Is automation making your agency easier to replace? – 28 October 2026 (LSP Initiative)

If you run a boutique agency and all your workflow does is run content through MT, your clients can do that themselves.

That’s what I’ll be talking about in December at the Gen AI in Localization conference, in its Innovation Challenge. Andrew Hickson of Six Crosses interviewed me ahead of it. The video runs under 4 minutes.

Watch the clip on LinkedIn →

The short version:

Your edge is human expertise. Put it in charge, with the machine in the loop, not the other way around.
Better output, happier translators. Their edits improve the AI as the job goes, so they refine good output instead of cleaning up a mess.
Built for boutique LSPs. It’s tuned for projects of 5,000 to 500,000 words, with no new infrastructure.
No extra load on your PMs. A freelance Language Workflow Specialist runs it, just like any other freelancer.

Thanks,
Steven S. Bammel, PhD
Language Workflow Specialist | Korean SLV

P.S. Something new: PDF-to-Word reconstruction

Switching gears for a moment. For all the AI progress, clients still send PDFs, and conventional conversion still makes a mess of them.

So I’ve built a new approach to that old problem. It rebuilds even scans as clean, editable Word files, with real tables and text flow, that drop straight into your CAT tool.

Seeing is believing, right?

Reply “samples” and I’ll send six before-and-after conversions, with the cost of each.
Or send me a few of your own pages, and I’ll convert them free overnight, with a quote for the rest.

Is automation making your agency easier to replace? – 28 October 2026 (LSP Initiative)

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