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Word count, measured not estimated
Your file is parsed and every translatable word is counted. Repetitions inside the document are recognised by the translation memory, so you never pay twice for the same sentence.
Building bridges between cultures.
A specialist localization agency for brands scaling into and out of the Netherlands. Marketing, e-commerce, software and technical content — human-led, AI-augmented, and consistently delivered by the same accountable team.
“We don't translate words; we translate intent — so your brand still sounds like itself in Dutch.”
KRISTRANSLATION
Instant project assessment
Drop in your file and the tool counts the words, judges the subject level, calculates the production time in our CAT tool and reads our planning calendar — then shows the price and the earliest honest deadline. It costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Read locally
Files are counted in your browser.
Assessed
Terminology decides the rate, not a sales call.
Scheduled
Deadlines reflect real, remaining capacity.
Method & pricing
No sales call needed to find out what it costs.
Pricing is simply your word count multiplied by a rate per word, and the rate depends on one thing: how specialised the text is. Reviewing an existing translation costs a fraction of translating it. There are no project fees, no rush surcharges and no minimum contracts — only a small-project minimum so tiny jobs remain worth doing carefully.
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Subject level, assessed from the text
The text is weighed for medical, technical, regulatory and campaign-copy signals, plus sentence density. That decides whether the general or specialised rate applies — the assessment is shown to you, and confirmed by hand before anything is agreed.
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Translation in Phrase, with AI assistance
We work in a professional CAT environment with translation memory, glossaries and AI assistance. AI accelerates repetition and consistency; it never decides tone, nuance or clinical meaning. Every segment passes a human.
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A full proofreading pass, always included
Proofreading is not an upsell. Production time in every estimate you see already contains the review pass, because we don't deliver text that nobody has read twice.
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A deadline based on real capacity
Estimated hours are matched against the planning calendar — the work already booked in — plus a delivery buffer. That's why the earliest date the tool offers is a date we can actually keep.
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Delivery, your way
Finished files arrive on the agreed date by the delivery route you chose, in the same format you sent, with translation memory and glossary retained for your next project.
We publish the mechanism rather than a price list, because the honest answer depends on your actual text. Upload it and you'll see the exact figure in seconds — or ask us and we'll quote it by email.
Why brands pick a specialist over a portal.
Marketing copy is the hardest text to translate well and the easiest to translate badly. A tagline that scans in English can land flat, formal or faintly ridiculous in Dutch. We work at the level of intent: what the sentence is trying to make someone feel, and how a Dutch reader arrives at that same feeling.
- One accountable owner per account
- No anonymous vendor chain. The same lead linguist stays with your account, knows your voice, and can tell you why a sentence reads the way it does.
- AI where it helps, never where it hurts
- Phrase with AI assistance handles repetition and consistency; the creative and clinical judgement stays human, and every job is fully proofread.
- Consistency that survives growth
- Translation memories, maintained glossaries and documented tone-of-voice mean your tenth project sounds like your first — whoever on the team picks it up.
- Transparent by default
- Word count, subject level, production hours and delivery date are all shown before you decide anything.
- Deliberate capacity, low overhead
- A lean agency with a workload capped on purpose: fair rates, no upselling, and quality that never depends on heroics.
What we are genuinely good at
Different texts, different care.
Every specialism below has its own workflow, its own review depth and its own rate band. The quote tool picks the right one from your file, and we double-check that assessment by hand before anything is agreed.
The reason most clients come to us.
Marketing & e-commerce localization
Campaign copy, webshops, product pages, newsletters, social and SEO landing pages. We work from your brand voice, not from the sentence in front of us: claims are rebuilt so they still land, humour survives, and calls to action sound like something a Dutch person would actually say. Keyword intent is checked against Dutch search behaviour rather than translated word for word.
- Transcreation of headlines, claims and CTAs
- Tone-of-voice and glossary alignment
- Dutch SEO keyword check
- Character-length control for ads and banners
Where a wrong word has consequences.
Medical & technical translation
Manuals, product information, instructions for use, safety documentation, patient-facing material and regulated content. Terminology is researched and stored in a project glossary, and every job goes through a full review pass before it reaches you. If a source sentence is ambiguous, we ask rather than guess.
- Terminology research and maintained glossaries
- Consistency enforced through translation memory
- Full second-pass review on every document
- Queries flagged instead of silently interpreted
Everyday text, treated properly.
General business text
Websites, letters, internal documents, presentations and correspondence in natural Dutch or English. Faster to book and priced at the general rate, but with the same review step — we don't ship anything unread.
- Natural, idiomatic register
- Formatting preserved in your original file
- Quick turnaround for short documents
Strings that fit the screen.
Apps, software & interfaces
UI labels, onboarding flows, error messages, store listings and in-app microcopy. We work directly in your export formats, respect length constraints and placeholders, and keep terminology consistent across releases through translation memory.
- JSON, XLIFF and CSV handled natively
- Placeholder and variable safety
- Length-aware UI wording
- Consistency across product releases
You already have a translation.
Review & proofreading
Machine output, an agency file or an in-house draft — we check accuracy against the source, fix register and terminology, and tell you honestly if a text would be better retranslated than repaired. Reviewing is priced well below translation.
- Accuracy check against the source
- Terminology and consistency clean-up
- Tracked changes so you see every edit
Everything else
Text that fits none of the above
Internal communication, correspondence, presentations, reports, subtitles. Send it over — the assessment is free, the answer is direct, and we would rather turn a job down than deliver one we can't stand behind.
Upload it in the quote toolConfidential by default
Your documents are read in your browser to price them, never published, never used to train models, and deleted from our systems once a project is delivered.
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