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Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too

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Rippling is launching Data Cloud, a tool that lets companies track whether employees are getting real value from AI spending. CEO Parker Conrad showed how it caught one employee burning $30,000 annually on Claude with little ROI, and flagged engineers generating "AI slop." Rippling also launched same-day payroll banking, competing with Ramp.

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