Ara Kharazian
Lead Economist, Ramp
Ara Kharazian is the lead economist at Ramp and writes the weekly newsletter Econ Lab on Substack. His writing and analysis of AI, business spend, and the economy has been covered in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NBC News, ABC News, NPR's Planet Money, Bloomberg, the Guardian and more. Ara previously led economic research at Square and was an economic consultant at Cornerstone Research.
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Tufts University
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AI trends, macroeconomic forecasting, labor economics, business dynamism
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Articles by Ara Kharazian
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Anthropic beats OpenAI on business adoption
Anthropic just passed OpenAI in paid adoption rate for the first time, according to the latest Ramp AI Index. But Anthropic faces three underrated risks ahead.
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Ramp's economic data is now accessible via Claude, ChatGPT, Bloomberg, and more
You can now query Ramp’s economic data – Ramp Rate, AI Index, and more – from your AI assistant, terminal, or directly inside platforms like Bloomberg.
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Top SaaS Vendors on Ramp (May 2026)
AI inference platforms and web deployment tools dominate this month’s list of the fastest-growing SaaS vendors among Ramp customers.
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The death of SaaS has been greatly exaggerated
Despite much conversation about a "SaaSpocalypse," Ramp data shows that traditional SaaS vendors have not moved to a consumption-based pricing model.
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Three things ‘experts’ got wrong about AI
Ramp track over $100 billion in annual business spend across 50,000 companies, and that's the dataset behind all the data in our Spring 2026 Spending Report.
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What drives AI adoption?
AI adoption crossed 50% for the first time in March, and Anthropic's adoption rate is on track to catch up to long-time market leader OpenAI soon.