Sectors We Serve
Contracts, tenders, HR documents, marketing and meetings, handled in more than 300 languages for UK businesses trading internationally.
Prism Linguistics provides business translation services and interpreting for UK companies trading internationally, in more than 300 languages. Contracts, tenders, HR documents, marketing and websites go to translators matched to your sector, with a second linguist checking the work. Send us the files and you'll have a fixed quote within one working hour during office hours.
We've worked this way since 2013, from a head office in Warrington. There's no minimum spend, and a non-disclosure agreement can be in place before you send anything commercially sensitive.
Commercial documents fail in specific ways. A clause that reads two ways in the target language. A product name rendered three different ways across the same brochure set. An indemnity whose scope quietly shifts because the translator did not know what the term meant in context. None of that shows up in a spellcheck. It shows up later, in a renegotiation or a dispute.
So we match the translator to the material, not just to the language pair. A supply agreement goes to a linguist who knows how obligation and liability are phrased in the target jurisdiction. Marketing copy goes to someone who can write, because a literal translation of a headline lands flat almost every time. Every translation is then read by a second, independent linguist. That review catches what the first translator stopped seeing four hours into the file.
For companies that send work regularly, we build a glossary of your approved terminology and keep a translation memory on your account. Your product names, job titles and standard clauses then come back the same way every time, whether the file is a policy update or a new page on your website.
It keeps the invoice honest too. Repeated content is already in the memory, so an amended document only costs you for the new text. If you have a style guide or a preferred term list, send it with the first job and we'll work to yours.
Grouped by the teams that usually send them, because the review each one needs is different.
Contracts, terms and conditions, supplier and distribution agreements, NDAs, tenders and procurement documents. Handled by linguists used to commercial drafting, with a certified translation available where a third party asks for one.
Board papers, policies, employee handbooks, training material and internal communications for multilingual workforces. Layout follows the original so a bilingual team can read both versions side by side. See document translation for file types and formats.
Brochures, product pages, ad copy, customer emails, websites and apps. Detail on website translation and brochure translation, with software and app strings covered by localisation.
Annual reports, invoices, audit correspondence and regulatory paperwork, where figures get checked as carefully as words. For accounts, filings and fund documentation, our financial sector page goes further.
Bids run to a deadline that does not move. We translate tender responses, pre-qualification questionnaires, method statements and procurement correspondence, and we tell you at quote stage whether the deadline is realistic rather than three days before it lands. Where a buyer asks for a certified version of a company document, we can supply that alongside the main translation.
Translation is written, interpreting is spoken, and most business clients need both within the same quarter. We provide interpreters for supplier and client meetings, contract negotiations, board and AGM sessions, site visits and safety inductions, training sessions, HR and disciplinary meetings, and trade show stands.
Which mode suits depends on the room. For a negotiation or a factory audit, a face to face interpreter on site earns the cost, because they can read the room and follow documents being passed around the table. A half-hour supplier call is quicker and cheaper to cover with telephone interpreting, which is available around the clock. Multi-language events with a platform, headsets and a running agenda are conference interpreting work, using simultaneous interpreters and the equipment that goes with them.
HR meetings deserve a separate note. If a disciplinary or grievance hearing involves an employee whose English is not their first language, an independent interpreter protects the process as much as the person. A bilingual colleague pulled in to help is not neutral, and their recollection will not hold up if the matter goes to a tribunal.
A fair spread of UK companies, and the pattern of what they need is fairly consistent:
The work doesn't split neatly by industry, though. A manufacturer in the West Midlands and a recruitment firm in Leeds often ask for the same thing in the same week. The useful question is never which sector you're in. It's who reads the document, and what happens if they misread it.
A good deal of what businesses send us is not meant to be read outside a small group. A contract before signature. Board papers. Material relating to an acquisition. A tender response a competitor would happily pay for. An HR case with a named employee in it.
We'll sign your non-disclosure agreement, or provide one of ours, before any files change hands. Our handling of your documents is UK GDPR compliant, files go only to the linguists assigned to your job, and every linguist on our books works under a confidentiality agreement. None of that is a special arrangement; it's how the work runs.
If your procurement or IT team has a requirement about how files are transferred, who can access them or when they are returned, raise it at quote stage. We'll tell you plainly whether we can meet it.
Plainly, and only the things we can stand behind:
Everything we do across written and spoken work is listed on our translation services and interpreting services pages if you want the wider view first.
Send the document or the project details and we'll come back with a fixed quote within one working hour during office hours. An NDA can be signed before any files are shared.