Why it matters
CEO Eric Glyman frames token spend as a third pillar of business cost after people and vendors. When a platform with $200B in annualized purchase volume builds token tracking natively, AI FinOps becomes default finance infrastructure.
Tokenmaxxing read
Tokenmaxxing thrives where finance can't see the meter. Ramp's bet — token-level visibility wired into the system that controls budgets and cards — is the attribution layer: tokens mapped to teams and outcomes, next to the bill.
Source takeaway
The article's strongest signal is positioning: Ramp grew TPV roughly 170% year-over-year in March 2026 and chose token spend management as a flagship category, treating AI consumption as the fastest-growing unmanaged cost line in business.
