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Side by side
Published data on both agencies. Where one side measurably differs, the dot marks it: the higher score, the lower published rate, the larger team, the more recent review. Which of those is an advantage depends on your brief.
| Attribute | Adastra | ADVISORI |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | Higher score: 74.8/100 | 52.8/100 |
| Hourly rate | Contact for rates | Contact for rates |
| Team size | Larger team: 250+ | 50-249 |
| Location | Frankfurt, Germany | Frankfurt, Germany |
| Founded | 2000 | 2014 |
| Last reviewed | More recent review: Sep 16, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 |
What we said about each
Our take on Adastra
NLB is the study that settles the deployment question: the Slovenian bank put an agentic-AI control layer and its first use case into production in five months, with identity-based approvals through Entra ID, separated development, test and production environments, cost monitoring on Grafana dashboards and a published 80% cut in the time and cost of standing up each further use case. Two more named systems sit behind it—GenAI enterprise search for KWS on Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch and…
Reviewed Sep 16, 2026
Read the full assessment →Our take on ADVISORI
An IT consultancy that reaches AI through regulation rather than the other way round, which is the right order for its market. The practice names NIS2, DORA, the EU AI Act, ISO 27001 and the Cyber Resilience Act, and the AI work is attached to that rather than sold beside it. Two published engagements carry real AI substance: generative AI for process optimization at a German technology group, where the stated result was cutting AI implementation time to a few weeks alongside earlier error…
Reviewed Aug 5, 2026
Read the full assessment →Best for
Where each agency measurably leads on the published data — team capacity, declared specializations, editorial scoring, and rates where both publish them. Use these to match an agency to your project priorities.
Choose Adastra if you need
- larger team capacity for multi-stream or enterprise-scale programs
- broader service offering — also covers Generative AI
- a higher overall editorial score
Choose ADVISORI if you need
- closer collaboration at a smaller team scale
- broader service offering — also covers AI Automation
Strengths and watch-outs
Both upsides and risks, straight from our editorial assessments.
Adastra
Strengths
- Client executives go on the record by name and title—NLB's CIO and AI architect, GZ Media's print production director, Magna Bohemia's CEO—so references are traceable before the first call
- German delivery is not a sales address: four offices with street addresses in Frankfurt, Wolfsburg, Munich and Hannover, a named German CEO and a named German AI lead
- The German-language index lists further AI engagements at E.ON, KUKA, ams OSRAM and Hyundai, so the German book is not one story deep
Watch-outs
- No rate is published anywhere read—ask for a blended day rate and for the split between German and Czech or Slovak delivery before comparing bids
- The 150-plus AI specialists and 20-plus years are the firm's own figures—ask how many sit in the German practice and who would staff your engagement
- Governance is the visible strength; if you need the model built and evaluated, ask for the evaluation method and accuracy numbers behind a delivered use case
ADVISORI
Strengths
- Regulatory practice is the foundation, not an add-on—DORA, NIS2, the EU AI Act and ISO 27001 are named across the offering
- 120-plus employees and operating since 2014, which is real capacity for a program that has to survive an audit
- Publishes its own AI product alongside the consulting, so the engineering is not purely advisory
Watch-outs
- Both AI cases are anonymized by sector and neither publishes a client name—ask for a reference in your regulatory perimeter
- One of the three published cases is digital transformation rather than AI; confirm which practice you are buying
Service coverage
Where the two overlap, and where each covers ground the other does not.
Industry coverage
Both agencies cover the same industries — on this axis there is nothing to separate them, so decide on the evidence behind the work rather than its labels.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has more FinTech experience, Adastra or ADVISORI?
- Both agencies show documented FinTech work and have similar industry breadth. Compare directly on the agency profiles: Adastra and ADVISORI.
- Which scores higher overall, Adastra or ADVISORI?
- Adastra scores 74.8/100, 22 points higher than ADVISORI at 52.8/100. Both portfolio quality and business credibility feed into the score — see our methodology for the full breakdown.
- When should I consider both Adastra and ADVISORI?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with Adastra and ADVISORI if your project spans multiple workstreams, you want competitive proposals to compare scope and approach, or you're undecided between the specialization angles each brings (see the Best for cards above). Most engagements ultimately go with one — but the parallel-brief phase is a low-cost way to validate fit.
Read the full reviews
A side-by-side is a starting point. The full assessments carry the portfolio analysis, documented engagements, and the evidence behind every strength and watch-out above.