Ramp
AI / ML EngineerAppliedAug 6, 2026

Reduce repeat international exception submissions

A policy explanation can be technically accurate and still fail to help someone act.

Specific guidance can reduce rework while revealing too much can weaken the control itself.

People aren’t trying to fight the policy—they just don’t know what proof we need.

Elodie Van den Berg · Assistant Controller

Maintains expense policy and close readiness across multiple international subsidiaries.

What pulls against what

  • actionable guidance vs. policy disclosure
  • automation coverage vs. reviewer confidence
  • global consistency vs. local policy nuance

What is at stake

Better guidance can reduce employee resubmissions and protect reviewer capacity during close

Why Ramp

At Ramp, this tends to matter where automated review meets varied spending policies.

Written for

Applied ML engineerLLM product engineerResponsible AI practitioner

This is the setup. The work is inside.

Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.