Comparison updated August 2026
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 | Artefact | Converteo |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | Higher score: 74.8/100 | 70.8/100 |
| Hourly rate | Contact for rates | Contact for rates |
| Team size | Larger team: 1000+ | 250+ |
| Location | Paris, France | Paris, France |
| Founded | — | — |
| Last reviewed | Aug 5, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 |
What we said about each
Our take on Artefact
The Bpifrance engagement is the one to read first. Artefact took agentic AI from experiment to scale across 500 employees at a public investment bank, and what came out of it was not one assistant but more than 1,500 individual agents built by the business teams themselves. That is a different claim from most agentic case studies, which describe a system rather than an adoption curve.
Reviewed Aug 5, 2026
Read the full assessment →Our take on Converteo
Sharlie, the voice agent behind Orange's Sosh brand, is the most completely documented build in this register, and the detail is the point. Converteo committed to a voice-to-voice architecture in April 2024, before the model reached general availability, specifically to avoid a later migration off a speech-to-text pipeline—a decision that bought roughly one second of latency against three. Around thirty specialized agents hand off between themselves, escalate to a human, and act on Orange's…
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 Artefact if you need
- larger team capacity for multi-stream or enterprise-scale programs
- disclosed specialization in FinTech
- broader service offering — also covers AI Automation
- a higher overall editorial score
Choose Converteo if you need
- closer collaboration at a smaller team scale
- broader service offering — also covers AI Marketing
Strengths and watch-outs
Both upsides and risks, straight from our editorial assessments.
Artefact
Strengths
- Agentic AI evidenced at adoption scale rather than pilot scale: 500 employees, then more than 1,500 agents emerging from the business itself
- Outcome figures published on the cases that carry them—two minutes for a market study, 15 points of revenue-prediction accuracy, seventy airports
- Over a hundred client pages published, so a buyer can find work in their own sector rather than accepting an analogue
Watch-outs
- 2,500 people across thirty-two offices—confirm which office delivers, who is named on the team, and how much is subcontracted
- Many of the published cases carry no numbers at all; the strong ones are strong, but the portfolio is uneven on outcomes
Converteo
Strengths
- One engagement documented end to end, including the architecture decision, its latency cost, the evaluation rig and the kill switch—no other agency here publishes at that level
- Evaluation as a discipline rather than an afterthought: virtual clients, an LLM-as-a-judge scoring price accuracy and brand posture, and an AI bug bounty before exposure to customers
- Ten-plus named clients across retail, energy and industry, with the work described case by case rather than listed as logos
Watch-outs
- Outside the voice-agent work, most published cases are data and marketing engineering—confirm which practice your engagement lands in
- No headcount, founding year or rates published; scale and price both have to be established in conversation
Service coverage
Where the two overlap, and where each covers ground the other does not.
Industry coverage
Where the two overlap, and where each covers ground the other does not.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has more E-commerce experience, Artefact or Converteo?
- Both agencies show documented E-commerce work. Artefact has the broader industry stack overall, with disclosed experience in FinTech beyond their shared focus.
- Which scores higher overall, Artefact or Converteo?
- Artefact scores 74.8/100, 4 points higher than Converteo at 70.8/100. Both portfolio quality and business credibility feed into the score — see our methodology for the full breakdown.
- When should I consider both Artefact and Converteo?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with Artefact and Converteo 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.