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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 | Artefact | Satalia |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | 74.8/100 | 74.8/100 |
| Hourly rate | Contact for rates | Contact for rates |
| Team size | Larger team: 1000+ | 50-249 |
| Location | Paris, France | London, United Kingdom |
| Founded | — | 2008 |
| Last reviewed | Aug 5, 2026 | More recent review: Sep 7, 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 Satalia
Two of the systems here have been running for a decade: the Tesco last-mile engine built in 2015 still schedules 100,000 deliveries a day, and the PwC workforce optimizer built in 2016 still assigns 4,200 people across 6,600 client engagements. The newer work carries numbers too—DFS reports 18% better fuel efficiency and 19% less unplanned driver overtime, and a UK telco engagement documents £59 million in savings with 139 full-time staff working from the model's output. The specialty is…
Reviewed Sep 7, 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
- broader service offering — also covers AI Automation
Choose Satalia if you need
- closer collaboration at a smaller team scale
- an overall editorial score of 74.8/100
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
Satalia
Strengths
- The Tesco delivery system built in 2015 still schedules 100,000 deliveries a day; the 2016 PwC workforce optimizer still assigns 4,200 people to 6,600 engagements
- More than 20 PhDs and MScs in discrete mathematics and operations research, with founders from UCL Computer Science and the UK national security advisory role
- DFS and the UK telco engagements both publish outcome numbers: 18% fuel efficiency, £59M savings, 200x return on investment
Watch-outs
- WPP has owned Satalia since 2021 and recent published work is marketing AI—ask who staffs an optimization engagement now
- The strongest results are nine and ten years old—ask for a routing or scheduling system delivered in the last three years
- No rate and no engagement model are published—ask whether they sell projects, embedded teams or platform licenses
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 E-commerce experience, Artefact or Satalia?
- Both agencies show documented E-commerce work and have similar industry breadth. Compare directly on the agency profiles: Artefact and Satalia.
- Which scores higher overall, Artefact or Satalia?
- 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 Artefact and Satalia?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with Artefact and Satalia 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.