Create Private Benchmarks; Public Scores No Longer Matter
public benchmarks are saturated. every frontier model has trained against them, and the leaderboard tells you near nothing. we built ours from inside ramp — code no model has seen, graded against the bar our engineers ship to. every company running on AI needs its own.
Clean Finance Tools Empower Builders Over Admins
two years ago i started screenshotting @pontusab and @viktorhofte's work. two designers in stockholm. 14k github stars. no marketing team. midday looked cleaner than every finance tool i'd ever seen. their obsession: let builders to run their company, not the admin. agents...
Tiny Model Beats Opus 4.6 at Spreadsheet Navigation
we trained a .35b-parameter model to navigate spreadsheets better than opus 4.6. normal corporate card company stuff.
AI Is Erasing the Engineer‑vs‑non‑engineer Divide
no one would design a company today the way companies were designed two years ago. the line between engineers and everyone else was an artifact of who could write code. that line is gone. 70% of our merged PRs are written...
AI's Quiet Revolution: Automating Back‑Office Drudgery
the loud AI story is models replacing creative work. the quiet one is the drudgery of the back office evaporating — agents running procurement, AP, and renewals at 2am for three cents. the second one is bigger.
Build Invisible UIs: Prioritize Agent-First Interfaces
we've spent years trying to get people off of ramp. cards that enforce policy without a portal. receipts via text. memos and categorizations generated in the background. the best experience of ramp has always been the one you don't see. the...
AI Budget Experiments Reveal Measurable Safety Failure Modes
the @ramplabs team designed experiments to see if a coding agent could manage its own token budget. what we got was a running inventory of AI safety failure modes. - self-attribution bias: the agent grades its own work leniently. - instrumental...
AI Intensity Drives 20% Annual Growth Divide
the economy is splitting. AI is the fault line. on Ramp, Nov 2022 to Nov 2025, annualized revenue growth by AI intensity: - heavy AI users: +27% - moderate AI: +18% - no AI spend: +3% (≈ US nominal GDP) over 20 points a year...
Gain Full Visibility Into AI Spend with Ramp
Anthropic made its first dollar three years ago. last month it crossed $30B in revenue. that money is coming from somewhere, and your CFO probably can't tell you where. the problem isn't the spending. the companies on Ramp investing the most...
YC's First Stablecoin Deal Shows Instant Corporate Finance
YC's first stablecoin investment. settled on Solana, held in Ramp. we've been quietly building stablecoin accounts -treasury management natively in USDC. Totalis is one of our first alpha users the money moved in three onchain transactions. no wire delays, no intermediary banks,...
Instant AI Workspaces Turn Adoption Into Competitive Edge
99% of Ramp uses ai daily. but we noticed most people were stuck — not because the models weren't good enough, but because the setup was too painful and unintuitive for most. terminal configs, mcp servers, everyone figuring it out...
Direct Memory Sharing Cuts AI Costs 31% without Loss
we gave agents cards, a CLI, and now telepathy today agents share context by converting everything to tokens — slow, expensive, lossy. our research team built a way to skip that entirely. agents share relevant memory directly, cache to cache. 31%...
Relentless All‑
A year ago we told the company we'd become the most productive company in the world. Geoff lays out what happened. No master plan, just a relentless push to get every single person building. Revenue growth has accelerated four quarters...
AI Ready to Replace 500‑Year‑Old Finance System
Every company still runs its finances on a system from 1494 — when the fastest way to move information was a man on a horse. Wrote why I think AI and real financial networks are finally ready to replace it. Long read,...
Centuries of Tech, but Finance Tools Stay Static
In 532 years, we went from quill pens to quantum computers. The system businesses use to understand their own finances? Unchanged.