Thanks, Shyam. Q3 was an exceptionally strong quarter as revenue growth accelerated to 30% year-over-year, exceeding the high end of our prior guidance by nearly 450 basis points.
As America rapidly embraces the AI revolution, this increase in AI demand has driven the outperformance in our U.S. business, which grew 44% year-over-year.
Our U.S. commercial business grew 54% year-over-year and 13% sequentially.
Our U.S. government business grew 40% year-over-year and 15% sequentially, a sevenfold increase compared to the prior year period growth rate and the strongest growth we've seen in 15 quarters.
On the back of this strength, we are increasing our full year revenue guidance midpoint to $2.807 billion, representing a 26% year-over-year growth rate. We delivered these outstanding top line results while expanding adjusted operating margin to 38% and highing the strong unit economics of our business.
Our revenue and profitability drove a 4-point sequential increase to our Rule of 40 score from 64 in the second quarter to 68 in the third quarter.
We had an exceptional cash flow quarter. with cash from operations of $420 million and adjusted free cash flow of $435 million, representing margins of 58% and 60%, respectively. On a trailing 12-month basis, we generated over $1 billion in adjusted free cash flow for the first time in the company's history. We're also proud to have joined the S&P 500 last quarter, underscoring our sustained profitability and growth.
Turning to our global top line results. Revenue continues to accelerate as we see continued momentum from AIP. We generated $726 million in revenue, up 30% year-over-year and 7% sequentially.
Excluding the impact of revenue from strategic commercial contracts, third quarter revenue grew 32% year-over-year and 7% sequentially. Customer count grew 39% year-over-year and 6% sequentially to 629 customers. Revenue from our largest customers continues to expand.
Third quarter trailing 12-month revenue from our top 20 customers increased 12% year-over-year to $60 million per customer.
Now moving to our commercial segment.
Third quarter commercial revenue grew 27% year-over-year and 3% sequentially to $317 million.
Excluding the impact from strategic commercial contracts, commercial revenue grew 30% year-over-year and 3% sequentially.
Third quarter commercial TCV booked was $612 million, representing 52% growth year-over-year and 62% growth sequentially.
Our U.S. commercial business continues to see unprecedented demand with AIP driving both new customer conversions and existing customer expansions in the U.S. as we continue to deploy AM models in production.
Third quarter U.S. commercial revenue grew 54% year-over-year and 13% sequentially to $179 million.
Excluding revenue from strategic commercial contracts, U.S. commercial revenue grew 59% year-over-year and 12% sequentially. In the third quarter, we booked $297 million of U.S. commercial TCV representing 13% growth sequentially. Total remaining deal value in our U.S. commercial business grew 73% year-over-year and 7% sequentially.
Our U.S. commercial customer count grew to 321 customers reflecting 77% growth year-over-year and 9% growth sequentially.
We generated $138 million in international commercial revenue in the third quarter, representing 3% growth year-over-year but a 7% sequential decline as a result of continued headwinds in Europe and a step down in revenue from a government-sponsored enterprise in the Middle East. Despite those headwinds, we continue to build on our transformational work with some of our largest international customers, including signing a multiyear renewal with BP.
We also continue to capitalize on targeted growth opportunities in Asia, the Middle East and beyond.
Revenue from strategic commercial contracts was $9.6 million for the quarter. We anticipate fourth quarter 2024 revenue from these customers to decline to between $6 million to $7.5 million compared to $20 million in the fourth quarter of 2023.
We continue to anticipate 2024 revenue from these customers to be less than 2% of full year revenue.
Shifting to our Government segment.
Third quarter Government revenue grew 33% year-over-year and 10% sequentially to $408 million.
Third quarter U.S. government revenue accelerated $320 million, representing 40% growth year-over-year and 15% growth sequentially. This acceleration was driven by continued execution in existing programs. new awards reflecting the growing demand for AI in our government software offerings and favorable deal timing in the quarter, coupled with the government year-end cycle.
Third quarter international government revenue was $89 million, representing 13% growth year-over-year. but a 5% sequential decline as a result of revenue catch-up in Q2 that we noted last quarter and less favorable [ timing ].
Third quarter TCV booked was $1.1 billion, up 33% year-over-year and 16% sequentially. Net dollar retention was 118%, an increase of 400 basis points from last quarter. The increase was driven both by expansions at existing customers and new customers acquired in Q3 of last year as we see the effect of the AI revolution in both industry and government.
As net dollar retention does not include revenue from new customers that were acquired in the past 12 months, it does not yet fully capture the acceleration in velocity in our U.S. business over the past year.
We ended the third quarter with $4.5 billion in total remaining yield value, an increase of 22% year-over-year and 4% sequentially and $1.6 billion in the remaining performance obligations, an increase of 59% year-over-year and 15% sequentially.
As a reminder, [ RPO ] is primarily comprised of our commercial business. as it does not take into account contracts with an initial term of less than 12 months and contractual obligations that fall beyond termination for convenience clauses, both of which are common in most of our government business.
Turning to margin and expense. Adjusted gross margin, which excludes stock-based compensation expense, was 82% for the quarter. Adjusted income from operations, which excludes stock-based compensation expense and related employer payroll taxes was $276 million, representing an adjusted operating margin of 38% and marking the eighth consecutive quarter of expanding adjusted operating margins. Q3 adjusted expense was $450 million, up 6% sequentially and 14% year-over-year primarily driven by our continued investment in AIP and technical talent.
We continue to expect expenses to ramp through the fourth quarter as we invest in the product pipeline and accelerate the journey from AI prototype to production.
In the third quarter, we generated GAAP operating income of $113 million, representing a 16% margin. We generated GAAP net income of $144 million, representing a 20% margin.
Third quarter adjusted earnings per share was $0.10, and GAAP earnings per share was $0.06.
As previously communicated, we've aligned our compensation program with the performance of the company's goals, including its stock price.
On the back of the company's strong performance, our inclusion in the S&P 500 and the increase in our stock price, we will continue to monitor if we become required to accelerate stock-based compensation expenses of certain market-based vesting criteria are achieved earlier than expected.
Additionally, our combined revenue growth and adjusted operating margin accelerated to 68% in the third quarter, a 4-point increase to our Rule of 40 score from the prior quarter.
Turning to our cash flow. In the third quarter, we generated $420 million in cash from operations and $435 million in adjusted free cash flow, representing a margin of 58% and 60%, respectively.
For the first time ever, on a trailing 12-month basis, we generated over $1 billion in adjusted free cash flow, representing a margin of 39%.
Through the end of the third quarter, we repurchased approximately 1.8 million shares as part of our share repurchase program.
As of the end of the quarter, we have $954 million remaining of the original authorization.
We ended the quarter with $4.6 billion in cash, cash equivalents and short-term U.S. Treasury securities.
Now turning to our outlook.
For Q4 2024, we expect revenue of between $767 million and $771 million and adjusted income from operations of between $298 million and $302 million.
For full year 2024, we are raising our revenue guidance to between 2.805 billion and $2.809 billion.
We are raising our U.S. commercial revenue guidance to an excess of $687 million, representing a growth rate of at least 50%.
We are raising our adjusted income from operations guidance to between $1.054 billion and $1.058 billion.
We are raising our adjusted free cash flow guidance to an excess of $1 billion. and we continue to expect GAAP operating income and net income in each quarter of this year.
With that, I'll turn it over to Alex for a few remarks, and then Ana will kick off the Q&A.