Services in Detail
Terminology management
When the same component has four names in three language versions, customers lose trust and search engines lose track. Terminology management is the invisible discipline behind consistent multilingualism.
What you get
- Machine term extraction from your existing texts
- Moderated definition workshops with decision templates
- Terminology database with approvals, prohibitions, and context rules
- Translation and native-speaker review of each term
- Integration into your editorial and translation processes
- Maintenance process with change history and approval workflow
Consistency is a decision – and a database
Is it “customer account,” “account,” or “profile”? Any answer is defensible – but only one can stand everywhere. Inconsistent terms act like a game of telephone across agencies and years: customers notice it subconsciously but reliably, and trust erodes quietly.
We build your terminology database: approved terms per language, forbidden alternatives, context rules, and examples. Every future translation – by us or others – works against the same authoritative source.
How it works
- 01
Inventory
We machine-extract specialized terms and their variants from your website, shop, and documents – an honest current state as a basis for decision-making.
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Definition with you
In moderated terminology sessions, your experts decide on each term – we prepare, document, and provide rationale.
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Translation & approval
Each approved term is translated into each target language and checked by native speakers – including do-not-translate rules for brand names.
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Integration & maintenance
The termbase is integrated into your translation and editorial processes; changes follow a defined approval path.
Building your term base
We extract technical terms from your existing content, clarify preferred terms with your departments, and document binding translations per language.
Enforcement in the pipeline
Our termbase is not a PDF in a folder but an active part of the translation pipeline: specifications are checked automatically and confirmed by humans.
Your Property
The terminology database belongs to you – exportable in standard formats (TBX, CSV), usable also with other providers. No lock-in.
From uncontrolled growth to a termbase in four weeks
The starting point is almost always chaotic: the website says A, the brochure says B, sales says C. We machine-extract the current state from your existing texts, cluster variants, and present decision templates – you decide, we document.
The result is not an Excel list that quickly becomes outdated, but a maintained database with a change history that is integrated into translation processes. New terms go through a defined approval path instead of silent solo efforts.
Typical use cases
Industry & technology
Components, standards, safety instructions: In technical sectors, terminology is not a matter of style but of liability.
Software & SaaS
UI terms must be identical in app, documentation, support, and marketing – otherwise users search for features that have different names.
Brands in rebranding
Introducing new brand language means systematically finding and replacing old terms – in every language simultaneously.
A brand is when a thousand texts sound like one.
Frequently asked questions about this service
Is it worthwhile for small companies?
As soon as more than one person writes texts or more than one language is involved: yes. A lean term base with the fifty most important terms already prevents the costliest inconsistencies.
In what format do we receive the term base?
Standard formats such as TBX or CSV plus a maintained working view. It is compatible with common translation tools and entirely yours.
Who maintains the database in the long term?
Either your team after our instruction or we as part of a maintenance package – including approval workflow for new terms.
