⚠ The Snippet the Next Vendor Also ShipsHigh threat

Text (TXT) — threat to the moat

Everything that makes Text quick to adopt makes it quick to leave; those are one property, not two.

Text's distribution advantage and its retention problem are the same property viewed from opposite ends.

The same property, seen from both endsFree trial14 daysSales staff after May 20260Operating margin, FY202638,6%LiveChat customers lost per month4%
Text's distribution advantage and its retention problem are the same fact.

A prospect can install LiveChat in an afternoon, run a 14-day trial without giving a credit card, and be paying by the end of the month1. No salesperson has to be employed, no implementation consultant scheduled, no procurement cycle survived. That is precisely why 271 contractors can run a business at a 38,6% operating margin2.

The same afternoon works in reverse. Two hundred and ten technologies compete in the live-chat market by Text's own count, many of them free3, and each of them ships a snippet that installs just as quickly. Whatever else a customer must move — the help articles, the integrations, the transcripts — is real work, but it is work measured in days rather than the years it takes to leave an accounting system or a core banking platform.

The disclosed number puts a floor under how much that friction is actually worth. LiveChat lost 4% of its customers every month of the reported year4. A business that has to re-win two-fifths of its list annually is renting its customers rather than holding them, and it can only grow while acquisition runs ahead of that. Last year acquisition did not: recurring revenue in dollars fell 2,7%5.

Churn itself is the falsifier. Text discloses it once a year, and if the apparatus around the snippet is genuinely thickening, it should fall below 4% a month. It has not yet.

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  1. ReportedA prospect can install LiveChat in an afternoon, run a 14-day trial without giving a credit card, and be paying by the end of the month.
    Text pricing (Essential at USD 19 per user per month billed annually, or 25 monthly, including 10 AI Agent resolutions a month; Growth at USD 79 per user per month, or 99 monthly, including 200 resolutions a month; Enterprise on custom pricing; additional resolutions at USD 49,50 for a package of 50, or 0,99 each; a resolution counted when the AI Agent provides an answer that directly solves at least one customer question; and a 14-day free trial with full platform access and no credit card required) — September 2026 · publ. September 2026 · source ↗
  2. ReportedThat is precisely why 271 contractors can run a business at a 38,6% operating margin.
    Text Group Management Board report for 2025/26, team, intellectual property and shareholders (a team of 271 people at 31 March 2026, up 6,7%, consisting of independent persons and sole proprietors called Partners on civil-law contracts, with the company having no employees under employment contracts, a rotation rate of 22% and turnover of 15%, mostly working from Wroclaw on a hybrid basis with 95% Polish citizens; the disclosed risk that because no team member works under an employment contract copyright does not vest automatically, transfers require individual agreements, Polish law forbids contracting for all future works of a given type, and an absent contract leaves the company dependent on the creator's will and open to dispute; a seventh United States patent granted in June 2026 for configuring a communication widget directly on a website; and 25 750 000 shares of 0,02 złoty each, one vote per share and none privileged, with a shareholders' consortium holding 10 625 752 shares or 41,27% of votes and two Polish pension funds above 5%) — FY2025/26 · publ. June 2026 · source ↗
  3. ReportedTwo hundred and ten technologies compete in the live-chat market by Text's own count, many of them free, and each of them ships a snippet that installs just as quickly.
    Text Group Management Board report for 2025/26, strategy, products and market (the Service on Offense goal of turning customer service teams into revenue-generating centres, with the suite monitoring live traffic, recognising visitor intent, identifying returning visitors, enabling proactive outreach and tracking steps to monetisation or a qualified lead; a Go-To-Market period expected to be a long-term process requiring marketing expenditure with effects observed gradually; over 20 years of experience; competing solutions named as Fin, previously Intercom, Zendesk and Freshworks; the live-chat market valued at USD 1,06-1,17bn in 2024 growing 8-11%, the chatbot market at USD 0,7-6,95bn and the helpdesk market at USD 9,82-12,5bn; and Datanyze counting more than 210 different live-chat technologies, a substantial number offered freemium, with monetisation of free users judged difficult and ineffective) — FY2025/26 · publ. June 2026 · source ↗
  4. ReportedLiveChat lost 4% of its customers every month of the reported year.
    Text Group Management Board report for 2025/26, key performance indicators (monthly recurring revenue of USD 6,93m at 31 March 2026, down 2,7% year on year and 0,7% on December, giving annual recurring revenue of USD 83,12m; revenue in US dollars of 88,2m against 88,6m, down 0,5%; payments received of USD 87,9m, down 0,7%; Q4 dollar revenue of 22,56m, the highest since Q2 2024/25; a LiveChat customer churn rate of 4% on a monthly basis with net MRR churn described as significantly lower; LiveChat at 83,7% of group revenue with ChatBot 8,7% and HelpDesk with KnowledgeBase 7,5%; and an average USD/PLN translation rate 8,0% lower than the prior period) — FY2025/26 · publ. June 2026 · source ↗
  5. ReportedLast year acquisition did not: recurring revenue in dollars fell 2,7%.
    Text Group Management Board report for 2025/26, key performance indicators (monthly recurring revenue of USD 6,93m at 31 March 2026, down 2,7% year on year and 0,7% on December, giving annual recurring revenue of USD 83,12m; revenue in US dollars of 88,2m against 88,6m, down 0,5%; payments received of USD 87,9m, down 0,7%; Q4 dollar revenue of 22,56m, the highest since Q2 2024/25; a LiveChat customer churn rate of 4% on a monthly basis with net MRR churn described as significantly lower; LiveChat at 83,7% of group revenue with ChatBot 8,7% and HelpDesk with KnowledgeBase 7,5%; and an average USD/PLN translation rate 8,0% lower than the prior period) — FY2025/26 · publ. June 2026 · source ↗
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