Top 1% of U.S. Firms Spend $90,000 Per Employee Annually on AI

According to Ramp's AI Index—which tracks actual corporate card spending across 70,000+ U.S. companies—the top 1% of firms spend $7,500 per employee monthly on AI tools and services. For a 50-person team, that amounts to $4.5 million annually, suggesting these organizations run AI as core infrastructure rather than discretionary tooling. The spending indicates proprietary model deployments, high-volume API inference, or specialized vertical SaaS built on foundation models.