Ara Kharazian
Economist, Ramp
Ara Kharazian is an economist at Ramp. His writing and analysis of AI, business spend, and the economy has been covered in the New York Times, NBC News, ABC News, NPR's Planet Money, Bloomberg, the Guardian, Vox, Axios, and more. Ara previously led economic research at Square and developed Square Payroll Index, which became one of the key public datasets used to track restaurant worker wages, tips, and overtime in the United States. He was previously an economic consultant at Cornerstone Research.
Education
Tufts University
Expertise
AI trends, macroeconomic forecasting, labor economics, business dynamism
Highlight
Can identify any Beatles song with just the first second of sound
Articles by Ara Kharazian
ARTICLE
Top SaaS vendors on Ramp (June 2025)
See which SaaS companies saw the most spend and the fastest growth in June according to the latest Ramp data—now including bill pay data.
ARTICLE
Trends in data science and business intelligence software (Q2 2025)
As the “post-AI” data stack takes shape, newer players such as Hex and Sigma are quickly gaining ground. But incumbents like Tableau and Power BI still lead the pack.
ARTICLE
Top SaaS vendors on Ramp (May 2025)
A mix of well-known and emerging AI vendors dominate the list of who Ramp customers are paying and where their spend is increasing the most in May 2025.
ARTICLE
How we built The Ramp AI Index
Our dataset is built by extracting text from billions of aggregated, anonymized transactions from over 30,000 businesses using Ramp Bill Pay and corporate cards
ARTICLE
The Spring 2025 Business Spending Report is here
We’re proud to share Ramp’s Business Spending Report. In this edition, we examine trends in AI, advertising, and general business spend.
ARTICLE
What we’re hearing from businesses about tariffs
We spoke to more than 30 business leaders in the construction, manufacturing, healthcare, and retail sectors about how they expect tariffs to impact their businesses.