Ara Kharazian
Economist, Ramp
Ara Kharazian is an 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, NBC News, ABC News, NPR's Planet Money, Bloomberg, the Guardian, Vox, Axios, 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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Our economist's tech and culture predictions for 2026
Find out Ramp Economist Ara Kharazian's predictions for next year, all informed by what he's been reading and conversations he's had over the last year.
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Business AI adoption flatlines
AI uptake held flat overall and across businesses of all sizes. OpenAI lost slight market share while Google and Anthropic both saw small increases in adoption.
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Top SaaS vendors on Ramp (December 2025)
On the heels of its Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro image model release, Google's AI tools seem to be quickly gaining ground on market leaders.
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AI business adoption re-accelerates, led by Anthropic
Anthropic grew adoption 2.1 percentage points to 14.3% in October, its second-largest monthly increase, while OpenAI adoption increased by 0.3 percentage points.
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Corporate America is going to discount gyms
Companies have reduced wellness benefits by approximately 20% since 2023, and employees have responded by shifting spend toward lower-cost options.
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Top SaaS vendors on Ramp (November 2025)
This month's list has range, with ServiceNow and Google sharing space with companies like Panther Labs and Knit.