ESTsoft said on the 25th that it posted 106.7 billion won in consolidation sales and an operating loss of 18.9 billion won for 2025 in a preliminary earnings release.
Sales topped 100 billion won for the second straight year, following the previous year. The company said growth in its AI and software (SW) businesses, including Perso AI and Altools, expansion of its education business based on AI capabilities, an increase in assets under management in the asset management business, and the impact of launching new games drove sales growth.
The operating loss was due to increased investment in AI service and product infrastructure. However, it said this strengthened its AI service lineup, including Perso AI, Perso Interactive, and Alan, and reduced cloud expenses by building its own GPU farm. Perso Interactive, a real-time Conversational AI human service, improved its revenue structure by applying an on-device approach.
Perso Interactive is offered as finished goods in kiosk and tablet formats, and adoption is expanding to domestic and overseas corporations and institutions such as NTT, Samsung Electronics, KT, SK hynix, Daewoo Engineering & Construction, POSCO Holdings, and offices of education.
ESTsoft plans to pursue profit-and-loss improvement along with sales growth by expanding its AI business this year. It has confirmed advancement to phase two as part of the LG AI Research Institute consortium in the government's independent AI foundation model project and is also participating in building the AX ecosystem.
An ESTsoft official said, "There was a profitability burden due to preemptive investment in the AI business, but the leverage effect is becoming visible as the share of revenue from key AI services increases and the fixed-cost structure stabilizes," adding, "As we have entered a phase where investment outcomes are connecting to results, we will create a turning point that achieves both sales growth and improved profitability."