# Best Public Sector AI Agencies for Team Extension

> 6 agencies. Top-ranked: Transparity, KVL, Version 1.

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

## Ranked roster
1. **Transparity** — London, United Kingdom · €85-130/hr (directory-listed) · team 250+ · founded 2015 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, AI Automation, AI Agents · 8 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-23 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/transparity
2. **KVL** — Rotterdam, Netherlands · rate not published · team 10-49 · services: AI Consulting · 7 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-24 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/kvl
3. **Version 1** — Dublin, Ireland · rate not published · team 250+ · founded 1996 · services: AI Consulting, AI Development, Generative AI · 6 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-03 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/version-1
4. **In The Pocket** — Ghent, Belgium · rate not published · team 250+ · founded 2010 · services: AI Development, Generative AI, AI Consulting · 5 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-07 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/in-the-pocket
5. **Ultra Tendency** — Berlin, Germany · rate not published · team 50-249 · founded 2010 · services: AI Development, AI Consulting, Generative AI · 3 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-09 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/ultra-tendency
6. **Grepton** — Budapest, Hungary · rate not published · team 50-249 · founded 2001 · services: AI Automation, AI Agents, AI Consulting, AI Development · 5 documented client engagements with source URLs · reviewed 2026-09-23 · https://www.aiagencies.eu/agency/grepton


## About this market
Public bodies on this page are buying data platforms and adoption, and none of the documented public-sector work is an AI model in production. Ultra Tendency built SPACE, the European Central Bank's statistical production platform, taking submissions from every eurozone national central bank and carrying more than a thousand data scientists and statisticians, ninety-six business processes migrated with T-Systems; at Vattenfall it ran a zero-downtime Kafka migration and trained the client's teams to operate it. KVL built Hoogheemraadschap Rijnland's Azure data platform with a mixed internal taskforce and its own flexible staffing, and has recruited and trained junior data professionals for PGGM's BI cluster since 2018. Transparity's Knowledge Bank on low-carbon road materials, co-commissioned by Amey and North Lanarkshire Council for the ADEPT Live Labs 2 program, has 6,700 users since its October 2025 launch, with AI described as groundwork and chatbots planned; its Aston University work is a Copilot deployment with governance planning. In The Pocket's closest engagement is EORTC, a research organization, where three protocol tools were handed into the client's environment as a validated pilot.

For a public buyer, embedded staff have to leave the result behind, because the next procurement may not bring them back. The sorting question is what the in-house team was running the day the vendor left: Vattenfall's teams were trained to operate the cluster, Rijnland's taskforce was mixed from the start, EORTC took the tools in-house. Ask each candidate for that handover story, and separately whether the AI part exists yet.

## Questions buyers ask

### How many AI agencies work with team extension on public sector?
6 agencies in our directory combine verified team extension client evidence with documented Public Sector work. The current top-ranked are Transparity, KVL, Version 1 — 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 for public sector?
Published rates across this page's agencies run €85–130 per hour (median ~€108). Project totals depend on scope — the rate index at /rates breaks the computed bands down by region, country and team size.

### How is the team extension model verified?
Every agency here documents team extension 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 team extension 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