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 | Converteo | DEPT |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | Higher score: 70.8/100 | 60.3/100 |
| Hourly rate | Contact for rates | Contact for rates |
| Team size | Larger team: 250+ | |
| Location | Paris, France | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Founded | — | 2016 |
| Last reviewed | Aug 5, 2026 | More recent review: Aug 6, 2026 |
What we said about each
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 →Our take on DEPT
Signs is the most visible AI work here: a sign-language learning platform using computer vision to check the learner's signing, which reached more than 20 million people in its first week and recorded 20,000 signs learned in ten days. It is a collaboration with NVIDIA and the American Society for Deaf Children rather than a commissioned client project, which is worth knowing when you read it as evidence. The commissioned AI work is more ordinary and more useful as a guide: a return-value…
Reviewed Aug 6, 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 Converteo if you need
- larger team capacity for multi-stream or enterprise-scale programs
- disclosed specialization in E-commerce / Manufacturing
- broader service offering — also covers AI Consulting and AI Agents
- a higher overall editorial score
Choose DEPT if you need
- closer collaboration at a smaller team scale
- disclosed specialization in SaaS & B2B
- broader service offering — also covers Generative AI
Strengths and watch-outs
Both upsides and risks, straight from our editorial assessments.
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
DEPT
Strengths
- Named clients with figures attached across three sectors: retail returns, clinical search, sports fan engagement
- Computer vision applied to genuinely hard interaction problems, not generative demos
- International delivery capacity, so multi-market rollouts do not need a second agency
Watch-outs
- Signs is collaborative work with NVIDIA, not a client engagement—judge the commissioned cases separately
- Published AI work is weighted toward audience-facing products—ask for an operated system with an SLA if that is what you need
- At this scale, insist on knowing the named team, not the agency's aggregate credentials
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 scores higher overall, Converteo or DEPT?
- Converteo scores 70.8/100, 10.5 points higher than DEPT at 60.3/100. Both portfolio quality and business credibility feed into the score — see our methodology for the full breakdown.
- When should I consider both Converteo and DEPT?
- Consider running parallel discovery briefs with Converteo and DEPT 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.