Chime Financial, Inc. (CHYM) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
September 10, 2025
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
William Nance
AnalystsAll right. We are going to get started. Up next, we have Chime and CEO, Chris Britt, who is the Co-Founder and CEO. He co-founded Chime in 2013 and completed a successful public offering earlier this year. It's a very exciting time to be in the fintech space and excited time to have you on stage.
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesGreat to be here. Thanks for having me.
William Nance
AnalystsSo Chris, I think for those on the webcast, particularly one of the first conference presentations post going public, I think it would be helpful just to maybe go over overview of who the company is, the strategy. And then I'm looking forward to asking some follow-ups and going one level deeper.
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesSure. Chime is a consumer fintech company. We're actually not a bank, but we've had a lot of success in the U.S. market in developing an alternative to traditional banks, particularly for everyday consumers. So we target consumers that make up to about $100,000 a year, which happens to be about 75% of our country. And we focus on the needs that matter most to this population segment, and that includes things like avoiding fees, getting access to short-term liquidity, building credit and building savings. And we wrap that into a mobile-first experience, and have been able to develop a lot of credibility and a brand authenticity around genuinely trying to help people make progress in their financial lives. It's been working really, really well. I'm incredibly proud of the success that we've had. Just to give you a sense, today, Chime on an unaided brand awareness, if you ask consumers in America, what brands come to mind when you think of online banking. Today, Chime only trails JPMorgan and Bank of America. So great progress. And I think the innovation is a combination of having services that really resonate with this population segment, but also doing it in a mobile-first way that a technology company would. So we own and operate the vast majority of our tech stack, including all of our processing, which we think is quite a bit differentiated. And by operating at that low cost structure, we're able to deliver better value and essentially free banking services to this huge population that has historically been subject to enormous amounts of fees.
William Nance
AnalystsSure. So maybe let's talk about competitive advantage. I think Jamie Dimon said in a recent letter that they can't serve the majority of their consumer checking accounts profitably. Can you talk about the structural advantages that Chime has and what allows you to do what some of the largest banks in the country have been unable to?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesYes, for sure. I saw that quote that he had in his shareholder letter, and I kind of wanted to put it in the S-1, but I didn't think it was appropriate, JPMorgan was on the deal. So that would have been weird. But we did bring that quote up a lot because I think it did a great job of just capturing what the real opportunity is, which is basically like any reasonable business person if you have a segment of the population that you can generate high profits from and another segment that you can't, you're obviously going to focus on the segment that you can develop profitable relationships with. The only way what Jamie is saying out loud what others maybe are afraid to say is that the only way that they can develop profitable relationships with this segment is by relying heavily on fees. And so we believe there truly is a generational shift that's happening right now in banking, I'd say, respectfully, sometimes some of the investor class people who aren't subject to the fees and aren't dealing with the friction that an everyday consumer that maybe makes $40,000, $50,000 a year faces day-to-day, I think maybe it's harder to see. But we're changing the way that people are accessing basic core banking services and doing it in a modern mobile way. I mentioned the fact that we are not a bank. We're actually a technology company. So we are able to leverage two key bank partners, Bancorp Bank and Stride Bank are our primary bank partners who actually hold all the deposits of the consumers. So we truly do operate as the technology company and the consumer brand and the interface that sort of runs all aspects of the transaction account for our member. And by doing that, by letting the banks hold the deposits and operating the tech stack in-house as opposed to operating what has historically been a traditional banks, sort of a patchwork of different service providers, maybe one card processing system for your credit card, another one -- another core for your deposit services, another platform for check deposits, another one for risk management. We operate that all through a single platform called ChimeCore. And it is a real competitive advantage for us because we have all of the cost structure savings of being able to operate this in-house. In fact, we used to rely on a third party. So we know that when we complete our conversion over to ChimeCore by the end of this year, the savings that we've been able to achieve will equate to something like 60%. So that gives us a great cost advantage, but it also gives us a flexibility to be able to innovate and launch new products without having to rely on third parties. So I'd say the combination of advantages are of course, this cost structure, but probably more important than that is the member obsession we have on this population segment because for us, they're incredibly desirable because we're able to actually help them in their lives, and we can do it really profitably because of the way that we go to market.
William Nance
AnalystsYes. So let's talk about that customer -- the target customer a little bit. Obviously, there's a lot of money in the high-net-worth population that a lot of the large banks focus on. For the everyday American making less than $100,000 a year, I think there's often a misperception. I think we talked about this earlier today that you cater to unbanked or underserved individuals. Like how would you describe your typical member? How large is the market? And how do you generate revenue from this customer without charging excessive fees?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesYes, I'd like to remove that vernacular from the description of what Chime does. So I want to be really clear, Chime does not serve the unbanked, we don't serve the underserved. We serve people who are unhappily banked at traditional banks. That's where all of our customers come from. It's typically someone that has a frustrated relationship with the traditional big money center incumbent bank that isn't delivering against the needs that they have, and I sort of outlined what some of those key areas of needs happen to be. And yes, I just think it's kind of an entirely different orientation to actually serving this population. It's regular everyday people. It's nurses, it's firefighters. It's -- I remember on the roadshow, one the first meetings we had, the -- literally the first meeting on the roadshow, the person at the front desk checking us in. We said we were from the Chime team, and their face lit up and they said, "I bank with Chime too," and he showed his card. It was awesome.
William Nance
AnalystsThat is awesome.
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesA great way to sort of kick off the meeting. So this is regular everyday people. And I think by being able to focus on the needs that they have, we're able to develop a brand that's really resonated with a population that, again, I don't -- my message is not that the banks are evil and they're trying to hurt this population segment. They just don't focus on them because they can't develop profitable relationships because of their physical orientation to customer acquisition, to servicing and so forth, it's just the mathematics don't work out. So we truly believe we've built a better mousetrap, and it served us well because I think if you really wanted to boil down the essence of why we're winning in this category is because of the alignment that we have with our member base.
William Nance
AnalystsGreat. And so I guess a quick follow-up on that. Can you speak to the durability of these members? Any anecdotes that you can share around member lifetime, churn rates and just how you think about kind of the average life of your customer?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesYes. I mean from the earliest days of starting this company, we've been focused on developing primary account relationships, direct recurring relationships, recurring largely direct deposit relationships. And I remember investors would always pooh-pooh that and say, man, that is like the hardest relationship to develop. Why don't you start with a wedge product and then you can get to direct deposit later. And I think our focus on developing primary account relationships has really allowed us to set ourselves apart in terms of what we're known for from a sort of brand perspective. So look, when you develop a direct deposit relationship, especially in our case, after the first year, we see 90% retention rates among our primary account members. So we've only been around for 13 years and really active with a product that's even remotely in its current form for maybe 9 years at this point in time. So I can't tell you for sure how long these relationships last, but I think typical research shows that it's something like 15 to 20 years is the average life of a checking account, and we certainly see that our early cohorts continue to stick with us. And I think one of the things that we shared in the S-1 is that these cohorts not only stick with us, but the relationships actually expand over time. So as people change jobs or get raises or have multiple jobs, we're able to capture more of their direct deposit over time and actually expand the retention on a net dollar basis of over 100%.
William Nance
AnalystsThat's great. And look, I think it's so important, you mentioned talking about focusing on the direct deposit relationships first. And one thing I repeated numerous times during the roadshow was they really started with the hard part first, and they got it right, and that kind of gives them the ability and the right to expand to other areas of the business and new activities. But how do you feel about the durability of the growth in direct deposit customers? And then I want to talk about some of the strategy of widening the funnel there.
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesYes. I mean, that is the opportunity. And I think more than any company out there, I think we've shown the most success and dedication to that. In fact, we just finished a survey that we run regularly, which canvasses the marketplace outside of Chime specifically, but we commissioned a third-party survey of tens of thousands of people who make up to $100,000. And we question whether or not you've -- we screen for people who have only -- who have converted a primary account or a direct deposit relationship in the past year. And again, Chime has earned the spot as the #1 destination among people who switched their bank account. So -- and their direct deposit relationship in that up to $100,000 segment. So we think that we are winning in this area. And I think when you look at our product structure and the way we're evolving our product structure and our features, you're seeing a commitment to making it clear that when you bank through Chime and use as a primary account, you're going to unlock a whole host of benefits. And that's what a lot of our new product efforts are about.
William Nance
AnalystsGreat. So maybe pivoting into some of the recent strategy shifts around widening the funnel of the incoming customer base, I think one of the phrases you and the team used a lot with us was, you kind of asked customers to get married on the first day historically, you're really going after that direct deposit relationship. And I think you've been pretty clear year-to-date about the strategy of widening the funnel, releasing more products for non-direct deposit customers. So can you talk a little bit about the strategy? How is it playing out so far? And where else could we see Chime kind of broaden out the aperture of customer acquisition?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesYes. I think this is a fairly obvious approach that I would argue we probably should have pursued even earlier. The reality is when you look at the top of the funnel and you see people coming through, we looked ourselves in the mirror and realize that there's a lot of people that we essentially pay a lot of these folks to enter at the top of the funnel through a paid referral or paid media and so forth. And they don't even fund the account. They don't -- like they look at it, and they're not ready to do direct deposit on the first day, and so they kind of just go dormant. It just felt like a waste to us. So I think we still have some work to figure out this funnel of people who sign up, maybe fund and engage in a lightweight way and successfully convert them into direct deposits. And maybe just to take a step back, our focus is always, when you come in, we display and we scream from the rooftops. The best way to get the most value from Chime is to get direct deposit, and we show all these features that unlock when you do it. But we just -- it just feels obvious to us that we have to give people an option. It shouldn't be the default, but there should be an option of if you're not quite ready to do that right out of the gate, you should be able to really easily fund your account. You should be able to plug-in your debit card, hit Apple Pay, fund it instantly, so you have a chance to use the product. And I think you should expect to continue to see us to try out different approaches to give people -- you can think of almost like a trial experience. It's natural for us. You can't just hit everyone over the head with a 2x4 and hope they're going to set up for direct deposit. We're pretty good at that. But we want to give people the chance to try before they buy. And so we're going to continue to innovate on that area. And build a bigger pond efficient and get more people over time to get to direct deposit because not everyone is just going to do it right out of the gate.
William Nance
AnalystsYes. And I guess the understandable focus on direct deposit really shows up in some of the financials. You cited 7 to 8x LTV to CAC in your business. That's despite having those customers that come in and never fund the account, never use it. Can you say more about what drives the strong unit economics? How do you build up to that? And how do you think about kind of marketing efficiencies over time?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesYes. Look, the great unit economics come in large part from an acquisition funnel that, in large part relies on referrals from our existing member, referrals and organic and word-of-mouth represents about 50% at the top of the funnel of new enrollees into the account. And then the ability to monetize the relationships because of the depth of the relationship. We announced last quarter that we grew our ARPAM or our Average Revenue Per Active Member by 12% year-over-year to about $245, which is, I think, pretty high in our category. And importantly, the success we have in driving product attached leads to even higher levels of ARPAM. So if you look at the members, which is now over 10% of our members that attach 6 or more products that ARPAM is close to $500. So we feel really good about the LTV to CAC that you cited of sort of 7-ish quarter payback on CAC. But we've actually seen that come down a bit in recent quarters, closer to the 5 to 6 zone. And so we feel really good about the success that we're having in putting dollars to work in a high ROI way to develop relationships that span for many, many years. And I think if you were really to boil down the differentiation of Chime relative to other companies, it's that success in developing these long-term primary account relationships. Our low-cost approach to all of our products is always in service to developing the primary account relationships. We're happy to sacrifice short-term revenue if it means to long-term recurring payments-driven revenue.
William Nance
AnalystsGot it. That makes sense. And just for clarification, the 5 to 6, is that payback? Or is that LTV to CAC?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesI'm sorry, that was payback.
William Nance
AnalystsPayback. Yes. Sorry, that's a good trajectory...
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesSorry, I thought you were talking about acquisition efficiency.
William Nance
AnalystsYes. No, Great, great, great. Okay. So let's go back to ChimeCore. Your proprietary payment processing application and ledger. I mean, this is pretty differentiated. There's a very small number of people who have built this out internally. Most people are leveraging Marqeta or Galileo or some other platform in order to do most of the card issuance. Can you talk about, a, what did it take to get here because that's a big undertaking. And then where are you in that transition? And how do you frame the benefit once that's fully completed?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesRight. It took a few years for us to get here for sure. So this was not an insignificant task. And I'm excited that we are near the end of our journey. There will still be investments to KTLO, the platform, but the bulk of our work is right at the -- in the red zone or -- we had -- we've announced to the Street that it was our intention to have all elements of our conversion over to the ChimeCore as the system of record and processing platform for all of our cards by the end of this year. And from an internal process perspective, we're actually ahead of schedule on that front. So I mentioned earlier that we think this -- in total, we've already realized some of this benefit, a good amount of it. But in total, we think it's about a 60% cost save. But more important than that is just being able to have full control of our destiny and not having to -- even if -- even when you have some amount of like market influence and ability to get third parties to perform development for innovation, we like being able to control the priorities on our side. And importantly, when you create new innovations to be able to have those innovations be proprietary because naturally, when processing systems launch a feature enhancement and so forth, the first thing they do is to sell it to other potential competitors. So we think this is going to only accelerate the velocity of innovation that you've seen from us over the past few quarters with the launch of Chime+, Chime Card yesterday and the soon-to-be completed conversion to ChimeCore.
William Nance
AnalystsAnd do you see longer term, are there other areas of benefit from some of the infrastructure? I know you leveraged a number of banking partners on the background. Do you see these as potential future opportunities to drive more efficiencies?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesAre you saying the bank partnerships?
William Nance
AnalystsYes. With the bank partnerships or any other area like third-party vendors.
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesWell, I think that there's a real strategic advantage of having that processing tech stack in-house and the centralization of data in an AI-powered world like having to rely on third parties and different data pools to get the data and to iterate on data for better intelligence and to design AI-powered systems. We think this is a real competitive advantage, especially relative to incumbents who may have 3 or 4 different platforms that they have to rely on that maybe are associated with an individual consumer. So -- but look, we're always -- as we -- we're in a payments business and the payments business certainly rewards scale. And I think you see that in the business and our margins, and the margins get better as more transactions run through the system, for sure.
William Nance
AnalystsYes, makes sense. Okay. Let's pivot to Chime Card. This is a big announcement yesterday. So why don't you talk a little bit about what's changing to the -- what you use to kind of refer to as the Credit Builder Card. And how does the journey from new consumers coming into Chime change post this announcement?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesWe're incredibly excited about creating a more rewarding approach to banking with this Chime Card product that we launched yesterday. So yes, Chime Card is a sort of latest incarnation of our Credit Builder Card, we're just calling this Chime Card, but it still gets to the credit building feature that you get from a secured card. It allows consumers to sign up for a Chime account and decide to bank with us to use this secured card where you get a line of credit that is equivalent to the amount of money that you put -- that you set aside in advance. So if you have a $1,000, you can set that aside and that gives you a line of credit of up to $1,000. And it's a safe way to spend and build credit because you only spend what you have available to put aside in the secured account. And that allows our members to continue to build credit just from their everyday transactions. And it's really been a hit product for us. What I'm excited about is this new version of the product just sort of levels it up a bit. It's a more premium addition plastic. We also have a Titanium metal card option that people can sign up for an additional fee, a onetime fee. And the way it works is, if you are signed up for a Chime account and you're getting direct deposit and you have one of these new Chime Card, secured cards, you can get 1.5% cash back on everyday transactions in a rotating set of categories. So every month, we rotate to categories that are generally like primary, a lot of nondiscretionary spend items. So it could be like groceries or fuel or restaurants, some online transactions. And we're pretty excited about this being just another reason why you'd want to sign up, get direct deposit, activate our Chime+ level of service because you're doing direct deposit, and that unlocks the 1.5% cash back. So I think you're going to continue to see from us more and more reasons, more bundling of products and services that reward our members who elect to use us as their primary account. And we also want to make sure that we're giving differentiation and unlock even more premium features and rewards for people that give us more of their direct deposit, more of their spend. And this is an exciting step in that direction. And I'll just say like you asked about how it will work in the journey. Our members will still 100% be able to get a debit card, that's going to be -- continue to be a big part of our product offering, but this will sort of be like the featured service because it has enhanced benefits. So we're hopeful that it drives even greater attach of the credit product. And that actually helps a bit with our spend mix, right, driving even more volumes through credit as opposed to debt.
William Nance
AnalystsYes. No, it makes perfect sense. Okay. And then I wanted to switch to MyPay. I think when we think about the traditional banking business model, you kind of think of taking deposits and making loans, the corollary in your business is a lot of the money has been made on the deposit side and monetizing the spending side. I think MyPay is one of the foray into more of a lending relationship and probably been one of the most -- I would imagine, the most successful product launch in the company's history, really significant penetration out of the gate starting last year. You've also seen improving unit economics since the launch. So maybe you can talk a little bit about the adoption of that product that you've seen, the performance and loss rates that you've seen to date and just how you think about the trajectory that we're on, both in terms of adoption and loss rates over the next couple of quarters?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesYes, we're really pleased with the rollout of this product. It's now close to 30% attach rate and a top reason at the top of the funnel, why people sign up for Chime, another reason people often ask like, what is the thing that people sign up for -- with Chime for. And it isn't a single thing. It's a package of services that address those categories of needs. But -- so this is the latest product in the short-term liquidity area. Yes, we're seeing really nice levels of attach. We're seeing really good performance. It's now already over a $300 million revenue run rate business for us. And what's great is that we're able to have such an exciting business that's kind of gone from 0 to 60 so quickly, but also a product at the same time that is far and away the best value in the category of essentially earned wage access products because when you sign up for our MyPay product, there's a free option, where you can get up to $500 of your paycheck on demand. If you wait 24 hours, it's free. If you want it instantly, it's a $2 fee, that's the best lowest cost in the market. And on the performance side, we're very pleased. We announced that we had been at about a 1.6% loss rate and moved it to 1.4% in the last quarter, and we've also signaled that you should expect to see that to continue to move in that same direction closer to 1% over time. So really good performance and it's only going to get better as we get a little bit mature -- a little bit more mature in the rollout of this credit product. But I also just want to reiterate, like this is not a typical consumer lending product that you might see at traditional lenders in that it's extremely short duration, right? These short-term credit extensions get paid back in essentially 1.5 weeks. So we have full control of the dial if we ever needed to change course for some reason. And so we feel really good about this as being a core value prop and once again taking a lead in the category and setting direction for consumer-friendly products for a population segment that often has taken advantage of.
William Nance
AnalystsYes. No, that makes sense. And I want to bring it back to an earlier part of the conversation around broadening the funnel. I know MyPay, day one, allowing kind of new users to the platform to get a taste of that experience. What's your thought process there? Where are you in that process? Any kind of early signs of adoption there?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesIt's very early. I don't know if it's going to work. We're trying it out. We're going to continue to test on different ways to get people through to become direct deposit account holders. So just for those of you that don't know, we are experimenting on a very limited basis to offer people who have not yet signed up for direct deposit that we think, okay, we -- for whatever reason, we're not being effective in converting them, we will -- we are testing the opportunity to give them a smaller level of MyPay, much less than the $500 for a higher price. Not so much to create a new standalone moneymaking business, but to see if we can unlock a new channel to get people to try it out, see that it's a nice service and see that if they actually do their direct deposit, that they get the same product, the same construct of the product but with just a better version of it with higher limits and lower prices.
William Nance
AnalystsYes. That makes sense. We look forward to hearing more about it.
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesYes, we hope it works. But again, we're only a month or 2 into the test.
William Nance
AnalystsGreat. Okay. And then Instant Loans, I think, was another new product that launched this year. In my experience, this has gotten a little bit less attention than some of the other new products. So maybe frame out the value proposition of that product to your members and maybe talk about where you are in the rollout process and kind of anything that you're seeing?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesWe're really excited about this product. Our members love this product. I think the Net Promoter Score on it is something like 80. And for those of you that aren't aware of it, it's a basic installment loan product. It's just really easy to sign up for and use. People are prequalified for it. You can select a 3-month or 6-month payback option, paying back on a monthly basis. It's a low price, and we're trying it out on a much smaller subset of our members that we've offered MyPay to. So I think like single-digit percentage of our member base. And I think we're just building our underwriting muscle in our most valuable customers that we have the longest relationship with, and we feel like we have ability to underwrite them based on this cash flow that's coming into the account. And I think it's going to be, as we see repeat users of the service, we're seeing it really perform very, very well. So we expect it to be -- continue to be an exciting part of our portfolio, we will likely evolve it so that you could imagine looking in your transaction history and seeing a larger transaction, you could -- Chime would say, hey, do you want to finance that over 3 months or 6 months, we'll give you the money back for the transaction you just made. So I think there's cool ways to use this as a relationship product because, again, at the end of the day, we look at all of these products in service of driving and retaining long-term direct deposit relationships. And look, over time, as we think about, for example, potentially offering an unsecured credit card for a subset of our members, again, who have direct deposit, we think that our experience with this product will help to inform a rollout of that type of product down the line as well.
William Nance
AnalystsGot it. Okay. One kind of loosely financial-oriented question, Matt is in the audience, so he's leaving you hanging up here. You've talked about a lot of new products, both lending and non-lending. How do you think about the result and trajectory of ARPAM over time?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesI mentioned 12% year-over-year. And I didn't know all your questions. So maybe I already like answered this question to some extent. But our most engaged members are doing double that of ARPAM. So -- and what's great about the ARPAM that we're generating from these more highly engaged members, it's not like we're just getting more ARPAM by driving up more fees. We're actually getting more ARPAM because as they attach more products, they actually do even more of their spending with us. So again, it's like -- it's very much aligned with the consumer. So there's no question. There's a ton of runway for us on the ARPAM side, and I think investors should think of that as an important dial that we can turn to drive even more profitable relationships with our members. Again, doing it in a very member aligned way, I think we're going to continue to push on this. We've said in our roadshow that this is probably one area that we have not focused a lot of time on. And in some ways, I think that's good because our primary focus has been on just member engagement and direct deposits as opposed to trying to eke out every last profit or revenue line that we can. I think that's what probably sets us apart from a big bank in that regard.
William Nance
AnalystsTotally.
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesSo -- but for the record, we're not against fees. Especially in products that require fees to make the economics work, but we think we're uniquely positioned to have the lowest cost products in our category.
William Nance
AnalystsYes. No, very clear. Okay. We got a couple of minutes left. I want to squeeze two last ones in. First on Chime Enterprise. If I remember, this is one of the products during the IPO, you were saying you were most excited about. You've announced a couple of partnerships since earnings. So could you give us an update on that strategy? How are you thinking about the launch of new Employer Partners? And then just how do you think about the channel as a feeder to net adds and direct depositors over time?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesWe're really excited about this channel. Yes, we launched two employers, Ubiquity, which is a call center company and a company called Etech and early results have been awesome. We're seeing great adoption rates. We're actually seeing that a lot of the workers at these employers actually have Chime accounts. So now their Chime accounts just got better because with the enterprise version of MyPay, you get 100% of your paycheck every day on demand for free. So there's a real benefit to the employer because they've got a more valuable offering to the employee. We've also seen resurrection among members who had Chime accounts that work at these companies that now are signing up for a Chime account reengaging with us. The biggest segment is people who don't have Chime accounts and they are coming to us. So we're really excited. These are -- we look at these as real evergreen channels because if you think about the turnover in a lot of these employees, like they might go through -- like a retailer might go through 2 turns of employees over the course of a year. And then we also announced our relationship with Workday. So now if you're a Workday employer, it's really easy to sign up for Chime services for our core account, for our paycheck on demand, our earned wage access product. It's -- now we already have like that direct integration into the time and attendance and payroll system. So it's really easy for new folks to sign up. And we're excited to hopefully have some referenceable accounts now that we're in the wild live with the product. And that should lead to additional growth. We're trying to temper expectations because these are enterprise deals, they take a long time to implement. And even when you implement it, it takes a little bit of time to get into the core operating system of how the HR and benefits teams work at these companies. But it's a big focus of ours, probably not much of an impact this year, but we're hopeful that next year this becomes an increasingly important channel for us.
William Nance
AnalystsThat's great. All right. In the last couple of minutes here or second, I guess, it is a tech conference, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you about AI. How is Chime using AI today? And then how do you think about AI, particularly from a customer-facing perspective longer term?
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesWell, we are embedding AI into every aspect of our business. We have essentially every employee using AI. It's now the expectation of how we do our work. I think it's helping us to of all the way work gets done inside of the company. So our product and [indiscernible] teams are already becoming smaller teams, more self-sufficient because they can get more done with fewer people, which can lead to greater output. We think there's no question that this is going to lead to additional opportunity for us. On the OpEx side, we already see AI having a huge impact on our customer support service. It's like 72% of interactions are now handled by AI, including voice AI. It works very well, not only is it lower cost, but it's actually higher satisfaction scores. And maybe just -- I'll leave you with the parting point on this is, that's all well and good, and we're going to use it for more and more efficiency, but the real opportunity is harnessing this new technology to create better consumer experience, as you can imagine us helping our members essentially have an adviser in your pocket that gives you advice on answers questions and gives you a direction on where to spend, where not to spend, how you're trending versus people in a similar demo questions about what else they can do outside of our credit building services to build their credit scores and help them think about long-term financial success. We aim to play a role in that regard. And we think given this deep relationship we have and this unique data set that we have that we should be able to do that better than anyone.
William Nance
AnalystsGreat. Well, I think with that, we're out of time. But thanks so much for taking the time today. I really appreciate your support of the conference. Congratulations on the successful IPO, and we look forward to see you next year.
Christopher Britt
ExecutivesThanks, Will.
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