Ara Kharazian
Lead Economist, Ramp
Ara Kharazian is the lead 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, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, NBC News, ABC News, NPR's Planet Money, Bloomberg, the Guardian 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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How much does it cost to be AI-pilled?
Ramp economist Ara Kharazian publishes the latest Ramp data on AI adoption, a rebound for OpenAI vs. Anthropic, and the cost of being AI-pilled.
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Top SaaS Vendors on Ramp (June 2026)
Ramp economist Ara Kharazian analyzes June Ramp data showing DeepSeek’s breakout growth, rising spend on open-source model access platforms.
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Anthropic beats OpenAI on business adoption
Anthropic just passed OpenAI in paid adoption rate for the first time, according to the latest Ramp AI Index. But Anthropic faces three underrated risks ahead.
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Ramp's economic data is now accessible via Claude, ChatGPT, Bloomberg, and more
You can now query Ramp’s economic data – Ramp Rate, AI Index, and more – from your AI assistant, terminal, or directly inside platforms like Bloomberg.
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Top SaaS Vendors on Ramp (May 2026)
AI inference platforms and web deployment tools dominate this month’s list of the fastest-growing SaaS vendors among Ramp customers.
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The death of SaaS has been greatly exaggerated
Despite much conversation about a "SaaSpocalypse," Ramp data shows that traditional SaaS vendors have not moved to a consumption-based pricing model.