What Comte Bureau does

Comte Bureau is a privately held design agency founded in 2008 and headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The firm operates with a headcount in the 11-50 range and positions itself around service design and organizational design aimed at addressing societal challenges. Its offering is delivered through a founder-led team, with co-founders Oystein Evensen (CEO and Owner) and Erlend Nyhammer still in senior roles.

The firm's business model is consistent with a professional-services consultancy: project-based engagements in service and organizational design, presumably with public-sector, nonprofit, or mission-driven clients given the stated societal-challenges orientation. No pricing model, packaged products, or proprietary methodology is disclosed in the available material. The website (comte.no) is the only referenced commercial channel; no app, API, SDK, or technology platform is indicated.

The company's operational and financial footprint is small and opaque. No revenue, funding, ownership structure beyond founder equity, customer references, partnerships, awards, or geographic footprint data is available. The firm appears to operate as a stable boutique consultancy rather than a venture-backed or growth-stage entity.

Name

Comte Bureau

Website

https://comte.no

Company type

Private

Founded year

2008

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Comte Bureau is an Oslo-based design agency founded in 2008 that delivers service and organizational design engagements aimed at societal challenges. It operates as a small, founder-led boutique consultancy serving mission-driven clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Design Consulting Services

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

Keywords

• Service design
• Organizational design
• Design consulting
• Innovation strategy
• Social impact design

Headquarters

HQ city

Oslo

HQ country

Norway

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Comte Bureau is a design agency that helps clients address societal challenges through service design and organizational design. The firm works with organizations to reimagine services and structures, applying design-led methods to solve complex social and institutional problems. It operates as a consulting studio delivering strategic design work to mission-driven clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Service Design Design-led consulting engagements to redesign and improve public and organizational services for clients tackling societal challenges.
• Organizational Design Consulting engagements to help organizations reshape structures, operating models, and internal processes to better address societal objectives.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Direct peers

• Board of Innovation: Strategy and innovation firm advising corporates and governments on business model and organizational innovation — overlapping with Comte Bureau's organizational design focus, particularly in the Nordic-Belgian corridor.
• Livework: Boutique service design consultancy with European roots helping public and private organizations redesign services and operating models — closely comparable in niche, methodology, and boutique scale.
• IDEO: Pioneering design firm that helped institutionalize design thinking, service design, and organizational transformation for global clients — the archetypal direct peer to Comte Bureau's service and organizational design offering.
• Designit (Wipro): Strategy and service-design consultancy, now part of Wipro, with strong Nordic roots and an explicit focus on designing services, organizations, and customer experiences — a near-direct comparable to Comte Bureau's practice.
• ReD Associates: Strategy and innovation consultancy combining qualitative social-science research with service and experience design for large clients — a strong peer on the organization- and service-design axis.

Broad incumbents

• frog (Capgemini Engineering): Global design and innovation consultancy (now part of Capgemini) that historically competed head-to-head with niche service-design boutiques. Comparable services but delivered through a much larger, multi-region platform.
• Fjord (Accenture Song): Global service-design consultancy within Accenture, pioneering design-led transformation across public sector and enterprise — a comparable offering scaled through a global platform.
• Kantar (Consulting & Insights): Global insights and consulting group with significant service-design and organizational-change practices serving large enterprises and public-sector clients — competes for the same transformation mandates at a much larger scale.

Regional players

• Kontrapunkt: Nordic strategic design firm offering brand, communication and service design to Scandinavian clients — a directly comparable Norwegian-headquartered boutique competitor in the regional market.
• Snøhetta: Norwegian-origin design and architecture firm operating across architecture, landscape, and graphic/identity design — a Scandinavian design peer with similar origin footprint but broader creative scope.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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