GTLB - Make Up Your Mind; Voluntary RIF and Only "In Line" Preannouncement

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GTLB - Make Up Your Mind; Voluntary RIF and Only "In Line" Preannouncement

SOFTWARE

GITLAB INC. May 11, 2026

• Smaller, empowered R&D teams: Aspiring to double the number of R&D teams — up

to 60 — with more autonomy and end-to-end ownership.

• Less friction, less overhead: Handoffs that have slowed the company down will be

significantly reduced, and layers between employees and the decisions that affect their

work are being removed.

• Solve big technical problems: Five architectural bets offering deep technical challenges

— a new git for machine scale, an orchestration layer for humans and agents, a connected

graph of full lifecycle data as a service, a centralized governance policy service, and a

fully autonomous software engineering experience.

• More flexible buying programs: New consumption-based buying programs making it

easier to sell GitLab and for customers to buy seats plus credits, unlocking faster adoption.

• Career growth: Bold bets like Act 2 are rare and bring opportunities at every level to

learn faster and develop skills that will matter for the rest of an employee's career.

• Aligned leadership with the will to win: A leadership team — e-group and SLT

— committed to winning, making hard decisions, and aligning the organization cross-

functionally to accelerate results.

• Uniquely positioned to win: GitLab has structural advantages in data, technology, and

customer trust that give it an edge over AI labs and startups in a category where the TAM

is expanding at a step-function rate.

Strategic Growth Initiatives. Management was explicit that this is "not an AI optimization

or cost cutting exercise," stating that the company intends to reinvest the vast majority of

savings back into the business to accelerate its strategic initiatives in an agentic era.