benefits there. Is where you're landing with new customers or where you're telling your sales force to focus on from a value proposition perspective, changing at all in the current environment? Any additional pressure to be selling on that hard ROI?
John Hall (Chairman and CEO)
Hi, Alex. Thank you. It's interesting. The platform has a range of value propositions from helping with origination and sourcing and sourcing and origination and winning new business to efficiency and profitability to compliance and to knowledge and competitive advantage. Firms are in different places in their own strategy and operations and market position and what they're looking to do. The team is very skilled now at listening carefully to each client and making sure we understand what their strategic and operational and compliance goals are, and positioning the offering and our story in a way that really helps the firms achieve what's important to them at the time. I do think that in the current environment, there's a higher proportion of firms who are looking at operating efficiencies and hard ROI, but not exclusively. There are firms who are focused on the compliance story.
There are firms who are focused on positioning themselves for growth and having the right kind of experience for their professionals and for their clients. Part of the differentiation of Intapp's overall platform is that we can bring that richness and potential to the firms, and it's gonna grow with them as their strategy evolves. That's one of the things folks really like about it, and that they've struggled in the past with traditional CRM and ERPs to get that kind of flexibility and support for what they're trying to do today, and they can get it with us. It's been a good broad strategic story because of that broad potential, and then we get very specific in each client case to drive the deals.
Alex Sklar (Analyst)
Okay, great. That's super helpful context. Then Steve, on the profitability outlook quite a bit higher than where we started the year. Can you just talk about the drivers of that upside and any changes in your, in your overall thoughts on hiring plans for the year versus a couple quarters ago?
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Yeah, sure. No, I mean, part of this certainly is we're having good revenue performance, and that's some of that, of course, drops to the bottom line. No, we are continuing to hire. We're seeing good growth. We wanna get ahead of that and capture it. We've said this for a couple quarters now. It remains true. Having said that, we also are starting to see a little bit of leverage here from the business, and I think we expect to sort of steadily do better over time in our operating profit line. That's certainly something we're looking at here now. We're planning for next year now and the future.
No, we are hiring where it makes sense and getting ahead of our growth opportunities so we can capture it.
Alex Sklar (Analyst)
All right, great. Thank you.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Yeah.
Operator (participant)
One moment for our next question. Our next question comes the line of Parker Lane from Stifel. Your line is open.
Matthew Kikkert (Equity Research Associate)
Hi, this is Matthew Kikkert on for Parker. Thanks for taking my questions, and congratulations on the quarter. Customer expansion has been a key part of your growth strategy. I wanna ask about the top of funnel demand that you're seeing recently. Has there been any change there over the last quarter, and do you have any planned incremental investments in 2023 to address that top of the funnel demand?
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Look, top of the funnel, the whole pipeline remains strong. We are continuing to invest there steadily, I think, because as I said, we wanna capture growth. No particular change in our investment orientation towards the opportunity we're seeing, you know, in terms of sales in the marketplace right now.
Matthew Kikkert (Equity Research Associate)
Okay. That's all for me. Thank you very much.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
You bet. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. One moment for our next question. Our next question comes the line of Aravind Ramani from Piper Sandler. Your line is open.
Aravind Ramani (Analyst)
Hey, thanks for taking my question. You know, I wanna ask about your, you know, when you sign up a new client, what is the, like, timeframe? I'm sure it varies client by client and how complex the environment is. If you can help frame, you know, for a typical client, you know, or maybe just provide a range for when they sign up with Intapp till they kind of put it, kind of implement Intapp. What is that sort of timeframe, and when do they start to sort of realize some of the benefits of your platform?
John Hall (Chairman and CEO)
Hi, Arvind. Thank you. Generally speaking, it's six months to nine months on our midsize and larger clients. We can do implementations and get clients up and running in 30 days. We've done that in certain situations. The smaller firms have an easier time doing that. For the very largest enterprise global class firms, it can take one year. A lot of it too is how focused is the IT group on their side to get us up and running. Usually we're doing things in about six months, maybe nine months, if you wanted a total average.
Aravind Ramani (Analyst)
Perfect. You know, in terms of, like, growth, expansion at existing clients, you know, are you able to kind of provide some sort of way for us to think, like, you know, once you sign up a client, you know, the initial 6 months or 1 year is X dollars in revenue, but once they stay with you for 3 years, does revenue typically go up 2x, 3x? Like, what type of expansion are you seeing in the sort of medium term after someone signs up with you?
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Aravind, this is Steve. I'll take that. We don't track it exactly that way, but we certainly look at how we progress after we land. As I think we said in the past, our penetration is actually quite low on an average basis across our client base. Some clients certainly have the whole platform and are fully penetrated, others have just gotten started. You know, as John said, you can appreciate if an implementation is six-nine months, it might be the next year till we're ready to come back and sell and implement the next set of capabilities. Sometimes that happens quicker, sometimes it doesn't.
We don't have exactly the answer to your question, but I think you can see from our NRR rates, which we're raising our range here and we're seeing strong performance. We are definitely selling strongly to existing clients in both cross-sell product opportunities and upselling new users. It's a strong momentum and will continue to be so, we think.
Aravind Ramani (Analyst)
Terrific. Just to clarify, like, you know, in terms of, like, your revenue build, I think what I heard on today's call is, I mean, clearly, you know, clients who had started, you know, 6 months or 9 months ago, those are continuing. As far as, like, new project starts, new logos, and pipeline, those are just as strong as they're, as they've been in the last 12 months. I just wanna confirm that.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
Yeah. No, I think we've added, you know, 50 or so plus net new customers every quarter for several quarters now. It's been steady that way.
Aravind Ramani (Analyst)
Terrific. Thank you very much.
Steve Robertson (CFO)
You bet. Thank you.
Operator (participant)
Thank you. I'm not showing any further questions in the queue. I'd like to turn the call back over to John for any closing remarks.
John Hall (Chairman and CEO)
Okay. Thanks, everyone, for joining us today. We'll look forward to talking with you all again at our third quarter release in May. Thanks again. Have a good day.
Operator (participant)
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