Smartcat

What Smartcat does

Smartcat is an essential AI platform for global enterprise content, offering an all-in-one solution for content in any language. Its expert-enabled AI Agents automate content creation, translation, and localization across various formats, languages, and teams, from documents to websites to software. Built for speed, scale, and brand control, Smartcat helps global organizations communicate with consistency and impact. Teams can instantly generate or adapt content in any language, leveraging a multilingual enterprise knowledge base that continuously improves through human feedback. The AI Agents remember every update, eliminating repetitive edits and enabling better results over time. For complex or high-stakes content, Smartcat connects users to a large marketplace of linguists and editors, all orchestrated by AI for maximum efficiency. The platform supports 280+ languages and over 50 file formats, including DOC, JPEG, PDF, JSON, and XLIFF. Smartcat is trusted by over 1,000 companies, including 25% of the Fortune 1000, to power global content.

Key capabilities

• AI translation in 280+ languages with near-human accuracy
• AI content generation tailored for various content types (websites, files, software, eLearning, video, design)
• AI human workflows for translation and content creation
• AI procurement platform for linguists and editors
• Centralized knowledge management and workflow streamlining
• Seamless integrations with content and business tools
• Translation Quality Scoring
• AI-powered project management
• Team management features
• Security features (secure cloud storage, data encryption, centralized user access, SOC II compliance)
• Analytics for translation projects
• Marketplace of 500,000+ vetted translators, editors, and proofreaders
• AI-sourcing of linguists
• Automated vendor payment
• AI terminology control in line with glossaries
• Style and tone of voice customization using AI
• Custom QA checks via AI Actions
• AI quality score and initial LQA by AI
• Adaptive AI agents that learn from edits and feedback
• Real-time updates and syncing for translated content
• Automated extraction, translation, and publishing of product and app content
• Localization of user interfaces (UI strings)
• Optimization of app store listings (visuals, metadata, keywords)
• Automated quality checks and versioning
• Collaborative Translation Management System (TMS) workflows
• Translation memory database
• Centralized hub for translation workflow and communication

Use cases

• Improve employee retention and engagement through AI-powered learning content in any language
• Translate content instantly and at scale
• Create any content in any language with AI agents
• Website localization
• File translation (DOC, JPEG, PDF, JSON, XLIFF, etc.)
• Software localization
• eLearning content translation
• Video content translation
• Design content translation
• Global content management for L&D departments
• Global content management for Marketing departments
• Global content management for Product & Engineering departments
• Global content management for Legal & Compliance departments
• Global content management for Ecommerce departments
• Streamlining translation processes for enterprises
• Automating internal, manual operations for translation agencies (project & vendor account management)
• On-the-fly customization of automatic translation
• Automating multilingual content workflows for Google Docs
• Translating corporate learning content for L&D Managers
• Ensuring brand consistency with localized eCommerce descriptions for eCommerce Managers
• Localizing app product pages
• Preparing multilingual content for product releases
• Localizing app product page visuals, titles, descriptions, and keywords
• Translating documentation, code comments, README files for GitHub repositories
• Improving digital learning content for global retail training teams

AI approach

Smartcat is an AI platform for global content, leveraging AI for translation, content generation, and human workflows. It uses AI Agents to automate content creation, translation, and localization, continuously improving through human feedback and an enterprise knowledge base. The platform also orchestrates a marketplace of linguists and editors using AI for efficiency. Smartcat's AI is designed to understand brand voice and terminology, with real-time Translation Quality Scoring and AI terminology control. It offers on-the-fly customization of automatic translation and AI quality scoring. The AI also assists in sourcing linguists and automating project management tasks.

Tech named: AI Agents, AI translation, AI content generation, AI human workflows, AI procurement platform, AI-matching algorithm, Generative AI, Translation Quality Scoring, AI terminology control, AI Actions, AI quality score, LQA by AI, AI linguist sourcing, adaptive AI agents, machine learning translation platforms

Industries served

• Technology, Information and Internet
• eCommerce
• Manufacturing
• Medical Devices
• Retail

What it says sets it apart

• All-in-one AI platform for global content, covering creation, translation, and localization
• AI Agents automate content creation, translation, and localization across every format, language, and team
• Multilingual enterprise knowledge base that continuously improves through human feedback
• AI Agents remember every update, eliminating repetitive edits
• World’s largest marketplace of linguists and editors, orchestrated by AI
• AI-first approach where every workflow is optimized for AI translation
• Ease of use and unlimited seats for both agencies and enterprises
• AI-sourcing of linguists from a proprietary marketplace for on-demand scaling
• Goes beyond traditional CAT and TMS tools by automating manual operations like project & vendor account management
• On-the-fly customization of automatic translation without cumbersome integrations
• AI terminology control and style/tone customization using natural language presets
• AI quality score and initial LQA for final checks
• Automated vendor payment for hundreds of linguists globally with a single invoice
• Seamless integrations with existing tech stacks and content tools
• Client-tailored language AI that turns content in any format into any language
• Instantaneous results via AI and a simple UI
• Consistent quality through an AI-powered multilingual content library that learns from every edit
• Significant cost reduction (up to 100x less than outsourcing)
• Scale on-demand with AI sourcing of vetted linguists and domain experts at 5x less cost than outsourcing
• SOC II compliant organization with top-level data center security (Tier IV, SOC-1, SOC-2, SOC-3 compliant)
• Data encryption (HTTPS/TLS, 256-bit AES, TLS 1.2, RSA 2048-bit key)
• Continuous database backup and real-time replication
• Centralized user access control with flexible assignment of access rights
• Product & Engineering Agent for faster product localization workflows
• Adaptive AI agent leverages customizable, expert-powered translation management systems (TMS) for high-quality translation
• Integrates with CI/CD pipelines to keep translated content in sync with product changes
• AI translation product manager functionality for store, review, launch, and localization
• Automated project management with AI-matching algorithm for linguist selection and guaranteed budget, timeline, and quality

Funding rounds we track

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