How Eight Sleep found millions hiding in their own spend
“We previously relied on American Express for corporate cards and Expensify as our expense management system. Ramp was a complete game changer. It's a single platform that can handle every aspect of our spending, including things that aren't paid for with a card. This has led to immense savings in both dollars and time for our finance team. ”
CEO, Eight Sleep
Irish Rose had a simple mandate: keep Eight Sleep's finances as sharp as its products. With Ramp, she got a platform that made that feel effortless. Every subscription is visible, every dollar accounted for, and millions in savings are surfaced automatically.
Zombie SaaS subscriptions and inefficient expense reporting
Eight Sleep runs on technology — which means a sprawling, ever-changing stack of software tools powering everything from operations to growth. Keeping that spend in check fell to Financial Controller Irish Rose, and with only Expensify and American Express corporate cards, it was an uphill battle.
The core problem was visibility. Without transparent insight into what employees were spending on software, Irish had no reliable way to track subscription costs across the company. Rogue SaaS charges accumulated quietly — tools no one was using, and in some cases, subscriptions still billing for employees who had long since left. By the time anyone noticed, the damage was already done.
On the employee side, the experience wasn't much better. Expense reporting in Expensify was unintuitive enough that the finance team fielded a constant stream of questions from employees who couldn't figure out what to do or where to go. And when mistakes happened, the legacy system offered no easy path to fix them.
"Our previous solution didn't allow us to edit the general ledger account a card was coded to after it was issued. The only way to correct that was manually, via an accounting journal entry."
— Irish Rose, Financial Controller at Eight Sleep
As Eight Sleep grew, the system demanded more from the finance team, requiring more manual corrections, increased employee oversight, and more money vanishing into unchecked subscriptions. Eight Sleep needed a platform capable of keeping pace with the company’s ambitions rather than hindering them.
Automated accounting, unlimited cards, zero blindspots
Eight Sleep’s old setup wasn’t just inefficient; it was leaving money on the table. Ramp changed that from day one. Where Amex and Expensify created friction and obscured visibility, Ramp replaced both with a single, intelligent platform that gave Irish and her team something they’d never had: a complete, real-time picture of every dollar moving through the company.
The foundation was Ramp's unlimited virtual and physical card program. Irish could now issue cards with recurring spend limits to departments, teams, and individual employees, each purpose-built for its use case and visible in a single dashboard. With every recurring charge tied to a specific card and owner, the zombie subscriptions that had quietly drained budget for months had nowhere to hide. And when a GL coding error occurred, Irish could correct it on the spot rather than routing it through a manual journal entry — a small fix that saved hours of downstream cleanup.
The bigger leap, though, was moving from visibility to intelligence. Ramp's Savings Insights actively scans spend patterns and surfaces opportunities the finance team wouldn't have found on their own, flagging duplicate vendor charges, catching unexpected cost increases, and recommending smarter billing cadences before waste compounds. It transformed Irish's role from chasing problems to preventing them.
"Ramp's savings insights are killer. We were automatically notified of duplicative spend, and we were immediately able to save more than $5,000 on Amazon Web Services."
— Irish Rose, Financial Controller at Eight Sleep
For employees, the experience was just as dramatic. Expense reporting went from a recurring source of confusion to something that practically ran itself — a photo of a receipt sent by text or email, automatically matched to the right transaction, no follow-up needed. The flood of questions to the finance team dried up. And with reconciliation handled by Ramp rather than by hand, close became something Eight Sleep's finance team could actually look forward to.
$2.8 million saved and the books close themselves
Since switching to Ramp, Eight Sleep has turned corporate spend from a liability into a competitive advantage. What started as a fix for zombie SaaS subscriptions and manual expense reporting has compounded into something much larger: more than $2.8 million in total savings, built up across spend controls, cashback earned on every dollar of card spend, and the elimination of costly legacy tools like Expensify and their old AP system.
Some of the most meaningful savings, though, have come from Ramp doing something their old setup simply couldn't: surfacing money Eight Sleep didn't know was leaking. Ramp's Savings Insights has proactively flagged nearly $590,000 in recoverable spend over the course of their partnership, from duplicate vendor subscriptions to smarter subscription billing cadences. The feature works by automatically scanning for patterns like redundant charges and unexpected spend increases, then alerting the finance team before the waste compounds.
"Closing the books with Ramp is effortless. Now, most of our expenses, payments, and accounting are all accurate and integrated within one platform."
— Irish Rose, Financial Controller at Eight Sleep
With the books no longer a burden, Irish and the team have the clarity and capacity to think bigger. For a company built around optimizing how humans recover and perform, it's fitting that their finance stack works the same way — quietly, efficiently, and better than ever before.
