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Introducing Glass: Learn Things Once.
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gist
Ramp co-founder Eric Glyman launches Glass in an X Article (x.com/i/article/2109815621223358465): an internal AI workspace that turns employees' best prompts and workflows into shared company knowledge. After a $1.5 million token week, Ramp built Glass so every employee starts from what the company already learned, with shared skills, multiplayer sessions, Ramp Router model selection, and per-project cost meters.
ideas
- Access is not adoption. Glyman argues that handing everyone the best models and the most tokens produces expensive noise, not an AI-native company.
- Company learning leaks. Great prompts and workflows live in one person's chat history and vanish; Glass saves them as skills that anyone can start from.
- Small lessons compound. Glass learned from Finance to exclude U.S. firms with U.K. offices; 323 employees have made 6,500+ edits, and one saved prompt lifted captured feature requests from about 300 to 20,000 a month, per Ramp's chart.
- Costs need a meter. Every project shows live spend like a taxi meter, and Ramp Router picks a model per request; Ramp says its bill fell 30% overnight.
- Learn things once. Asked by David Senra how Ramp moves fast, Glyman answers that each lesson is captured once and reused by everyone.
quotes
“It’s like giving every employee a Steinway and expecting a symphony. What you actually get is a lot of expensive noise.”
“You do brilliant work. And almost none of it is seen twice.”
“No model ships with your company's brain.”
“Well, I sent David four words back: “We learn things once.””