Tien-Tsin Huang
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

All right. Let's get started. I'm Tien-Tsin Huang. I'm the payments analyst at JPMorgan and always grateful and happy to have the Paymentus team with us. Dushyant Sharma, the CEO; Sanjay Kalra, the CFO. I put together a list of questions from the investment community, but also happy to take questions from the audience and from the portal. But thank you both for being with us. It means a lot to me.

Dushyant Sharma
Chairman, President & CEO

Thank you. Thank you so much for having us here.

Tien-Tsin Huang
JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division

Yes. No, Paymentus has been doing some really great things and putting up results quietly and been impressed. I thought we'd start with that, right? The quarter itself, I don't want to call it typical, right, because we've been spoiled with a lot of upside in terms of the quarter and everything else. But it's been a long sort of repeat performance of doing better. So maybe anything different in terms of what's driving the strong performance in the first quarter and how that informs your opinion on the rest of the year? Just to start with the quarter.

Dushyant Sharma
Chairman, President & CEO

I'll say that Q1 was really strong, great start to the year 2026. And the growth stems from the fact that we had -- we exited the last year with a very strong backlog. We had a very strong pipeline, a lot of diversification