Company: APPN
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001441683-25-000031
Chunk: 40

Company: APPIAN CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-23
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 40
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 401(k) of the Code as a defined contribution retirement plan. The 401(k) Plan allows participants to make elective deferrals of a portion of their income as a contribution to a Section 401(k) profit sharing plan. Under the 401(k) Plan, the Company may, but is not required to, make matching contributions. For 2024, the Company made semi-monthly matching contributions of $1.00 per $1.00 of the employee’s contribution for such pay period, up to a maximum of 4% of the employee’s gross compensation for such pay period.

Our health and benefit plans include medical, dental, vision, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, disability, life, long and short-term disability insurance, and health savings and flexible spending accounts. All employees also receive flexible leave with no set maximum number of vacation days and a medical leave program that allows employees to take sick leave when they need it, up to 10 consecutive business days.

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Perquisites and Other Personal Benefits

We do not believe it is appropriate at this time to provide special perquisites or benefits and thus our NEOs do not receive any personal benefits or perquisites that are not available on a non-discriminatory basis to all employees.

#### Tax and Accounting Considerations
Deductibility of Executive Compensation

Section 162(m) of the Code generally places a limit of $1 million on the amount of compensation deductible by a company in any one year with respect to compensation paid to certain of its officers, called covered employees. While we are mindful of the benefit of tax deductibility of compensation, we also value the flexibility of compensating our executive officers in a manner that can best promote our corporate objectives. Therefore, we may approve compensation that may not be fully deductible.

Accounting

Under the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (“ASC 718”), the company is required to estimate and record an expense for each award of equity compensation over the vesting period of the award. We record share-based compensation expense on an ongoing basis according to ASC 718.

#### Other Compensation Policies and Practices
Clawback Policy

We seek to recover to the extent practicable performance-based compensation from our executive officers. Our Board adopted the Appian Corporation Compensation Recoupment Policy (the “Clawback Policy”) in accordance with Rule 10D-1 and the Nasdaq listing standards effective as of October 2, 2023. Under the Clawback