Qualys, Inc. (QLYS)

Cloud security software with stated G&A, mostly India. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 20, 2026. Ranked 105 of the 238 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing counts 2,625 full-time employees at December 31, 2025 by function, 70% of them in India, so the research, sales and operations staff are read at software publishers and the 247 in general and administrative at management of companies.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 51% now, 68% at the end of 2027, 73% at the end of 2028, 74% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 74% desk work, 23% people work and 3% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 62% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

2,625 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Approximately 78% of employees are outside the United States, 70% of them in India (stated), so about 22% are in the United States.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 2,625 full-time employees, including 1,262 in research and development, 524 in sales and marketing, 592 in operations and customer support, and 247 in general and administrative.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 2,625 full-time employees at December 31, 2025: 1,262 in research and development, 524 in sales and marketing, 592 in operations and customer support and 247 in general and administrative; about 78% outside the United States, 70% in India; collective bargaining at the national level in certain European countries and Brazil; a hybrid work schedule.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Software Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Microsoft (MSFT, 223,000 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• Oracle (ORCL, 141,000 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• Salesforce, Inc. (CRM, 83,334 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER, 34,000 employees)52% now, 71% by 2028
• DoorDash, Inc. (DASH, 31,400 employees)52% now, 71% by 2028
• Adobe Inc. (ADBE, 31,360 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW, 29,187 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028
• Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS, 28,000 employees)51% now, 73% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

14 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it uses AI and machine learning technologies in its solutions, with AI-driven workflows for automated remediation in its Enterprise TruRisk Management platform, and names the risks of that use to its business.

• “Our solutions could be used to collect and store personal information of our customers' employees or customers, and therefore privacy and other data handling concerns could result in additional cost and liability to us or inhibit sales of our solutions. 3 Table of Contents We use AI/machine learning technologies in our solutions that could result in harm to our business and operating results.”
• “Forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K include, but are not limited to, statements about: our financial performance, including our revenues, costs, expenditures, growth rates, operating expenses and ability to generate positive cash flow to fund our operations and sustain profitability; anticipated technology trends, such as the use of cloud solutions, and use o...”
• “ETM further enables automated remediation through policy-based response rules and AI-driven workflows that integrate with Qualys' TruRisk Eliminate solutions, IT service management platforms, and other third-party systems.”
• “We may also seek to acquire development teams to supplement our own personnel and acquire technology to increase the breadth of our cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, deep learning AI, and machine learning (ML) technologies to uncover behavior patterns including active vulnerability exploitation, identification of advanced network threats, and adaptive risk mitigation across all...”
• “We also have incorporated AI/machine learning technologies into our technology, and may continue to incorporate additional AI/machine learning technologies in the future.”

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20223median 0
• Fiscal 202310median 1
• Fiscal 202414median 4
• Fiscal 202514median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The collector's pick, 5,000, is a customer-size threshold; the filing states 2,625 full-time employees (rule 2).
• The count is of full-time employees; no part-time figure is stated.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001107843-26-000008, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.