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Extended Stay AmericaExtended Stay America Standardizes Software Delivery on OpenAI
Extended Stay America, a consumer discretionary organization in the United States, uses GPT-4o from OpenAI to support engineering for developers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because software delivery has a clear owner |
| Risk and compliance | GPT-4o is the governed place developers use for engineering |
| Capability | New joiners can see how engineering actually runs |
Story
Consumer Discretionary work at Extended Stay America spans more than one site, even when headquarters sits in the United States. Software delivery was splitting across regional habits. Developers asked for a shared way to run engineering without freezing local judgment.
OpenAI (GPT-4o) is what they standardized on. OpenAI develops foundation models and ChatGPT Enterprise, used by companies to build assistants, analyze documents, and speed knowledge work. Extended Stay America uses it as the system of record for software delivery, with developers as the primary operators and other groups coming in through the same queue.
Leaders get a picture they can actually walk. Teams get fewer mystery statuses. The story is about operating change, not an unpublished percentage.
