Popular payments platform Ramp says firms pouring money into one key investment are pulling away from the competition month after month.
In a new post on X, Ramp co-founder Eric Glyman says the firm looked at the 50,000 companies using the payments processor and found that those who aggressively spend in AI are leaving the competition in the dust.
“The gap is compounding… The ones using AI as leverage are pulling away from the ones that aren’t, and the gap is widening every month.
I see the split in our own data on company spending. Since 2023, the top quartile of AI spenders on our platform has more than doubled their revenue, while the bottom quartile has been essentially flat.”
According to Glyman, the data covers firms outside of the tech industry.
“A roofing company in Texas started using AI for estimates and job documentation in 2025, and now revenue is up 24%. A window installer in Utah, who has been using AI tools every month for over a year to streamline proposals and quotes, saw revenue grow by 59%. A five-person construction firm in Florida, doing over $20M in revenue, grew 65% last year and is now running multiple LLMs for contract drafting and paperwork that used to eat half their week.
The spread has grown every year, accelerating each time.”
The executive also notes that the dataset covers firms that use Ramp to automate finance, highlighting that it’s skewed toward early adopters and fast-growing companies. According to Glyman, the data suggests that the rest of the economy is far behind.
“There is more urgency than most people realize. In the era of AI, years are now months; months are now days. Waiting until the crack is up against you is how you end up on the wrong side of a permanent divide.
There’s comfort in the old ways, but clinging to nostalgia is how you get left behind. Embrace the new things, learn the new tools and work in new ways. You don’t have to move to Ramp. But you have to move. Because every day spent on the wrong side of the divide makes it harder to make the jump.”
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