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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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.
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Top SaaS Vendors on Ramp (April 2026)
Our list of the fastest-growing and trending vendors based on Ramp's latest data features companies finding practical uses for AI within their tools.
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How Ramp data works
We set out to make Ramp the most credible source on how companies spend and operate. Learn how our research works, what our data captures, and where it leans.
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Corporate America will watch bad football. Bad baseball? Not so much.
Our latest research shows for most professional sports, corporate America will buy tickets regardless of how the team is playing. But in baseball, winning matters.
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How did Anthropic do it?
Anthropic is still on a tear, with nearly one in four businesses on Ramp paying for Claude compared to one in 25 a year ago. OpenAI adoption fell by 1.5%.