Ramp and the AI Opportunity

Ramp’s mission is to save customers time and money . That’s a clear, timeless mission that Ramp can build against using whichever technology helps achieve it best.

It’s an interesting question to think about. Profit is the ultimate arbiter of a business’ financial success. It’s not just about saving money – spending too little can be as damaging as spending too much – but about investing money intelligently in the things that produce outcomes.

Ramp keeps finding itself in the right place at the right time because the company is built to be in the right place at the right time, executing against a mission that will never go out of style with a structure and team that allows it to take advantage of new ways to fulfill it.

It wasn’t about a corporate card, or even just building better software for finance teams to use, but about improving every part of the business that involves a transaction.

Finance is the nervous system of the company. Everything that a business does flows through finance in some way, and no department has a better bird’s-eye view into how the company operates.

The data that the finance team has is extremely valuable for AI. The data generated by financial transactions - what companies are buying, how much they're spe... See more

“ Owning the workflow” means embedding the product so deeply into the customer's operations that it's not just a tool, it’s the nervous system of a department.

“What is it worth to be the company that quite literally makes every company more profitable?”

Finance is the nervous system of the company. Everything that a business does flows through finance in some way, and no department has a better bird’s-eye view into how the company operates.