
How Butler Plus Uses OutSystems and AI to Transform Business Operations | Ricky Rodriguez
What happens when AI moves beyond experimentation and becomes part of how a business actually operates? In this episode of Drag & Drop, Feroz Khan sits down with Ricky Rodriguez, Senior Director of Business Operations and Systems at Butler Plus, to explore how the company is using OutSystems and AI to transform a large-scale service-based business. Butler Plus operates across more than 1,200 communities in 34 states, with around 1,300 butlers carrying out services in the field. At one point, the business was manually reviewing thousands of images every night to understand how those services had been delivered. Today, Butler Plus is using OutSystems and AI to score field services, analyse images, surface insights faster and bring areas including scheduling, payroll and client success together in one platform. As Ricky explains, OutSystems has evolved from a development tool into their operating system. The conversation also explores where AI actually delivers business value, why companies should challenge existing processes before automating them, how Butler Plus is exploring agentic AI, and why understanding human behaviour can sometimes be more important than understanding the technology itself. Ricky also shares his perspective on OutSystems Mentor, AI-assisted development and how teams could increase development speed without introducing unnecessary risk. In this episode, you’ll learn: ➤ Why 48 hours can be the difference between explaining a problem and preventing one ➤ How Butler Plus decides which processes are worth applying AI to ➤ Why knowing what “good” looks like matters before putting AI into production ➤ How AI can help turn field-service data into actionable insights ➤ Why automating an existing process isn’t always the right answer ➤ How agentic AI could streamline the journey from proposal to contract and service delivery ➤ What Ricky has learned from building and scaling with OutSystems ➤ Why OutSystems Mentor could unlock more speed without simply generating more code ➤ Why understanding people may be just as important as understanding the technology Tell us what you loved about this Episode. Website: itracusa.com Contact: Feroz Khan 🎙️ This episode is brought to you by ITRAC. ITRAC helps organizations build Enterprise AI capability. We support enterprise teams through: • Specialist AI & OutSystems Talent • Enterprise AI Training & Enablement • OutSystems Training & Solutions • Enterprise AI Community From developing your existing teams to finding specialist talent, ITRAC helps organizations build the skills and capability needed to adopt AI effectively. ITRAC | Building Enterprise AI capability through talent, training and community.