Ramp Economics Lab
Key insights and analysis of business spend and economic data from Ramp's team of economists.
Latest Research
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.Mar 23
The Ramp Effect: out-of-policy spending declines over time on RampNew data shows that over two years, companies on Ramp see a 62% decline in the rate of out-of-policy spend events.Mar 18
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%.Mar 11
How does your travel policy compare? Ramp data shows what's standardBusiness travel is still taking off, but how much should companies be spending?Mar 9
Top SaaS vendors on Ramp (March 2026)Our list of the fastest-growing and trending vendors based on Ramp's latest data shows compute and hosting providers for AI agents are on the rise.Mar 4
AI's first substitution: freelancersFirm-level spending on freelance marketplaces and AI model providers from 2021 to 2025 shows those that spent the most on freelancers shifted to AI the fastest.Feb 18