C3 AI is an enterprise AI application software company focused on helping large organizations build, deploy, and operate AI applications at production scale. Its portfolio is anchored by the C3 Agentic AI Platform, with C3 AI Studio, C3 Generative AI, and C3 Code extending how developers, analysts, and business teams create and use AI.
C3 AI combines platform software with packaged enterprise applications for operational, supply chain, public sector, defense, financial, and sustainability use cases. Its offerings are designed for complex environments that involve large volumes of structured and unstructured data, many source systems, governed workflows, and the need to move from pilot projects into durable production deployments.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
C3 AI delivers a model-driven enterprise AI environment that brings together data integration, application modeling, machine learning, generative AI, deployment, and operational management. Its development approach supports full-code, low-code, no-code, and natural-language workflows so technical and business teams can collaborate in the same environment.
The platform is built to connect with external databases, cloud storage, APIs, streaming sources, enterprise applications, and third-party tools. C3 AI also supports the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise AI, including data preparation, feature and model development, model operations, security controls, governance, auditability, and production monitoring.
Its cloud and ecosystem strategy emphasizes portability and interoperability. C3 AI works across major hyperscale clouds and integrates with partner technologies and enterprise systems so customers can embed AI into existing operational and decision workflows rather than replacing their broader software estate.
Products and Services
- C3 Agentic AI Platform: Enterprise AI application development and operations platform built on a model-driven architecture for data integration, AI and machine learning, security, deployment, and large-scale production use.
- C3 AI Studio: Collaborative development environment for building, testing, deploying, and managing AI applications through Visual Studio Code, JupyterLab, and Application Canvas.
- C3 AI Applications: Portfolio of prebuilt enterprise AI applications for high-value industry and functional use cases, including asset performance, supply chain, defense, government, and financial workflows.
- C3 Generative AI: Generative and agentic AI suite that lets users retrieve information, analyze data, surface insights, and execute workflows through natural language across enterprise systems.
- C3 Code: Natural-language enterprise AI application builder that generates governed code, agents, data models, workflows, and user interfaces on the C3 Agentic AI Platform.
- C3 AI Reliability: AI-enabled predictive maintenance application that identifies failure risks in advance to help operators improve uptime, productivity, and maintenance efficiency.
- C3 AI Demand Planning: AI application for demand planning that generates accurate forecasts, supports scenario analysis, and helps teams align around a unified demand plan.
- C3 AI Inventory Optimization: Supply chain application that recommends dynamic reorder parameters and inventory actions to reduce stock levels and costs while maintaining service performance.
- C3 AI Process Optimization: Application for process and production engineers that uses predictive optimization and real-time recommendations to improve yield, cost, and operational efficiency.
- C3 AI Energy Management: Application that analyzes energy, emissions, and operational data to identify efficiency gaps and recommend actions to reduce energy cost and environmental impact.
- C3 AI Contested Logistics: Defense-focused application that provides AI-driven logistics visibility, risk prioritization, scenario analysis, and planning support for contested environments.
- C3 AI Ex Machina: No-code AI product that allows analysts and business users to access data, build models, generate insights, and publish results without writing code.
- C3 AI Vision: Interactive 3D and geospatial visualization capability for enterprise AI applications that combines digital twins, spatial context, and temporal analysis.
Target Customers
C3 AI primarily serves large enterprises and government organizations that need governed, production-grade AI in complex operating environments. Its market focus spans manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, financial services, defense and intelligence, maritime, government, life sciences and healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and transportation.
Within those organizations, C3 AI targets both technical builders and operational users. Typical user groups include application developers, data scientists, data engineers, analysts, planners, reliability and maintenance teams, supply chain leaders, production engineers, and public-facing service teams that need AI embedded into day-to-day decisions and workflows.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- AWS Marketplace: C3 AI has marketplace presence on AWS, including offerings for the C3 Agentic AI Platform and C3 Generative AI. Its AWS integration strategy highlights use of services such as Amazon EKS, RDS, Bedrock, and SageMaker.
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: C3 AI has marketplace presence on Microsoft Azure through listings for the C3 Agentic AI Platform and related enterprise AI deployments. C3 AI positions its applications as integrated with Azure AI, data, and infrastructure services.
- Google Cloud Marketplace: C3 AI has marketplace presence on Google Cloud, including availability of C3 Generative AI offerings. C3 AI also emphasizes deployment and integration with Google Cloud services such as BigQuery and Vertex AI.
Key People
- Thomas M. Siebel: Chairman & CEO
- Stephen Ehikian: President
- Edward Abbo: Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
- Hitesh Lath: Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer & Chief Administrative Officer
- Sasha Pesic: Senior Vice President and General Counsel
- Rob Schilling: Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
- Rohit Sureka: Chief Product Officer
- Nikhil Krishnan: Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Data Science
- Merel Witteveen: Senior Vice President, Operations
- John Kitchingman: General Manager, EMEA
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Redwood City, California, United States
- Employees: Approximately 900
- Annual Revenue: $250.3 million
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: Approximately 13 wholly owned subsidiaries, including C3, Inc., C3.ai Gov, Inc., C3.ai International, Inc., AI Press, Inc., and C3.ai UK Ltd.
- Publicly Listed: NYSE: AI
Analyst Recognitions
- Forrester: Leader in The Forrester Wave™: AI/ML Platforms, Q3 2024.
- IDC: Leader in IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Industrial IoT Platforms and Applications in Energy 2021 Vendor Assessment.
