Under the leadership of Co-CEO Julia Stadler, the company has taken a forward-looking approach to modernization—embedding AI into everyday work as a core productivity layer. Since 2023, STADLER has pursued a clear principle: every employee working on a computer should use AI to improve speed, quality, and collaboration.

STADLER adopted OpenAI's ChatGPT to remove this friction, selecting it for its output quality, speed, and immediate usability.

After evaluating alternatives, ChatGPT consistently delivered more structured, context-aware, and practically useful results. Just as importantly, it enabled immediate value—teams could start generating usable outputs from day one.

The rollout combined bottom-up experimentation with top-down support. Employees were encouraged to explore use cases, while leadership provided company-wide access, training, and clear guardrails.