SOUNDTHINKING, INC.

Overview

We are a leading public safety technology company that combines data-driven solutions and strategic advisory services for law enforcement, security teams and civic leadership. As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 319 customers and to date have worked with approximately 2,100 agencies to help drive more efficient, effective, and equitable public safety outcomes.

Our SafetySmart TM platform includes six data-driven tools consisting of: (i) our flagship product, ShotSpotter®, the leading outdoor gunshot detection, location and alerting system trusted by 178 cities and 22 universities and corporations as of December 31, 2025; (ii) CrimeTracer TM, an agency-wide crime data and intelligence platform that enables investigators, analysts, patrol officers and command staff to search through more than one billion criminal justice records from across jurisdictions, leverage dashboards and AI-assisted tools to generate tactical leads and quickly make intelligent connections to solve cases; (iii) CaseBuilder TM, a one-stop investigative case management system for tracking, reporting and collaborating on cases; (iv) ResourceRouter TM, which directs the deployment of patrol and community anti-violence resources in an objective way to help maximize the impact of limited resources and improve community safety; (v) PlateRanger TM powered by Rekor®, an automatic license plate recognition (“ALPR”) and vehicle identification solution that leverages artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning to enhance investigative efficiency and provide real-time data sharing for law enforcement; and (vi) SafePointe TM, an AI-based weapons detection system designed to provide discreet, high-throughput screening that complements physical security measures without compromising visitor experience. These solutions may operate independently or together as an integrated system that connects detection, data analysis, resource deployment and case management workflows. We also offer other use-case specific solutions including ShotSpotter for Campus and ShotSpotter for Corporate, which are typically smaller-scale deployments of ShotSpotter gunshot detection vertically marketed to universities, corporate campuses and key infrastructure centers to mitigate risk and enhance security by notifying authorities of outdoor gunfire incidents, saving critical minutes for first responders to arrive. We offer the majority of our solutions on a software-as-a-service subscription model to our customers. In the first quarter of 2025, we rolled out a perimeter-based sniper gunshot detection solution targeting utility substations, with initial pilots aimed at utility customers, conducted through SoundThinking Labs. SoundThinking Labs supports innovative use cases of the Company's technology.

As of December 31, 2025, we had ShotSpotter, ShotSpotter for Campus and ShotSpotter for Corporate coverage areas under contract for over 1,092 square miles, of which over 1,064 square miles had gone live. Coverage areas under contract included 178 cities and 22 universities and corporations across the United States, South Africa, Uruguay, Brazil and the Bahamas, including some of the largest cities in the United States. Most of our revenue is attributable to customers based in the United States. Since our founding over 29 years ago, SoundThinking has been and continues to be a purpose-led company. We are a mission-driven organization that is focused on improving public safety outcomes. We accomplish this by earning the trust of law enforcement and providing solutions to help them better engage and strengthen the police-community relationships in fulfilling their sworn obligation to serve and protect all. Our inspiration comes from our principal founder, Dr. Bob Showen, who believes that the highest and best use of technology is to promote social good. We are committed to developing comprehensive, respectful and engaged partnerships with law enforcement agencies, elected officials and communities focused on making a positive difference in the world.

Industry Background: The Public Safety Gap

Local police departments are challenged to serve and protect in an increasingly transparent fashion without unintentionally over-policing and under serving their communities. This mandate must be met while facing municipal budget pressures, evolving public safety policies, and calls for police reform, all while violent crime remains a critical concern and case closure rates struggle to improve. There are three distinct problems associated with the public safety gap, which are discussed below.

The Violent Crime Problem

We believe the majority of urban gunfire goes unreported. A 2016 report published by the Brookings Institution analyzing data collected from ShotSpotter and our customers suggests that approximately 80% of the gunshots detected by our public safety solution are not reported to 911 by residents. Even in the instances when 911 calls are made, the information reported by the caller is often incomplete or inaccurate as to the time and location of the gunshot. Furthermore, in many cases it is often difficult for the caller to authenticate the incident as gunfire. In addition, we believe that in communities plagued by gun violence, there is often a lack of trust between the community’s residents and its police force, which can exacerbate the underreporting of gunfire and create a vicious cycle of underreporting, lack of response and increased mistrust due to continued unaddressed gun violence in the community. When gunfire is not reported or is reported inaccurately, law enforcement and medical personnel cannot address injuries nor effectively investigate and solve related crimes or prevent future incidents.

We also believe the communities in which gun violence occurs suffer significant economic loss. A 2017 report by the Urban Institute, which studied the effect of gun violence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oakland, California and Washington, D.C., noted that the perceived risk of gun violence imposed heavy social, psychological and monetary damages in communities, including fewer jobs and lower economic vitality. The study concluded:

• In Minneapolis, each additional gun homicide in a given year was statistically correlated with 80 fewer jobs.

• In Oakland, every additional gun homicide in a given year was statistically associated with five fewer job opportunities in contracting businesses in the next year.

• In Washington, D.C., every additional gun homicide in a given year was statistically associated with two fewer retail and service establishments the next year.

In addition, several studies have suggested that property values are inversely correlated with violent crime. For example, the Center for American Progress conducted a study of changes in homicide incidents and housing prices in Boston, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, and found that a reduction in a given year of one homicide in a ZIP code caused a 1.5% increase in housing values in that same ZIP code the following year.

Gut-Based Patrolling Problem

Agencies face a resource deficit and need more efficient ways to patrol and prevent crime. Most departments use old patrolling methods that are not data-driven, have limited visibility to officer activity and no controls to reduce over-policing. We believe the category is ripe for AI-based automation for more efficient and effective patrolling done in a way that better engages the community and supports more effective, data-informed deployment of resources.

Low Case Closure/Victim Resolution Problem

According to a report published by The Marshall Project in 2022, homicide clearance rates in the United States reached a 40-year low of less than 50% in 2021. While clearance rates have shown signs of improvement in more recent years (2023–2024), they remain below levels observed in prior decades and vary significantly across jurisdictions. Too many suspects do not face the consequences and are free to commit additional crimes while victims and their families suffer without closure. Police use a mix of manual, homegrown and limited function record management system (“RMS”) modules for case management. To solve cases, detectives must access multiple, siloed sources of data with limited automation tools for analytical support or collaboration. We believe investigative case management can significantly benefit from greater automation to improve clearance rates and solves cases faster.

Our Vision

We see a world where data are converted into actionable intelligence thereby enabling law enforcement and security departments to implement practices to more efficiently direct interventions toward the relative few that commit crimes and present security threats. These practices in turn help build community trust and engagement while co-producing positive public safety outcomes. We believe the SafetySmart platform can be a valuable set of technological solutions for implementing these public safety practices. The SafetySmart platform includes our flagship product ShotSpotter, CrimeTracer, CaseBuilder, ResourceRouter, PlateRanger powered by Rekor and SafePointe, our AI-based weapons detection system.

Solutions for Law Enforcement

Solutions for Security Markets

ShotSpotter

ShotSpotter, our acoustic gunshot detection technology serves cities and municipalities seeking to identify, locate and deter persistent, localized gun violence into their policing systems. ShotSpotter is used by local police departments and a version of ShotSpotter, branded as ShotSpotter for Campus and ShotSpotter for Corporate, are used by security personnel in the protection of critical assets such as colleges, universities and commercial campuses.

Our gunshot detection solutions consist of highly-specialized, cloud-based software integrated with proprietary, internet-enabled sensors designed to detect outdoor gunfire. The speed and accuracy of our gunfire alerts enable law enforcement and security personnel to consistently and quickly respond to shooting events including those unreported through 911, which can increase the chances of apprehending the shooter, providing timely aid to victims and identifying witnesses before they scatter, as well as aid in evidentiary collection and serve as an overall deterrent. When an impulsive sound is detected by our sensors, our system precisely locates where the incident occurred, and if it determines there is a possibility the sound was caused by gunfire, sends its data for human review to analyze and validate the incident. An alert containing a location on a map and critical information about the incident is sent directly to subscribing law enforcement or security personnel through an internet-connected computer or iPhone or Android mobile devices.

Our software sends validated gunfire data along with the audio of the triggering sound to our Incident Review Center (“IRC”) that has locations in Fremont, CA and Washington, D.C. where our trained incident review specialists are on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year to screen and confirm actual gunfire incidents. Our trained incident review specialists can supplement alerts with additional tactical information, such as the potential presence of multiple shooters or the use of high-capacity weapons. Gunshot incidents reviewed by our IRC result in alerts typically sent within approximately 45 seconds of the gunfire incident.

Specialized Gunshot Detection Software

The heart of our gunshot detection solutions is our sophisticated and specialized software. Our software analyzes audio signals for potential gunshots detected by our intelligent sensors. Our sensor filters out ambient background noise, such as traffic or wind, and looks for impulsive sounds characteristic of gunfire. If the sensor detects such an impulse, it extracts pulse features of the soundwave, such as sharpness, strength, duration, rise time and decay time. Then, the sensor sends these features to our cloud servers as part of a data packet that includes the location coordinates of the reporting sensor and the precise time of arrival and angle of arrival of the sound.

When the data reaches our cloud servers, our software assesses whether three or more of our outdoor sensors detected the same sound impulse and, if so, finds the location coordinates of the sound source based on the time of arrival and the angle of arrival of the sound using the technique of multilateration. The accuracy of the locations derived from our proprietary software is significantly improved when, as is typically the case, more than three sensors participate. We deploy our sensor arrays such that, on average, six to eight sensors participate in the detection of a gunshot.

After the software determines the location of the sound source, our machine classifier algorithms analyze the pulse features to filter out sounds that are unlikely to be gunfire. Our algorithms consider pulse features, the distance from the sound source, pattern matching and other heuristic methods to evaluate and classify the sound. The machine classifier algorithm is periodically trained and validated against our large database of known gunfire and other community sounds that are impulsive in nature. We continue to add new data to our machine learning database from the incidents reviewed by our incident review specialists in our IRC process. Incidents that are determined by the machine classifier algorithms to be obviously non-gunfire are filtered out and not presented for human classification.

All incidents not filtered out by our machine classifier algorithms are sent to the incident review specialists in our IRC for analysis and classification. Incident notifications are sent when the incident is confirmed as gunfire by one of our incident review specialists and may include additional information that may be helpful to first responders, such as the possibility of multiple shooters or use of a high-capacity or fully automatic weapon. Alerts are delivered using push notifications to our mobile, desktop or browser applications and through email or SMS text messages. The time from a report of an outdoor trigger-pull to a notification being sent to our customers is typically 45 seconds or less.

Intelligent and Ruggedized Sensors

Our rugged gunshot detection sensor is an intelligent, internet-enabled device that is specially designed and built to ignore ambient noise and respond to impulsive sounds, accurately time-stamping their arrival times. Advanced digital signal processing algorithms filter out background sounds such as traffic, and extract pulse features from the audio signal that, along with the time and angle of arrival of the sound, are sent to our servers where algorithms compute the location of the sound source.

The sensors do not have the ability to live stream audio. Sounds captured by the secure sensors are permanently deleted after 30 hours. When a sensor is triggered by an impulsive sound, the “incident” that is created includes a recording including no more than one second before the incident and one second after the incident. This audio snippet is preserved indefinitely for potential evidentiary use.

Our sensors are designed and tested against international standards for installation in unprotected outdoor environments. Special consideration is given to minimize the sound of wind, rain and hail, which could otherwise limit the range of detection and produce false results. Environmental condition tests performed on the sensors include temperature cycling, temperature soak, shock, vibration, and salt, fog and moisture ingress protection.

We typically design and deploy arrays of 15 to 25 sensors per square mile taking into consideration the unique acoustic environment in which we are deploying. The cumulative experience of deploying in various cities with different acoustic properties has provided a distinct advantage in tailoring our sensor arrays to perform at high levels. We have full telemetry to each sensor that provides detailed data to our system to monitor each sensor’s health and availability. Sensor firmware is maintained with over-the-air updates. Because we design our networks with a certain amount of redundancy to ensure durability, in our sensor arrays, multiple sensors can be offline at any given time without affecting the overall performance of the system.

Incident Review Centers - Classification

Our IRC operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. When a loud impulsive sound triggers enough of our outdoor sensors that an incident is detected and located, audio from the incident is sent to our IRC via secure, high-speed network connections for real-time confirmation. Within seconds of an incident, one of our incident review specialists analyzes audio data and recordings of the potential gunfire. When gunfire is confirmed, our IRC team sends an alert directly to emergency dispatch centers and field personnel through a computer or mobile device with access to the internet. This process typically takes less than 45 seconds from the report of the gunfire incident. Alerts include:

• the precise location of gunfire, including both latitude/longitude and approximate street address;

• the number and exact time of shots fired;

• if detectable, the involvement of multiple shooters; and

• if detectable, the use of fully automatic or high-capacity weapons.

Our IRC operates primarily out of our principal facilities in Fremont, CA and Washington, D.C. and receives audio from incidents detected by our outdoor sensors regardless of where such incidents occur. Although our IRC normally operates from our offices, our trained personnel can perform IRC functions from any location that has a high-speed internet connection.

Gunshot Detection Alerts

Our alerts are delivered in the following forms:

Real-Time Alerts

Our IRC sends real-time notifications of outdoor gunfire incidents to the ShotSpotter application, which is specifically designed for emergency communications centers, dispatch centers, and other public safety answering points.

The ShotSpotter alert received by the ShotSpotter application includes a unique identification number (ShotSpotter ID number), a precise time and date of the gunfire (trigger time), approximate street address of the gunfire, number of shots and police district and beat identification. One of our incident review specialists may add other contextual information related to the incident such as the possibility of multiple shooters, high-capacity or fully automatic weapons and vehicles.

The 911 dispatcher may add their own notes relating to the incident in which case the notes are time- and date-stamped and indicate the operator’s identification. A comprehensive audit trail of all changes to the incident is maintained that includes the time the alert was received and acknowledged by the dispatcher. These data may be used to measure key performance indicators by dispatch personnel.

ShotSpotter Application

We offer a robust ShotSpotter application for use by patrol officers and security personnel that is available on iPhone or Android mobile devices and computers installed in patrol vehicles and dispatch centers. This application allows field personnel to directly receive alerts of outdoor gunshots and related critical information. The alert includes a unique identification number (ShotSpotter ID number), a precise time and date of the gunfire (trigger time), nearest street address to the location of the gunfire, number of shots and police district and beat identification. One of our incident review specialists may add other contextual information related to the incident such as the possibility of multiple shooters, or high-capacity or fully automatic weapons. In addition, the dispatcher may add their own notes. The alert also includes an audio snippet of the incident.

Mobile Device Support: Apple iOS and Android-phones/tablets and watches

Related Applications and Services

ShotSpotter Insight

All historical incident data in our database can be viewed, searched, sorted, and filtered using our ShotSpotter InSight application. The Insight application can create an investigative lead summary (“ILS”) report that describes the specifics of a single incident as reported by the IRC staff or a multiple incident report that lists groups of such incidents. Complex filters may be defined using multiple search criteria and the filters named and saved for recurring use. Incident data may be exported for use in third-party applications such as Excel, currently the tool of choice for police department crime analysts.

Integration Services

We believe that integrating our solutions with other tools and technologies enhances the value of our solutions to our customers. For example, our solutions can be used in connection with:

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drones to access a crime scene to determine if there is a victim for which an ambulance is needed and to provide situational awareness for officers who are heading towards the scene;

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video surveillance cameras to automatically point tilt and zoom them in the direction of gunfire, assist in feeding more bullet casings to the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (“NIBIN”) for ballistic matching and the identification of suspects; and

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automated license plate recognition systems used by law enforcement to improve the investigation efforts.

We continue to evaluate new technologies that may integrate with our solutions to generate additional value for our customers.

Detailed Forensic Reports and Certified Expert Witness Services

As part of our solution, we offer Detailed Forensic Reports (“DFRs”). These provide investigators and attorneys with comprehensive, court-admissible analysis of a shooting incident, including the gunfire audio. We also offer expert witness testimony to introduce the forensic analysis of the DFRs at trial and to provide technical expertise regarding our technology. Our forensic employees have testified in over 455 cases throughout the United States. Our forensic analyses have survived dozens of challenges in numerous states, under both the Frye and Daubert standards of admissibility. The following is an example of a DFR.

Detailed Forensic Report:

ShotSpotter Results and Benefits

•Expedited Response to Gunfire. In areas where gun violence is persistent, we believe most gunshots are not otherwise reported. Even when calls are made, many callers are unable to provide a location of the gunshot or other relevant details. Human response time to unfolding violence often delays calls for several minutes in circumstances where response time can be critical. By contrast, our ShotSpotter service typically alerts emergency dispatch centers and field personnel within 45 seconds of the report of the gunfire incident and provide an exact location, enabling them to respond faster and to a specific location. The ability to respond more quickly increases the chances of apprehending the shooter and assisting victims of violence, in addition to aiding in evidence collection.

•ShotSpotter Potentially Helps Save Lives

The below graphic demonstrates positive impact results observed at a few of our customers.

1 - Pueblo PD statistics 2024-2025

2 - Municipality of Niterói 2025

3 - Utica PD statistics 2024

4 - Peoria PD statistics 2025

•Improved Police Officer Safety. We believe that ShotSpotter provides additional and valuable information regarding gunshot incidents as the alerts we provide give additional insight and situational awareness, including round count, potential multiple shooters and potential use of an automatic weapon, that allow the responders to be better prepared to respond appropriately.

•Increased Awareness of Gunfire Activity. Research suggests that approximately 80% of the gunshots are not reported to 911. When law enforcement and elected officials have enhanced awareness of gunfire activity and patterns, they have objective information that can assist in facilitating a more timely and accurate response to gunfire incidents and inform discussions regarding public safety resource allocation.

•Improved Community Relations and Collaboration. We believe that persistent gun violence limits the ability of police and other community leaders to serve their constituents and improve their communities. Many cities struggle to establish and foster a cooperative and trusting relationship between their police department and the communities they serve. Our public safety solution provides cities with the ability to react quickly to gun violence, thus providing the ability to improve their responses and residents’ perception of their responses. This provides our customers with the opportunity to foster improved community relations and collaboration with their residents.

CrimeTracer

In the fourth quarter of 2025, we introduced a new generation of our CrimeTracer solution, which we refer to as CrimeTracer Gen3. CrimeTracer Gen3 transforms investigative search into a comprehensive crime-fighting data solution—combining automated patrol briefings, natural-language search, and AI-driven analysis with access to more than one billion structured and unstructured records from over 2,100 agencies nationwide. Designed to deliver the right data fast, CrimeTracer Gen3 unifies critical information from our customers’ IT systems and from partners across the city, county, state and country. Through our alliance with Thomson Reuters CLEAR®, officers and analysts can access both private law enforcement data and essential public records data in one place without toggling between different applications.

•AI-Driven Analysis. CrimeTracer Gen3 leverages advanced technology to analyze vast amounts of CJIS-compliant public safety data, offering voice-enabled natural language search capabilities and link analysis that connects critical information across jurisdictions to provide actionable insights to patrol officers, analysts, investigators and command staff.

•Easy Access to Actionable Insights. CrimeTracer Gen3’s patrol dashboard automatically generates shift briefings with Be On the Look Outs(“BOLOs”), recent incidents and crime patterns tailored to geographic areas, helping to ensure patrol officers start each shift with critical situational awareness. Centralized case folders house related incidents and leads in one organized view to easily reveal connections and accelerate investigations.

•At-a-Glance Intelligence. CrimeTracer Gen3 provides officers, supervisors and analysts succinct summaries of investigative leads, locations, vehicles and related records, which saves time for law enforcement teams from needing to dig through RMS, computer-aided dispatch (“CAD”) and separate databases. The trends dashboard visualizes crime counts, trends and hot spots, with interactive charts and filters to spot emerging problems. The AI-generated summary of any document in CrimeTracer instantly surfaces key facts from lengthy reports and records, reducing time spent on manual review. The results are faster briefings, smarter deployment and safer decisions in the field.

•Seamless Integrations. CrimeTracer Gen3 is accessible from any centrally managed device and across all compliant networks. Integrating with your existing infrastructure, CrimeTracer also features seamless, native integration across other SafetySmart platform solutions, including ShotSpotter, PlateRanger and CaseBuilder.

CaseBuilder

The average homicide clearance rate in the United States was less than 50% in 2021, according to a report published by The Marshall Project in 2022. This means that in more than half the cases the suspect is not held accountable and is free to commit another crime while victims’ families don’t get closure A low clearance rate is a self-perpetuating problem for a law enforcement agency. The problem starts when detectives can’t quickly close cases and clear up their case load, while they continue to catch new ones. Soon they are overloaded with cases and as they attempt to juggle a high caseload, they get spread too thin and then leads start to slip through the cracks and the opportunity to solve the case diminishes. In the longer term, this can create a moral problem within the investigative arm of the agency and they are exposed to losing experienced detectives. This exacerbates the low clearance rates meaning victims are denied justice and the mistrust of law enforcement increases.

The most common tools that departments use to manage, track and solve cases range from purely manual to homegrown to limited function RMS modules or a mix of these. These approaches lack robust collaboration features, have poor data security features and the inability for supervisors to track case progress. We believe there is an opportunity to bring a complete digital case management solution to the market to help improve clearance rates of all crime types and accelerate solvability under the SoundThinking brand and sell to both our installed base and new potential customers, such as prisons.

CaseBuilder provides a complete case management solution for detectives and supervisors in local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. It has been used by the New York Police Department for years at scale by thousands of officers as an on-premises solution. The solution provides:

•Complete Digital Case Management. CaseBuilder addresses the challenges investigators and supervisors face in conducting and documenting investigations. It enables police to have all case-related data in one place in a digital and structured format so that it is quickly searchable and able to be used to drive analysis and reporting. We believe law enforcement agencies can use this tool to be more efficient and effective at solving crimes and close more cases to provide resolution for victims and keep offenders from committing additional crimes.

•Analytical and Collaboration Tools. The ability to have the system automatically show linkages between people, property and places can identify connections more quickly and help solve cases faster. Collaboration tools make investigators aware when new relevant evidence is submitted for the same or unrelated cases, and able to more easily communicate on a case across a police department or other city agency such as the district attorney’s office.

•Supervisor Reporting. Supervisor dashboards and reports ensure they have visibility into the status of every case and are aware of roadblocks so they know when to get involved and can more easily provide updates to command staff.

How CaseBuilder works

ResourceRouter

Law enforcement agencies today are tasked with an impossible feat: maintain an efficient, data-driven police force in the face of staffing shortages, data silos and outdated manual report processes. ResourceRouter helps address this new reality by helping agencies make their largest cost center–patrol–more efficient and effective in reducing crime and better engaging with the community.

ResourceRouter provides law enforcement agencies with the tools to strategically deploy patrols, manage spontaneous and planned responses and ensure officers have the real-time data they need to make informed decisions. This modernized approach to patrol management leads to more effective crime reduction and safer communities.

ResourceRouter uses AI-driven analysis to direct officers to patrol a location within their beat that ensure officers are at the right place at the right time for crime prevention during their shift. A timer guides officers to patrol this area for a short period of time, often 15 minutes, to create a deterrent effect that can last for hours. This proactive strategy is a community-focused, long-term approach that deters major crime before it happens. Leveraging their data, agencies can allocate resources efficiently while working within the community to reduce crime. ResourceRouter empowers patrol operations to manage both spontaneous and pre-planned deployments effectively. Whether responding to a sudden spike in convenience store robberies over the weekend or strategically deploying resources for traffic control during a major NFL game, ResourceRouter ensures that agencies can address both crime and non-crime-related issues with precision. This level of responsiveness enhances public safety and allows for better resource allocation where needed most.

Information is power, especially in law enforcement. ResourceRouter provides officers in the field with real-time access to key operational and safety data through pinpoint locations within integrated, interactive map layers. This ensures that officers are well-informed about their environment, leading to safer engagements and more effective outcomes. ResourceRouter’s Insight feature provides agencies withkey metrics to measure engagement and effectiveness. Law enforcement leaders gain valuable insights into operational efficiency by analyzing how much time officers spend addressing specific issues and the tactics they use to address them. This data is helpful for internal assessments and plays a significant role in demonstrating to the public the proactive steps to address crime and community concerns. Transparency fosters trust, and trust strengthens partnerships between law enforcement and the communities they serve.

Results and Benefits:

•Direct patrol officers to the right place and the right time for crime prevention.

• Empower patrol officers with real-time actionable insights for spontaneous deployment.

• Reports on officer activity for impact and accountability.

• Enhance community engagement.

•Provide patrol officers with easy access to key operational information and safety data.

PlateRanger, powered by Rekor

PlateRanger, powered by Rekor, is an ALPR and vehicle identification solution that leverages AI and machine learning to enhance investigative efficiency and provide real-time data sharing for law enforcement.

PlateRanger’s vehicle and plate identification algorithms have been trained over many years and millions of images to be highly accurate and dependable in identifying vehicles and license plates from every state. That data is shared in real-time to streamline investigations and enhance officer safety through situational awareness. Designed for public safety, PlateRanger integrates seamlessly with other applications including real-time crime centers, video management systems and the SafetySmart platform. Within the platform, PlateRanger data is integrated with ShotSpotter, enabling agencies to identify vehicles entering or leaving an area within a defined radius and time window surrounding a gunshot event. PlateRanger is also integrated with CrimeTracer, offering a trial subscription that allows agencies to enrich vehicle records with associated data on individuals, addresses and related criminal activity. These integrations are designed to support investigative efficiency and provide incremental value beyond standalone ALPR deployments. PlateRanger can also use hot lists based on integration with National Crime Information Center (“NCIC”), other data such as Amber and Silver alerts and more.

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Connects vehicles of interest associations through advanced analytics.

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Creates faster, more relevant investigative leads.

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Force multiplier that optimizes resource allocation and streamlines investigative processes.

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Integrates with leading law enforcement databases and software.

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Provides valuable data for private sector clients security teams in managing potential safety, security and operational issues on their facilities.

SafePointe

SafePointe is a passive AI-based weapons detection system. Its unique technology and design transform entrance security from a queued security guard-staffed checkpoint environment to a free-flow zone with minimal disruption for those entering. Unlike bulky legacy metal detection, SafePointe’s discreet form factor enables guests and employees to quickly pass unobtrusively without disruption or the need for security personnel stationed at entrances. SafePointe’s ability to quickly screen individuals and their bags makes it an attractive option for hospitals, casinos, higher education, corporate locations, museums and warehouses. We have an opportunity to grow in the healthcare vertical with California’s AB 2975 mandate, which requires weapons detection systems in all general acute care and psychiatric hospitals in 2027. We believe this legislation has created a substantial addressable market opportunity for us.

The patented SafePointe system integrates hardware and software to quickly detect concealed weapons. It features two discreet metal bollards positioned up to eight feet apart to create a “lane,” equipped with an advanced 3D camera and an NVIDIA®-powered edge processor running a state-of-the art AI model. Most customers install multiple lanes throughout their facilities to ensure protection across all entrances.

SafePointe enhances security by providing the following capabilities:

• Quickly identifying the individual carrying a weapon when they are walking through the bollards at the same time as others.

• Comprehensive system overview with advanced search filters to easily find historical incidents, create ad hoc reports, and aid investigations.

• Detailed alert review summary and performance metrics (e.g. visitor count, detections, and etc.) available at your fingertips.

Our Opportunity

We believe there is significant demand for the various products comprising our SafetySmart platform. Customers for our public safety solutions include municipalities, law enforcement agencies, college and university campuses, large corporate campuses, healthcare facilities, hospitality venues, transportation centers, key infrastructure and other secured environments where authorities seek to detect gunfire activity or weapons-related risks and enhance situational awareness within and around their facilities.

Our Growth Strategy

We intend to drive growth in our business by expanding our domestic and international footprint for ShotSpotter and putting greater emphasis on driving adoption of the rest of our SafetySmart platform which is gaining traction in current and new markets for the company. We plan to leverage our large and growing installed base of customers with high net promoter attributes that consider SoundThinking a trusted partner. Key elements of our strategy include:

•Further Penetration of Commercial Security Customers with SafePointe and Weapons Detection. We acquired the SafePointe product in late 2023 and devoted much of 2024 to advancing the technology platform and improving system performance, usability, and scalability. During 2025, we expanded the customer base and refined a go-to-market strategy that gained traction across targeted verticals. The market for advanced weapons detection solutions continues to develop, supported by increasing customer awareness of next-generation screening technologies. Competitors have invested significantly in market education and adoption, which we believe has contributed to broader awareness of the category and indirectly benefits our sales efforts. As prospective customers evaluate SafePointe, we believe they recognize its differentiated value proposition as a screening solution designed to enable continuous flow of people without traditional checkpoints. This approach reduces operational friction for security personnel and minimizes disruption for individuals being screened by eliminating queuing and divestment requirements. We believe our differentiation, combined with customer dissatisfaction regarding limitations of available screening approaches, has strengthened our competitive positioning. In 2025, we expanded and specialized our sales organization to support SafePointe, adding experienced security industry professionals with established customer relationships and domain expertise. Given the product’s alignment with customer needs and its relatively high average annual recurring revenue per deployment, we believe SafePointe is well positioned to contribute to future growth.

•AI-Driven Investigative and Operational Intelligence. We are expanding our capabilities in AI-driven investigative and operational intelligence initially through CrimeTracer Gen3, which is a major upgrade to CrimeTracer designed to help agencies more efficiently analyze and act on growing volumes of public safety data. CrimeTracer Gen3 introduced AI productivity tools for officers such a document summarization, an AI chatbot, natural language search and automated linkage capabilities that enable investigators to identify relationships among people, vehicles, locations and incidents across disparate data sources. These enhancements are intended to accelerate investigative workflows, surface actionable leads and support real-time decision making. As agencies confront staffing constraints and increasing data complexity, we believe AI-enabled tools that improve productivity, unify data workflows and strengthen investigative effectiveness represent a meaningful opportunity for adoption and long-term growth.

•Accelerate Cross-Selling of Current Public Safety Customers to Additional SafetySmart Solutions. We continue to pursue growth by expanding adoption of additional SafetySmart solutions within our existing public safety customer base. In the second half of 2025, we piloted an initiative that more actively engaged our customer success organization, which maintains ongoing operational relationships with agencies, to identify opportunities where additional SoundThinking solutions could enhance customer outcomes. Based on initial results, we are developing a more structured cross-sell program designed to generate incremental pipeline within our installed base. This effort focuses on aligning customer operational needs with complementary SafetySmart capabilities and leveraging established trust relationships to support solution expansion. We believe our installed base represents a significant growth opportunity due to the mission-critical nature of our solutions, the operational familiarity customers have with our platform and the potential efficiency gains from deploying integrated public safety technologies through a single vendor relationship.

• Entry Into Large and Fast-Growing Automatic License Plate Recognition (“ALPR”) Market. We made important progress in establishing the new PlateRanger business and brand in the marketplace. In 2025, we built a meaningful sales pipeline, secured initial customer deployments and established reference customers. Through these early engagements, we refined our competitive approach and addressed operational and product requirements necessary to succeed. We have enhanced PlateRanger’s value proposition through integrations with other SafetySmart solutions, enabling differentiated workflows for public safety customers. PlateRanger data is integrated with ShotSpotter, enabling agencies to identify vehicles entering or leaving an area within a defined radius and time window surrounding a gunshot event. We also integrated PlateRanger with our CrimeTracer investigative solution, offering a trial subscription that allows agencies to enrich vehicle records with associated data on vehicles, individuals and related criminal activity. These integrations are designed to support investigative efficiency and provide incremental value beyond standalone ALPR deployments. Throughout 2025, we aligned marketing and sales resources to support entry and pipeline development. We continue to observe strong demand and available funding for ALPR solutions, and customer feedback indicates dissatisfaction with certain incumbent solutions and practices. We believe our integrated platform approach and customer service orientation position PlateRanger as a compelling alternative for agencies seeking a modern ALPR solution.

• Accelerate Our Acquisition of Public Safety Customers. We believe that we are in the early stages of adoption of our public safety solutions. We serve law enforcement agencies as ShotSpotter customers in three of the ten largest U.S. cities. Over the last few years, we expanded our direct sales force and customer success teams and added marketing lead-generation capabilities to help accelerate growth. As part of our focus on increasing sales, we have recently hired a new Senior Vice President of Global Sales and a new Vice President of Sales for SafePointe. Moreover, as we add new public safety customers, publicity and the number of potential references for our solutions increase, which result in our brand and our solutions becoming more well known. We intend to capitalize on this momentum to grow sales.

•Expand ShotSpotter Revenue Within Our Existing Customer Base. As customers realize the benefits of our solutions, we believe that we have a significant opportunity to increase the lifetime value of our customer relationships by expanding coverage within their communities through a “land and expand” strategy. For example, of our ShotSpotter customers, approximately 39% have expanded their coverage areas from their original deployment areas by an average of almost eight square miles as of December 31, 2025. Our overall revenue retention rate was 99% for 2025, 105% for 2024 and 107% for 2023.

• Expand Our International Footprint. With only four currently deployed ShotSpotter customers outside of the United States in South Africa, the Bahamas, Brazil and Uruguay, we believe that we have a significant opportunity to expand internationally. As part of our growth strategy in Brazil, we recently hired a new Vice President of Sales in Brazil to further our expansion in the region. We estimate that the opportunity outside the United States for our public safety solutions includes approximately 200 cities in Central America, the Caribbean, South America and southern Africa that have at least 500,000 residents. We have seen international customers succeed and expand their deployments. We intend to increase our investment in our international product, sales and marketing efforts to penetrate new geographies in 2026.

•Maintain a Strong Focus on Customer Success. Given the specialized nature and mission-critical role of our solutions, a central component of our strategy is maintaining a strong focus on customer success and satisfaction. We emphasize structured onboarding, ongoing advisory support and responsive customer service to support effective deployment and operational adoption. These activities are designed to promote long-term retention, support successful outcomes and contribute to new customer acquisition through customer referrals and peer recommendations. We initiate customer success engagement early in the sales process to align solution deployment with each agency’s operational objectives and desired outcomes. Our teams provide consultative guidance at the command staff level, including policy and workflow development, as well as tactical training for field personnel to support effective utilization in daily operations. We measure customer experience and performance through an annual Net Promoter Score (“NPS”) survey and other feedback mechanisms, which was 55 (highly satisfied) in 2025. Agency participation rates have remained high, and recent results have placed our scores within top benchmark ranges as defined by our survey partner. Our customer success efforts are focused on helping agencies achieve measurable public safety outcomes, including reductions in gun violence and improvements in investigative effectiveness. We believe demonstrated operational value contributes to strong retention and supports organic growth through positive peer-to-peer references within the public safety community.

•Grow Our Security Business. We have developed our ShotSpotter for Campus, (formerly ShotSpotter SecureCampus) solution for universities and other educational institutions. We have also developed ShotSpotter for Corporate (formerly ShotSpotter SiteSecure) for customers such as corporations trying to safeguard their employees, customers, brand and profits. As of December 31, 2025, we had 22 ShotSpotter for Campus and ShotSpotter for Corporate customers under contract. Going forward, we plan to offer these solutions separately and in a bundle with customers interested in SafePointe. We feel these solutions are strong complements to each other and will enable us to successfully offer a more comprehensive solution to our education and commercial clients alike.

SoundThinking Labs

SoundThinking Labs houses our advanced technology efforts to adapt and extend our commercial technology to use cases and verticals outside of our core public sector focus. Current use cases include combating rhino poaching in Kruger National Park, South Africa and blast fishing that threatens coral reefs and food security in Southeast Asia. We have been able to collect revenues from philanthropic entities to cover direct and indirect costs. Some of these innovations have made their way back into our commercial business such as the development of a solar-powered sensor from the Kruger deployment; that technology is similar to those now being used for certain deployments and situations.

The use of guns to poach rhinos is a significant environmental concern in Africa where the horn of a single rhino can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. In the vast expanse of Kruger National Park, most poaching incidents go undetected with carcasses found days or weeks after the fact. The problem is particularly acute in that due to cumulative impact of years of poaching the rhino population is on the tipping point of becoming extinct as a species.

Fish blasting results in the destruction the coral reef habitat that may not recover for many decades if at all. Coral reefs are not only home to a myriad of marine organisms including fish but also provide significant livelihood support and form an invaluable protective barrier offshore (protecting the land from heavy storms, tsunamis, and wave action).

The potential decline in fish catch which is the protein source for approximately one billion coastal residents is a strategic food security issue. In addition, coral reefs form the basis of coastal and marine tourism, a valuable national income sector. It is estimated that, coral reefs around the globe provide services valued between $172 billion to $375 billion annually. Reefs must be protected for economic sustainability and food security. Our work in the Coral Triangle also known as the Amazon Forest of the Ocean has shown some promising results. The precise detection and alerting of incidents of fish blasting provides a real time awareness to the extent of fish blasting and helps target enforcement interventions designed to deter and prevent fish blasting activities.

In addition, we are launching a perimeter-based sniper gunshot detection solution focused on critical infrastructure protection of utility substations and corporate campuses, with the potential to cover U.S. Embassy and forward-operating base deployments, conducted through SoundThinking Labs.

Customer Revenue Model

We generate annual subscription revenues from the deployment of ShotSpotter on a per-square-mile basis. Our security solutions, ShotSpotter for Campus, and ShotSpotter for Corporate are typically sold on a subscription basis, each with a customized deployment plan. ResourceRouter, CaseBuilder, PlateRanger and CrimeTracer are also sold on a subscription basis generally customized based on the number of sworn officers in a particular city. With the acquisition of SafePointe, we generate revenues from subscriptions of our AI-based weapons detection system based on the number of entryways, or lanes being covered, a lane being the detection area between two sensors. As of December 31, 2025, we had ShotSpotter, ShotSpotter for Campus and ShotSpotter for Corporate coverage areas under contract of over 1,092 square miles in the aggregate, of which 1,064 miles have gone live. Coverage areas under contract for ShotSpotter included over 178 cities and coverage areas under contract for ShotSpotter for Campus and ShotSpotter for Corporate included 22 campuses/sites across the United States, South Africa, Uruguay, Brazil and the Bahamas, including some of the largest cities in the United States. As of December 31, 2025, we had 291 SafePointe lanes under contract. For the year ended December 31, 2025, our largest customer, the City of New York, accounted for 29% of our revenues. For the year ended December 31, 2024, our two largest customers, the City of New York and the City of Chicago, accounted for 23% and 10% of our revenues, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2023, our two largest customers, the City of New York and the City of Chicago accounted for 25% and 9% of our revenues, respectively. Delivery of CaseBuilder in the City of New York has added additional professional services requirements and revenue.

Go-To-Market

We sell our solutions through our direct sales teams. Our sales teams focus on both new customer acquisition, customer renewal, add-on sales, and coverage expansion. Our sales team identifies communities with the opportunity to benefit from our solutions, communicates with key stakeholders, navigates the challenges associated with our customers’ complex funding and procurement cycles, and establishes a foundation for a successful customer relationship. In addition, our sales team works with customers to identify and procure funds from alternate sources, including state and federal government grants. We also have two reseller organizations that focus on CrimeTracer sales efforts and SafePointe commercial opportunities. Our security solutions sales efforts focus primarily on corporate campuses and national retailers. We intend to continue to invest in building a global sales organization as we explore further opportunities for ShotSpotter and expand the customer base for our security solutions.

Marketing

Our marketing function has several focus areas, with demand generation being the largest investment. It is designed to drive a new and qualified pipeline for each product in our SafetySmart platform. The program consists of a series of targeted email, digital and offline campaigns to key personas in prospective agencies, as well as influencers, to drive awareness and interest in our suite of products. This effort is supplemented by content marketing to target search engine keywords that buyers are using to raise the ranking of relevant digital content the company is now producing in greater quantities to educate them on our products. The awareness efforts are supported by a team of sales development representatives who make outbound calls to further drive interest and qualify leads. Conversions from marketing leads to sales qualified opportunities continue to increase as the team has gained more experience and tested various approaches. The demand generation efforts are tracked and measured with a robust marketing technology automation platform.

In general, due to the high visibility of gunfire incidents, the media’s interest in covering them, and SoundThinking’s key role in alerting police for a quick response to these events to save lives, we attract significant attention from broadcast, online and print press. Members of the media have access to a self-serve, comprehensive media kit to easily capture video and photos that depict the service and its benefits in a compelling fashion to enhance broadcast TV segments and print/online articles. This exposure creates awareness for ShotSpotter, both positive and potentially negative, and can lend credibility to our market leadership position. We also have a strategic communications capacity to respond to any specious, misleading and false assertions made by certain media outlets and other organizations about ShotSpotter.

In the areas of content and branding, we leverage our customer base to create a growing catalog of success stories, videos and articles that convey the value of our solutions to prospective customers, often with tangible examples and aggregated data on results. We continue to expand the breadth and depth of our content library that is on display primarily in the Resource Center page of our website and make the information easier to find and share for prospective customers and influencers.

Research and Development

We focus our research and development efforts on enhancing our advanced signal processing and classification algorithms, updating our sensor hardware technology, reducing manufacturing costs, developing mobile, web and desktop applications, evolving our cloud-deployed back-end infrastructure and integration with “smart cities” initiatives. AI is a growing part of our share of investment in research and development. We launched generative AI functions as part of the CrimeTracer Gen3 upgrade, including a natural language chatbot that eliminates filling out search forms and enables faster access to information, and AI-generated summaries of documents that instantly surface key facts from lengthy reports and records, reducing time spent on manual review. We deployed a complete overhaul of our SafePointe solution called NextGen in September 2024. This consisted of a replacement of the legacy apps and backend to a modern set of SoundThinking-based apps in the Amazon web services environment, a 3D camera for motion tracking, a more powerful edge processor with NVIDIA technology, a more advanced AI and Machine Learning model as well as better tools for remote management and monitoring. As of December 31, 2025, we had 54 employees in our research and development organization. In addition, we engage in research and development activities with manufacturing partners and outsource certain activities to engineering firms to further supplement our internal team.

Competition

The markets for public safety and security solutions are highly fragmented and evolving. We compete on the basis of a number of factors, including:

• product functionality, including the ability to cover broad outdoor geographic spaces;

• solution performance, including the rapid capture of multiple acoustic incidents and accuracy;

• ease of implementation, use and maintenance;

• total cost of ownership; and

• customer support and customer success initiatives.

Many of our competitors have greater resources and may be able to compete more effectively.

ShotSpotter Competitors

ShotSpotter is differentiated because it provides scalable wide area gunshot detection over large and geographically diverse areas, provides immediate and precise data on gunfire, helps communities define the scope of illegal gunfire, and provides cities with detailed forensic data for investigation, prosecution and analysis. We believe the primary competitors in the broader gunfire detection space are Alarm.com, Databuoy, EAGL Technology, Flock Safety, Safety Dynamics, Inc., Wi-Fiber, Inc. and ZeroEyes.

Most of these other outdoor solutions offer more limited scope point protection, proximity sensors, or “counter-sniper systems” as compared to ShotSpotter. We believe that ShotSpotter is the most robust gunshot detection solution in that it has shown the ability to achieve successful, ongoing operations for a wide-area gunshot detection solution with a high level of accuracy, rich feature set including specialized court-admissible reporting and evidence testimony support, and ultimately the confidence and trust of law enforcement. These systems are designed primarily for covering small areas, or for defined military or SWAT team applications, where the target is known in advance and it is possible to put a sensor directionally toward the target. However, urban areas and critical infrastructure may require a wider system of protection that can cover a large area.

We also compete with other possible uses of the limited funding available to our SoundThinking customers. Because law enforcement agencies or government entities have limited funds, they may have to choose among resources or solutions that help them to meet their overall mission such as video management systems, and other security solutions. Accordingly, we compete not only with our customers’ internal budget decisions, but also with other companies vying for these limited funds. We believe that in areas with significant levels of gun activity, SoundThinking is favorably positioned to assist customers in interrupting, detecting and preventing gun violence.

ShotSpotter for Campus, ShotSpotter for Corporate Competitors

Our security solutions operate in a highly competitive environment. In addition to other gunfire detection companies, we may face competition from companies offering alternative security technologies, such as video surveillance, access control, alarm and lighting systems. The direct competitors for security solutions include the Alarm.com, AmberBox, Inc., EAGL, Flock Safety, Safety Dynamics Inc., Wi-fiber and ZeroEyes. We believe none of our security solutions competitors is differentiated in the ability to offer comprehensive outdoor coverage.

CrimeTracer Competitors

CrimeTracer operates in a highly competitive environment. It has several direct competitors and also competes with a few alternative approaches to develop investigative leads. Direct competitors include ForceMetrics, Lexis Nexis Accurint Virtual Crime Center and Peregrine. Alternative approaches to law enforcement data sharing include federal government-built applications like the FBI's National Data Exchange (“N-DEx”) System, and the Navy’s NCIS Law Enforcement Information Exchange (“LInX”). Both of these platforms are available to U.S. law enforcement agencies at little to no cost. An additional alternative to develop investigative leads is using the law enforcement agency's existing RMS search function. We believe CrimeTracer is favorably positioned due to its comprehensive and regularly enhanced features and functions, and our large private Criminal Justice Information Standard data set which we believe to be the largest available. Further, CrimeTracer is integrated with the Thomson Reuters CLEAR platform for CLEAR and CrimeTracer subscribers, allowing access to billions of additional public data records in a seamless experience.

CaseBuilder Competitors

Our investigative case management solutions operate in a highly competitive environment. The direct competitors include companies offering a case management module as part of their RMS such as Mark43, Soma Global and Tyler. There are several purpose-built case management solutions such as CaseClosed and Kaseware, as well as case management functionality built directly into RMS. Also, many agencies use manual or homegrown methods. We believe that our solutions are superior in terms of comprehensiveness of functionality, analytical and collaboration tools, workflow process and proven effectiveness at scale.

ResourceRouter Competitors

ResourceRouter operates in an emerging and competitive environment. Competitors include computer-aided dispatch providers and other third-party solutions providers, such as CentralSquare Technologies, Genetec, Inc., Mark 43 and Motorola Solutions, Inc. In addition, we may face competition from companies offering alternative solutions as well as solutions developed internally by our customers.

PlateRanger Competitors

PlateRanger operates in an active growing and highly competitive environment. Competitors include Axon, Flock ALPR, Genetec and Motorola with multiple branded offerings. We believe PlateRanger has multiple advantages compared to our competition including product performance as tested by an independent third party, product integration with ShotSpotter, CrimeTracer and Real Time Crime Centers, breadth of functionality, price and customer service. In addition, toward the end of 2025, there has been significant negative publicity over the data sharing practices of some of these competitors, including sharing customer data with other police agencies and federal agencies such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement without the consent or knowledge by the customer). PlateRanger’s more restrictive data-sharing policies and controls have driven interest in our solution as an alternative.

SafePointe Competitors

SafePointe competes with several concealed weapons detection systems and adjacent technologies. Competitors include CEIA USA, Evolv Technology and Xtract One Technologies. Competitors with alternate approaches include ZeroEyes and Omnilert which only detect brandished, visible weapons. We believe SafePointe represents significant evolution in concealed weapons detection as it eliminates checkpoints and the divestment of possessions while still providing a robust security layer. Without a checkpoint, it does not require a security guard to staff and manage each instance of the system, which provides a lower total cost of ownership.

Intellectual Property

Our future success and competitive position depend in part on our ability to protect our intellectual property and proprietary technologies. To safeguard these rights, we rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret laws, and contractual protections in the United States and other jurisdictions.

As of December 31, 2025, we had 29 issued patents, 21 in the United States, three in Brazil, and one each in Mexico, the European Union, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. The issued patents expire on various dates from 2026 to 2034.

We also license software from third parties for integration into our offerings, including open-source software and other software available on commercially reasonable terms.

Human Capital

Our values encourage us to be genuine, innovative, engaged and exceptional. They are built on the foundation that our people and the way we treat one another promote creativity, innovation and productivity, which spur the Company’s success. We are continually investing in our global workforce to further drive diversity and inclusion, provide fair and competitive pay and benefits to support our employees’ well-being, and to foster the growth and development of all employees. As of December 31, 2025, we employed 305 people, all but three of whom were full-time and based in the United States. Our total attrition rate in 2025 was less than 13%, we have not experienced work stoppages, and we believe our employee relations are good. We have been designated a Great Place to Work® Company for the last seven years.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Our vision is to advance equal opportunity across the company. We recognize that everyone deserves respect and equal treatment, regardless of protected characteristics such as gender, race, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, cultural background or religious belief. As of December 31, 2025, women represented 37% of our employees, and underrepresented minorities, defined as those who identify as Black/African American, Asian, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander and/or two or more races, represented 54% of our employees. These data are based on voluntary self-identification.

In order to create products that solve challenging problems for people all over the world, we need employees who can bring diverse perspectives and life experiences. We employ inclusive recruitment practices to source diverse candidates and mitigate potential bias. We have a three-pronged strategy to foster inclusion and broaden representation over time by (1) attracting diverse talent and ensuring fair hiring through inclusive and strategic recruitment practices, (2) creating an inclusive workplace environment for employees, and (3) joining forces with our customers, partners and peers to drive industry progress. All employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs.

We have invested in analysis and transparency to demonstrate our commitment to equity and inclusion through fair compensation, education and opportunity for professional advancement. We make efforts to ensure all of our employees receive equal access to advanced opportunities within the company based on qualifications and performance.

Board Composition and Refreshment

As stated in our Corporate Governance Guidelines, our board of directors values diversity and recognizes the importance of having unique and complementary backgrounds and perspectives in the board room. Our board of directors endeavors to bring together diverse skills, professional experience, perspectives and cultural backgrounds that reflect our customer base and the citizens served by our customers, and to guide us in a way that reflects the best interests of all of our stockholders. There are currently seven members on our board of directors. As of December 31, 2025, 43% of our board members were women and 57% of our board members were self-identified as being from underrepresented communities.

Compensation, Benefits and Well-being

We strive to offer fair, competitive compensation and benefits that support our employees’ overall well-being. To ensure alignment with our short- and long-term objectives, our compensation programs for all employees include base pay, short-term incentives, and opportunities for long-term incentives, including equity incentives offered under our employee equity incentive plans and employee stock purchase program. Our well-being and benefit programs focus on four key pillars: physical, emotional, financial and community health. We offer a wide array of benefits including comprehensive health and welfare insurance, paid time-off and leave, and we sponsor a 401(k) plan to provide defined contribution retirement benefits.

Growth and Development

Career development is a primary reason new hires decide to join SoundThinking. We actively foster a learning culture where employees are empowered to drive their career progression, supporting professional development and providing on-demand learning platforms. Our development programs play a critical role in engaging and retaining our employees as these programs offer opportunities to continually enhance their skills for a variety of career opportunities across the Company.

Corporate Information

We were formed as ShotSpotter, Inc., a California corporation, in 2001, reincorporated as ShotSpotter, Inc., a Delaware corporation, in 2004 and reincorporated as SoundThinking, Inc. a Delaware Corporation in 2023. We have also done business as “SST” pursuant to a registered trade name.

Our principal executive offices are located at 39300 Civic Center Drive, Fremont, California 94538 and our telephone number is (510) 794-3100. Our website address is www.soundthinking.com. The information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and you should not consider any information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

SoundThinking®, the SoundThinking logo, SafetySmart Platform®, ShotSpotter®, ShotSpotter®for Campus, ShotSpotter® for Corporate, ResourceRouter TM, CaseBuilder®, CrimeTracer TM, PlateRanger TM powered by Rekor®, SafePointe®, SoundThinking® Labs and other trade names, trademarks or service marks of SoundThinking appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are the property of SoundThinking, Inc. Trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are the property of their respective holders.

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefully the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this report, including our consolidated financial statements and related notes, before deciding whether to purchase shares of our common stock. If any of the following risks is realized, our business, operating results, financial condition and prospects could be materially and adversely affected. In that event, the price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose part or all of your investment. Moreover, the risks described below are not the only ones that we face. Additional risks not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also affect our business, operating results, prospects or financial condition. You should carefully consider these risk factors, together with all of the other information included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K as well as our other publicly available filings with the SEC.

Risks Related to Our Business and Operations

Our success depends on maintaining and increasing our sales, which depends in part on factors we cannot control, including the availability of funding to our customers.

To date, substantially all of our revenues have been derived from contracts with local governments and their agencies, in particular the police departments of major cities in the United States. To a lesser extent, we also generate revenues from federal agencies, foreign governments and higher education institutions. We believe that the success and growth of our business will continue to depend on our ability to maintain existing contracts with government agencies and to add new police departments and other government agencies, domestically and internationally, as customers of our public safety solutions and new universities, corporate campuses, hospitals, casinos and key infrastructure and transportation centers as customers of our security solutions. In order to maintain and add customers, we must protect our brand and reputation, including as a result of negative publicity, and address any public concerns or perceptions regarding privacy and surveillance. See“Real or perceived false positive gunshot alerts or false positive security threat detection, or failure or perceived failure to generate alerts for actual gunfire or missed weapon detection could adversely affect our customers and their operations, damage our brand and reputation and adversely affect our growth prospects and results of operations,” “The nature of our business may result in undesirable press coverage or other negative publicity, which could adversely affect our growth prospects and results of operations,” and “Concerns regarding privacy and government-sponsored surveillance may deter customers from purchasing our solutions.”

In addition, many of our target customers have restricted budgets, such that we are forced to compete with programs or solutions that offer an alternative use of the same funds. Many factors outside of our control could cause current and/or potential customers to delay or refrain from purchasing our solutions, prevent expansion of, or reduce coverage areas and/or terminate use of our solutions, including:

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decreases or changes in available funding, tax revenues, budgetary allocations, government grants and other government funding programs;

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potential delays or changes in appropriations or other funding authorization processes;

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changes in fiscal or contracting policies;

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macro- and/or local economic changes, such as the imposition of tariffs, inflation, rising interest rates and bank failures, that may affect customer funding; and

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changes in elected or appointed officials.

Many of our customers rely to some extent on funds from the U.S. federal government in order to purchase and pay for our solutions. Any reduction in federal funding for local law enforcement efforts could result in our customers having less access to funds required to continue, renew, expand or pay for our solutions. Social unrest, protests against racial inequality and protests against police brutality have increased in past years. In addition, four members of Congress previously requested the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security to investigate the appropriateness of the use of federal funds to purchase our ShotSpotter solution. Furthermore, the New York Comptroller previously issued a report with certain conclusions questioning the accuracy and value of our ShotSpotter solution, that we disputed in a formal reply on the basis that they were misinformed and did not give adequate weight to the New York Police Department’s views. Changes in the availability of federal funding, such as under American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”) or due to policies implemented by federal agencies under the Trump administration, may lead to changes in the operations of federal agencies, which may adversely impact our business and operating results. These events may directly or indirectly affect municipal and police agency budgets, including federal funding available to current and potential customers. If federal funding is reduced or eliminated and our customers cannot find alternative sources of funding to purchase our solutions, our business will be harmed.

The occurrence of any of the foregoing would impede or delay our ability to maintain or increase the amount of revenues derived from these customers, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our quarterly results of operations may fluctuate significantly due to a wide range of factors, which makes our future results difficult to predict.

Our revenues and results of operations could vary significantly from quarter to quarter as a result of various factors, many of which are outside of our control, including:

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the expansion or contraction of our customer base;

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the renewal or non-renewal of subscription agreements with, and expansion of coverage areas by, existing customers; or cross-selling of other products or services to existing customers;

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the size, timing, terms and deployment schedules of our sales to both existing and new customers;

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the introduction of products or services that may compete with us for the limited funds available to our customers, and changes in the cost of such products or services;

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changes in our customers'; and potential customers' budgets;

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our ability to control costs, including our operating expenses;

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our ability to hire, train and maintain our direct sales force;

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the timing of satisfying revenue recognition criteria in connection with initial deployment and renewals;

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fluctuations in our effective tax rate;

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the concentration of our revenue in a small number of large contracts with the potential for fluctuations and delays; and

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general economic factors, such as the imposition of tariffs, inflation, rising interest rates, bank failures, and political conditions, both domestically and internationally.

For example, our revenues with respect to certain customers have varied significantly during recent years. The City of Chicago did not renew our contract in November 2024. The City of Chicago was our second largest customer by revenue in 2023 and 2024. As a result, the significance of our largest customer by revenue, the City of New York, increased from 23% of our revenue for 2024 to 29% of our revenue for 2025. Any inability to renew or delays in renewal of our contract with the City of New York in the future or any of the other factors above or other factors discussed elsewhere in this report will result in fluctuations in our revenues and operating results, meaning that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our revenues, results of operations and cash flows may not necessarily be indicative of our future performance.

Because of the fluctuations described above, our ability to forecast revenues is limited and we may not be able to accurately predict our future revenues or results of operations. In addition, we base our current and future expense levels on our operating plans and sales forecasts, and our operating expenses are expected to increase in the short term. Accordingly, we may not be able to reduce our costs sufficiently to compensate for an unexpected shortfall in revenues, and even a small shortfall in revenues could disproportionately and adversely affect our financial results for that quarter.

The variability and unpredictability of these and other factors could result in our failing to meet or exceed financial expectations for a given period.

Because we generally recognize our subscription revenues ratably over the term of our contract with a customer, fluctuations in sales will not be fully reflected in our operating results until future periods.

Our revenues are primarily generated from subscriptions to our solutions. With the exception of a small number of legacy customers, our customers do not have the right to take possession of our equipment or software platform. Revenues from subscriptions to our software platform are recognized ratably over the subscription period beginning on the date that the subscription is made available to the customer, which we refer to as the “go-live” date. Our agreements with our customers typically range from one to three years. As a result, much of the revenues that we report in each quarter are attributable to agreements entered into during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in sales, customer renewals or market acceptance of our solutions in any one quarter would not necessarily be fully reflected in the revenues in that quarter and would negatively affect our revenues and profitability in future quarters. This ratable revenue recognition also makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenues through additional sales in any period, as revenues from new customers generally are recognized over the applicable agreement term. Our subscription-based approach may result in uneven recognition of revenues.

We recognize subscription revenues over the term of a subscription agreement. Once we enter into a ShotSpotter contract with a customer, there is a delay until we begin recognizing revenues while we survey the coverage areas, obtain any required consents for installation, and install our sensors, which together can take up to several months or more. We begin recognizing revenues from a ShotSpotter sale only when all of these steps are complete and the solution is live. As with ShotSpotter contracts, CaseBuilder, CrimeTracer, ResourceRouter and SafePointe are typically sold on a subscription basis, each with a customized deployment plan. For CaseBuilder, ResourceRouter and SafePointe contracts, there is a delay until we begin recognizing revenues from such contracts when the subscription service is operational and ready to go live. For CrimeTracer, we generally invoice the first year's subscription price when the contract is fully executed. While most of our customers elect to renew their subscription agreements following the expiration of a term, in some cases, they may not be able to obtain the proper approvals or funding to complete the renewal prior to such expiration. For these customers, we stop recognizing subscription revenues at the end of the current term, even though we may continue to provide services for a period of time while the renewal process is completed. Once the renewal is complete, we then recognize subscription revenues for the period between the expiration of the term of the agreement and the completion of the renewal process.

The variation in the timeline for deploying our solutions and completing renewals may result in fluctuations in our revenues, which could cause our results to differ from projections. Additionally, while we generally invoice for 50% of the contract cost upon a customer’s go-live date, our cash flows may be volatile and will not match our revenue recognition.

We have not been profitable in the past and may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future.

We had a net loss of $9.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2025 and as of December 31, 2025, we had an accumulated deficit of $113.7 million. We are not certain whether we will be able to maintain enough revenues from sales of our solutions to sustain or increase our growth or maintain profitability in the future. We also expect our costs to increase in future periods, which could negatively affect our future operating results if our revenues do not increase. In particular, we have previously and expect to continue to expend substantial financial and other resources on:

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higher costs to procure the sensors required for our solutions due to inflationary pressures or tariffs;

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sales and marketing, including a significant expansion of our sales organization, both domestically and internationally;

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research and development related to our solutions, including investments in our engineering and technical teams and investments in AI;

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acquisition of complementary technologies or businesses, such as our acquisition of LEEDS, LLC, now known as Technologic, in November 2020, our acquisition of Forensic Logic in January 2022 and our acquisition of SafePointe in August 2023;

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continued international expansion of our business; and

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general and administrative expenses.

These investments may not result in increased revenues or growth in our business. If we are unable to increase our revenues at a rate sufficient to offset the expected increase in our costs, our business, operating results and financial position may be harmed, and we may not be able to maintain profitability over the long term. Rising inflation rates have resulted in decreased demand for our products and services and have increased our operating costs. Additionally, we may encounter unforeseen operating expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other unknown factors that may result in losses in future periods. If our revenue growth does not meet our expectations in future periods, our financial performance may be harmed, and we may not maintain profitability in the future.

Contracting with government entities can be complex, expensive, and time-consuming.

The procurement process for government entities is in many ways more challenging than contracting in the private sector. We must comply with laws and regulations relating to the formation, administration, performance and pricing of contracts with government entities, including U.S. federal, state and local governmental bodies. These laws and regulations may impose added costs on our business or prolong or complicate our sales efforts, and failure to comply with these laws and regulations or other applicable requirements could lead to claims for damages from our customers, penalties, termination of contracts and other adverse consequences. Any such damages, penalties, disruptions or limitations in our ability to do business with government entities could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Government entities often require highly specialized contract terms that may differ from our standard arrangements. For example, if the federal government provides grants to certain state and local governments for our solutions, and such governments do not continue to receive these grants, then these customers have the ability to terminate their contracts with us without penalty. Government entities often impose compliance requirements that are complicated, require preferential pricing or “most favored nation” terms and conditions, or are otherwise time-consuming and expensive to satisfy. Compliance with these special standards or satisfaction of such requirements could complicate our efforts to obtain business or increase the cost of doing so. Due to the nature of our business as a software-as-a-service provider, we are occasionally unable to meet certain requirements related to the utilization of small businesses in providing our services. Even if we do meet these special standards or requirements, the increased costs associated with providing our solutions to government customers could harm our margins. Additionally, even once we have secured a government contract, the renewal process can be lengthy and as time-consuming as the initial sale, and we may be providing our service for months past the contract expiration date without certainty if the renewal agreement will be signed or not.

Changes in the underlying regulatory conditions, political landscape or required procurement procedures that affect these types of customers could be introduced prior to the completion of our sales cycle, making it more difficult or costly to finalize a contract with a new customer or expand or renew an existing customer relationship. For example, customers may require a competitive bidding process with extended response deadlines, review or appeal periods, or customer attention may be diverted to other government matters, postponing the consideration of the purchase of our products. We are experiencing a delayed contract renewal with Puerto Rico which, contrary to our prior dealings with them, has a new requirement of issuing a formal request for proposal process in order to renew an agreement. This delay and other such delays could harm our ability to provide our solutions efficiently and to grow or maintain our customer base.

Our sales cycle can be lengthy, time-consuming and costly, and our inability to successfully complete sales could harm our business.

Our sales process involves educating prospective customers and existing customers about the use, technical capabilities and benefits of our solutions. Prospective customers, especially government agencies, often undertake a prolonged evaluation process that may last up to nine months or more, with an even longer process for international customers, and that typically involves comparing the benefits of our solutions to alternative uses of funds. We may spend substantial time, effort and money on our sales and marketing efforts without any assurance that our efforts will produce any sales.

In addition, in 2011 the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (the “FBI”) Criminal Justice Information Services Division (the “CJIS”) issued the CJIS Security Policy, a set of standards for organizations that access criminal justice information (“CJI”). CJIS developed this policy to better protect the data it delivers to federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, from services like the National Crime Information Center, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System and the National Incident Based Reporting System. The policy is also designed to protect CJI that comes from sources other than the FBI. As part of the process of implementing CaseBuilder for a customer, we may have to become an approved CJIS compliant vendor. In some states CJIS compliance is required, a separate process will have to be completed in locations where CaseBuilder will be implemented.

We are continually improving our security, compliance, and processes. Our general processes are based on the NIST-800-53 standard with some aspects also being controlled by CJIS. In the fourth quarter of 2024, an audit of our processes under a SOC2 Type 2 audit was completed. These initiatives require fiscal and time investments. Failure to obtain a SOC2 Type 2 audit report or to be compliant with the CJIS standard or HIPAA could adversely affect our reputation and sales, as well as the availability of our solutions in certain markets.

Additionally, events affecting our customers’ budgets or missions may occur during the sales cycle that could negatively impact the size or timing of a purchase after we have invested substantial time, effort and resources into a potential sale, contributing to more unpredictability in the growth of our business. If we are unable to succeed in closing sales with new and existing customers, our business, operating results and financial condition will be harmed. For example, we are working on a delayed contract renewal with Puerto Rico which, contrary to our prior dealings with them, has a new requirement of issuing a formal request for proposal process in order to renew an agreement. During periods of economic uncertainty resulting from the past and potential future disruptions in access to bank capital and lending commitments due to bank failures, geopolitical developments such as the conflicts between Ukraine and Russia and in the Middle East, and other macroeconomic pressures in the United States and the global economy, such as the imposition of tariffs, rising inflation and interest rates, supply chain constraints, labor market shortages, energy prices and recession fears, and any associated impact on economic conditions, this risk is more pronounced than usual, as our customers’ priorities may change or they may have greater uncertainty regarding the availability of funding for our solutions as a result.

Real or perceived false positive gunshot alerts or false positive security threat detection, or failure or perceived failure to generate alerts for actual gunfire or missed weapon detection could adversely affect our customers and their operations, damage our brand and reputation and adversely affect our growth prospects and results of operations.

A false positive alert, in which a non-gunfire incident is reported as gunfire or detection of items that do not actually represent security threats, could result in an unnecessary rapid deployment of police officers and first responders, which may raise unnecessary fear among the occupants of a community or facility, and may be deemed a waste of police and first responder resources. A failure to alert law enforcement or security personnel of actual gunfire or security threats (false negative) or missed weapon detection could result in a less rapid or no response by police officers and first responders, increasing the probability of injury or loss of life. Both false positive alerts and the failure to generate alerts of actual gunfire or security threats (false negative) or missed weapon detection may result in customer dissatisfaction, potential loss of confidence in our solutions, and potential liabilities to customers or other third parties, any of which could harm our reputation and adversely impact our business and operating results. Additionally, third parties may misunderstand or misrepresent what constitutes a false positive or false negative and generate negative publicity regarding our solutions. For example, a June 2024 report by the New York City Comptroller appears to argue that any incident that does not result in a police report is a false positive. The perception of a false positive alert or of a failure to generate an alert or missed weapon detection, even where our customers understand that our solutions were utilized correctly, could lead to negative publicity or harm the public perception of our solutions, which could harm our reputation and adversely impact our business and operating results.

Concerns regarding privacy and government-sponsored surveillance may deter customers from purchasing our solutions.

Governmental agencies and private citizens have become increasingly sensitive to real or perceived government or third-party surveillance and may wrongly believe that our outdoor sensors allow customers to listen to private conversations and monitor private citizen activity. Our sensors are not designed for “live listening” and are triggered only by loud impulsive sounds that may likely be gunfire. However, perceived privacy concerns may result in negative media coverage and efforts by private citizens to persuade municipalities, educational institutions or other potential customers not to purchase our precision policing solutions for their communities, campuses or facilities. In addition, laws may exist or be enacted to address such concerns that could impact our ability to deploy our solutions. For example, the City of Toronto, Canada decided against using SoundThinking solutions because the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario indicated that it may compromise Section 8 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which relates to unreasonable search and seizure. If customers choose not to purchase our solutions due to privacy or surveillance concerns, then the market for our solutions may develop more slowly than we expect, or it may not achieve the growth potential we expect, any of which would adversely affect our business and financial results.

The nature of our business may result in undesirable press coverage or other negative publicity, which could adversely affect our growth prospects and results of operations.

Our solutions are used to assist law enforcement and first responders in the event that gunfire is detected. Even when our solutions work as intended, the incidents detected by our solutions could lead to injury, loss of life and other negative outcomes, and such events are likely to receive negative publicity. If we fail to detect an incident, or if we detect an incident, such as a terrorist attack or active-shooter event, but the response time of law enforcement or first responders is not sufficiently quick to prevent injury, loss of life, property damage or other adverse outcomes, we may receive negative media attention. At times, our data or information concerning our techniques and processes may become a matter of public record due to legal or other obligations (for example, as a result of public-records requests or subpoenas to provide information or to testify in court), and we may receive negative media attention as a result.

Our reputation and our business may be harmed by inaccurate reporting, which could have an adverse impact on new sales or renewals or expansions of coverage areas by existing customers, which would adversely impact our financial results and future prospects.

The role of our solutions and our personnel in criminal prosecutions or other court proceedings may result in unfavorable judicial rulings that generate negative publicity or otherwise adversely impact new sales or renewals or expansions of coverage areas by existing customers, which would adversely impact our financial results and future prospects. For instance, a court ruling limiting or excluding evidence related to information gathered through our systems or to the operation of our systems in a judicial proceeding could harm public perceptions of our business and solutions.

Economic uncertainties or downturns, or political changes, could limit the availability of funds available to our existing and potential customers, which could materially and adversely affect our business.

Economic uncertainties or downturns could adversely affect our business and operating results. Negative conditions in the general economy both in the United States and abroad, including conditions resulting from changes in gross domestic product growth, labor market shortages, the imposition of tariffs, inflation, interest rates, financial and credit market fluctuations, political deadlock, natural catastrophes, warfare, geopolitical tensions, terrorist attacks, climate change and global pandemics, could cause a decrease in funds available to our existing and potential customers and negatively affect the rate of growth of our business. Changes in the availability of federal funding, such as under ARPA, and the leadership of federal agencies under the Trump administration, including return-to-office policy, hiring freeze, layoffs, and other policies implemented federal agencies under the Trump Administration, may lead to changes in the operations of federal agencies, which may adversely impact our business and operating results.

These economic conditions may make it extremely difficult for our customers and us to forecast and plan future budgetary decisions or business activities accurately, and they could cause our customers to reevaluate their decisions to purchase our solutions, which could delay and lengthen our sales cycles or result in cancellations of planned purchases. Furthermore, during challenging economic times or as a result of political changes, our customers may tighten their budgets and face constraints in gaining timely access to sufficient funding or other credit, which could result in an impairment of their ability to make timely payments to us. In turn, we may be required to increase our allowance for doubtful accounts, which would adversely affect our financial results.

We cannot predict the timing, strength or duration of any economic slowdown, instability or recovery, generally or within any particular industry, or the impact of political changes. If the economic conditions of the general economy or industries in which we operate worsen from present levels, or if past political changes result in less funding being available to purchase our solutions, our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.

Ongoing social unrest may have a material adverse effect on our business, the future magnitude or duration of which we cannot predict with accuracy.

We may be adversely affected by ongoing social unrest, protests against racial inequality and protests against police brutality or increases in such unrest that may occur in the future, and such unrest may be exacerbated by inaccurate information or negative publicity regarding our solutions. These events may directly or indirectly affect police agency budgets and funding available to current and potential customers. Participants in these events may also attempt to create the perception that our solutions are contributing to the “problem” which may adversely affect us, our business and results of operations, including our revenues, earnings and cash flows from operations.

The failure of our solutions to meet our customers’ expectations or of our solutions generally could, in some cases, result in injury or loss of life, and could harm our reputation, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Promoting and demonstrating the utility of our solutions as useful, reliable and important tools for law enforcement and security personnel is critical to the success of our business. Our ability to secure customer renewals, expand existing customer coverage areas, and enter into new customer contracts is dependent on our reputation and our ability to deliver our solutions effectively. We believe that our reputation among police departments using SoundThinking solutions is particularly important to our success. Our ability to meet customer expectations will depend on a wide range of factors, including:

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our ability to continue to offer high-quality, innovative and accurate precision policing solutions;

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our ability to maintain continuous gunshot detection monitoring during high outdoor-noise activity periods such as New Year's Day, the Fourth of July and Cinco de Mayo, and Carnival for international deployments;

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our ability to maintain high customer satisfaction, including meeting our service level agreements standards;

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the perceived value and quality of our solutions;

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differences in opinion regarding the metrics that measure the success of our solutions;

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our ability to successfully communicate the unique value proposition of our solutions;

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our ability to provide high-quality customer support;

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any misuse or perceived misuse of our solutions;

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interruptions, delays or attacks on our platform;

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litigation- or regulation-related developments; and

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damage to or degradation of our sensors or sensor network and cameras by third parties.

In some cases, if our solutions fail to detect threats such as a firearm or other potential weapon or explosive device, or if our products contain undetected errors or defects, these failures or errors could result in injury or loss of life, which could harm our brand and reputation, subject us to litigation and potential claims against us, and have an adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. There is no guarantee that our solutions will detect and prevent all attacks, especially in light of the rapidly changing security landscape to which it must respond, as well as unique factors that may be present in our customers’ operating environments. If our products fail to detect security threats for any reason, including failures due to customer personnel or security processes, it may also result in significant costs, the attention of our key personnel could be diverted, our customers may delay or withhold payment to us or elect not to renew or cause other significant customer relations problems to arise.

We rely on the cooperation of customers and third parties to permit us to install our ShotSpotter sensors and SafePointe bollards on their facilities, and failure to obtain these rights could increase our costs or limit the effectiveness of our ShotSpotter and SafePointe solutions.

Our ShotSpotter solution requires us to deploy ShotSpotter sensors in our customer coverage areas, which typically entails the installation of approximately 15 to 25 sensors per square mile. The ShotSpotter sensors are mounted on city facilities and third-party buildings, and occasionally on city or utility-owned light poles, and installing the sensors requires the consent of the property owners, which can be time-consuming to obtain and can delay deployment. Generally, we do not pay a site license fee in order to install our sensors, and our contractual agreements with these facility owners provide them the right to revoke permission to use their facility with notice of generally 60 days. Our SafePointe solution requires us to install sensors, cameras, and networking equipment on our customer’s property. SafePointe does not pay a site license fee to install our sensors, cameras, and networking equipment and is typically paid by the customer to complete the installation. In almost all cases, the property is owned by the customer, and no additional approvals or consents are required.

To the extent that required consents delay our ability to deploy our solutions or facility owners do not grant permission to use their facilities, revoke previously granted permissions, or require us to pay a site license fee in order to install our sensors or bollards, our business may be harmed. If we were required to pay a site license fee in order to install sensors or bollards, our deployment expenses would increase, which would impact our gross margins. If we cannot obtain a sufficient number of sensor or bollard mounting locations that are appropriately dispersed in a coverage area, the effectiveness of our ShotSpotter and SafePointe solutions would be limited, and we may need to reduce the coverage area of the solution.

Natural disasters, infectious disease outbreaks, power outages and other events outside of our control may impact us or our customers and harm our operating results and financial condition.

We recognize revenue on a subscription basis as our solutions are provided to our customers over time. If our services are disrupted due to natural disasters, infectious disease outbreaks, power outages or other events that we cannot control, we may not be able to continue providing our solutions as expected.

When we stop providing coverage, we also stop recognizing revenues as a result of the affected subscription agreement. If we are forced to discontinue our services due to natural disasters, power outages and other events outside of our control, our revenues may decline, which would negatively impact our results of operations and financial condition. In addition, we may face liability for damages caused by our sensors in the event of heavy weather, hurricanes or other natural disasters. We may also incur additional costs to repair or replace installed sensor networks damaged by heavy weather, hurricanes or other natural disasters.

Any of our facilities or operations may be harmed or rendered inoperable by natural or man-made disasters, including earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, floods, nuclear disasters, acts of terrorism or other criminal activities, global pandemics, and power outages, which may render it difficult or impossible for us to operate our business for some period of time or decrease productivity. For example, our primary IRC and a data center that hosts some of our customer services are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region known for seismic activity. Our facilities would likely be costly to repair or replace, and any such efforts would likely require substantial time. In addition, we expect to continue to work in a hybrid work model for the foreseeable future. This policy may negatively impact productivity of our employees.

Any disruptions in our operations could negatively impact our business and operating results and harm our reputation. In addition, we may not carry business insurance or may not carry sufficient business insurance to compensate for losses that may occur. Any such losses or damages could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. In addition, the facilities of significant vendors, including the manufacturer of our proprietary acoustic sensor, may be harmed or rendered inoperable by such natural or man-made disasters, which may cause disruptions, difficulties or material adverse effects on our business.

The incurrence of debt may impact our financial position and subject us to additional financial and operating restrictions.

We have a revolving credit facility with Columbia Bank with a revolving credit commitment of $40.0 million that matures on October 15, 2027. As of December 31, 2025, we had $4.0 million outstanding on our line of credit.

Under the credit agreement governing our revolving credit facility with Columbia Bank, we are subject to various negative covenants that limit, subject to certain exclusions, our ability to incur indebtedness, make loans, invest in or secure the obligations of other parties, pay or declare dividends, make distributions with respect to our securities, redeem outstanding shares of our stock, create subsidiaries, materially change the nature of our business, enter into related party transactions, engage in mergers and business combinations, the acquisition or transfer of our assets outside of the ordinary course of business, grant liens or enter into collateral relationships involving company assets or reincorporate, reorganize or dissolve the company. These covenants could adversely affect our financial health and business and future operations by, among other things:

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making it more difficult to satisfy our obligations, including under the terms of the Columbia Credit Agreement;

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limiting our ability to refinance our debt on terms acceptable to us or at all;

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limiting our flexibility to plan for and adjust to changing business and market conditions and increasing our vulnerability;

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limiting our ability to use our available cash flow to fund future acquisitions, working capital, business activities, and other general corporate requirements; and

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limiting our ability to obtain additional financing for working capital to fund growth or for general corporate purposes, even when necessary to maintain adequate liquidity.

We are also required to maintain certain financial covenants tied to our leverage, interest charges and profitability. Our ability to meet such covenants (those negative covenants discussed in the preceding paragraph) or other restrictions can be affected by events beyond our control, and our failure to comply with the financial and other covenants would be an event of default under the Columbia Credit Agreement. If an event of default under the Columbia Credit Agreement, has occurred and is continuing, the outstanding borrowings thereunder could become immediately due and payable, and we would then be required to cash collateralize any letters of credit then outstanding, and the lender could refuse to permit additional borrowings under the facility. We cannot assure you that we would have sufficient assets to repay those borrowings and, if we are unable to repay those amounts, the lender could proceed against the collateral granted to them to secure such indebtedness. We have pledged substantially all of our assets as collateral, and an event of default would likely have a material adverse effect on our business.

The competitive landscape for our security solutions is evolving and new competitors may enter the market for our public safety solutions.

If cities and other government entities increase their efforts to reduce gun violence or our solutions gain visibility in the market, companies could decide to enter into the public safety solutions market and thereby increase the competition we face. In addition to other gunshot detection products, vehicle and plate identification and weapons detection, we also compete with other technologies and solutions targeting our public safety customers’ resources for law enforcement, security teams and crime prevention. Our competitors could benefit from the disclosure of our data or information concerning our techniques and processes due to legal or other obligations (for example, as a result of public-records requests or subpoenas to provide information or to testify in court). Because there are several possible uses for these limited budgetary resources, if we are not able to compete successfully for these limited resources, our business may not grow as we expect, which could adversely impact our revenues and operating results.

In addition, the market for security solutions for university campuses, corporate campuses, hospitals, casinos and transportation and key infrastructure centers includes a number of available options, such as video surveillance and increased human security presence. Because there are several possible uses of funds for security needs, we may face increased challenges in demonstrating or distinguishing the benefits of ShotSpotter for Campus and ShotSpotter for Corporate and establishing the benefits of SafePointe for hospitals or casinos as we try to expand into such markets. If we experience declining interest in any of our offerings, we may cease offering such impacted solution in the future.

The nature of our business exposes us to inherent liability risks.

Our gunshot detection solutions are designed to communicate real-time alerts of gunfire incidents to police officers and first responders. Similarly, our SafePointe weapons detection solution is designed to identify potential threats and alert security personnel. Due to the nature of such applications, we are potentially exposed to greater risks of liability for employee acts or omissions or system failures than may be inherent in other businesses. Although substantially all of our customer agreements contain provisions limiting our liability to our customers, we cannot be certain that these limitations will be enforced or that the costs of any litigation related to actual or alleged omissions or failures would not have a material adverse effect on us even if we prevail. Further, certain of our insurance policies and the laws of some states may limit or prohibit insurance coverage for punitive or certain other types of damages or liability arising from gross negligence, or other issues, such as damages caused due to installation of our sensors on buildings owned by third parties, and we cannot assure you that we are adequately insured against the risks that we face.

If we fail to offer high-quality customer support, our business and reputation may suffer.

We offer customer support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as well as training on best practices, forensic expertise and expert witness services. Providing these services requires that our personnel have specific experience, knowledge and expertise, making it more difficult for us to hire qualified personnel and to scale up our support operations. The importance of high-quality customer support will increase as we expand our business and pursue new customers. We may be unable to respond quickly enough to accommodate short-term increases in customer demand for support services or scale our services if our business grows. Increased customer demand for these services, without corresponding revenues, could increase our costs and harm our operating results. If we do not help our customers use applications within our solutions and provide effective ongoing support, our ability to sell additional applications to, or to retain, existing customers may suffer and our reputation with existing or potential customers may be harmed.

We rely on a limited number of suppliers and contract manufacturers, and our proprietary ShotSpotter sensors are manufactured by a single contract manufacturer.

We rely on a limited number of suppliers and contract manufacturers. In particular, we use a single manufacturer, with which we have no long-term contract and from which we purchase on a purchase-order basis, to produce our proprietary ShotSpotter sensors. Our reliance on a sole contract manufacturer increases our risks since we do not currently have any alternative or replacement manufacturers, and we do not maintain a high volume of inventory. In the event of an interruption in our supply from our sole contract manufacturer, we may not be able to develop alternate or secondary sources without incurring material additional costs and substantial delays. Furthermore, these risks could materially and adversely affect our business if one of our contract manufacturers is impacted by a natural disaster or other interruption at a particular location because each of our contract manufacturers produces our products from a single location. Although each of our contract manufacturers has alternative manufacturing locations, transferring manufacturing to another location may result in significant delays in the availability of our sensors. Also, many standardized components used broadly in our sensors are manufactured in significant quantities in concentrated geographic regions, particularly in Greater China. As a result, protracted regional crises, international trade measures, or issues with manufacturing facilities could lead to eventual shortages of necessary components. It could be difficult, costly and time consuming to obtain alternative sources for these components, or to change product designs to make use of alternative components. In addition, difficulties in transitioning from an existing supplier to a new supplier could create delays in component availability that would have a significant impact on our ability to fulfill orders for our products.

Many of the key components used to manufacture our proprietary ShotSpotter sensors also come from limited or sole sources of supply. In addition, the lead times associated with certain components are lengthy and preclude rapid changes in quantities and delivery schedules. Developing alternate sources of supply for these components may be time-consuming, difficult, and costly, and we or our suppliers may not be able to source these components on terms that are acceptable to us, or at all, which may undermine our ability to fill our orders in a timely manner.

For example, for our ShotSpotter sensors, it may take a significant amount of time to identify a contract manufacturer that has the capability and resources to build the sensors to our specifications. Identifying suitable suppliers and contract manufacturers is an extensive process that requires us to become satisfied with their quality control, technical capabilities, responsiveness and service, financial stability, regulatory compliance, and labor and other ethical practices. Accordingly, the loss of any key supplier or contract manufacturer could adversely impact our business, operating results and financial condition.

We are dependent on the continued services and performance of our senior management and other key personnel, the loss of any of whom could adversely affect our business.

Our future success depends in large part on the continued contributions of our senior management and other key personnel. In particular, the leadership of key management personnel is critical to the successful management of our company, the development of our products, and our strategic direction. We also depend on the contributions of key technical personnel.

We do not maintain “key person” insurance for any member of our senior management team or any of our other key employees. Our senior management and key personnel are all employed on an at-will basis, which means that they could terminate their employment with us at any time, for any reason and without notice. For example, on March 6, 2026, one of our executive officers, Nasim Golzadeh, notified us of her resignation as Managing Director, TechnoLogic and Executive Vice President, Investigative Solutions, effective March 31, 2026. The loss of any of our key management personnel could significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our development and strategic objectives and adversely affect our business.

If we are unable to attract, integrate and retain additional qualified personnel, including top technical talent, our business could be adversely affected.

Our future success depends in part on our ability to identify, attract, integrate and retain highly skilled technical, managerial, sales and other personnel. We face intense competition for qualified individuals from numerous other companies, including other software and technology companies, many of whom have greater financial and other resources than we do. Some of these characteristics may be more appealing to high-quality candidates than those we have to offer. In addition, new hires often require significant training and, in many cases, take significant time before they achieve full productivity. We may incur significant costs to attract and retain qualified personnel, including significant expenditures related to salaries and benefits and compensation expenses related to equity awards, and we may lose new employees to our competitors or other companies before we realize the benefit of our investment in recruiting and training them. Moreover, new employees, especially those who work remotely, may not be or become as productive as we expect, as we may face challenges in adequately or appropriately integrating them into our workforce and culture. If we are unable to attract, integrate and retain suitably qualified individuals who are capable of meeting our growing technical, operational and managerial requirements, on a timely basis or at all, our business will be adversely affected.

Volatility or lack of positive performance in our stock price may also affect our ability to attract and retain our key employees. Many of our senior management personnel and other key employees have become, or will soon become, vested in a substantial amount of stock or stock options. Employees may be more likely to leave us if the shares they own or the shares underlying their vested options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the original purchase prices of the shares or the exercise prices of the options, or, conversely, if the exercise prices of the options that they hold are significantly above the market price of our common stock. If we are unable to appropriately incentivize and retain our employees through equity compensation, or if we need to increase our compensation expenses in order to appropriately incentivize and retain our employees, our business, operating results and financial condition would be adversely affected.

Our ability to use our net operating losses to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations.

As of December 31, 2025, we had federal net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) of approximately $57.3 million, of which $43.7 million will begin to expire in 2031, if not utilized. The remaining net operating losses of $13.6 million can be carried forward indefinitely under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. As of December 31, 2025, we also had state NOLs of approximately $45.7 million, which began expiring in 2026. These federal and state NOLs may be available to reduce future income subject to income taxes. In general, under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), a corporation that undergoes an “ownership change” is subject to limitations on its ability to utilize its NOLs to offset future taxable income. Past or future changes in our stock ownership, some of which are outside of our control, may have resulted or could result in an ownership change. State NOLs generated in one state cannot be used to offset income generated in another state. In addition, at the state level, there may be periods during which the use of NOLs is suspended or otherwise limited. For example, California recently imposed limits on the usability of California state NOL carryforwards and certain state tax credits in tax years beginning after 2023 and before 2027. Such suspensions or limitations could accelerate or permanently increase state taxes owed.

Risks Related to Our Growth Strategy

If we are unable to reach additional public safety customers, expand into new markets or cross-sell our other solutions to our existing customers, our revenues may not grow.

Our ability to increase revenues will depend in large part on our ability to sell our current and future public safety solutions. For example, our ability to have our ShotSpotter customers renew their annual subscriptions and expand their mileage coverage or purchase and implement our other products drives our ability to increase our revenues. Most of our ShotSpotter customers begin using our solution in a limited coverage area. Our experience has been, and we expect will continue to be, that after the initial implementation of our solutions, our new customers typically renew their annual subscriptions, and many also choose to expand their coverage area. However, some customers may choose to not renew or reduce their coverage. For example, the City of Chicago, which was our largest customer by revenue in 2023 and 2024, did not renew our contract in November 2024, which reduced our revenues.

If existing customers do not choose to renew or expand their coverage areas, or choose to reduce their coverage, our revenues will not grow as we anticipate or may even decline.

Our ability to reach additional public safety customers depends on several factors, including: maintaining a high level of customer satisfaction and a strong reputation among law enforcement; increasing the awareness of our SoundThinking solutions and their benefits; the effectiveness of our marketing programs; the availability of funding to our customers; geopolitical developments and other macroeconomic pressures; our ability to expand our solutions into new markets; and the costs of our solutions. Some potential public safety customers may be reluctant or unwilling to use our solution for a number of reasons, including concerns about additional costs or increased prices, lack of concern regarding the extent of gun violence in their community, uncertainty regarding the reliability and security of cloud-based offerings or lack of awareness of the benefits of our public safety solutions.

Part of our growth strategy depends on our ability to increase sales of our security and public safety solutions in markets outside of the United States, and to increase sales of our other solutions to our existing ShotSpotter customers. In addition, we anticipate expanding our SafePointe weapons detection solution into other verticals such as healthcare and casino gaming, including in connection with new California regulations requiring weapons detection systems in hospitals in 2027. Customers in these new markets may not be receptive or sales may be delayed beyond our expectations. We are also focused on increasing our cross-selling efforts to existing customers, for example by encouraging our existing ShotSpotter customers to implement our other solutions such as PlateRanger and CrimeTracer, but there is no assurance that our existing customers will be receptive to our other solutions.

If we are unsuccessful in developing and marketing our solutions into new markets, or growing our revenues from our existing customers through cross-selling, new markets for our solutions might not develop or might develop more slowly than we expect, or we may not be able to expand our relationships with our existing customers, all of which would harm our revenues and growth prospects.

If our business does not grow as we expect, or if we fail to manage our growth effectively, our operating results and business prospects would suffer.

Our ability to successfully grow our business depends on a number of factors including our ability to:

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accelerate our acquisition of new customers, including whether we are successful in winning a new contract with the City of Chicago after our recent submission of a proposal in response to a request for proposals;

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further sell expansions of coverage areas to our existing customers;

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expand our international footprint;

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expand into new vertical markets, such as precision policing, and security solutions, healthcare and casino gaming;

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expand our SafePointe products into new markets in conjunction with new regulations in California requiring weapons detection systems in hospitals in 2027;

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increase awareness of the benefits that our solutions offer;

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maintain our competitive and technology leadership position; and

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manage our business successfully through macroeconomic pressures, such as the imposition of tariffs, inflation, rising interest rates, and bank failures, and any resulting impact on economic conditions, including conditions impacting the availability of funding for our public safety solutions.

If we are unable to successfully grow our business, our stock price may decrease, we may not generate sufficient cash for our operations and debt service, and we may not be able to continue to invest in our existing business.

If usage of our solutions grows, we will need to continue to make investments to develop and implement new or updated solutions, technologies, security features and cloud-based infrastructure operations. In addition, we will need to appropriately scale our internal business systems and our services organization, including the suppliers of our detection equipment and customer support services, to serve our growing customer base. Conversely, if we are unable to grow our business, we may encounter fixed cost deleveraging, if we have built an infrastructure to support a larger business than we operate and we may need to scale our operations to reflect any lack of growth.

If our growth were to increase quickly, either through acquisitions or growth of the acceptance of our existing products, it could place a strain on our managerial, operational, financial and other resources, and our future operating results would depend to a large extent on our ability to successfully manage such expansion and growth. If we anticipate and build for growth, we are likely to recognize the costs associated with these investments earlier than receiving some of the anticipated benefits, and the return on these investments may be lower, or may develop more slowly, than we expect, which could adversely affect our operating results. For example, we have recently made significant investments in AI to enhance our public safety solutions, but we will likely not be able to receive the anticipated benefits from this investment for a period of time.

If our business does not grow as we expect or we are unable to manage our growth effectively, we may not be able to take advantage of market opportunities or develop new solutions or upgrades to our existing solutions, satisfy customer requirements, maintain the quality and security of our solutions or execute on our business plan, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Failure to effectively develop and expand our sales and marketing capabilities could harm our ability to increase our customer base and achieve broader market acceptance of our solutions.

To increase total customers and customer coverage areas and to achieve broader market acceptance of our solutions, we will need to expand our sales and marketing organization and increase our business development resources, including the vertical and geographic distribution of our sales force and our teams of account executives focused on new accounts and responsible for renewal and growth of existing accounts.

Our business requires that our sales personnel have particular expertise and experience in working with law enforcement agencies, other government organizations and higher education institutions. We may not achieve revenue growth from expanding our sales force if we are unable to hire, develop and retain talented sales personnel with appropriate experience, if our new sales personnel are unable to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time or if our sales and marketing programs are not effective.

We plan to increase our presence in international markets, which exposes us to significant risks.

We currently operate in limited number of locations outside the United States. A key component to our business strategy is to expand our international operations to increase our revenues from customers outside of the United States as part of our growth strategy. Operating in international markets requires significant resources and management attention and will subject us to regulatory, economic and political risks in addition to those we already face in the United States. We may face additional challenges that may delay contract execution related to negotiating with governments in transition, the use of third-party integrations and consultants. For example, due to governmental changes and tariff-related impacts, we have experienced a delay in our ShotSpotter deployment in Brazil. In addition, we will need to invest time and resources in understanding the regulatory framework and political environments of our potential customers overseas in order to focus our sales efforts. Because such regulatory and political considerations are likely to vary across jurisdictions, this effort will require additional time and attention from our sales team and could lead to a sales cycle that is longer than our typical process for sales in the United States. We also may need to hire additional employees and otherwise invest in our international operations in order to reach new customers. Because of our limited experience with international operations as well as developing and managing sales in international markets, our international expansion efforts may be delayed or may not be successful.

In addition, we face and will continue to face risks in doing business internationally that could adversely affect our business, including:

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the potential impact of currency exchange fluctuations;

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the need to comply with local data residency requirements;

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the availability and reliability of local data centers and internet bandwidth providers;

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longer sales cycles and lower visibility on “go live” dates, along with higher attrition or delays in renewal;

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the difficulty of staffing and managing international operations and the increased operations, travel, shipping and compliance costs associated with having customers in numerous international locations;

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potentially greater difficulty collecting accounts receivable and longer payment cycles;

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the availability and cost of coverage by wireless carriers in international markets;

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higher or more variable costs associated with wireless carriers and other service providers;

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the need to offer customer support in various languages;

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challenges in understanding and complying with local laws, regulations and customs in foreign jurisdictions, including laws regarding privacy and government surveillance;

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export controls and economic sanctions administered by the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security and the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control;

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compliance with various anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and United Kingdom Bribery Act of 2010;

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tariffs and other non-tariff barriers, such as quotas and local content rules;

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more limited protection for our intellectual property in some countries;

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adverse or uncertain tax consequences as a result of international operations;

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currency control regulations, which might restrict or prohibit our conversion of other currencies into U.S. dollars;

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restrictions on the transfer of funds;

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deterioration of political relations between the United States and other countries; and

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political or social unrest, global pandemics, or economic instability in a specific country or region in which we operate, which could have an adverse impact on our operations in that location.

Also, we expect that due to costs related to our international expansion efforts and the increased cost of doing business internationally, we will incur higher costs to secure sales to international customers than the comparable costs for domestic customers. As a result, our financial results may fluctuate as we expand our operations and customer base worldwide.

Our failure to manage any of these risks successfully could harm our international operations, and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

Our strategy includes pursuing acquisitions, and our inability to successfully integrate newly acquired technologies, assets or businesses, or our becoming subject to certain liabilities assumed or incurred with our acquisitions, may harm our financial results. Future acquisitions of technologies, assets or businesses, which are paid for partially or entirely through the issuance of stock or stock rights, could dilute the ownership of our existing stockholders.

We acquired Technologic in November 2020, Forensic Logic in January 2022 and SafePointe and intellectual property assets in August 2023 in order to enhance our SafetySmart platform. We will continue to evaluate and consider potential strategic transactions, including acquisitions of, or investments in, businesses, technologies, services, products and other assets in the future. We also may enter into relationships with other businesses to expand our platform and applications, which could involve preferred or exclusive licenses, additional channels of distribution, discount pricing or investments in other companies.

If we complete acquisitions in the future, those acquisitions will give rise to risks, including:

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incurring higher than anticipated capital expenditures and operating expenses;

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failing to assimilate the operations and personnel or failing to retain the key personnel of the acquired company or business;

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failing to integrate the acquired technologies, or incurring significant expense to integrate acquired technologies, into our platform and applications;

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disrupting our ongoing business;

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diverting our management’s attention and other company resources;

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failing to maintain uniform standards, controls and policies;

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incurring significant accounting charges;

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impairing relationships with our customers and employees;

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finding that the acquired technology, asset or business does not further our business strategy, that we overpaid for the technology, asset or business or that we may be required to write off acquired assets or investments partially or entirely;

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failing to realize the expected synergies of the transaction;

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being exposed to unforeseen liabilities and contingencies that were not identified prior to acquiring the company; and

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being unable to generate sufficient revenues and profits from acquisitions to offset the associated acquisition costs.

Fully integrating an acquired technology, asset or business into our operations may take a significant amount of time. We may not be successful in overcoming these risks or any other problems encountered with the acquisition of and integration of our prior acquisitions or any future acquisitions. To the extent that we do not successfully avoid or overcome the risks or problems related to any such acquisitions, our results of operations and financial condition could be harmed. Acquisitions also could impact our financial position and capital requirements or could cause fluctuations in our quarterly and annual results of operations. Acquisitions could include significant goodwill and intangible assets, which may result in future impairment charges that would reduce our stated earnings. We may incur significant costs in our efforts to engage in strategic transactions and these expenditures may not result in successful acquisitions.

Additionally, there may be liabilities that we fail to discover while conducting due diligence for acquisitions, that we inadequately assess or that are not properly disclosed to us. In particular, to the extent that any acquired company failed to comply with or otherwise violated applicable laws or regulations, failed to fulfill contractual obligations to counterparties or incurred material liabilities or obligations to other parties that are not identified during the diligence process, we, as the successor owner, may be financially responsible for these violations, failures and liabilities and may suffer financial or reputational harm or otherwise be adversely affected. We also may be subject to litigation or other claims in connection with an acquired company. Any material liabilities we incur that are associated with our acquisitions could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

We expect that the consideration we might pay for any future acquisitions of technologies, assets, businesses or teams could include stock, rights to purchase stock, cash or some combination of the foregoing. If we issue stock or rights to purchase stock in connection with future acquisitions, net income per share and then-existing holders of our common stock may experience dilution.

Risks Related to Our Technology

We rely on wireless carriers to provide access to wireless networks through which our acoustic sensors communicate with our cloud-based backend and with which we provide our notification services to customers, and any interruption of such access would impair our business.

We rely on wireless carriers, mainly AT&T and Verizon, to provide access to wireless networks for machine-to-machine data transmissions, which are an integral part of our services. Our wireless carriers may suspend wireless service to expand, maintain or improve their networks. These wireless carriers perform routine maintenance and periodic software and firmware updates that may damage our sensors or make them inoperable. Any suspension or other interruption of services would adversely affect our ability to provide our services to our customers and may adversely affect our reputation. In addition, the terms of our agreements with these wireless carriers provide that either party can cancel or terminate the agreement for convenience. If one of our wireless carriers were to terminate its agreement with us, we would need to source a different wireless carrier and/or modify our equipment during the notice period in order to minimize disruption in the performance of our solutions. Price increases or termination by our wireless carriers or changes to existing contract terms could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.

Furthermore, our reliance on wireless carriers may require updates to our technology and making such updates could also result in interruptions in our service or increase our costs of operations. We may not be able to successfully implement new technologies or adapt existing technologies to changing market demands. If we are unable to adapt timely to changing technologies, market conditions or customer preferences, our business, operating results and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.

Real or perceived errors, failures, or bugs in our software could adversely affect our operating results and growth prospects.

Because our software is complex, undetected errors, failures or bugs may occur. Our software is often installed and used with different operating systems, system management software, equipment and networking configurations, which may cause errors or failures of our software or other aspects of the computing environment into which it is deployed. In addition, deployment of our software into computing environments may expose undetected errors, compatibility issues, failures or bugs in our software. Despite our testing, errors, failures, or bugs may not be found in our software until it is released to our customers. Moreover, our customers could incorrectly implement or inadvertently misuse our software, which could result in customer dissatisfaction and adversely impact the perceived utility of our products as well as our brand. Any of these real or perceived errors, compatibility issues, failures or bugs in our software could result in negative publicity, reputational harm, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our software, loss of competitive position or claims by customers for losses sustained by them. In any such event, we may be required, or may choose, for customer relations or other reasons, to expend additional resources in order to correct the problem. Alleviating any of these problems could require significant expenditures of our capital and other resources and could cause interruptions or delays in the use of our solutions, which could cause us to lose existing or potential customers and could adversely affect our operating results and growth prospects.

Interruptions or performance problems associated with our technology and infrastructure may adversely affect our business and results of operations.

We have in the past experienced, and may in the future experience, performance issues due to a variety of factors, including infrastructure changes, human or software errors, intentional or accidental damage to our technology (including sensors and cameras), website or third-party hosting disruptions or capacity constraints due to a number of potential causes including technical failures, natural disasters or security attacks. If our security is compromised, our platform is unavailable or our users are unable to receive our alerts or otherwise communicate with our IRC reviewers, within a reasonable amount of time or at all, our business could be negatively affected. In some instances, we may not be able to identify the cause or causes of these performance problems within an acceptable period of time.

In addition, our IRC department personnel operate either in a hybrid work model or out of our offices. Any interruption or delay in service from our IRC, such as from a communications or power outage, could limit our ability to deliver our solutions. In addition, it may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve the performance of our solutions, especially during peak usage times as the capacity of our IRC operations reaches its limits. If there is an interruption or delay in service from our IRC operations and a gunshot is detected but not reviewed in the allotted time, our software will flag the incident for off-line review. This may result in delayed notifications to our customers and as a result, we could experience a decline in customer satisfaction with our solutions and our reputation and growth prospects could be harmed.

We expect to continue to make significant investments to maintain and improve the performance of our solutions. To the extent that we do not effectively address capacity constraints, upgrade our systems as needed and continually develop our technology to accommodate actual and anticipated changes in technology, our business, operating results and financial condition may be adversely affected.

If our information technology systems or data, or those of third parties with whom we work, are or were compromised, our customers may be harmed and we could experience adverse consequences resulting from such compromise, including, but not limited to, regulatory investigations or actions; litigation or mass arbitration demands; fines and penalties; disruptions of our business operations; reputation harm; loss of revenue or profits; loss of customers or sales; and other adverse consequences.

Our operations and those of the third parties with whom we work, involve the processing, collection, receipt, storage, storage processing, generation, use, transfer, disclosure, protection, disposal of, transmission, and sharing (collectively, “processing”) of proprietary, confidential and sensitive data, including personal information, intellectual property, trade secrets and other sensitive information such as gunfire incident data, including date, time, address and GPS coordinates, occurring in our customer’s coverage area (collectively, “sensitive information”). Additionally, our systems process information from third parties including criminal justice information.

Cyber-attacks, malicious internet-based activity, online and offline fraud, and other similar activities threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our sensitive information and information technology systems, and those of the third parties with whom we work. Such threats are prevalent and continue to increase generally, and are increasingly difficult to detect, and come from a variety of sources, including traditional computer “hackers,” threat actors, “hacktivists,” organized criminal threat actors, personnel (such as through theft or misuse), sophisticated nation states, and nation-state-supported actors. Some actors now engage and are expected to continue to engage in cyber-attacks, including without limitation nation-state actors for geopolitical reasons and in conjunction with military conflicts and defense activities. During times of war and other major conflicts, we, the third parties with whom we work, and our customers may be vulnerable to a heightened risk of these attacks, including retaliatory cyber-attacks, that could materially disrupt our systems and operations, supply chain, and ability to produce, sell and distribute our products and services.

We and the third parties upon which we rely may be subject to a variety of evolving threats, including but not limited to social-engineering attacks (including through deep fakes, which may be increasingly more difficult to identify as fake, phishing attacks), malicious code (such as viruses and worms), malware (including as a result of advanced persistent threat intrusions), denial-of-service attacks, credential stuffing, credential harvesting, personnel misconduct or error, and supply-chain attacks, software bugs, server malfunctions, software or hardware failures, loss of data or other information technology assets, attacks enhanced or facilitated by AI, telecommunications failures, earthquakes, fires, floods, and other similar threats. For example, we have been notified of security incidents impacting some of our services providers in the past.

In particular, ransomware attacks are becoming increasingly prevalent and severe and can lead to significant interruptions in our operations, ability to provide our products or services, loss of data and income, reputational harm, and diversion of funds. Extortion payments may alleviate the negative impact of a ransomware attack, but we may be unwilling or unable to make such payments due to, for example, applicable laws or regulations prohibiting such payments. Remote work poses risks to our information technology systems and data, as certain of our employees utilize network connections, computers and devices outside our premises or network, including working at home, while in transit and in public locations.

It may be difficult and/or costly to detect, investigate, mitigate, contain, and remediate a security incident. Our efforts to do so may not be successful. Actions taken by us or the third parties with whom we work to detect, investigate, mitigate, contain, and remediate a security incident could result in outages, data losses, and disruptions of our business. Threat actors may also gain access to other networks and systems after a compromise of our networks and systems. For example, threat actors may use an initial compromise of one part of our environment to gain access to other parts of our environment, or leverage a compromise of our networks or systems to gain access to the networks or systems of third parties with whom we work, such as through phishing or supply chain attacks. As we increase our customer base and our brand becomes more widely known and recognized, third parties may increasingly seek to compromise our security controls or gain unauthorized access to customer data or other sensitive information. Further, because of the nature of the services that we provide to our customers, we may be a unique target for attacks.

Future or past business transactions (such as acquisitions or integrations, including of Forensic Logic, LLC and SafePointe, LLC) expose us to additional cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, as we and our systems are negatively affected by vulnerabilities and weaker security controls present in acquired or integrated entities’ systems, products, processes and technologies. Furthermore, we may not have adequate visibility into security issues of such acquired or integrated entities, may discover security issues that were not found during due diligence of such entities, and it may be difficult to integrate companies and their products into our information technology environment and security program.

We rely on third parties to operate critical business systems to process sensitive information in a variety of contexts, including, without limitation, cloud-based infrastructure, data center facilities, encryption and authentication technology, employee email, content delivery to customers, and other functions. We also rely on third parties to provide other products, services, parts, or otherwise to operate our business. Our ability to monitor these third parties’ information security practices is limited, and these third parties may not have adequate information security measures in place. If the third parties with whom we work experience a security incident or other interruption, we have in the past and could in the future experience adverse consequences. If third parties with whom we work, such as vendors or developers, violate applicable laws or our security policies, such violations may also put our systems and data at risk and could in turn have an adverse effect on our business. In addition, such a violation could expose sensitive data including; criminal justice information, and other data we are contractually obliged to keep confidential. While we may be entitled to damages if the third parties with whom we work fail to satisfy their privacy or security-related obligations to us, any award may be insufficient to cover our damages, or we may be unable to recover such award. In addition, supply-chain attacks have increased in frequency and severity, and we cannot guarantee that third parties’ infrastructure in our supply chain or that of the third parties with whom we work have not been compromised.

While we have implemented security measures designed to protect against security incidents, there can be no assurance that these measures will be effective. We take steps to detect and remediate vulnerabilities in our information systems (such as our hardware and/or software, including that of third parties with whom we work). We have not and may not in the future, however, detect and remediate all such vulnerabilities including on a timely basis. Vulnerabilities could be exploited and result in a security incident. Further, we may experience delays in developing and deploying remedial measures designed to address any such identified vulnerabilities.

We employ a shared responsibility model where our customers are responsible for using, configuring and otherwise implementing security measures related to our platform, services and products in a manner that meets applicable cybersecurity standards, complies with laws, and addresses their information security risk. As part of this shared responsibility security model, we make certain security features available to our customers that can be implemented at our customers’ discretion, or identify security areas or measures for which our customers are responsible. For example, we recommend that customers implement Multifactor Authentication (MFA) when using our products. In certain cases where our customers choose not to implement, or incorrectly implement, those features or measures, misuse our services, or otherwise experience their own vulnerabilities, policy violations, credential exposure or security incidents, even if we are not the cause of a resulting customer security issue or incident, our customer relationships, reputation, and revenue have been and in the future may be adversely impacted.

Any of the previously identified or similar threats have in the past and may in the future cause a security incident or other interruption that could result in unauthorized, unlawful or accidental acquisition, modification, destruction, loss, alteration, encryption, disclosure of or access to our sensitive information or our information technology systems, or those of the third parties upon whom we rely. A security incident or other interruption could disrupt our ability (and that of third parties upon whom we rely) to provide our solutions.

We may expend significant resources or modify our business activities to try to protect against security incidents. Certain data privacy and security obligations have required us to implement and maintain specific security measures or industry-standard or reasonable security measures to protect our information technology systems and sensitive information.

Applicable data privacy and security obligations may require us, or we may voluntarily choose, to notify relevant stakeholders, including affected individuals, customers, regulators and investors, of security incidents, or to take other actions, such as providing credit monitoring and identity theft protection services. Such disclosures and related actions can be costly, and the disclosure or the failure to comply with such applicable requirements could lead to adverse consequences. For example, many governments have enacted laws requiring companies to notify individuals of data security incidents or unauthorized transfers involving certain types of personal information. In addition, some of our customers contractually require notification of any data security incident.

If we (or a third party with whom we work) experience a security incident or are perceived to have experienced a security incident, we may experience material adverse consequences, such as government enforcement actions (for example, investigations, fines, penalties, audits, and inspections); additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; restrictions on processing sensitive information (including personal information); litigation (including class claims); indemnification obligations; negative publicity; reputational harm; monetary fund diversions; diversion of management attention; interruptions in our operations (including availability of data); financial loss; and other similar harms. Security incidents and attendant material consequences may prevent or cause customers to stop using our solutions, deter new customers from using our solutions, and negatively impact our ability to grow and operate our business. Our contracts may not contain limitations of liability, and even where they do, there can be no assurance that limitations of liability in our contracts are sufficient to protect us from liabilities, damages, or claims related to our data privacy and security obligations.

While we maintain general liability insurance coverage and coverage for errors or omissions, we cannot be sure that such coverage would be adequate or sufficient to protect us from liabilities arising out of our privacy and security practices, that such coverage will continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all, or that such coverage will pay future claims.

In addition to experiencing a security incident, third parties may gather, collect, or infer sensitive information about us from public sources, data brokers, or other means that reveals competitively sensitive details about our organization and could be used to undermine our competitive advantage or market position.

If we lose our ability to share a significant agency’s dataset in our CrimeTracer platform, our ability to sell that product may be adversely affected.

Agencies typically share their private CJIS data sets with us through subscription agreements. If we lose access to their data sets because of a technical problem, such as a ransomware attack, or other issues that arise through no fault of our own that makes that data set inaccessible, this may result in the loss of a customer to a competitor, subscriptions not being renewed and may make it more difficult to sell CrimeTracer in that geographic region and to the federal market.

Our solutions use third-party software and services that may be difficult to replace or cause errors or failures of our solutions that could lead to a loss of customers or harm to our reputation and our operating results.

We license third-party software and depend on services from various third parties for use in our solutions. In the future, such software or services may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. Any loss of the right to use any of the software or services could result in decreased functionality of our solutions until equivalent technology is either developed by us or, if available from another provider, is identified, obtained and integrated, which could harm our business. In addition, any errors or defects in or failures of the third-party software or services could result in errors or defects in our solutions or cause our solutions to fail, which could harm our business and be costly to correct. Many of these providers attempt to impose limitations on their liability for such errors, defects or failures, and if enforceable, we may have additional liability to our customers or third-party providers that could harm our reputation and increase our operating costs.

We will need to maintain our relationships with third-party software and service providers, and obtain from such providers software and services that do not contain any errors or defects. Any failure to do so could adversely impact our ability to deliver effective products to our customers and could harm our operating results.

We use artificial intelligence in our products and services which may result in operational challenges, legal liability, reputational concerns and competitive risks.

We currently use and intend to leverage generative AI processes and algorithms and our own evolving cognitive and analytical applications into our daily operations, including by deploying generative AI into our products and services, which may result in adverse effects to our financial condition, results or reputation. Generative AI products and services leverage existing and widely available technologies, such as Chat GPT-4 and its successors, or alternative large language models or other processes. The use of generative AI processes at scale is relatively new, and may lead to challenges, concerns and risks that are significant or that we may not be able to predict, especially if our use of these technologies in our products and services becomes more important to our operations over time.

Use of generative AI in our products and services may be difficult to deploy successfully due to operational issues inherent to the nature of such technologies, and our customers may not adopt or integrate our new services as intended. For example, AI algorithms use machine learning and predictive analytics which may lead to flawed, biased, and inaccurate results, which could lead to customer rejection or skepticism of such products. Emerging ethical issues surround the use of AI, and if our deployment or use of AI becomes controversial, we may be subject to reputational risk. Further, unauthorized use or misuse of AI by our employees or others may result in disclosure of confidential company and customer data, reputational harm, privacy law violations and legal liability. Our use of AI may also lead to novel and urgent cybersecurity risks, including the misuse or unauthorized processing of or access to personal or confidential information, which may adversely affect our operations and reputation.

As a result, we may not be able to successfully integrate AI into our products, services and operations despite expending significant time and monetary resources to attempt to do so. Our investments in deploying such technologies may be substantial and may be more expensive than anticipated. If we fail to deploy AI as intended, our competitors may incorporate AI technology into their products or services more successfully than we do, which may impair our ability to effectively compete in the market.

Uncertainty relating to AI may require significant resources to modify and maintain business practices to comply with U.S. and non-U.S. laws, the nature of which cannot be determined at this time. Further, countries and states are applying their data and consumer protection laws to AI technologies, and particularly generative AI and interactive chatbots. Several jurisdictions around the globe, including Europe and certain U.S. states, have already proposed or enacted laws and regulations governing AI, such as the EU AI Act, the Colorado Artificial Intelligence Act, and the CCPA’s regulations governing automated decision-making technologies. We expect other jurisdictions will adopt similar laws in the future. Other jurisdictions may decide to adopt similar or more restrictive legislation that may render the use of such technologies challenging. Additionally, the disclosure and use of personal and/or confidential information in generative AI technologies is subject to various data privacy and security laws and other obligations. Our use of AI technology could result in additional compliance costs, regulatory investigations and actions, and consumer lawsuits. Also, we use AI to assist us in making certain decisions, which is regulated by certain privacy laws. Due to inaccuracies or flaws in the inputs, outputs, or logic of the AI, the model could be biased and could lead us to make decisions that could bias certain individuals (or classes of individuals), and adversely impact their rights, employment, and ability to obtain certain pricing, products, services, or benefits.

If we do not or cannot maintain the compatibility of our platform with applications that our customers use, our business could suffer.

Some of our customers choose to integrate our solutions with certain other systems used by our customers, such as real-time Technologic, Forensic Logic or SafePointe platforms or computer-aided dispatch systems. The functionality and popularity of our solutions depend, in part, on our ability to integrate our solutions into these systems. Providers of these systems may change the features of their technologies, restrict our access to their applications or alter the terms governing use of their applications in an adverse manner. Such changes could functionally limit or terminate our ability to use these technologies in conjunction with our solutions, which could negatively impact our customer service and harm our business. If we fail to integrate our solutions with applications that our customers use, we may not be able to offer the functionality that our customers need, and our customers may not renew their agreements, which would negatively impact our ability to generate revenues and adversely impact our business.

Failure to protect our intellectual property rights could adversely affect our business.

Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect proprietary methods and technologies that we develop or license under patent and other intellectual property laws of the United States, as well as our brands, so that we can prevent others profiting from them. We rely on a combination of contractual and intellectual property rights, including non-disclosure agreements, patents, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks, to establish and protect our intellectual property rights in our names, services, innovations, methodologies and related technologies. If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights adequately, our competitors might gain access to our technology and our business might be adversely affected.

As of December 31, 2025, we had 29 issued patents directed to our technologies, 21 in the United States, three in Brazil, and one each in Mexico, the European Union, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. The issued patents expire on various dates from 2025 to 2034. We have patent applications pending for examination in the United States, Europe, Mexico, Canada and Brazil, but we cannot guarantee that these patent applications will be granted. We also license one other U.S. patent from one third party which expired in November 2023. The patents that we own or those that we license from others (including those that may be issued in the future) may not provide us with any competitive advantages or may be challenged by third parties.

The process of obtaining patent protection is expensive and time-consuming, and we may not be able to prosecute all necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost or in a timely manner. Even if issued, there can be no assurance that these patents will adequately protect our intellectual property, as the legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of patent and other intellectual property rights are uncertain.

Any patents that are issued may subsequently be invalidated or otherwise limited, allowing other companies to develop offerings that compete with ours, which could adversely affect our competitive business position, business prospects and financial condition. In addition, issuance of a patent does not guarantee that we have a right to practice the patented invention. Patent applications in the United States are typically not published until 18 months after their earliest priority date or, in some cases, not at all, and publications of discoveries in industry-related literature lag behind actual discoveries. We cannot be certain that third parties do not have blocking patents that could be used to prevent us from marketing or practicing our software or technology.

Effective patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret protection may not be available to us in every country in which our software is available. The laws of some foreign countries may not be as protective of intellectual property rights as those in the United States (in particular, some foreign jurisdictions do not permit patent protection for software), and mechanisms for enforcement of intellectual property rights may be inadequate. Additional uncertainty may result from changes to intellectual property legislation enacted in the United States, including the recent America Invents Act, or to the laws of other countries and from interpretations of the intellectual property laws of the United States and other countries by applicable courts and agencies. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may be unable to prevent third parties from infringing upon or misappropriating our intellectual property.

We rely in part on trade secrets, proprietary know-how and other confidential information to maintain our competitive position. Although we endeavor to enter into non-disclosure agreements with our employees, licensees and others who may have access to this information, we cannot assure you that these agreements or other steps we have taken will prevent unauthorized use, disclosure or reverse engineering of our technology. Moreover, third parties may independently develop technologies or products that compete with ours, and we may be unable to prevent this competition. Third parties also may seek access to our trade secrets, proprietary know-how and other confidential information through legal measures (for example, public-records requests or subpoenas to provide information or to testify in court) and it could be expensive to defend against those requests. Disclosure of our trade secrets, proprietary know-how and other confidential information could negatively impact our business.

We might be required to spend significant resources to monitor and protect our intellectual property rights. We may initiate claims or litigation against third parties for infringement of our proprietary rights or to establish the validity of our proprietary rights. We may also engage in litigation in response to public-records requests or subpoenas that seek our intellectual property. Litigation also puts our patents at risk of being invalidated or interpreted narrowly and our patent applications at risk of not issuing. Additionally, we may provoke third parties to assert counterclaims against us. We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate or other legal proceedings in which we participate, and the damages or other remedies awarded, if any, may not be commercially viable. Any litigation, whether or not resolved in our favor, could result in significant expense to us and divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel, which may adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.

We may be subject to intellectual property rights claims by third parties, which are extremely costly to defend, could require us to pay significant damages and could limit our ability to use certain technologies.

Companies in the software and technology industries, including some of our current and potential competitors, own large numbers of patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets and frequently enter into litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. In addition, many of these companies have the capability to dedicate substantially greater resources to enforce their intellectual property rights and to defend claims that may be brought against them. The litigation may involve patent holding companies or other adverse patent owners that have no relevant product revenues and against which our patents may therefore provide little or no deterrence. We may have previously received, and may in the future receive, notices that claim we have misappropriated, misused, or infringed other parties’ intellectual property rights, and, to the extent we gain greater market visibility, we face a higher risk of being the subject of intellectual property infringement claims.

There may be third-party intellectual property rights, including issued or pending patents that cover significant aspects of our technologies or business methods. Any intellectual property claims, with or without merit, could be very time-consuming, could be expensive to settle or litigate and could divert our management’s attention and other resources. These claims could also subject us to significant liability for damages, potentially including treble damages if we are found to have willfully infringed patents or copyrights. These claims could also result in our having to stop using technology found to be in violation of a third party’s rights. We might be required to seek a license for the intellectual property, which may not be available on a timely basis, on reasonable terms or at all. We also may be required to modify our products, services, internal systems or technologies. Even if a license were available, we could be required to pay significant royalties, which would increase our operating expenses. As a result, we may be required to develop alternative non-infringing technology, which could require significant effort and expense. If we cannot license or develop technology for any infringing aspect of our business, we would be forced to limit or stop sales of our software and may be unable to compete effectively. Any of these results would adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.

Our use of generative artificial intelligence tools may pose particular risks to our proprietary software and systems and subject us to legal liability.

We use generative AI tools in our business, including to generate code and other materials incorporated with our proprietary software and systems, and expect to use generative AI tools in the future. Generative AI tools producing content which can be indistinguishable from that generated by humans is a relatively novel development, with benefits, risks, and liabilities still unknown. Recent decisions of the U.S. Copyright Office suggest that we would not be able to claim copyright ownership in any source code, text, images, or other materials, which we develop through use of generative AI tools, and the availability of such protections in other countries is unclear. As a result, we could have no remedy if third parties reused those same materials, or similar materials also generated by AI tools.

We also face risks to any confidential or proprietary information of the Company which we may include in any prompts or inputs into any generative AI tools, as the providers of the generative AI tools may use these inputs or prompts to further train the tools. Not all providers offer an option to opt-out of such usage, and, even where we do opt-out, we cannot guarantee that the opt-out will be fully effective. In addition, we have little or no insight into the third-party content and materials used to train these generative AI tools, or the extent of the original works which remain in the outputs. As a result, we may face claims from third parties claiming infringement of their intellectual property rights, or mandatory compliance with open-source software or other license terms, with respect to software, or other materials or content we believed to be available for use, and not subject to license terms or other third-party proprietary rights. We could also be subject to claims from the providers of the generative AI tools, if we use any of the generated materials in a manner inconsistent with their terms of use. Any of these claims could result in legal proceedings and could require us to purchase a costly license, comply with the requirement of open-source software license terms, or limit or cease using the implicated software, or other materials or content unless and until we can re-engineer such software, materials, or content to avoid infringement or change the use of, or remove, the implicated third-party materials, which could reduce or eliminate the value of our technologies and services. Our use of generative AI tools may also present additional security risks because the generated source code may have been modelled from publicly available code, or otherwise not subject to all of our standard internal controls, which may make it easier for hackers and other third parties to determine how to breach our website and systems that rely on the code. Any of these risks could be difficult to eliminate or manage, and, if not addressed, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, and future prospects.

Our use of open-source software could subject us to possible litigation.

A portion of our technologies incorporates open-source software, and we expect to continue to incorporate open-source software into our platform in the future. Few of the licenses applicable to open-source software have been interpreted by courts, and their application to the open-source software integrated into our proprietary technology platform may be uncertain. If we fail to comply with these licenses, then pursuant to the terms of these licenses, we may be subject to certain requirements, including requirements that we make available the source code for our software that incorporates the open-source software. We cannot assure you that we have not incorporated open-source software in our software in a manner that is inconsistent with the terms of the applicable licenses or our current policies and procedures. If an author or other third party that distributes such open-source software were to allege that we had not complied with the conditions of one or more of these licenses, we could incur significant legal expenses defending against such allegations. Litigation could be costly for us to defend, have a negative effect on our operating results and financial condition or require us to devote additional research and development resources to change our technology platform.

Legal and Regulatory Risks

We and the third parties with whom we work are subject to stringent and evolving U.S. and foreign laws, regulations, and rules, contractual obligations, industry standards, policies and other obligations related to data privacy and security. Our (or the third parties with whom we work) actual or perceived failure to comply with such obligations could lead to regulatory investigations or actions; litigation (including class claims) and mass arbitration demands; fines and penalties; disruptions of our business operations; reputational harm; loss of revenue or profits; loss of customers or sales; and other adverse business consequences.

In the ordinary course of business, we process confidential, proprietary, and/or sensitive information, including data collected by our sensors, personal information business data, trade secrets, and intellectual property. Accordingly, our data processing activities subject us to a variety of data privacy and security obligations, such as various laws, regulations, guidance, industry standards, external and internal privacy and security policies, contractual requirements, and other obligations relating to data privacy and security and restrictions on audio monitoring and the processing of personal information. In the United States, federal, state, and local governments have enacted numerous data privacy and security laws, including data breach notification laws, personal data privacy laws, consumer protection laws (e.g., Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act), and other similar laws (e.g., wiretapping laws).

Numerous U.S. states have enacted comprehensive privacy laws that impose certain obligations on covered businesses, including providing specific disclosures in privacy notices and affording residents with certain rights concerning their personal information. As applicable, such rights may include the right to access, correct or delete certain personal information, and to opt-out of certain data processing activities, such as targeted advertising, profiling, and automated decision-making. The exercise of these rights may impact our business and ability to provide our products and services. Certain states also impose stricter requirements for processing certain personal information, including sensitive information, such as conducting data privacy impact assessments. These state laws allow for statutory fines for noncompliance.

For example the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), applies to personal information of consumers, business representatives, and employees who are California residents, and requires businesses to provide specific disclosures in privacy notices and honor requests of such individuals to exercise certain privacy rights. The CCPA provides for fines and allows private litigants affected by certain data breaches to recover significant statutory damages. Similar laws are being considered in several other states, as well as at the federal and local levels, and we expect more states to pass similar laws in the future.

Outside the United States, an increasing number of laws, regulations, and industry standards govern data privacy and security. For example, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”), the United Kingdom’s GDPR (“UK GDPR”) (collectively, “GDPR”), Brazil’s General Data Protection Law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, or “LGPD”) (Law No. 13,709/2018), and China’s Personal Information Protection Law (“PIPL”) impose strict requirements for processing personal information. For example, under the GDPR, companies may face temporary or definitive bans on data processing and other corrective actions; fines of up to 20 million Euros under the EU GDPR, 17.5 million pounds sterling under the UK GDPR or, in each case, 4% of annual global revenue, whichever is greater; or private litigation related to processing of personal information brought by classes of data subjects or consumer protection organizations authorized at law to represent their interests.

Additionally, we may be required, under various data privacy and security laws and other obligations, to obtain certain consents to process personal information. For example, some of our data processing practices may be challenged under wiretapping laws, if we provide consumer information to third parties through various methods, including chatbot and session replay providers, or via third-party marketing pixels. These practices may be subject to increased challenges by class action plaintiffs. Our inability or failure to obtain consent for these practices could result in adverse consequences, including class action litigation and mass arbitration demands.

Furthermore, our business relies on the acquisition and sale of personal data, including data obtained from third-party data suppliers. Regulators are increasingly scrutinizing the activities of third-party data suppliers and acquisition and sale of personal data from or to third parties, and laws in the United States (including the CCPA and California’s Delete Act) and other jurisdictions, such as Europe (including through the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive), are likewise regulating such activity. These laws pose additional, material compliance risks to such data suppliers, and these suppliers may not be able to provide us with personal information in compliance with these laws.

For example, some data suppliers are required to register as data brokers under California and Vermont law and file reports with regulators, which exposes them to increased scrutiny. Under the California Delete Act data brokers must respond to a mechanism that allows California consumers to submit a single, verifiable request to delete all of their personal information held by all registered data brokers and their service providers. Moreover, data suppliers have recently been subject to increased litigation under various claims of violating certain state privacy laws. These laws and challenges may make it so difficult for us or our suppliers to provide the data that the costs associated with the data materially increase or may materially decrease the availability of data that data suppliers can provide. Obtaining and selling personal data from third parties carries risk to us. For example, we have registered as a data broker and file reports with certain regulators, which exposes us to increased scrutiny.

In addition, we may face compliance risks and limitations on our ability to use certain data provided by our third-party suppliers if those suppliers have not complied with applicable privacy laws, provided appropriate notice to data subjects, obtained necessary consents, or established a legal basis for the transfer and processing of the data by us. These challenges may make it so difficult for us and our suppliers to provide the data and the costs associated with the data materially increase or may materially decrease the availability of data that we or our data suppliers can provide.

We are also bound by contractual obligations related to data privacy and security, and our efforts to comply with such obligations may not be successful. For example, certain privacy laws, such as the GDPR and the CCPA, require our customers to impose specific contractual restrictions on their service providers. We publish privacy policies, marketing materials, whitepapers, and other statements, such as statements related to compliance with certain certifications or self-regulatory principles, concerning data privacy, security, and AI. Regulators in the United States are increasingly scrutinizing these statements, and if these policies, materials or statements are found to be deficient, lacking in transparency, deceptive, unfair, misleading, or misrepresentative of our practices, we may be subject to investigation, enforcement actions by regulators or other adverse consequences.

Obligations related to data privacy and security (and consumers’ data privacy and security expectations) are quickly changing, becoming increasingly stringent, and creating uncertainty. Additionally, these obligations may be subject to differing applications and interpretations, which may be inconsistent or conflict among jurisdictions.

Preparing for and complying with these obligations requires us to devote significant resources, which may necessitate changes to our services, information technologies, systems, and practices and to those of any third parties that process personal information on our behalf. In addition, these obligations may require us to change our business model. We may at times fail (or be perceived to have failed) in our efforts to comply with our data privacy and security obligations. Moreover, despite our efforts, our personnel or third parties with whom we work may fail to comply with such obligations, which could negatively impact our business operations.

If we or the third parties with whom we work fail, or are perceived to have failed, to address or comply with applicable data privacy and security obligations, we could face significant consequences, including but not limited to: government enforcement actions (e.g., investigations, fines, penalties, audits, inspections, and similar); litigation (including class-action claims) and mass arbitration demands; additional reporting requirements and/or oversight; bans or restrictions on processing personal information; orders to destroy or not use personal information; and imprisonment of company officials. In particular, plaintiffs have become increasingly more active in bringing privacy-related claims against companies, including class claims and mass arbitration demands. Some of these claims allow for the recovery of statutory damages on a per violation basis, and, if viable, carry the potential for monumental statutory damages, depending on the volume of data and the number of violations. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, or financial condition, including but not limited to: loss of customers; interruptions or stoppages in our business operations; inability to process personal information or to operate in certain jurisdictions; limited ability to develop or commercialize our products; expenditure of time and resources to defend any claim or inquiry; adverse publicity; or substantial changes to our business model or operations.

Changes in tax laws or regulations that are applied adversely to us or our customers may have a material adverse effect on our business, cash flow, financial condition or results of operations.

New income, sales, use or other tax laws, statutes, rules, regulations or ordinances could be enacted at any time, which could adversely affect our business operations and financial performance. Further, existing tax laws, statutes, rules, regulations or ordinances could be interpreted, changed, modified or applied adversely to us. For example, legislation informally titled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the Inflation Reduction Act enacted many significant changes to the U.S. tax laws. Future guidance from the Internal Revenue Service and other tax authorities with respect to new and existing legislation may affect us, and certain aspects of such legislation could be repealed or modified in future legislation. In addition, it is uncertain if and to what extent various states will conform to such legislation or any newly enacted federal tax legislation. Changes in corporate tax rates, the realization of net deferred tax assets relating to our operations, the taxation of foreign earnings and the deductibility of expenses or future reform legislation could have a material impact on the value of our deferred tax assets, could result in significant one-time charges and could increase our future U.S. tax expense.

We may be subject to additional obligations to collect and remit certain taxes, and we may be subject to tax liability for past activities, which could harm our business.

State, local and foreign jurisdictions have differing rules and regulations governing sales, use, value added and other taxes, and these rules and regulations are subject to varying interpretations that may change over time, particularly with respect to software-as-a-service products like our solutions. Further, these jurisdictions’ rules regarding tax nexus are complex and vary significantly. If one or more jurisdictions were to assert that we have failed to collect taxes for sales of our solutions, we could face the possibility of tax assessments and audits. A successful assertion that we should be collecting additional sales, use, value added or other taxes in those jurisdictions where we have not historically done so and do not accrue for such taxes could result in substantial tax liabilities and related penalties for past sales or otherwise harm our business and operating results.

International trade policies, including tariffs, sanctions and trade barriers may adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

The imposition of tariffs and other restrictive trade policies, and the related legal challenges under the Trump administration have created a dynamic and unpredictable trade landscape, which may adversely impact our business. Although our current business model is not directly reliant on the import or export of physical goods, trade policies may indirectly adversely impact our business and operations. For example, many of our standardized components used broadly in our sensors are manufactured in significant quantities in concentrated geographic regions, particularly in Greater China. As a result, increased tariffs placed on components exported from China by the U.S. government will increase our costs of revenues. Similarly, any current and future tariffs on hardware, networking infrastructure or other technology infrastructure used by us or our third-party vendors have raised expenses and could continue to raise costs, constrain supply or affect service reliability, which could harm our competitive position, reduce customer demand and damage customer relationships. In addition, many of our customers operate businesses that may be impacted by trade policies, which may result in decreased demand for our services or extended sales cycles as customers assess the impact of evolving trade policies on their operations and face increased costs or decreased revenue due to tariffs and trade restrictions.

Trade disputes, trade restrictions, tariffs, and other political tensions between the United States and other countries may also exacerbate unfavorable macroeconomic conditions including inflationary pressures, foreign exchange volatility, financial market instability, and economic recessions or downturns, which may also negatively impact customer demand for our services, delay renewals or limit expansion opportunities with existing customers, limit our access to capital, or otherwise negatively impact our business and operations. Ongoing tariff and macroeconomic uncertainty has and may continue to contribute to volatility in the price of our common stock. In addition, the fluctuation in tariff rates during the year ended December 31, 2025 and the ongoing uncertainty of those rates has primarily impacted our product costs during this period, and the uncertainty of the rates and the related legal challenges may in the future impact our ability to forecast the tariff impacts on our cost of revenue.

In addition, retaliatory trade policies or anti-U.S. sentiment in certain regions whether driven by trade tensions, political disagreements, or regulatory concerns may make customers and governments more hesitant to adopt solutions offered by U.S.-based providers. This may lead to increased preference for local competitors, changes to government procurement policies, heightened regulatory scrutiny, decreased intellectual property protections, delays in regulatory approvals or other retaliatory regulatory non-tariff policies, the introduction of trade barriers applicable to digital services, which may result in heightened international legal and operational risks and difficulties in attracting and retaining non-U.S. customers, suppliers, employees, partners and investors.

While we continue to monitor trade developments, the ultimate impact of these risks remains uncertain and any prolonged economic downturn, escalation in trade tensions, or deterioration in international perception of U.S.-based companies could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition and prospects. In addition, tariffs and other trade developments have and may continue to heighten the risks related to the other risk factors described elsewhere in this report.

Risks Related to the Ownership of Our Common Stock

We identified material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025. If we are unable to develop and maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results in a timely manner, which may adversely affect investor confidence in us and materially and adversely affect our business and operating results.

A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented, or detected and corrected on a timely basis. Effective internal controls are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and prevent fraud.

Under the supervision of and with the participation of our management, we assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, using the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013). Based on management’s assessment of our internal control over financial reporting, under the criteria described in the preceding sentence, management has identified material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025. See Part II, Item 9A, “Controls and Procedures” of this report. If we are unable to develop and maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results in a timely manner, which may adversely affect investor confidence in us and materially and adversely affect our business and operating results.

We cannot assure you that there will not be additional material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting in the future. Any failure to maintain internal control over financial reporting could severely inhibit our ability to accurately report our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. If we are unable to conclude that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm determines we have a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our common stock could decline, and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by Nasdaq, the SEC or other regulatory authorities. Failure to remedy any material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting, or to implement or maintain other effective control systems required of public companies, could also restrict our future access to the capital markets.

Management has been implementing and continues to implement measures to remediate the material weaknesses. These remediation measures may be time consuming and costly and there is no assurance that these initiatives will ultimately have the intended effects. If we identify any new material weaknesses in the future, any such newly identified material weakness could limit our ability to prevent or detect a misstatement of our accounts or disclosures that could result in a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements. In such case, we may be unable to maintain compliance with securities law requirements regarding timely filing of periodic reports in addition to applicable stock exchange listing requirements, investors may lose confidence in our financial reporting and our stock price may decline as a result. We cannot assure you that the measures we have taken to date, or any measures we may take in the future, will be sufficient to avoid potential future material weaknesses.

Our stock price is volatile and may decline regardless of our operating performance, resulting in substantial losses for investors.

The market price of our common stock is volatile. It has ranged from a low of $5.89 per share to a high of $19.07 per share from January 1, 2025 to March 26, 2026. The price of our common stock may continue to fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including the factors listed below and other factors described in this “Risk Factors” section:

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actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results;

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the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections;

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failure of securities analysts to initiate or maintain coverage of our company, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;

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ratings changes by any securities analysts who follow our company;

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changes in the availability of federal funding to support local law enforcement efforts, or local budgets;

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announcements by us of significant technical innovations, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments;

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changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other software companies generally;

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price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole;

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changes in our board of directors or management;

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sales of large blocks of our common stock, including sales by our executive officers, directors and significant stockholders;

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lawsuits threatened or filed against us;

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novel and unforeseen market forces and trading strategies, as well as short sales, hedging and other derivative transactions involving our capital stock;

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the impact of past and potential future disruptions in access to bank deposits and lending commitments due to bank failures, and other macroeconomic pressures;

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general economic conditions in the United States and abroad;

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other events or factors, including those resulting from pandemics, protests against racial inequality, protests against police brutality, war, incidents of terrorism or responses to these events; and

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negative publicity, including false information, regarding our solutions.

In addition, stock markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many software companies. Stock prices of many software companies have fluctuated in a manner unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. Broad market and industry fluctuations, as well as general economic, political, regulatory and market conditions, may negatively impact the market price of our common stock. In the past, stockholders have instituted securities action litigation following periods of market volatility. If we were to become involved in securities litigation, it could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business and adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition and cash flows.

Stock repurchases could increase the volatility of the trading price of our common stock and diminish our cash reserves, and we cannot guarantee that our stock repurchase program will enhance long-term stockholder value.

Our board of directors has authorized a stock repurchase program for up to $25.0 million of our common stock, of which $10.5 million remains to be utilized as of December 31, 2025. Repurchases of our shares could increase the volatility of the trading price of our stock, which could have a negative impact on the trading price of our stock. Similarly, the future announcement of the termination or suspension of the stock repurchase program, or our decision not to utilize the full authorized repurchase amount under the stock repurchase program, could result in a decrease in the trading price of our stock. In addition, the stock repurchase program could have the impact of diminishing our cash reserves, which may impact our ability to finance our growth, complete acquisitions and execute our strategic plan. There can be no assurance that any share repurchases we do elect to make will enhance stockholder value because the market price of our common stock may decline below the levels at which we repurchased our shares. Although our stock repurchase program is intended to enhance long-term stockholder value, we cannot guarantee that it will do so and short-term stock price fluctuations could reduce the effectiveness of the stock repurchase program.

We expect that we will become an accelerated filer in the future, which will increase our costs and demands on management.

We expect that we will become an accelerated filer in the future. When we do, we will be subject to accelerated filing deadlines as well as the requirements of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which require our independent registered public accounting firm to formally attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. We have devoted and expect to continue to devote significant time, effort and expenses to implement and comply with Section 404(b) and the additional standards, rules and regulations that apply to us. Compliance with the additional requirements of being an accelerated filer will also increase our legal, accounting and financial compliance costs.

Further, due to the complexity and logistical difficulty of implementing the standards, rules and regulations that now apply to our business, there is an increased risk that we may be found to be in non-compliance with such standards, rules and regulations or to have additional material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting in the future. Any failure to maintain effective disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting could materially and adversely affect our business, operating results and financial condition, and could cause a decline in the trading price of our common stock.

Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management and limit the market price of our common stock.

Provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in our management. Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws include provisions that:

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establish a classified board of directors so that not all members of our board of directors are elected at one time;

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permit the board of directors to establish the number of directors and fill any vacancies and newly-created directorships;

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provide that directors may only be removed for cause;

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require super-majority voting to amend some provisions in our certificate of incorporation and bylaws;

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authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our board of directors could use to implement a stockholder rights plan;

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eliminate the ability of our stockholders to call special meetings of stockholders;

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prohibit stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders;

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provide that the board of directors is expressly authorized to make, alter or repeal our bylaws; and

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establish advance notice requirements for nominations for election to our board of directors or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at annual stockholder meetings.

In addition, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which generally prohibits stockholders owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock from merging or otherwise combining with us for a period of three years following the date on which the stockholder became a 15% stockholder without the consent of our board of directors. These provisions may frustrate or prevent any attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management by making it more difficult for stockholders to replace members of our board of directors, which is responsible for appointing the members of our management, and otherwise discourage management takeover attempts.

Our certificate of incorporation contains exclusive forum provisions that could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us.

Pursuant to our certificate of incorporation, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the sole and exclusive forum for (1) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (2) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees to us or our stockholders, (3) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, our certificate of incorporation or our bylaws or (4) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine. Our certificate of incorporation further provides that any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our common stock is deemed to have notice of and consented to the foregoing provision.

Our certificate of incorporation further provides that the federal district courts of the United States of America will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act. These forum selection clauses in our certificate of incorporation may limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us. While the Delaware courts have determined that such choice of forum provisions are facially valid and several state trial courts have enforced such provisions and required that suits asserting Securities Act claims be filed in federal court, there is no guarantee that courts of appeal will affirm the enforceability of such provisions and a stockholder may nevertheless seek to bring a claim in a venue other than those designated in the exclusive forum provisions. In such instance, we would expect to vigorously assert the validity and enforceability of the exclusive forum provisions of our certificate of incorporation. This may require significant additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions and there can be no assurance that the provisions will be enforced by a court in those other jurisdictions. If a court were to find either exclusive forum provision in our certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur further significant additional costs associated with litigating Securities Act claims in state court, or both state and federal court, which could seriously harm our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects.