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Watch a Spanish technical document become English. Its drawing and structure stay recognisable as the text is translated, reviewed and refined.

Actual Mantiq output. The animation illustrates the processing stages.

The thinking behind the process

“one to do the translation, a second to criticize it and a third to produce a new version”

François Yvon, CNRS, describing the future of AI translation in BBC News, 14 October 2026

Translate.
Review. Refine.

Mantiq puts this approach into practice. Each document goes through analysis, translation, revision and refinement, with separate stages for reviewing the translation and refining specialist terminology.

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When translation is holding up the work

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A deadline, an updated manual, a newsletter or a client’s urgent question. Choose a story to see how the work continues.

Sophie / The deadline

“Needed tomorrow.” “Ready on Monday.”

Sophie looks at the message from her colleague John. The translation has to go to the client on Friday. The translation agency has just confirmed Monday…

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Sophie looks at the message from her colleague John. The translation has to go to the client on Friday. The translation agency has just confirmed Monday.

Here we go again. She called three times about the deadline for yesterday’s report. For last week’s presentation, she had to find another agency at the last minute.

She pushes her task list aside and picks up the phone. “Is there really no way to get it earlier? Perhaps in sections?”
“I’d like to arrange it for you, Sophie. But Friday really isn’t possible.” She has known his voice for months. He has managed to move things around for her before.
“Not even tomorrow, early afternoon?”
“Monday. I’m sorry.”

She thanks him. Then she calls John. “Is there any way the translation can wait until Monday?”
Friday means Friday.

Last week, a colleague showed her a translation from Mantiq. That colleague has started using it more often. Sophie opens the website and looks at the free trial. Then she returns to the agency’s email. “Shall I reserve Monday for you?”

She leaves the reply blank and opens Mantiq again. She selects the document and clicks ‘Upload’. She reads the brief description of its contents and checks who the text is intended for. It matches what her colleague explained. Her free trial credits will cover the translation. She clicks ‘Translate’.
A few minutes later, the translation is ready. Sophie opens the file. The headings, tables and text are in place. She looks through the document and sends it to John.

“Here’s the translation. Could you have a look and see whether you can use it?” A little later, his reply arrives: “Looks good. This can go straight to the client. Thanks for sorting it so quickly.”
She ticks off ‘Arrange translation’.
It is still Thursday.

Michael / The manual

The manual is updated. Now for the translation.

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Michael saves the English manual in Word. The new model number is in place. The dimensions are updated and the additional lift has its own chapter. Now for the German version. He wants to send it to the client today.

He opens the project folder. Below the new manual is an old file: ‘Changes for translation’. He used to collect the passages for the translation agency in that file. Sometimes he had four or five documents open side by side. This section could stay. That paragraph needed translating again. And hadn’t he changed those safety instructions last time? Then he had to wait for the translation and paste everything back between the drawings.
Sometimes the translated text would not fit beneath the exploded view. The machine illustration moved to the next page, while the warning stayed behind.

Michael selects the complete new English manual and uploads it to Mantiq. At this price, he is no longer going to collect the changes separately.
He opens his vocabulary. Mantiq has built it automatically during previous translation jobs. The term for the guide rail is already there. He adds two component names for the new lift, together with the German terms agreed with the client.
He checks the analysis and the cost, then starts the translation. Mantiq recognises the sections that have already been translated.

Then he opens the designs for his next project.

When the translation is ready fifteen minutes later, he looks through the document. He reads the instructions in the new lift chapter particularly carefully. The two new component names appear as specified. The guide rail also has the agreed name.
One heading does not fit on a single line. He makes the column slightly wider.

He saves the German manual in the project folder. He sends the translation to the client and closes the folder. The next design is still open. He zooms in and carries on working.

Daniel / The newsletter

The German version is ready. Now for the English one.

Daniel Hartmann looks over his newsletter. The November menu, wine evening and hotel package are all there. He moves the photo slightly to one side and checks the page again…

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Daniel Hartmann looks over his newsletter. The November menu, wine evening and hotel package are all there. He moves the photo slightly to one side and checks the page again.

He used to run the text through DeepL. The English translation arrived quickly enough, but that was when the work began. Copying. Pasting. A heading did not fit, the price box shifted. And the regular weekend package suddenly had a different English name. Find the previous newsletter. Or check the website. Which name had he used there?

And someone was always interrupting.

“Daniel, how many hotel guests are eating in the restaurant tonight?” He would check the reservations, give them the number and carry on. Could he change a booking? The guest was coming a week later. A supplier on the phone. Guests at reception. “I’ll be right there.”

An hour later, the newsletter was sometimes still unfinished.

Now Daniel uploads the complete German newsletter to Mantiq. Mantiq already has the established names from earlier newsletters in his vocabulary. He starts the translation and goes to the kitchen to discuss the day’s menu with the chef.
When he returns, he opens the English version. The English text is already between the photos and price boxes. He checks the dishes, dates and prices. The weekend package has its familiar name. The description also reads like an invitation he would write to his guests himself. He moves a line break in one heading.

He checks the email preview and sends the newsletter.

At the door is a couple who visit every autumn. Daniel closes his laptop and walks over to them.

Clara / The client

“Do I have to sell the house now?”

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Lawyer Clara Meyer opens her client’s email. “I thought our holiday home in Spain would simply pass to me as the surviving partner. Do I have to pay the inheritance tax amount in this letter? I don’t know how I can pay it within that deadline. Do I have to sell the house now?”

Last week, Clara spoke to Mrs Martin about her husband’s death. Now her client has received a letter from the Spanish tax authorities about the inheritance.

Clara uploads the letter to Mantiq and starts the translation. Once it is ready, she reads the letter and highlights the amount and the deadline. Then she writes to her colleague in Valencia.
How was this amount calculated? Are the details correct? What options are there if Mrs Martin cannot pay without selling the house? What action do we need to take before the stated date?

Clara has Mantiq translate the email into Spanish. She attaches the original letter and clicks ‘Send’. Two minutes later, a WhatsApp message arrives from Valencia: “We’ll look into it straight away.”

She used to send a Spanish letter like this to a translation agency first. Wait for the quotation. Approve it. Wait for the translation. Then write her questions and have those translated too. More waiting. Meanwhile, her client would call to ask whether she knew anything yet, and the official deadlines kept approaching.

Clara calls her client.

“I’ve read the letter and sent my questions to my colleague in Valencia. They’re already looking into it.”
Her client’s email arrived less than an hour ago.

These illustrative stories feature fictional people and situations. Timings describe the individual scenarios, not a guaranteed turnaround time.

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