Blackstone brought Ramp co-founder and co-CEO Eric Glyman to detail how corporate AI spending actually looks inside 85000 companies paying through Ramp.
Glyman said the median is $12 per employee per month on AI and nearly $10000 for the top 1 percent.
He framed tokens as a third pillar beside payroll and vendor spend.
Glyman said firms at $30 per employee per month hired 12 percent more than non-adopters.
Over three years the top AI quartile roughly doubled revenue while the bottom grew about 10 percent, per Ramp data.
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He said AI spend across Ramp grew 21 times in the last year and 55 percent of firms now pay for AI versus 22 to 25 percent in census estimates.
For finance teams the shift is to budget inference like seats, with Glyman pegging inference at $160 to $180 billion against $8 to $10 trillion in US white collar labor.
Blackstone operating partner Tim Coolican said portfolio LLM spend is up 20 times year over year while employment rose 2.7 percent.
