A decade of making other people's AI and content work.
Marano Business Solutions has been the quiet operating partner behind some of Asia's most-watched media and the AI models trained on Asian languages. We don't build apps. We build the data, voice, and language layer that other people's products run on — and have done so since 2015.
Marano started as a specialist Asian-language localization studio in Bangkok and grew into something more unusual: a dual-core operation where the same workforce that subtitles prestige drama also annotates and voices data for foundation-AI labs.
That's not a pivot. We've been training AI models for global tech giants — ride-hailing platforms, search engines, social networks, e-commerce — for years. The same linguists, voice talents, and domain reviewers who carried our localization programs were already calibrated, vetted, and audit-ready when the world's AI labs needed them.
Today we run two pipelines side by side: Localization across media, gaming, and webtoons; AI Data Services across alignment, annotation, voice, and multilingual evaluation. One studio. One QA spine. One operating standard.
Eleven years, on the record.
Founded in Bangkok
Marano Business Solutions established as a specialist Asian-language localization studio.
Media localization expansion
Anime and theatrical dubbing operations begin; partnerships with major Asian streaming platforms.
Game services line
Game localization and LQA practice launches with first AAA partner programs.
AI data services begin
First voice-corpus and annotation engagements for global tech labs through partner LSPs.
Webtoon practice
Dedicated webtoon localization line opens; partnerships with leading Korean publishers.
Marano Studios upgrade
Expanded to four-room facility supporting both broadcast dubbing and AI voice corpora.
Hardware test lab
Game functional QA expanded with first-party developer hardware: Nintendo edev, PS5, Xbox.
Today
10+ years in operation. 1,200+ vetted specialists across 40+ language pairs and 7 verticals.
How we operate.
Calibrated, never crowdsourced
Our workforce is recruited, screened, NDA-bound, and audited under a single QA spine — not pooled from anonymous platforms.
Domain depth before scale
We staff annotators by vertical, retaining specialists across years rather than rotating them across unrelated programs.
One studio, two pipelines
Localization and AI data services share booths, engineers, and standards. Quality compounds across both lines of work.
Customer success is our metric
We measure ourselves by the success of the platforms, models, and titles our work powers — not by hours billed.
Selected partners we've delivered for.
Direct engagements and work delivered through Leading Language Service Providers under strict NDA. Detailed program scopes available on request.