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Civic TranslationSan Francisco

Services

What we produce.


Four services. Most jobs use more than one — a notice is translated, certified, and set back into the layout it arrived in. Written quotes come back same business day.

Every job

The parts that do not vary.

Whichever service you buy, four things hold. They are the reason a translated document survives being questioned later.

  • Review by a qualified linguist

    A linguist working in the pair reads the full translation against the source before it leaves. The step is not skipped under deadline.

  • A signed certificate of accuracy

    Dated, numbered, and attached to every delivery at no extra charge.

  • The format you sent

    Word, Excel, PDF, InDesign, and HTML come back as the same file type, laid out to match the English.

  • Terminology held steady

    Program vocabulary is fixed once and reused, so the application and the renewal notice agree with each other.

Scope and dates

How a job is quoted.

Send the file, the languages, and the date you need it. A written quote comes back same business day, itemized by document and language, naming a delivery date. There is no minimum order.

Standard2 business days
Documents up to roughly 2,500 words, per language.
Priority24 hours
Documents up to roughly 1,200 words, per language. Same-day intake before 11 a.m. PT.
ScheduledBy agreement
Handbooks, manuals, and multi-document programs, delivered on a milestone schedule.

Rates are on the pricing page. The steps a job passes through are set out under process.

Send us a document.

Attach the file, tell us the languages and the date you need it, and you will have a written quote back same business day.