How to choose an AI agency
Five criteria do the sorting, set out in our guide how to choose your AI agency. Apply them to every provider, ourselves included.
- Execution: at the end of the assignment, do you leave with a document or with a tool that works?
- Proof and prices: results in euros and hours, a published rate.
- Certification: partner of a model provider, and which one.
- Staying power: who maintains the tool after delivery?
- Ownership: do the code, data and access remain yours?
Our public prices
All prices exclude VAT. One month is free per 12 months of AI Partnership, which can be cancelled by simple written notice.
- Strategic AI Audit: from €2,000, four packs from €2,000 to €10,000 depending on the number of people interviewed.
- AI Partnership Essential: €499 per month, 2 hours with your consultant, no commitment.
- AI Partnership Premium: €799 per month, 4 hours shared between leadership and teams, team training included.
- Enterprise Partnership: on quotation, from €2,000 per month, for an AI ecosystem in production.
- Custom Development: from €3,000, on quotation after scoping, payment by milestones, the code is yours.
The method
We start by locating where information gets lost, using the Trinity of Information: does the information exist, what medium does it live on, how does it flow? We then put a figure on each friction (time lost × loaded hourly rate × annual recurrence), in interviews with the people who actually run the processes. Then we install one thing at a time, because running several workstreams in parallel is the leading cause of failure in SMEs.
On the AI Partnership, each month brings a written report and an AI Maturity Score out of 10, calculated on five axes: processes, teams, tools, data, governance.
The proof
Our client cases are public. Audit figures are estimates of hidden costs or recoverable time, presented to and validated by the CEO; return on investment is estimated at around 2 months. The three audits below total over €820,000 a year, and each led to an assignment entrusted to Codito.
- VLT Notaires, 26 staff: 10 major frictions, €527,000 a year.
- Amourdedieu Groupe, construction, 100 employees: 14 frictions, €109,000 a year.
- PNP Agency, around 50 staff across 4 countries: 8 frictions, €185,000 to €215,000 a year.
- AXS Ingénierie: custom prospecting agent in service.
- GAEA Géotechnique, Gustave Rénovation, SGRP and JBS: supported through the AI Partnership.
When we are the wrong choice
A partner who never says no is not advising you. We point you elsewhere in these situations, and some audit conclusions amount to not automating. Our comparison, AI agency or freelancer, helps you decide.
- The information you need does not exist yet: the data must be created first.
- Volumes are too low to justify automation, or the process needs simplifying first.
- The task is short, well defined and non-critical: a freelancer is enough.
- AI is the core of your product: an in-house hire becomes relevant.
- You work in construction: our Codito BTP division is designed for you.