Fear doesn’t get you paid. This does.
To every translator feeling worn down by the noise, Lately I’ve been struck by how many colleagues are caught in a strange kind of group-think. Spend five minutes on LinkedIn and you’ll see it: AI [...]
[Growth Driver #1] Why “dead content” is about to come back to life
To the translators who know there’s more work out there, You know that feeling when a job gets rejected because the client “just can’t justify the cost”? It’s not that the content wasn’t important. It [...]
What worked to get you here won’t get you there
For translators who refuse to let clients define their value, You didn’t become a translator because you wanted to manage workflows, chase rates, or justify your value every week. You did it because you liked [...]
How Kaloyan Kirilov Built a Translator+AI Workflow That Actually Works
Hello fellow wordsmiths, Sometimes I hear translators ask... “But what can I really do with CotranslatorAI that I couldn’t just do with ChatGPT or DeepL?” That’s why I sat down with Kaloyan Kirilov, a Bulgarian [...]
The CotranslatorAI Prompting Strategies That Give Kaloyan a Professional Edge
What if you could slash your translation time by 90% — without giving up control? In this eye-opening interview, Bulgarian translator and journalist Kaloyan Kirilov reveals how he uses CotranslatorAI to speed up complex [...]
This CotranslatorAI feature saves you from cut-and-paste hell
Hello to every translator who’s tired of fighting their CAT tool, One of our CotranslatorAI users recently told me something that hit a nerve. They were wrestling with Wordfast Pro and said their biggest frustration [...]
What clients can’t steal from you (even with ChatGPT)
Hello to the translators who still want to own something no algorithm can copy, Let’s get this out in the open. Anyone can push text into ChatGPT or DeepL. That’s not mastery... that’s commodity. And [...]
The AI question every translator asks when projects slow down
Hello to those translators who keep one foot in today’s reality and the other in tomorrow’s possibilities, You’ve probably thought this yourself. Why should I invest time in AI tools if I’m already scrambling to [...]
Finally… a full hour on the GAIT Workflow (for 15 euros)
Hello to my fellow translators who don’t just want to watch the AI wave roll in... One of the biggest complaints I get after my webclass? “I wish your GAIT Workflow demo was longer.” Fair. The intro [...]
Still confused by AI prompting?
Hello curious minds who haven’t given up yet, A CotranslatorAI user emailed me recently, stuck. They were watching one of my training videos, trying to make sense of prompts and tabs, and... well... froze. They [...]
No file upload in CotranslatorAI? That’s a feature, not a bug
Hello to the translators who like a challenge... Two questions came up this week from CotranslatorAI users. You might have wondered the same: "Can I upload a PDF or text file directly into CotranslatorAI?" "Why [...]
You won’t believe what Kaloyan did with just one prompt
Greetings to the translators who know there’s more to this job than just word counts, You ever hear something so sharp it makes you want to take a long walk and rethink your whole workflow? [...]
Your CAT tool is not the boss of you
Hello AI-curious translators, Two recent questions came up in my webclass that I think you'll want to hear the answers to. Not just because they’re common... but because the answers might surprise you. First: Can [...]
What if CotranslatorAI could just write the regex for you?
Hey fellow translators (especially the ones who’ve ever stared at a regex pattern like it was alien code)... Let me tell you what usually happens. You try to write a regular expression for something. Maybe [...]
AI promised more. So where’s the payoff?
Hello from the land of half-finished workflows, Many translators seem to land in one of two camps. Camp A: “AI will replace us all.”Camp B: “I’ve tried these tools and they’re just not helping.” What’s [...]
What one translator taught me about pricing smarter (even when AI speeds you up)
Dear architects of meaning in a world that just wants speed, Today I want to give you something useful. Not a theory or a vague tip. A new lens you can use to decide how [...]
CotranslatorAI shortcut not doing anything? This will fix it
Hello fellow translation tacticians, Ever hit a keyboard shortcut in CotranslatorAI and get... nothing? No error. No output. No feedback at all. Before you assume something’s broken, here are the two usual suspects that stop [...]
Why “just let AI do it” can quietly blow up your translation project
Hello word wranglers of the freelance world, Here’s something AI still gets embarrassingly wrong: counting. Just this week, one of our AI Mastery for Translators... And Beyond students ran into a frustrating glitch. She was [...]
What I said about hitting 1,000 words/hour — and pricing for it
Welcome back, translator in the trenches, Last Thursday, during my live webclass, someone asked a series of sharp questions that cut right to the heart of what it means to be a translator in 2025. [...]
Why your prompts keep breaking — and what to do instead
Dear translator juggling clients, style guides, and AI that forgets stuff, There’s a common mistake many translators make once they’ve got their hands on good AI tools. They try to do too much with a [...]
Whatever You Do, DO NOT Read Dave’s Article
This is a public service announcement. A schism has opened. A rebellion. An act of heresy. Yes, Dave — that Dave — has posted an article in AI4LanguageProfessionals suggesting a “better” way to execute the GAIT workflow [...]
CotranslatorAI is not a CAT tool (and that’s a good thing)
Hey translators, This one’s been coming up a lot lately, so let’s clear it up once and for all. Do you need a CAT tool to use CotranslatorAI? Nope. CotranslatorAI isn’t a CAT tool. You [...]
The MTPE squeeze is real. Here’s how to stay sane (and paid)
Hello again, fellow translator, If you’ve felt discouraged by the quality of projects landing in your inbox lately, you’re not imagining it. More and more translators are getting stuck with MTPE jobs... lower rates, higher [...]
From 0.04 EUR per word to 60 EUR/hour
Hello to the translators who want to keep winning in a market that’s changing faster than they’d like to admit. This week I exchanged emails with a medical translator in Greece. Eighteen years in the [...]
GPT-5 in CotranslatorAI: Here’s How to Get It Running in Minutes
Hello, translators who like to stay two steps ahead! OpenAI has just dropped GPT-5. If you’ve been curious how it handles real translation work, you can spin it up in CotranslatorAI pretty quickly. Here’s the [...]