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§ 03 — Domain Expertise / Vol. 11

Seven verticals.
One editorial standard.

Domain depth is the hardest thing to fake in language work — and the easiest place for AI training data to fail. Our reviewers are recruited and retained by vertical, not pooled across them.

Verticals served
7
Specialist reviewers
Per-domain
QA model
Closed-loop
Onboarding
Calibrated
§ 01 — How we read this

Vertical depth isn't a tag on a CV. It's the workforce.

Most language vendors describe domain expertise as a checkbox on a generic linguist pool. We describe it as a roster: licensed physicians, practicing attorneys, automotive engineers, CFA charter-holders, and senior media adaptation leads — recruited directly into the verticals they came from, across Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Each entry below is a working dossier. Numbers describe sustained, multi-year work — not pilots. Our reviewer pool is global; we operate at greatest depth across East and Southeast Asian markets, with specialty extensions in EU and US locales scoped on request.

§ 02 — Workforce composition

Who actually does the work.

A snapshot of the specialist tiers inside our annotator and linguist pool. These are people we recruit, contract, and audit ourselves — not third-party labour rented from a marketplace.

Linguist workspace — desk lamp, headphones, bilingual research notes
Fig. 01Reviewer workstation — Bangkok
600+
Licensed medical professionals

MDs, RNs, pharmacists — global pool, deepest in EA & SEA

400+
Practicing & former attorneys

Common-law and civil-law jurisdictions worldwide

900+
Engineers & technical specialists

Automotive, software, electronics, semiconductor — global

350+
Finance & economics specialists

CFA, MBA, ex-sell-side & central-bank research — global

1,500+
Senior media & game adaptation leads

Film, series, anime, AAA games, webtoons — worldwide

60+
PhD research-track linguists on staff

Computational & applied linguistics — EU, US, Asian universities

§ 03 — Vertical dossiers

Seven dossiers, one standard.

Each dossier lists representative tasks, the source documents we routinely handle, the credential bar for reviewers in that vertical, and current language coverage.

01 · MED

Medical & Life Sciences

Clinical terminology, IFU/SmPC, regulatory submissions, medical-imaging annotation taxonomies, and HCP-reviewed translation.

8 yrs
Active medical translation work
ISO-13485
Aware terminology workflows
Sample tasks
  • →Clinical study protocol & investigator brochure translation
  • →IFU / SmPC / PIL adaptation for regulatory submission
  • →Medical-imaging segmentation taxonomies (CT, MRI, X-ray)
  • →HCP-reviewed back-translation for trial endpoints
  • →Pharmacovigilance case-narrative coding
Typical sources

Sponsor protocols, ICH-GCP guidance, MedDRA / SNOMED CT, device technical files

Reviewer credentials

Reviewers include licensed MDs, registered nurses, and pharmacists; back-translation handled by separate clinically trained linguists.

Language coverage

EN, TH, ZH, JA, KO, ID, VI, MS, TL + EU pairs (DE, FR, ES, IT) on request

02 · AUT

Automotive & Mobility

Driver-facing UI, in-cabin voice corpora, ADAS/AV scene annotation, and sensor-fusion ground-truth labelling.

ADAS
Sensor-fusion ground truth
In-cabin
Multilingual voice corpora
Sample tasks
  • →ADAS / AV scene-level annotation (lane, vehicle, pedestrian, signage)
  • →LiDAR / radar / camera sensor-fusion ground-truth
  • →In-cabin voice command sets & wake-word data
  • →Driver-monitoring (gaze, drowsiness, distraction) datasets
  • →Owner manual, infotainment UI, and OTA release-note localization
Typical sources

OEM engineering specs, regional homologation docs, in-cabin recordings, lab-collected sensor logs

Reviewer credentials

Automotive engineers and former OEM QA staff (Asian, European, and US programs) lead annotation; multilingual voice talent recorded under in-cabin acoustic conditions.

Language coverage

EN, ZH, JA, KO, TH, ID, VI, DE, FR, ES, IT, PT-BR on demand

03 · FIN

Financial Services

Banking apps, KYC/AML disclosures, financial news classification, prospectuses, and economic-research translation.

BoT
Aligned terminology base
9 langs
Banking-app continuous LQA
Sample tasks
  • →Retail & corporate banking app strings + onboarding flows
  • →Prospectus, KIID, and disclosure translation
  • →AML / KYC user flows and risk-warning copy
  • →Financial news & filing classification datasets
  • →Sentiment-tagged macroeconomic corpora for buy-side research
Typical sources

Bank of Thailand and central-bank glossaries, IFRS standards, sell-side research, prospectuses

Reviewer credentials

CFA charter-holders, ex-sell-side analysts, and former retail-banking PMs from Asian, European, and US institutions review terminology and regulatory copy.

Language coverage

EN, TH, ZH, JA, KO, ID, VI, MS + EU pairs on request

04 · ECO

Economics & Policy

Government white-papers, macroeconomic research, policy briefs, and bilingual conference materials.

Gov
White-paper translation
Bilingual
Conference simultaneous prep
Sample tasks
  • →Macroeconomic research paper translation
  • →Policy briefs & regulatory analysis
  • →Bilingual conference & summit materials
  • →Government white-paper adaptation
  • →Bilingual data-summary preparation for senior officials
Typical sources

Government white-papers, multilateral institution reports, central-bank publications, academic journals

Reviewer credentials

Reviewers include economists with policy-research backgrounds across Asian, European, and multilateral institutions, plus certified conference interpreters for bilingual events.

Language coverage

EN, TH, ZH, JA, KO + EU pairs on request

05 · MED-A

Media & Entertainment

Film, series, anime, games, and webtoons — production-grade dubbing, subtitling, LQA, and editorial adaptation.

180+
Dub titles delivered
2,500h+
Subtitling hours delivered
Sample tasks
  • →Anime, film, series, web-drama subtitling and dubbing
  • →AAA & live-service game localization, LQA, FQA
  • →Webtoon TEP, typesetting, and editorial adaptation
  • →Trailer, marketing, and promo localization
  • →Cultural-adaptation review for sensitive markets
Typical sources

Original scripts, broadcast masters, game build & string tables, raw webtoon panels, marketing kits

Reviewer credentials

Senior adaptation leads with prior staff experience at studios, publishers, and OTT platforms; in-house voice direction.

Language coverage

JA, KO, ZH, EN → TH primary; broader pairs on request

06 · LEG

Legal & Compliance

Contracts, terms of service, IP filings, e-discovery review, and certified translation for cross-border litigation.

Cert
Certified translation upon request
Cross-border
Litigation support
Sample tasks
  • →Cross-border contract translation (SaaS, M&A, employment)
  • →IP filings & patent specification translation
  • →Compliance and policy adaptation for regulated markets
  • →E-discovery review datasets & relevance tagging
  • →Certified translation upon request
Typical sources

Counterparty contracts, court filings, patent office submissions, regulator guidance, internal policies

Reviewer credentials

Practicing attorneys and former in-house counsel from common-law and civil-law jurisdictions worldwide review; certified translation provided through bar-recognized partners.

Language coverage

EN, TH, ZH, JA, KO + EU pairs (DE, FR, ES, IT) on request

07 · TEC

Technology & Software

Product UI, technical documentation, developer reference, API content, and platform safety policy.

Tier-1
SaaS UI string velocity
Dev-Docs
API & developer reference
Sample tasks
  • →Product UI, onboarding, and growth flows
  • →Developer documentation, SDK reference, API content
  • →Help-center articles, macros, and chatbot fallback content
  • →Platform safety policy adaptation for regional markets
  • →Multilingual community moderation & escalation playbooks
Typical sources

Product strings, design system docs, GitHub-hosted SDKs, internal policy, telemetry-derived copy

Reviewer credentials

Software engineers and product writers lead review; continuous-localization workflows integrated with customer repos.

Language coverage

EN ↔ TH, ZH, JA, KO, ID, VI, MS, TL, ES, PT-BR

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A radiologist reading an MRI segmentation guideline catches things a general linguist won't see for ten batches. We staff that radiologist on day one.

Domain Operations Lead — Marano, internal note

Need vertical depth on an AI program?

We staff annotators by domain, not by lottery. Tell us what the model needs to learn — we'll match it with reviewers who lived in that field before they ever touched a labelling tool.

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