Agency Comparison
Adastra vs Netcompany
Comparing AI Consulting options: Frankfurt vs Copenhagen.
Comparison updated · Newest review
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 | Netcompany |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | 74.8/100 | 74.8/100 |
| Hourly rate | Contact for rates | Contact for rates |
| Team size | 250+ | 250+ |
| Location | Frankfurt, Germany | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Founded | 2000 | 2000 |
| Last reviewed | Sep 16, 2026 | More recent review: Sep 20, 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 Netcompany
Three named AI systems are documented as running rather than piloted: DSB's train-delay swarm, a model per railway line orchestrated by the firm's PULSE platform, which predicts arrival to within three minutes at 95 percent accuracy; Topdanmark's TopGPT, which masks personal data on locally hosted models before a retrieval step reads the customer's own policy, live around the clock since April 2024 and past 80,000 conversations by that November; and Copenhagen Airport's luggage-timestamp model…
Reviewed Sep 20, 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
- disclosed specialization in Manufacturing
- an overall editorial score of 74.8/100
Choose Netcompany if you need
- an overall editorial score of 74.8/100
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
Netcompany
Strengths
- Case studies name the firm's own engineers—Mathias Engel on the DSB swarm, Sine Abildgaard Rosenberg on Copenhagen Airport's hazard models—so you can see who built the work, not only who sold it
- Operational detail is published rather than implied: the airport's hazard model is re-evaluated every six months, and TopGPT is audited continuously through a generative-AI evaluation framework
- Facts check out away from the site: Netcompany Group A/S is a listed Danish company, CVR 39488914, founded in Copenhagen in 2000 and reporting 9,500-plus staff across more than 10 countries
Watch-outs
- Nothing published indicates cost or minimum engagement size—ask for a commercial frame early, since the documented work runs in years and at national scale (Copenhagen Airport 2015–2023)
- The three AI systems carrying figures are all Danish; if your brief sits in another country, ask which local team delivered the closest comparable and ask to speak to it
- Delivery runs on the firm's own platforms—PULSE, EASLEY AI, PERSEUS—so confirm what you would owe operationally, and on what terms, if you later move off them
Service coverage
Both agencies cover the same services — on this axis there is nothing to separate them, so decide on the evidence behind the work rather than its labels.
Industry coverage
Where the two overlap, and where each covers ground the other does not.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has more FinTech experience, Adastra or Netcompany?
- Both agencies show documented FinTech work. Adastra has the broader industry stack overall, with disclosed experience in Manufacturing beyond their shared focus.
- Which scores higher overall, Adastra or Netcompany?
- Both score equally well overall (74.8/100). The deciding factor is specialization — see the editorial quotes and Strengths sections above. Full methodology.
- When should I consider both Adastra and Netcompany?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with Adastra and Netcompany 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.