Named specialists. Every domain, every language, reviewed twice.
Oncology papers. Contracts. Technical manuals. Novels. Ad campaigns. Each one goes to a named specialist who works in that field — and signs off on what they wrote.
Every pair has a native speaker of the target language who also knows the subject. If your language is not on the list, ask. We almost certainly cover it.
All translators are native speakers of the target language with verified domain expertise
Clinical oncology. Ad campaigns. Court filings. Philosophy. We assign every project to a specialist in that exact field. A second one checks it before you see it.
Every subject, at the right register. Your text goes to a native expert in the field — not a generalist with a dictionary.
New texts and full rewrites. We write in the language your audience thinks in, not a word-swap of the original.
Literary translation and original long-form work. Voice and tone survive the crossing.
Broadcast-grade subtitles and exact transcription. A human editor times every line and names every speaker.
Taking a company into a new market. Not just the words — the formats, the claims, the tone that market expects.
Over 5,000 CVs placed at international firms. We do not translate your CV. We rebuild it for the market you are entering.
A specialist reads your text line by line. Terms, register, consistency, final polish.
Anything can produce a sentence in four seconds. Deciding which sentence your reader will believe is the whole job.
That decision belongs to people with careers in the subject — oncologists, qualified lawyers, engineers, published authors, ad copywriters. Four things follow from that.
These are not extra services — they are the people behind the ones listed above. Every project is routed to whichever of these desks owns the subject.
Clients are named only with written permission. Where a project is confidential, the sector and the problem are described and the name is withheld — which is how it should be.
The source moved between three registers on a single page — clinical precision on biomolecular and psychiatric care, the restraint of Swiss luxury hospitality, and the warmth of a director's personal address. Rendered flatly, it would have read either as a hospital leaflet or as marketing; the brief was to keep all three voices intact and let none of them slip.
Clinical terminology was fixed against recognised medical usage before a word of body copy was written, then the prose was rebuilt so that the science stayed exact while the hospitality sections kept their ease. The result reads as though it were composed in the target language, not carried across into it.
Editorial fashion copy lives or dies on cadence. The piece leaned on a quoted maxim, on rhythm, and on a very particular register — assured, intimate, a little playful — that a literal translation would have reduced to a press release. The task was to make an English reader feel what the original reader felt, not merely to convey what it said.
The translation was reworked line by line for rhythm and idiom, with the quotation set in its recognised English form and the surrounding prose retuned so the voice carried. What arrived was ready to sit on the page beside native editorial copy.
A full internal handbook for an international freight operator: transport specifications, multi-country routing, customs procedure and staff protocol, translated out of Chinese for a Russian-speaking team. Every figure — tonnages, container dimensions, temperature classes, transit windows — had to survive intact, and industry terminology had to match what logistics professionals actually use rather than a dictionary equivalent.
Specialist freight and customs terminology was verified against real trade usage, numeric data was checked twice against the source, and the confidential contents were handled strictly under NDA. The client received a document their team could operate from on day one, with nothing lost in the crossing.
Real client feedback. Names are shortened and companies withheld under our standard confidentiality — the words are theirs.
We ran a three-day immuno-oncology congress: six hundred delegates, four parallel tracks, English–Russian–French throughout. Our real worry was the simultaneous interpreting on the CAR-T sessions, where the terminology moves faster than the dictionaries can keep up. The team asked for the abstracts and slides ten days ahead, came back with a four-hundred-term glossary, and sent it to us to check against our own medical editors. Three days, and not a single complaint from a speaker. The poster session deserves a special mention — the interpreters held chuchotage almost without a pause.
They translated a full Phase III clinical-trial package: the protocol, the investigator's brochure, and the patient informed-consent forms. The consent forms were the hardest part — the wording had to stay legally exact while reading at the eighth-grade level our ethics committee insists on. We cleared approval first time, with no queries on the language at all.
An annual report — a hundred and eighty pages, IFRS, eleven working days from final layout to delivery. They ran it with three translators and a reviewer, a shared translation memory, and a daily terminology check against our treasury team. Every figure in every table reconciled down to the last footnote. That sounds like the bare minimum, but on the evidence of previous suppliers it plainly isn't.
Due diligence on a cross-border deal: around nine hundred pages in a fortnight, German and English. We didn't need literary polish — we needed predictability, so that counsel on both sides read the same terms the same way. They proposed a two-tier approach: a fast working translation for internal screening, and a certified version only for the documents that actually went into the deal. It saved us roughly a third of the budget.
A series of analytical pieces on sanctions compliance for our legal journal. The author is a practising barrister — dense style, a great many conditional constructions. The translator didn't smooth them away, but reworked the syntax so the Russian reads without a stumble. Once, they sent back a question about exactly what the author meant in an ambiguous subordinate clause — and they were right: the author conceded the ambiguity and reworded the original.
Apostilled translations of corporate documents to register a structure across three jurisdictions. Every one was accepted by the registrars without a single return. For us that's the whole test: any return means a fortnight lost.
They localised our technical documentation and developer materials — API reference, guidelines, release notes. The key thing was that they worked straight inside our repository through a connector rather than emailing files back and forth. The markup never broke once; variables and placeholders were left untouched. They maintain the glossary, but it lives with us and we can edit it.
Simultaneous interpreting at our annual developer conference. Not a trivial brief: the speakers talk fast, they joke, and half the terms are anglicisms the audience already knows — forcing them into Russian would have done more harm than good. The interpreters felt that and struck a sensible balance. In the post-event survey, interpreting quality scored 4.7 out of 5.
Catalogues and lot descriptions for international clients. This isn't technical translation — tone is everything: a villa on the Côte d'Azur and a townhouse in London should read differently, and that difference has to carry in Russian too. The texts came back needing almost no editing, which for our category is rare. And they were meticulous on the details: floor areas, units of measurement, the naming of architectural periods.
They supported a negotiation with a foreign buyer: consecutive interpreting in the meetings and translation of the document package. The interpreter arrived prepared — they knew the structure of the deal in advance and never slowed the conversation with clarifications. The client thanked them separately for their tact: when it comes to discussing price, that matters more than you'd think.
We are working toward formal certification against the international standards below, through an IAF-accredited body. Until each certificate is issued we do not claim to hold it — the process itself already shapes how we work: qualified linguists, a second-linguist review on every project, and confidential handling by default.
The industry standard for translation providers. Requires qualified translators, mandatory revision by a second linguist, documented project management and post-delivery correction. This is the certificate enterprise buyers filter on. For international recognition, obtain it from an IAF-accredited body (SGS, TÜV, Bureau Veritas, Intertek).
Certification in progressInformation security management. Relevant to you because clients send confidential material: legal filings, clinical data, unpublished manuscripts. Legal and medical buyers increasingly require it before sending anything.
Certification in progressGoverns the post-editing of machine output. Worth holding precisely so you can state where the line sits: full human translation as standard, post-editing only when a client asks for it and is told exactly what they are buying.
Certification in progressMembership of a professional body signals accountability and a formal complaints procedure. We are pursuing membership with the recognised industry associations — among them the ATA, ITI, GALA and ELIA.
Application in progressRush +30% · From 10 pages, rates are negotiated · Invoices in USD, EUR, GBP, AED · One page = 1,800 characters with spaces (about 300 words)
Market rates vary by region and field. The figures below come from published 2026 industry data, converted to our page standard. They cover expert human work only. Machine output with light editing costs far less, and reads like it. We sit at or below the market floor in every tier. There is no agency margin between you and the person writing your text.
| Tier | Market, per word | Market, per page | Translay | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General / business | $0.10–0.22 | $30–66 | $20 | 33% under floor |
| Technical / IT | $0.12–0.30 | $36–90 | $28 | 22% under floor |
| Legal / financial | $0.15–0.30 | $45–90 | $30 | 33% under floor |
| Medical / clinical | $0.20–0.35 | $60–105 | $35 | 42% under floor |
| Advertising / transcreation | $0.20–0.50 | $60–150 | $40 | 33% under floor |
| Localisation | $0.15–0.45 | $45–135 | $45 | at floor |
| Literary | $0.12–0.30 | $36–90 | $35 | at floor |
Market ranges are drawn from published 2026 industry rate data (ATA-referenced surveys, freelance rate aggregators and LSP pricing), converted at 300 words per page to match our page standard, and cover expert human translation only. They are indicative benchmarks, not quotations; your quote is fixed per project.
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