Agency Comparison
appliedAI vs Pexon Consulting
Two top-rated AI Consulting agencies in Munich.
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 | appliedAI | Pexon Consulting |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | 64.3/100 | Higher score: 70.8/100 |
| Hourly rate | Contact for rates | €130-175/hr |
| Team size | Larger team: 50-249 | |
| Location | Munich, Germany | Munich, Germany |
| Founded | — | 2019 |
| Last reviewed | Aug 4, 2026 | More recent review: Sep 20, 2026 |
What we said about each
Our take on appliedAI
The Maschinenfabrik Reinhausen build is the one to read: a large language model on a skills-based architecture over a RAG knowledge base, in production, publishing roughly 45x faster Q&A, 1500x on automated extraction and 90% accuracy on base-analysis extraction. The published client list runs to Roche, Linde, Nokia, Vonovia and Giesecke+Devrient, and the G+D write-up tracks a named enterprise from "experimenting" to "practising" over two years rather than claiming a single win. Much of the…
Reviewed Aug 4, 2026
Read the full assessment →Our take on Pexon Consulting
Four named clients carry AI systems the write-ups describe as running rather than piloted: at Deutz, a private retrieval platform inside the client's own Azure tenant reached more than 5,000 users and took freight-invoice checking from three days per batch to eight minutes, about €240,000 a year; at Klinikum Landsberg am Lech, an Azure OpenAI speech-documentation system live since March 2025 had transcribed over 1,300 consultations and cut documentation effort by more than 90 percent; at…
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 appliedAI if you need
- closer collaboration at a smaller team scale
- broader service offering — also covers AI Agents and Generative AI
Choose Pexon Consulting if you need
- larger team capacity for multi-stream or enterprise-scale programs
- disclosed specialization in Public Sector
- broader service offering — also covers AI Automation
- a higher overall editorial score
Strengths and watch-outs
Both upsides and risks, straight from our editorial assessments.
appliedAI
Strengths
- One of the few listed agencies publishing hard speedup and accuracy figures from a production system
- AI Act and governance work is a stated practice line, not a blog topic
- An agent program with a published three-month path to a production-ready agent
Watch-outs
- Several reference pages describe use cases rather than named client engagements—ask which are live deployments
- No published rates, headcount or founding year; budget for enterprise procurement
Pexon Consulting
Strengths
- The Deutz write-up names the alternatives it rejected and why—a public LLM API instead of the client's own tenant, filtering in the interface instead of permission checks inside the retrieval step
- Client executives are quoted by name: Maik Tomuschat and Dr. Alexander Schnelke at Klinikum Landsberg am Lech, so there are people on the client side to ask for
- Microsoft Solutions Partner, AWS Advanced Tier and Google Cloud Partner, ISO 27001 stated, and each case study lists industry, stack, project duration and status
Watch-outs
- The site claims 400-plus projects and 100-plus customers against 89 published case studies—ask for the list behind the aggregate if breadth is what you are buying
- Visible leadership is five people, four in business roles beside one Head of Azure—ask which named engineers would build, and whether they sit in Germany or Cluj-Napoca
- Dozens of near-identical city landing pages sit beside the case studies—judge depth from the case studies, which carry stacks and numbers, not from the location pages
Service coverage
Where the two overlap, and where each covers ground the other does not.
Only appliedAI
Only Pexon Consulting
Industry coverage
Where the two overlap, and where each covers ground the other does not.
Pricing math
What a 12-week engagement at one full-time equivalent (~480 hours) costs at each agency’s published rate. An arithmetic projection, not a quote — real scopes move with seniority mix and team shape.
appliedAI
Contact for rates
Pexon Consulting
Rate: €130-175/hr
€62,400–€84,000
Only Pexon Consulting publishes a rate, so there is no gap to measure. appliedAI quotes per engagement — ask for a rate card early, since a comparison that starts on scope and ends on price tends to end late.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has more Manufacturing experience, appliedAI or Pexon Consulting?
- Both agencies show documented Manufacturing work. Pexon Consulting has the broader industry stack overall, with disclosed experience in Public Sector beyond their shared focus.
- Which scores higher overall, appliedAI or Pexon Consulting?
- Pexon Consulting scores 70.8/100, 6.5 points higher than appliedAI at 64.3/100. See our methodology for how scores are calculated.
- When should I consider both appliedAI and Pexon Consulting?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with appliedAI and Pexon Consulting 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.