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title: "Building Laminar: Ramp's Managed Agents Platform"
description: "Ramp, a fintech company, transformed from a traditional SaaS provider into a fully agentic platform, building Laminar as its in-house agent harness to drive this shift. After experimenting with external frameworks such as OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agents SDK, LangChain, and multiple internal passion-project agent frameworks, the team found the experience uncohesive and decided to consolidate. In May 2026, they created Laminar, a common platform named to evoke smooth, structured flow, aiming to abstract away common agent infrastructure so developers could ‘build agents, not infrastructure.’ Laminar now serves as the backbone for Ramp’s agentic products, including automating month-end close for accounting firms, tracking and optimizing token spend for finance teams, and providing a personal AI assistant to cardholders via SMS. Additionally, Ramp has built an in-house collaborative cloud coding agent and a desktop agent for knowledge work, all running on Laminar, demonstrating the platform’s power for real-world product development."
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# Building Laminar: Ramp's Managed Agents Platform

[Ramp](https://yomu.fyi/company/ramp) · Sam Kronick · Oct 20, 2026

**Type:** Problem & solution

## Summary

Ramp, a fintech company, transformed from a traditional SaaS provider into a fully agentic platform, building Laminar as its in-house agent harness to drive this shift. After experimenting with external frameworks such as OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agents SDK, LangChain, and multiple internal passion-project agent frameworks, the team found the experience uncohesive and decided to consolidate. In May 2026, they created Laminar, a common platform named to evoke smooth, structured flow, aiming to abstract away common agent infrastructure so developers could ‘build agents, not infrastructure.’ Laminar now serves as the backbone for Ramp’s agentic products, including automating month-end close for accounting firms, tracking and optimizing token spend for finance teams, and providing a personal AI assistant to cardholders via SMS. Additionally, Ramp has built an in-house collaborative cloud coding agent and a desktop agent for knowledge work, all running on Laminar, demonstrating the platform’s power for real-world product development.

## Context

Ramp, a fintech company, needed a cohesive platform for developing agentic products after experiencing fragmentation from using multiple external agent frameworks like OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agents SDK, and LangChain, as well as various internal prototypes.

## Approach / What changed

Ramp built an in-house agent platform called Laminar that abstracts common agent infrastructure, following the principle ‘build agents, not infrastructure,’ so product teams can focus on building agents without managing underlying systems.

## Takeaways

- After experimenting with multiple external agent frameworks like OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agents SDK, and LangChain, Ramp found that a unified in-house platform provided better developer and product cohesion.
- The Laminar platform was built around the principle ‘build agents, not infrastructure,’ abstracting common agent development concerns to improve developer velocity.
- Laminar enables Ramp to build diverse agentic products including accounting automation, token spend optimization, personal AI assistants via SMS, and internal coding and knowledge work agents.

## FAQ

### Why did Ramp build its own agent platform?

After trying many external frameworks like OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agents SDK, and LangChain, the team found the experience uncohesive and decided to consolidate learnings into a common platform for better developer and product alignment.

### What is the main principle behind Laminar?

The platform's motto is 'build agents, not infrastructure,' meaning it abstracts common agent infrastructure so product builders can focus on building agents without worrying about underlying systems.

### What types of agents has Ramp built on Laminar?

Ramp has built agents for automating month-end close, tracking token spend, a personal AI assistant via SMS, a collaborative cloud coding agent, and a desktop knowledge work agent.

**Tags:** [Agents](https://yomu.fyi/topic/agents), [Fintech](https://yomu.fyi/topic/fintech), [Platform](https://yomu.fyi/topic/platform)

- Source: [Ramp](https://builders.ramp.com/post/building-laminar)
- Source URL: https://builders.ramp.com/post/building-laminar
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