Howdy lands on Ramp’s July 2026 software vendors list

Howdy.com was named to Ramp’s July 2026 Top Software Vendors ranking in the Freelance and Labor Marketplace category, standing out as the only team-building company on a Trending list dominated by AI infrastructure. The placement signals growing spend on senior engineers who build with AI, not just on the tools themselves.

Why it matters: - Howdy’s placement suggests businesses are spending more on senior engineers who can build with AI, not just on AI tools. - The ranking puts a human-talent company on a list otherwise dominated by foundational model providers, inference platforms and AI support bots. - The result points to a broader shift in engineering budgets toward experienced people who can own outcomes end to end.

What happened: - Howdy.com was named to Ramp’s Top Software Vendors ranking for July 2026. - The Austin-based company landed on Ramp’s “Trending” list in the Freelance and Labor Marketplace category. - Ramp defines the Trending list as vendors with breakout growth relative to their size. - Howdy was the only company on the Trending list that builds teams rather than software. - The rest of the list in that slice was made up of AI infrastructure vendors.

The details: - Ramp’s ranking is based on proprietary payments data from card and bill pay activity across more than 70,000 businesses on the Ramp spend platform. - The report reflects actual company spending, not editorial judgment or analyst selection. - Ramp Economics Lab, led by Ramp economist Ara Kharazian, produces the monthly Top Software Vendors series using aggregated, anonymized transaction data. - The series is built on Ramp Rate, Ramp’s data-backed vendor directory. - Howdy builds and embeds dedicated engineering teams for U.S. businesses. - The company handles sourcing, vetting and operations to help clients add senior engineering capacity quickly and in the same time zones. - Howdy positions its model around ownership rather than outsourcing. - The company says its engineers join client culture, contribute ideas and take responsibility for the product. - Howdy describes itself as “the human layer of the modern software stack.”

Between the lines: - The ranking lands as AI coding tools become more common and the bottleneck shifts from writing code to deciding what to build and judging whether the output is correct. - Howdy is benefiting from demand for engineers who understand the business, work autonomously and can evaluate AI-generated work. - Jacqueline Samira, Howdy’s CEO, said companies are building with both AI and engineers, and that the data shows it. - Samira said Howdy’s placement next to companies such as DeepSeek, Together AI and Fireworks AI confirms that the AI stack still depends on scarce human engineering talent. - Pradeepta Dash, CTO of Exceeds AI, said Howdy ranked in the top 5% of vendors he has worked with and described the engineers as people who own the product and work independently.

What’s next: - Howdy is positioned to keep benefiting if companies continue pairing AI tooling with senior engineering talent. - The Ramp data suggests customer spend may keep flowing toward vendors that help businesses build, review and ship software with human oversight. - Howdy’s next growth phase will likely depend on whether it keeps surfacing the kind of engineers companies now need most.

The bottom line: - Ramp’s July ranking frames Howdy as a rare human-services winner in an AI-heavy software spend market.