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 | Rewire |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | Higher score: 74.8/100 | 64.3/100 |
| Hourly rate | Contact for rates | Contact for rates |
| Team size | Larger team: 1000+ | |
| Location | Paris, France | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Founded | — | — |
| Last reviewed | More recent review: Aug 5, 2026 | Aug 4, 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 Rewire
The impact studies are the most consistently quantified set in the register: Eneco's personalized engagement platform delivering recommendations to two million households automatically, a pricing engagement reporting an 11% profit increase, and clinical-trial site selection that widened the eligible patient pool by 40% and picked fifteen sites contributing a quarter of the enrollment target. Named clients run to bol. com, ABN AMRO, Rabobank, Eneco, Heineken, KPN and NS, though the deeper…
Reviewed Aug 4, 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 Manufacturing
- broader service offering — also covers AI Automation and AI Agents
- a higher overall editorial score
Choose Rewire if you need
- closer collaboration at a smaller team scale
- disclosed specialization in Healthcare
- broader service offering — also covers Generative AI
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
Rewire
Strengths
- Publishes outcome numbers on most engagements, including profit and forecast-accuracy figures rather than adoption metrics
- The Eneco platform is running unattended at two-million-household scale, which is a rare thing to be able to check
- In-house academy means the capability can stay with your team rather than leaving with the consultants
Watch-outs
- The most detailed studies anonymize the client by sector—ask for a reference in yours before committing
- No published rates; anchor with the EU €100-200/h band and expect program-scale pricing
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 Rewire?
- Both agencies show documented E-commerce work and have similar industry breadth. Compare directly on the agency profiles: Artefact and Rewire.
- Which scores higher overall, Artefact or Rewire?
- Artefact scores 74.8/100, 10.5 points higher than Rewire at 64.3/100. Both portfolio quality and business credibility feed into the score — see our methodology for the full breakdown.
- When should I consider both Artefact and Rewire?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with Artefact and Rewire 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.