Not a proofread. A documented revision against defined criteria - weighted toward the failure modes that matter for your document type.
Consistency with your established terms, your glossaries, and the translation memories we may already hold from earlier work together.
Completeness, correct imperative forms, and no softened or omitted hazard statements.
CE declarations, IFU phrasing, standard-mandated formulations, and claims that carry legal weight.
Measurements, tolerances, part numbers, cross-references, and figure and table callouts.
Content silently dropped or invented - the characteristic failure mode of machine output, and the hardest to spot by reading the target alone.
Decimal separators, date formats, address and legal forms as used in the destination market.
If we find nothing that blocks release, we say so. A clean report is a usable result, not a failed engagement.
Every change, classified by severity - from preference, through accuracy, to release-blocking. You can act on it, or hand it to whoever produced the translation.
In your original format, ready to use. We work in standard production formats and in memoQ.
So you can judge whether the workflow that produced it is fit for the next document, or whether it needs changing.
We tell you which level a document needs before you commit. Where a spot check is enough, we say so.
Internal documents, low-risk content, or a supplier you want to sample before committing more work to them.
What we do: a defined sample, checked for terminology and omissions, with a written summary.
Customer-facing documentation, operating manuals, contracts - anything that carries your name outside the company.
What we do: a complete bilingual comparison under our ISO 17100 revision step.
CE documentation, IFUs, medical devices, safety-critical instructions - where a wording error has consequences beyond the document.
What we do: full revision plus documented verification against the applicable requirements, by a specialist in the field.
The same qualified specialist translators who do our own production work - people with subject-matter backgrounds in engineering, medicine, law and finance, working into their native language.
Our revision step is the one required by ISO 17100:2015: a second qualified specialist, independent of whoever produced the text. We have been certified to ISO 17100:2015 and ISO 9001:2015, and have been translating technical and regulated documentation since 1999.
It helps, but no. We assess the text, not the process. If you tell us it was machine-generated, we weight the check toward the failure modes typical of machine output.
We work in standard production formats and in memoQ. If your content sits in a localization platform, tell us which one and we will confirm what is practical.
The source file, the translation, and any glossary or earlier approved material. If you have nothing beyond the two files, that is still enough to begin.
We confirm scope and schedule on weekdays, usually within one hour of receiving the files.
We will tell you what we would change and what that would involve - before you commit to anything.