Ramp spent $1.5M on AI tokens in one week—because everyone started from a blank chat box
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-13
Ramp's CEO disclosed publicly that the company spent $1.5 million on AI tokens in a single week in May—and the CFO only found out from the bill.
The root cause was dumber than anyone would guess: every employee started every task from a blank chat box. A salesperson might spend an hour coaxing the model into a decent account plan, and that pattern repeated across the company—with no shared prompts, workflows, or context reuse, costs spiraled. A textbook case of unchecked spend in enterprise AI adoption.
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