C3.ai, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) software solutions, serving a global clientele across North America, Europe, the ...
C3.ai, Inc. is a publicly traded enterprise AI software company headquartered at 1300 Seaport Boulevard in Redwood City, California. Founded in 2009 by Thomas M. Siebel, the company was initially established as C3 IoT and later adopted the name C3.ai, Inc. in 2019. It completed its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2020 under the ticker symbol AI. Thomas M. Siebel remains the company’s founder, chairman, and chief executive officer.
The company’s primary business is providing software that helps large organizations develop, deploy, operate, and scale artificial intelligence applications. Its central offering has evolved into the C3 Agentic AI Platform, formerly described as the C3 AI Application Platform. The platform is designed to connect enterprise data sources, support machine-learning and generative-AI workflows, manage models and applications, and deliver AI capabilities through reusable services. C3 AI also offers development and analytical tools such as C3 AI Studio, C3 AI Ex Machina, C3 AI CRM, and C3 AI Data Vision. These products are intended to reduce the time, engineering effort, and infrastructure expense required to build production-grade enterprise AI systems.
In addition to its platform, C3 AI sells prebuilt applications addressing specific operational and commercial use cases. Examples include inventory optimization, supply-network risk management, customer churn management, production-schedule optimization, predictive maintenance, fraud detection, energy management, and other applications for asset performance, supply chains, customer relationships, and regulatory or mission-critical operations. The company’s customers and target markets include oil and gas, chemicals, utilities, manufacturing, financial services, defense, intelligence, aerospace, healthcare, and telecommunications.
C3 AI follows an enterprise software model in which revenue is generated primarily through software subscriptions, application agreements, platform usage, and related professional services. The economic value proposition is based on helping customers improve productivity, forecast failures, reduce operating costs, optimize assets and inventory, strengthen risk controls, and make better use of existing data. Its cost structure is heavily weighted toward research and development, sales and marketing, cloud infrastructure, customer implementation, and employee compensation. The supplied trailing figures show substantial investment in research and development and selling, general, and administrative activities, alongside negative operating cash flow and net losses, indicating that the company continues to prioritize growth, product development, and market expansion over near-term profitability.
The company maintains strategic and technology relationships with organizations including AWS, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Baker Hughes, FIS, and Raytheon. These alliances support cloud deployment, industry distribution, computing infrastructure, and customer access. With approximately 764 full-time employees, C3 AI falls within the 501-1000 employee category. Its principal strategic objective is to expand adoption of enterprise AI and agentic AI, deepen industry-specific solutions, convert customer experimentation into production deployments, and ultimately achieve durable recurring revenue growth and improved operating leverage.
