STADLER is embedding OpenAI's ChatGPT across its 650 employees worldwide to accelerate drafting, summarizing and decision-making across the business.
The 230-year-old, family-owned manufacturer of automated waste sorting plants has made artificial intelligence (AI) a core productivity layer for every desk-based worker, positioning the tool as a standard for speed, quality and collaboration.
The company said in an announcement it selected ChatGPT for output quality, speed and immediacy, combining bottom-up experimentation with top-down access, training and guardrails. “In many teams, people were spending too much time turning raw knowledge into usable output—summarizing, translating, drafting. We knew there had to be a better way.” —Julia Stadler, Co-CEO.
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STADLER reports measurable gains after broad adoption: 125+ custom GPTs created, 30-40% time savings on routine knowledge tasks, 2.5x faster time to first draft on average and >85% daily active usage. Teams now begin with structured outputs and concentrate on refinement and decisions, improving consistency and reducing friction. “The most meaningful signal is how often people come back to it. When employees use it multiple times a day without being asked, you know it’s delivering real value.” —Raphael Fricker, Head of IT.
Looking ahead, STADLER says it will move from AI as an assistant to AI as an execution layer by integrating agents that gather information, generate outputs, validate standards and route work for approval, extending the tool from drafting into end-to-end workflows.
The recap
- STADLER deploys ChatGPT across 650 employees worldwide for knowledge work
- 30-40% time savings on common knowledge tasks reported
- Plans to integrate AI agents into core workflows
