Expert Translation & Language Bureau · Est. 2015

Words that
carry weight

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 text signed by the specialist who wrote it
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23+Languages
10Years
5k+Documents
ISO 17100 [status] ISO 27001 [status] [Association] member NDA on request GDPR-aligned
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Languages

23 languages
all native

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.

🇬🇧
English
EN
🇷🇺
Russian
RU
🇸🇦
Arabic
AR
🇨🇳
Chinese
ZH
🇩🇪
German
DE
🇫🇷
French
FR
🇪🇸
Spanish
ES
🇮🇹
Italian
IT
🇯🇵
Japanese
JA
🇰🇷
Korean
KO
🇧🇷
Portuguese
PT
🇳🇱
Dutch
NL
🇵🇱
Polish
PL
🇹🇷
Turkish
TR
🇸🇪
Swedish
SV
🇳🇴
Norwegian
NO
🇮🇱
Hebrew
HE
🇮🇳
Hindi
HI
🇬🇷
Greek
EL
🇷🇴
Romanian
RO
🇹🇭
Thai
TH
🇻🇳
Vietnamese
VI
🇨🇿
Czech
CS

All translators are native speakers of the target language with verified domain expertise

Services

Every text type
expert level

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.

Translation

Every subject, at the right register. Your text goes to a native expert in the field — not a generalist with a dictionary.

  • Medical & clinical — oncology, trials, protocols, insurance
  • Legal — contracts, NDA, due diligence, court documents
  • Technical & IT — engineering, software, manuals, specs
  • Financial — investment memoranda, reports, shareholder materials
  • Scientific & academic — research papers, conference proceedings
  • Psychological & psychiatric — clinical instruments, research
  • Philosophical & humanities — academic texts, monographs
From $20 / page

Copywriting & Rewriting

New texts and full rewrites. We write in the language your audience thinks in, not a word-swap of the original.

  • Advertising & marketing — campaigns, taglines, brand voice
  • Real estate — international auction and realty standard
  • Brand & product texts — editorial quality, adapted per market
  • Press releases — media materials and briefing notes
  • Digital content — websites, campaigns, email sequences
  • Economic & business — analysis, whitepapers, positioning
  • Corporate communications — institutional and internal
From $40 / page

Literary & Authored

Literary translation and original long-form work. Voice and tone survive the crossing.

  • Literary translation — novels, short fiction, poetry
  • Screenplay — script adaptation and dialogue
  • Long-form non-fiction — essays, narrative journalism
  • Philosophical & cultural — treatises and critical texts
  • Ghost-authored — articles and named contributions
  • Cultural adaptation — for specific target markets
From $35 / page

Subtitles & Transcription

Broadcast-grade subtitles and exact transcription. A human editor times every line and names every speaker.

  • All formats — SRT, VTT, SBV for any platform
  • Video — series, documentary, corporate
  • Meetings — speaker-labelled transcription
  • Events — conference and webinar records
  • Podcasts — text versions for publication
From $45 / hour audio

Business Localisation

Taking a company into a new market. Not just the words — the formats, the claims, the tone that market expects.

  • Websites & apps — full UI, UX copy and metadata
  • Product & packaging — labels, specs, compliance wording
  • Market adaptation — currency, units, dates, legal claims
  • Sales & support material — decks, help centres, scripts
  • SEO in target language — keywords researched, not translated
  • Terminology base — a glossary you keep and reuse
From $45 / page

Executive CV & Bio

Over 5,000 CVs placed at international firms. We do not translate your CV. We rebuild it for the market you are entering.

  • Executive CV — UK, US, UAE, EU and Asia markets
  • Professional bio — for boards and speaking engagements
  • Application materials — cover letters and statements
  • LinkedIn — profile positioning and optimisation
  • Academic CV — research and faculty applications
From $80 flat

Editing & Proofreading

A specialist reads your text line by line. Terms, register, consistency, final polish.

  • Post-editing — of existing or machine translation
  • Proofreading — and full copy editing
  • Terminology — glossary and style guide review
  • Localisation QA — in-context verification
  • Academic review — correction and pre-submission check
From $15 / page
Standard
The Standard

Judgement
is the product

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.

Named accountability
You get the name of who wrote it and who checked it. Not a ticket number.
Two-pass review
Nothing ships on one reading. A second specialist checks the terms and the register.
Domain-matched
We match on field first, language second. Pharmacology goes to a pharmacology translator.
Revision included
Revisions inside the agreed scope are in the price. No second invoice.
Send the document. One form, one specialist, a price in up to 7 minutes. Get a Quote
Specialists
Behind every service above

Who actually
writes your text

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.

Medical & Psychological
Translators who came from oncology, pharmacology, clinical research and psychiatry. They work in these fields. Translation is what they do with that knowledge.
Legal & Financial
Qualified lawyers and legal linguists. They know how jurisdiction bends meaning — when "shall" binds you, and when "reasonable efforts" barely does.
Technical & IT
Software engineers and technical writers. Documentation, API specs, UX copy, engineering manuals. They check accuracy against what they know, not against a dictionary.
Localisation & Market Entry
Linguists who have taken products into their own market. They flag the claim that is illegal locally, the format nobody uses, the tone that reads wrong.
Literary, Advertising & Editorial
Published authors, editors and ad copywriters. Literary voice and commercial punch survive intact — not approximated.
Work
Selected Work

What we were
actually asked to do

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.

⚠ Replace with your real projects

These four are structural templates showing the format that converts: the constraint, what was actually difficult, and the measurable outcome. Substitute genuine projects. Never invent a case study or a client name — a single fabricated reference discovered by an enterprise buyer ends the relationship and is actionable as misleading advertising in most jurisdictions.

[Medical] [Oncology trial protocol, EN→DE, 340 pages, regulator deadline] [Delivered in 9 days]
The difficulty

[What made this hard — e.g. terminology had to match an existing approved dossier; three translators worked in parallel against one glossary; a single inconsistent term would have triggered a regulator query.]

[What you did about it — e.g. built a locked termbase before starting, one reviewing pharmacologist across all three streams.]

[Legal] [Cross-border acquisition, EN→AR, contract suite under NDA] [Closed on schedule]
The difficulty

[e.g. obligation language had to survive translation into a different legal system; "reasonable endeavours" has no clean Arabic equivalent and the wrong choice would have weakened a covenant.]

[e.g. handled by a qualified lawyer in the target jurisdiction, with the client's counsel signing off on each disputed clause.]

[Localisation] [SaaS platform launch into 3 markets, full UI + help centre] [+N% signup conversion]
The difficulty

[e.g. the original copy relied on idioms that had no equivalent; two compliance claims were illegal to make in one of the markets and had to be rewritten, not translated.]

[e.g. flagged by the local linguist before launch, saving a regulatory problem.]

[Advertising] [Global campaign transcreation, 6 languages, one brand voice] [Ran in N markets]
The difficulty

[e.g. the tagline was a pun that did not travel; each market needed a different line that produced the same feeling rather than the same words.]

[e.g. six copywriters briefed on intent rather than text, with back-translation supplied so the client could judge each version.]

Standards
Standards & Accreditation

Audited process
not just a promise

⚠ Do not publish until certified — legal exposure

Every badge below is a placeholder. Displaying an ISO mark you do not hold is a deceptive commercial practice, and certification bodies can and do act on it. Replace each [status] with your real certificate number and issuing body once obtained, or delete that card entirely. For international buyers, the certificate must be issued by a body accredited under the IAF (International Accreditation Forum) — in practice SGS, TÜV, Bureau Veritas or Intertek. A local or non-IAF certificate is routinely rejected by EU and US enterprise and government tenders. Note also that ISO/IEC 17000 is not certifiable — it is only a vocabulary of terms; the certifiable translation standard is ISO 17100. The three ISO standards relevant to you are listed below with what each actually requires and roughly what it costs — see the report accompanying this file.

ISO 17100 — Translation Services

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).

[Certificate no. / In progress]
ISO 27001 — Information Security

Information 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.

[Certificate no. / Planned]
ISO 18587 — Post-Editing

Governs 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.

[Certificate no. / Planned]
Professional membership

Association membership signals accountability to a professional body with a complaints procedure. Candidates: ATA (US), ITI (UK), GALA and ELIA (industry), plus your national chamber.

[Association / Member no.]
Rates

Clear rates
no surprises

Service
Per page
Turnaround
NDA
Translation — Standard
$20
1 business day
On request
Translation — Technical / IT
$28
1 business day
Standard
Translation — Legal / Financial
$30
1 business day
Standard
Translation — Medical / Clinical / Psych
$35
1 business day
Standard
Copywriting, Rewriting & Advertising
$40
1–2 days
Standard
Literary, Philosophical & Academic
$35
By volume
Standard
Subtitles & Transcription
$45 /hr
1 day per hour
Standard
Executive CV & Bio
$80+ flat
24–48 hours
Standard
Business & Website Localisation
$45
By scope
Standard
Editing & Proofreading
$15
1 business day
On request

Rush +30% · From 10 pages, rates are negotiated · Invoices in USD, EUR, GBP, AED · One page = 1,800 characters with spaces (about 300 words)

Where these rates sit

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.

TierMarket, per wordMarket, per pageTranslayPosition
General / business$0.10–0.22$30–66$2033% under floor
Technical / IT$0.12–0.30$36–90$2822% under floor
Legal / financial$0.15–0.30$45–90$3033% under floor
Medical / clinical$0.20–0.35$60–105$3542% under floor
Advertising / transcreation$0.20–0.50$60–150$4033% under floor
Localisation$0.15–0.45$45–135$45at floor
Literary$0.12–0.30$36–90$35at floor

Per-word ranges: published 2026 industry rate surveys (ATA-referenced market data, freelance rate aggregators, LSP published pricing). Converted at 300 words per page to match our page standard. Ranges cover expert human translation only.

⚠ Confirm before launch

Ranges above are drawn from published 2026 market data and are accurate as a general benchmark. Before launch, confirm them against your priority markets and add a dated source line. Check: ATA and ITI rate surveys, ProZ community rates, Slator and Nimdzi reports, and two or three direct competitors per market. Rates move — date the table and revisit it twice a year.

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Security
Confidentiality

Your document
stays yours

Encrypted in transit and at rest
Uploads travel over TLS 1.3 and sit encrypted at rest. Two people can open your file: the specialist assigned and the editor who checks it.
Deleted after delivery
We erase source files and translations 30 days after delivery, unless you ask us to keep them. We build no reference corpus from your work.
Never fed to a machine
Your text is never passed to any automated or third-party language engine. We do not sell it, share it, or use it to train any system.
NDA before you send anything
Ask for an NDA and we sign before you upload a single page. Mutual or one-way, your paper or ours.
Quote without the text
If the material is sensitive, do not send it. Give us a character count, the subject and the language pair. That is enough for a firm quote.
Rights transfer to you
On full payment, every right in the delivered text passes to you. Each specialist signs a written confidentiality and IP assignment agreement.
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III

Translate

A native expert in the subject writes it. A second one checks it before it leaves.

IV

Deliver

On time, in your format, invoiced. Revisions inside scope are included.

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