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C3 AI

https://c3.ai/ Research Team Data
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Public enterprise AI application software company for developing, deploying, and operating AI applications across industries.

C3 AI provides low-code/no-code and developer tooling to design, deploy and operate enterprise AI applications, analytics and generative AI solutions across industrial, government and regulated enterprise contexts.

Positioning

Enterprise AI application platform

Key facts

HQ location
Redwood City, CA, USA
Founded
2009
Employee range
501-1000 (501-1000)
Funding stage
Public
Company type
Public (Public (AI))
Pricing model
Subscription Usage Based (Enterprise license / usage-based and application subscriptions)
Last updated
Jun 21, 2026

Revenue estimate

$250.3M FY2026 revenue reported in Jun 2026 results

Valuation estimate

Public market cap varies; check NYSE: AI

Investments

Public company; IPO Dec 2020; cash/marketable securities reported at $673M Jun 2026

Target customers

Large enterprises, government, defense, industrial and regulated sectors

Key competitors

Palantir, Databricks, DataRobot, IBM, Microsoft, SAP

Known customers

Shell, Baker Hughes, U.S. Air Force

Classification (raw research text)

Core focus
Enterprise AI applications and industrial AI
Core industry
Horizontal / industrial enterprise
Core category
Enterprise AI application platform

Shown verbatim from the research spreadsheet — deriving structured segment/industry tags from this text is a future phase.

Attribute breakdown

  • AI Workflows Primary focus
  • AI Automation / Business Process Automation Secondary feature
  • AI Fine-tuning / Custom Model Training Secondary feature
  • Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Secondary feature
  • Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Secondary feature
  • System / API Integration Primary focus
  • Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Secondary feature
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation Secondary feature
  • Graph RAG / Knowledge Graph Retrieval Secondary feature
  • Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Secondary feature
  • AI / LLM Data Pipeline Primary focus
  • Document AI / Document Processing Secondary feature
  • Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Primary focus
  • Traditional Machine Learning Primary focus
  • AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Secondary feature
  • AI Observability / Monitoring Secondary feature
  • AI Security / Guardrails Secondary feature
  • Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
  • AI Governance / Policy Management Secondary feature
  • AI Risk / Compliance Secondary feature
  • AI Asset Inventory / Model Registry Secondary feature
  • Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Secondary feature
  • Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Secondary feature
  • AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Secondary feature
  • Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Primary focus
  • Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Primary focus
  • Vertical-Specific AI Primary focus
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  • AI Workflows Primary focus
  • AI Automation / Business Process Automation Secondary feature
  • AI Fine-tuning / Custom Model Training Secondary feature
  • Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Secondary feature
  • Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Secondary feature
  • System / API Integration Primary focus
  • Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Secondary feature
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation Secondary feature
  • Graph RAG / Knowledge Graph Retrieval Secondary feature
  • Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Secondary feature
  • AI / LLM Data Pipeline Primary focus
  • Document AI / Document Processing Secondary feature
  • Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Primary focus
  • Traditional Machine Learning Primary focus
  • AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Secondary feature
  • AI Observability / Monitoring Secondary feature
  • AI Security / Guardrails Secondary feature
  • Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Secondary feature
  • AI Governance / Policy Management Secondary feature
  • AI Risk / Compliance Secondary feature
  • AI Asset Inventory / Model Registry Secondary feature
  • Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Secondary feature
  • Call Transcription / Speech-to-Text Data Capture Not emphasized
  • Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Not emphasized
  • Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Secondary feature
  • Voice AI Agents Not emphasized
  • Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Not emphasized
  • AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Secondary feature
  • Sales / Revenue Intelligence Not emphasized
  • Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Primary focus
  • Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Primary focus
  • Vertical-Specific AI Primary focus