# Best AI Agencies for Project-Based Work in Madrid

> 7 agencies. Top-ranked: Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento, Babel, Unlock Management.

Canonical page: https://www.aiagencies.eu/for/project-based/madrid
Generated: 2026-09-28 · Curated by Gabor Kiss · No paid placements — inclusion, score, and rank are never sold.

## Ranked roster
1. **Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento** — Madrid, Spain · rate not published · team 50-249 · founded 1989 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, Generative AI · 10 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-24 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/instituto-de-ingenieria-del-conocimiento
2. **Babel** — Madrid, Spain · rate not published · team 250+ · founded 2003 · services: AI Consulting, Generative AI, AI Development · 9 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-24 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/babel
3. **Unlock Management** — Madrid, Spain · €45-85/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2023 · services: AI Consulting, AI Agents, AI Development · 4 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-20 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/unlock-management
4. **Sngular** — Madrid, Spain · rate not published · team 1000+ · founded 2014 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-20 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/sngular
5. **Softspring** — Madrid, Spain · €50-75/hr (agency-confirmed) · team 2-9 · founded 2018 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, AI Automation · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-07 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/softspring
6. **Paradigma Digital** — Madrid, Spain · €20-40/hr (directory-listed) · team 250+ · founded 2007 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting, Generative AI · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-20 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/paradigma-digital
7. **Fantasy Space** — Madrid, Spain · €20-40/hr (directory-listed) · team 10-49 · founded 2020 · services: AI Development, AI Agents, AI Automation, AI Consulting · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-09 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/fantasy-space


## About this market
Project work in Madrid still sorts by the status word on the write-up. Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento publishes 57 project write-ups from 2015 to 2026; the ones marked implemented or in operation are utilities work, reservoir-inflow forecasting for Canal de Isabel II and SIPRESOLAR solar forecasting for Red Eléctrica, while SERMAS's allergy-note coding is described as a pilot. Babel's clearest AI delivery is a generative-AI platform WiZink runs in Spain and Portugal to review every customer interaction. Unlock Management's order-taking assistant for Ajusa sits inside the client's own Azure subnet against SAP.

The firms here describe the end of a project differently. Unlock Management sells fixed scope with weekly deliverables and says it does not run open-ended retainers. Fantasy Space works in agile sprints that end in a technical handover, with fixed proof-of-concept tiers of four to eight weeks and MVP tiers of three to five months. Paradigma Digital ran a Naturgy data project as a pilot followed by two implementation stages. Sngular delivers turnkey and has taken over operation of web apps and APIs it built. Softspring documents one AI build, a Gemini matcher for La psicóloga en casa designed so private patient data never reaches the model.

So the buyer question is what the project leaves behind and who runs it the month after. Ask a fixed-scope firm what the handover package contains, and an integrator whether operation is priced in or becomes a second contract. The curator notes that Fantasy Space's AI language is assisted development and integration and that many of the institute's write-ups predate 2017, so ask each candidate for a named system from the last two years that is still running.

## Questions buyers ask

### How many AI agencies work with project-based in Madrid?
7 agencies in our directory combine verified project-based client evidence with a Madrid base. The current top-ranked are Instituto de Ingeniería del Conocimiento, Babel, Unlock Management — ordered by depth of documented client evidence, then our editorial scoring (portfolio quality, credibility, completeness); placement is never paid.

### How much does an AI agency cost in Madrid?
Published rates across this page's agencies run €20–85 per hour (median ~€46). Project totals depend on scope — the rate index at /rates breaks the computed bands down by region, country and team size.

### How is the project-based model verified?
Every agency here documents project-based work on its own site or in a published case study, describing the engagement structure rather than a service-list claim. We never infer the model from portfolio tone, so this list only contains agencies that operate project-based engagements deliberately.

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Source: AIAgencies.eu — the curated register of European AI agencies. Rate provenance: "agency-confirmed" = disclosed via submission or claimed profile; "directory-listed" = Clutch or two agreeing B2B directories (lone unverified sources are never written). Full method: https://www.aiagencies.eu/methodology · Rate index: https://www.aiagencies.eu/rates