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Earnings Call: Q3 2022

Nov 29, 2022

Operator

Thank you for standing by. This is the conference operator. Welcome to the Tribe Property Technologies third quarter 2022 results conference call. As a reminder, all participants are in listen-only mode, and the conference is being recorded. After the presentation, there'll be an opportunity for analysts to ask questions. To join the question queue, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. Should you need assistance during the conference call, you may signal an operator by pressing star then zero. I would now like to turn the conference over to Shobana Williams, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Shobana Williams
VP of Investor Relations, Tribe Property Technologies

Thank you, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all for joining us today. On our call, we have Tribe's CEO, Joseph Nakhla, and our CFO, Jim Defer. Today, after market close, Tribe issued a news release announcing our financial results for our 3rd quarter of 2022. This news release is available on Tribe's website under Investors tab and is filed on our SEDAR profile. Before we begin, I would like to remind you that our discussion will include forward-looking statements that are based on management's current views and assumptions, and that this discussion is qualified in its entirety by the cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements that is appended to our news release. Please review our press release and Tribe's report filed on SEDAR for various factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the projections.

In addition, reconciliations between any non-IFRS measures to their closest reported IFRS measures are included in our earnings release to the Canadian securities regulators. Please note that all financial information is provided in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted. Following prepared remarks by Joseph and Jim, we will conduct a Q&A session during which questions will be taken from analysts. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Jim, who will review our Q3 financial results. Jim, please go ahead.

Jim Defer
CFO, Tribe Property Technologies

Thank you, Shobana, and good afternoon, everyone. Despite the market challenges, Tribe once again delivered a strong financial performance in the third quarter. In the third quarter, we delivered a strong comparative quarterly revenue growth. Q3 2022 revenue increased by 10.9% compared to the comparative quarter in 2021, coming in at approximately CAD 4.5 million. Margins and profitability, however, continue to be challenged by revenue growth in our no-margin property maintenance division of the company, headcount growth in advance of integration and optimization of acquisitions, increased staffing and product development related to Tribe Marketplace launched just three weeks ago, salary increases and higher than average labor turnover given COVID and post-COVID market conditions, and alignment of compensation policies from acquired business units. In terms of Adjusted EBITDA, we believe Adjusted EBITDA to be a more reflective measure of the company's cash flows.

Adjusted EBITDA was an outflow of CAD 2.2 million compared to an outflow of CAD 1.1 million for the third quarter of 2021. Our company has increased costs associated with being a public company and continues to invest in building out its technology platforms and our people to prepare for anticipated organic and acquired growth. Please refer to the company's discussion of operations in its MD&A filed on SEDAR and our press release today for further details on our calculation of Adjusted EBITDA. There's a growth. Tribe's acquisition and integration teams continue to be very active. We have commenced the integration of Southview Property Management we bought mid-year. We also in the quarter completed the acquisition of the Strata Management portfolio from a privately held property management firm. After quarter end, we just announced another asset acquisition deal. We've been very busy.

Also during the quarter, we appointed our first COO, Mr. Drew Keddy, who recently served as president of Sutton Group Realty Services. Drew's initial focuses will be on margin improvements, cost efficiencies, and market development. Also during the quarter, we entered into another partnership, this one with Hytec Water Management Ltd., to better equip communities against pinhole leaks and water corrosion of a building's systems overall. Updated cap table. As of today, we have 21,210,516 common shares outstanding. Please refer to our updated corporate presentation and our website for further details. Joseph, I'll now pass the call over to you.

Joseph Nakhla
CEO, Tribe Property Technologies

Thank you, Jim. Good afternoon, everyone, good evening for some of you that are out east. We've had a great quarter, incredibly busy. Our team has been working really hard despite some of the challenges that were addressed earlier, and I'm happy to walk you through our activities in the past for the past quarter. To orient everybody and those of you that are not as familiar with our company, we are a one-stop-shop alternative to traditional property management company. Really our goal is to be the go-to company for all activities associated with managing condos and/or institutional rental communities. We obviously are a tech-backed services company. We start with all of our technologies that are built in-house. We provide digital owner engagement platform.

These are apps and platforms and portals available for our homeowners whereby they can interface directly with their own assets or their own homes along with all the activities associated with that home. As well as the building and all the activities associated with the building. Very important, especially in a condo environment that's becoming a lot more complex and highly regulated. We also perform a AI-driven benchmarking that really measures all of our communities and looks at every single spending line item and compares them to comparable buildings in the neighborhood just to see if anything is out of the traditional lines and can be attacked to ensure that these communities are well managed from a capital expenditure and a capital spend point of view.

We also have, and we do digitize all of our communities and make digital services available, shared services available for our homeowners. If you want to look at your amenities, if you live in a rental building with a tenant or not, you can actually interface directly with the ecosystem that's in the community through our platforms. Obviously at the end of the day, we still are the licensed property management company on record for all your needs, both condo and rental. Just again, by way of orienting everybody, in January 2018, this slide would have been a bunch of zeros. Since then, we have almost CAD 20 billion of assets under management.

We have 110,000 plus homes utilizing our technology. And for communities that are fully utilizing our management services and our technology, we have almost 100,000 residents living in them right across the country. We manage approximately CAD 212 million of annual budgets on behalf of these condo communities. And another interesting number for everybody to be aware of is we have almost half a billion data points about the home, the community, the spend, the square footage. I can go on about all the homes that we manage.

Incredibly important for us to help these communities make good decisions for themselves, as well as allowing us opportunities to leverage the data to further monetize the population. We make money through three different revenue pillars. The first is our software and service revenue. That is the largest bucket of revenue that we have, and it is very, very sticky business. It's monthly recurring revenue charged to the developers building brand new communities, condo corporations in the case of condos or the REITs and landlords in the case of institutional rental. That is usually, we don't usually tend to have any receivable issues. This is, we kind of bill it first of the month, and we pay ourselves first of the month.

Transactional revenue, it's a large bucket with tens of items in it. That's essentially, as I often reference it as, in-app transactions. Think of homeowners and/or condo corporations interfacing either with the communities they're building and/or with us as a property management company. If you're selling or you're purchasing a home, you'll need some data. You'll need some information forms, documentation from the, from the platform. That's just a basic example. This will also include processing and transactional revenue associated with people paying their rent online and/or their maintenance fees and a long list of other items. Our youngest, and yet very important, third bucket of revenue is digital services and partnership revenue.

Jim just alluded to the fact that a couple weeks, two, three weeks ago, we announced the launch of our Tribe Marketplace. Tribe Marketplace essentially is a two-way marketplace that takes over from our beta platform that we were running for about three quarters. That platform really allows us to be able to put in front of our homeowners and condo corporations and tenants products and services that make sense to them. We needed to build a robust platform that allows us to curate these services, but also to be smart enough to put the right products in front of you. If you do have pets, we will put products and services maybe with a pet relationship or pet service provider relationship that would make sense for you.

If you don't have any, that may not show up on your platform. We've been busy in the last two and a half quarters building that platform, and we're very, very pleased with the fact that we've launched it. In the case of those partnerships, we generate revenue from them. If you bought insurance on the platform, we generate revenue, plus we disclose that revenue to the homeowners and the condo corporation and/or the tenant. We make different ways of revenue through there. Sometimes they're affiliation partnerships, sometimes it's transactional revenue, and so on and so forth. We've been busy, as alluded to earlier. We're very pleased with the breaking the CAD 4.5 million line of revenue for the first time.

We're also pleased with the significant amount of recurring nature of that business. We have added Drew Keddy as a COO. He's been with us for a few weeks now, doing a great job. Very pleased with his experience. Drew, not only was the president of Sutton in Canada for a number of years, but prior to that, he was a C-suite leader at Colliers International, led a lot of their M&A and operations, and a lot of significant experience that was accumulated there that's very relevant to our business. We've also been very busy with partnerships. We've added 10 partnerships to our platform, including high-tech water management and a number of additional really interesting products.

Perhaps one of the most exciting ones is the one we announced just last week. About energy savings partnership that will really bring some really interesting IoT products that are relevant to all of our condo corporations and rental buildings, whereby we can lower the carbon footprint, bring in some really unique EV solutions to the marketplace, as well as even LED conversion solutions. All the products and services we're bringing in obviously require capital expenditure on behalf of these buildings. One of the most unique thing about this partnership we're bringing is that we actually will be delivering these services, offering these services to these communities at no upfront cost.

The savings that are driven or that are derived from the installation of the equipment and the IoT products that we will put in there will actually offset the cost of this equipment. Obviously we monetize that through the process. We've also expanded our M&A funnel. We have a very active M&A team that's working on both identifying opportunities, performing due diligence, and obviously integrating deals that close. We have announced a couple subsequent to the quarter, the Q3. We also announced closing of a transaction with the Warrington PCI Management. We continue to be very active in both acquiring full company with the share purchase agreement as well as asset purchases.

We've got two different streams running for those. Obviously, asset purchases require much quicker integration into our operations, and I'm very proud of the team and the work that they're doing. On the accolade side, I suppose, we're very humbled and proud to have been recognized as a Technology Fast 50 company by Deloitte, as well as a Technology Fast 500 for North America. Finally, as I mentioned earlier, we've been working on our Tribe Marketplace. That was a team of engineers and product that are working on lighting up essentially that marketplace very exclusive to us and our communities. It is now up and running, deployed in all of our communities.

All we gotta do now is really populate it with as many relevant offers that really can save a lot of money for our homeowners and also to generate revenue for us. Really, you know, obviously the financials are posted, but you'll see a significant growth in our revenue for the quarter hitting CAD 4.5. Significant amount of that is your very sticky recurring business. I'll be going into microeconomics in a second. The chart on the right is important. If you've seen me present it before, I think it's a really critical one. It speaks to our ability to generate more revenue per customer. You'll see those dips. This is the average revenue per customer.

That's what those black lines tend to are. The yellow lines represent the number of buildings, essentially, the condo buildings or customers of ours. You see every time we move the number of customers up, you'll see slightly dip of that revenue. That's just the way the operation works. We go out, we buy companies or we'll buy a contract that tend to be generating less revenue per customer than we do in our population, well-serviced population. The business is to essentially buy these contracts, bring these customers on board, impress them with our service delivery, and unlock revenue streams that allow us to generate more revenue per customer, as you have seen we have a great track record of doing.

Our M&A, nothing really has changed other than, you know, the way we're approaching our priorities on M&A, as we are now fully national. Perhaps the priority itself is slightly different in the context of we are looking for more cash-generating businesses. We still like all assets that really add value to the business, but needless to say, with the outlook and what we're all experiencing and seeing for 23, my goal is to really turn us into a lot more leaner company that is able to move quicker on these transactions. Obviously, a great way of doing that would be prioritizing some of the cash-generating businesses, or ones that deliver value to the bottom line a lot quicker.

Nothing's changed in terms of buying right, and the way we structure those deals. Our team, for those that are not as familiar with us as an organization, we've made more than, I think 10-plus transactions. Those transactions of traditional property management companies tend to be running at a lower gross margin. We bring them in, we install our technology within them. We put in IT infrastructure as well, digitize all the assets and all the buildings that they're managing, improve the profit margins and obviously rebrand those companies and all the activities around those companies to a Tribe brand. Our business model is still the same. We wanna be in as many homes, serving as many customers as humanly possible.

If we do that right, our bread and butter business will thrive. Because we digitize all the assets and we get to really build intimate relationship directly, digital relationship directly with our homeowners and residents, we have the ability to put in front of them trusted products and services that they can transact with. We continue to see growth in all those lines of business. Our organic growth, this is buildings that are out and about that you will drive by that are being managed by competing companies or traditional property management companies. We've had another great quarter in lead generation. You'll see here, our price per lead is still very cost-effective. We still win.

We even improved our winning percentage quarter-over-quarter. You'll see as well, sorry, year-over-year. You'll see as well that our average lifetime community value is really high. That's mainly driven by the fact that we have a very high retention rate. Our churn numbers are quite low. Microeconomics, I'm gonna spend a little bit of time on this just to kind of orient everybody. Again, a lot of the companies that we purchase are running at about 30% gross margin, tend to be doing about CAD 20 per home, revenue per home per month. This is all MRR, monthly recurring revenue. They tend to do about CAD 2 operational transactions.

These are not only the companies that we buy, but we also know this is the average right across. The churn tends to be between 10%-15%. 10% out West, 15% out East. Probably more of a function of regulation. There's less regulation in the East, although that is changing as we speak. In the last couple of quarters, a lot more regulation has shown up on the Ontario market, and that's reflected, and it has been reflected in a lot of even M&A activities that we're looking at in terms of targets. They are now starting to live with the world that we've been living with for years out West.

These are things around regulation, around licensing your property managers, around disclosure, auditing your trust accounts, and a long list of other items. I welcome that. I welcome it as a consumer. I welcome it as a homeowner. I welcome it as a father of three that will be buying condos maybe one day and living in them because I think it provides the homeowners with a peace of mind and a lot more accountability on the property management company. As a businessman that happens to lead a property management company coming out from the West, I really welcome it simply because we've been living with these high regulations, and a lot of our technology really solve a lot of these problems.

We're seeing a lot more appetite and I would argue frustration by a lot of the operators in the Ontario market simply because they can't catch up with the regulation. Now they're a lot more interested in having conversation about how our technology solves the problem and how we can potentially be active in acquiring them. On the right-hand side is usually what I would call the state of the nation of our microeconomics. You'll see, we're still at the CAD 31 per home with about CAD 5 operational transaction. Again, very, very strong performance per unit. Our digital partnership revenues is on top of that.

It's still very young, in terms of the revenue line item, but we're seeing growth, and you'll see more activity and announcements around that in the next quarter. 39% gross margin. I think this is an important point, and I wanna speak to it. We are a company that treats its cost of goods in the most traditional way. In our cost of goods, we throw in all of our compliance, national compliance and local compliance. We throw in all of our license, property managers, property accountants, all of our hosting services, all of our digitization services. We don't. The reason we do that isn't simply because we use these metrics internally as well.

There's no point of being in the street telling everybody we're running at a, you know, a 70%, an 80% or a 90% gross margin business and throwing everything in the, in the G&A. We wanna be able to really use metrics internally and externally that mean something to us. One of the challenges we've ran into in the last-- I spoke to that last quarter and, well, I'm pleased to say that, you know, signals of Q4 from what we've seen it's turning around. We've seen in Q2 and Q3 a real slowdown in the ability of real estate developers to complete and hand over brand-new construction condos. That's a long list of reasons.

Supply chain is probably the number one reason, but it's also a, you know, an element of finding trades has been a bit of a problem as well as, believe it or not, the inability for cities and counties to actually give the thumbs up and what we call the occupancy permit to these buildings due to lack of resources. A lot of these buildings are completed, ready to go. They could be missing something technical. They could be missing some simple product. It could be In some cases, we've seen CAD 5,000 part. It could be also missing the city giving it the thumbs up. What happens in that situation is Tribe will hire. These buildings are contracted to us.

We will hire the resources required for this building to be managed. We will digitize that building. We've already licensed our software to develop and digitize it. We can't recognize any of that revenue until the MRR kicks in when people move in. In many cases, these things have been pushed back by 60 days, 90 days. We're actually in some cases looking at two quarters now behind. Good news is November was a very active month with some of these communities from behind are catching up. I'm gonna anticipate December is gonna be a very quiet month. As I speak to you here from Vancouver, we're starting to get a lot of snow and that alone I think is gonna slow things down.

I do expect December to be very quiet, but all indications that we're seeing show that January and February are gonna be very, very active amount of development being delivered. The effect of that is we don't get to see the MRR revenue that's contracted to us, but we do throw in all the additional resources that we hired to ensure that we can manage this building. That really affect our gross margin, and that's why you're seeing being pulled down. The other aspect of our gross margin pull down tends to be when we buy companies that are running a lower gross margin. The more homes you're buying at lower gross margin, obviously that impacts your total, population average.

Our digital Marketplace for owners, I won't speak too much more about it other than I can tell you that, think of it as if you're familiar with a lot of the apps for your home solutions, where you log in and you look under categories and, it sort of knows where you are, and it tells you products and services that really can help you leverage the group buying power that's within your neighborhood. Often, it's difficult for them to do that because they're so spread out, these applications. We've really built that. Another big component of that thick technical build was our ability as an organization to bring in these offers and deals without having to go back to that technical resource to be able to onboard that offer.

Think of it from this context. We're starting to contract a lot of master planned communities. This could be completely, it's a complete, think of it as a village, essentially. It could be as much as five or six or seven thousand homes the developers built. Some are rental, mostly condos. Some are high-end, some are not. We're the platform as well as the full property manager solution, the one-stop shop for this whole community. There will be retail, resident or retail players in that community, and those retail players could be local shops, what have you. Using our technology now, they can actually directly promote themselves to the residents of that neighborhood and beyond. They can put offers on.

They can say from three to five, "Well, if you live in one of our buildings around us, you can come in and get a two for one," or what have you. That requires a lot of technology built, and I'm very, very proud of the work that has been done. It's not a completely like all software products, it's never complete, but I'm very pleased that we're at a point where we've actually pushed it out across all of our population. This is gonna be really the crux of that revenue growth pillar that's gonna really help the gross margin moving forward. Just some examples. We every quarter, I tend to give you a little bit of an update on how we're doing with some of our products.

We've got a lot more products now starting to pop up. I still think the most obvious example for why what we, what we're doing here makes a lot of sense for a resident is continue to look at our growth with our condo insurance sales. Now our conversion rates are almost 40%. 40% of people on our platform that will ask, in this case, our digital partner, APOLLO, to give them a quote, will firm up that quote, which is an incredible close rate. Obviously, we continue to grow our revenue. Do recognize something about our revenue from this, so this product. It tends to be a slam dunk for brand new construction because you're moving into this brand new building and you need to get insurance.

We haven't delivered a whole lot of new construction in the last couple of quarters due to the reasons I just mentioned in the last five minutes. This number will move even further ahead, especially with other products like Triple Play, with our partnership with TELUS and others. You'll see more and more relevant products and services, especially with the new construction that we're hoping the developers are able to hand over to the homeowners in the next couple of quarters here. You'll see on the left-hand side, a lot of activities around partnerships. Not really major changes to our cap table.

You know, it's still, you know, we still have the same. We had no activities at all in the public markets in the last, in the last quarter. The ownership structure in terms of the largest shareholders are still there and the same. You know, obviously some great analysts have opened and started coverage on us in both through Stifel and Laurentian Bank. We, what are we really focused on moving forward with Catalyst? Our M&A funnel. We are active and we continue to be active, and I'm very pleased with the deal structures that we've done so far and how we're buying and the deal structures moving forward.

Really like our funnel and like the assets that are in the, in the funnel and keep an eye on those announcements. Our Tribe Marketplace, as it gets up off the ground, is really a massive opportunity for this company. It is the direct gross margin beneficiary. I mean, I mentioned earlier, you know, I'm not a big fan of saying, oh, 90-95% gross margin businesses. I can tell you those product lines are exactly that. The cost of goods are practically zero. Those are wonderful line items. Even if you generate CAD 1, CAD 2 per home per month, it really adds up to big numbers, especially with the number of homes that we continue to add.

I tend to usually give a bit of an industry outlook and just give everybody a bit of a view on it. You know, a lot of the people on the call are smart enough to understand we're entering into what some will argue is some sort of a recession. I certainly do not like to talk political elements of that. I will say that it's pretty evident inflation is coming down slower than it needs to. Our business is not affected. Our business still continues to be robust. Again, recession-proof, pandemic-proof. The seasonality of the business is not really affected. Even though a number of transactions, the number of real estate transactions that are occurring, are slowing down significantly, it really does not affect us.

Is it better when the transactions are quicker? Yes. If anything, what's happening in the market right now, which is kind of slowing down, the number of transactions slowing down and condos being on the market a little bit longer before they sell, is really forcing the hand of condo corporations and homeowners to really recognize and realize, maybe I need to be a little bit more involved and a little bit more at peace with the health of my building. When condos just keep going up CAD 50 grand-CAD 100 grand year over year, while I'm sure it's great for the, for the asset owner, really it's not a reflection of how healthy the building is.

When the market slows down, as I think we're entering into this cycle and we've experienced in the last couple of quarters, all of a sudden really how well your building is managed goes a long way, which also opens up a massive opportunity for some of the partnerships we're bringing in. I generally believe and keep an eye on some of these announcements. We can make a massive difference in the capital expenditure and the expenses of these buildings. You'll see more and more.

We teased a little bit of the announcements earlier. You'll see activities around in the new year whereby we will be able to sit with condo corporations based on the data that we have about their consumption and show them directly how not only can they lower their monthly expenses but also their carbon footprint. I think there's a massive opportunity to even allow some of these communities to trade those carbon footprints in the right recordable markets and actually get more value for their buildings to really lower their carbon offset as well as lower their monthly expenses. I think, I'll be frank, a lot of companies have been talking about being able to move the needle on that for the last 10 years, and very little has been done on that.

I anticipate Tribe will be a company that will be able to point to dollars and cents and illustrate that we can actually make that difference in a real genuine, not just high-end LEED certified communities, in any community operating anywhere in Canada and beyond. I will pause here and see if there's any questions, and I'm happy to take them.

Operator

Thank you. We'll now begin the analyst question and answer session. To join the question queue, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad. You'll hear a tone acknowledging your request. If you're using a speakerphone, please pick up your handset before pressing any keys. To withdraw your question, please press star then two. Our first question is from Suthan Sukumar with Stifel. Please go ahead.

Suthan Sukumar
Managing Director, Stifel

Good morning, gents. Congrats on the recognition with Deloitte Fast 50 and 500. You know, quite impressive given how young you guys still are.

Joseph Nakhla
CEO, Tribe Property Technologies

Thank you.

Suthan Sukumar
Managing Director, Stifel

-on your M&A strategy first. You know, obviously, you talked about your M&A strategy remaining intact, and you talked a little bit about an expanding funnel. Could you share a bit more color in terms of what you're seeing in the acquisition environment today with respect to valuations and seller expectations? Are larger deals becoming more attractive now, or are smaller deals looking to move faster? Just kind of curious what you're seeing there.

Joseph Nakhla
CEO, Tribe Property Technologies

Yeah, that's a great question. Thank you for what you said, Suthan. Really all the credit goes to the team. I'm blessed with an incredible hardworking team. Yeah, the M&A activities are interesting. I will say that, you know, the last people that hear about challenges in the market tend to be the sellers. It takes a little bit of time for sellers to recognize the conditions of the market they're in. Sometimes actually it's helpful for a company like us.

If we're looking at assets operating in, as I alluded to earlier, in Ontario, for example, they're starting to recognize that a lot of preserves, it's very expensive to run under the regulated environment or regulation and the new environment that's been presented there. This, as we speak, are being processed by a lot of those sellers, and we're seeing activities in that market. We, we welcome that because it really puts us at the right table. We're not really necessarily seeing any major, adjustments in valuations. The, the big adjustments we've looked at internally is how we structure these deals.

You know, obviously it's no surprise to anybody, that, the, you know, the microcap or, we feel our stock has been seriously undervalued and, especially with the performance of the business. You know, I frankly do not wanna be giving away a lot of our stock at these prices. How we structure these deals, the release of the stock, the pricing of the stock is adding further conversation. I welcome the conversation because it really illustrates to me and shows me some of the sellers that may get their hands on some of our shares, do they see and understand the big picture or not. I would say from a valuation point of view, we're not seeing any big changes. We've been buying really, really well.

We'll continue to buy with good value. We keep adding great assets, and we have a well-oiled machine that allow us to continue to improve the gross margin of these assets coming on board. Activities, I mean, the market is, you know, it's one of the interesting thing about this industry, it's obviously incredibly fragmented, but we're also, you know, every day that goes by, somebody's getting older without a succession plan. I like to think we're good people, and you pick up the phone, talk to anybody, any of the sellers, whether they're still involved with us operationally or not, and I like to think they have nothing but great things to say about the way we've dignified the transaction and dealt with them.

They tend to be a little bit of a slower transaction. In terms of size, we like the bigger transactions. We think the sophistication of the seller goes a long way. We think we think aggregation of geography goes a long way because it allows us to get in and digitize a lot quicker. You'll see us be a little bit more active into that, you know, mid-size range for our industry.

Suthan Sukumar
Managing Director, Stifel

Okay. Just thank you. Thanks for the color, Joe. Wanna touch on organic growth next. Now aside from the opportunity that you have with M&A, how are you thinking about the sources for organic growth in the near term? Just wondering if it'll be more driven by maybe a catch-up of the new builds coming online. Is it more competitive displacement or is it more driven by the marketplace opportunity? Just wondering how you're looking at that mix of organic growth really over the next 12 months.

Joseph Nakhla
CEO, Tribe Property Technologies

Yeah, I mean, you know, I've kind of categorized 22. I always have one word theme for the years and 2021 was the year we arrived nationally. So the word was national. The 22 was the year to fully integrate and let Tribe kind of be the brand known across the country. 23 is the year of BizDev. I've already spoken to all of our leaders about this. We're despite the fact that, you know, we're gonna be cheering for our national team in the World Cup, we're pretty busy thinking about how we're gonna be ready in 2023 with BizDev. To answer your question very specifically, we think the market is very underserved.

The products and services that we have are desperately needed by a lot of people. The problem is a lot of people don't know that they exist. Really you'll see an investment in our lead generation activities around getting more and more of our solutions available right across Ontario, even east from there, right through the country. I still think a lot of people don't know about us, and that's something that we're working really hard to do. You'll see activities around, you know, existing, what we call transition buildings coming our way. We also continue to receive glowing marks in our institutional rental and in terms of the performance of our team.

I think you're also gonna see a little more of us being very active in, you know, asking a lot of our REITs to start, you know, trying us in markets where they haven't tried us before. You'll see a lot of activities around that in 2023. Our partnership team, we beefed it up and it is very, very active. We've got 30-plus partnerships on the docket. A lot of them are within the context of being sold directly to the landlord and to the developer, landlord and/or condo corporation. Again, we're just cutting our teeth on that. We still haven't even got a cadence of taking one or two products a month out of condo corporations.

We're just starting to do that, and we're starting to see results. This is very young, but we won't be taking our foot off the gas. 2023 is the BizDev year.

Suthan Sukumar
Managing Director, Stifel

Okay. Okay, great. Thanks, Joe. This last question from me is, when you think about your operating leverage here, I know it's still early days in your growth and you guys have been making strategic investments. Over the past little while you've added new executive talent to your management roster. What are some of the other more strategic, investment areas that you'll be focusing on in the near to mid-term here? In terms of balancing that, you know, you touched on a view on sort of profitability here. What leverage do you have for margin improvement and for reducing cash burn?

Joseph Nakhla
CEO, Tribe Property Technologies

I mean, in the most obvious way, I would tell you, I wish a lot of that revenue that was slated to come in in the last two quarters came through the door in the construction. That would've really affected the burn. That being said, we did make big significant investments in the engineering team as well as other, frankly other departments as well, especially on the integration transition and M&A side. So those activities are there. They're kind of they tend to be fixed once you start buying things that are generating a lot more cash, or at least we start realizing the cash generation.

We just haven't had the time yet 'cause a lot of the transactions we've just done have just been literally integrated. Even one of the slides I shared with you today, we didn't even have the whole quarter results on it, so we couldn't normalize it. We had to just show the September numbers 'cause we didn't even have those assets in there. You'll see us take some significant steps towards really taking our burn down to a much more, you know, what is in alignment of what the conditions of the market are as well as the traditional operating of our business. I do think the Marketplace can play a massive role, especially if we secure some of these deals.

I do want people to understand something, and I think it may be obvious to everybody, but I just really wanna make sure that I emphasize that. A lot of the assets, brand new construction that was supposed to be delivered last couple of quarters have been pushed out, must be delivered. These are not buildings where, "Oh, it's too bad they're not gonna come on board, they're going somewhere else." They have to be completed, they have to be managed. Really this MRR isn't going away. This MRR, we're just waiting for it to be launched. I think in Q1, I'll be speaking to the street about a more specific strategy around our path to profitability.

You know, those of you that have been with us from day one, and I thank you, especially the institutional investments and all investors that have been with us from day one, know that we don't like to just talk the talk. We like to point to specific facts. I think, You know, we'll be able to communicate that in the next couple of months.

Suthan Sukumar
Managing Director, Stifel

Great. Thank you, Joe. That's it for me. I'll pass along.

Joseph Nakhla
CEO, Tribe Property Technologies

Thank you for that.

Operator

Once again, any analyst with a question should press star then one. As there appear to be no further questions, I'd like to turn the conference back over to Joseph Nakhla for any closing remarks.

Joseph Nakhla
CEO, Tribe Property Technologies

Well, thank you all for taking interest and attending the call today. It's been overall an incredibly great year for our company. You know, we live in an interesting time and we're heading into holiday season here. From on a personal level, I wanna thank all of you all, both on the shareholder side, on the coverage side, as well as our executive team and our staff for really just having faith in our, you know, vision. You know, at the end of the day, of course, we are here to continue to create great shareholder value for our investors.

Feel good about the fact that you didn't only just invest in a company that is pretty darn good, but I think feel good about the fact that we're really helping, you know, hundreds of thousands of Canadians have a better life every day. I'm really, really, really proud of that as well. With that being said, have a wonderful holidays, and I thank you all for being on the call with us today.

Operator

This concludes today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines. Thank you for participating and have a pleasant evening.

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