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SpiritualTranslations · SPT
SpiritualTranslations — the one-page brief
Prepared for boards, committees, and publishing partners. Everything here is stated in full at spiritualtranslations.com.
The situation
Most of the writing that makes a tradition livable — commentaries, study guides, devotionals, curricula — exists in one language, because professional translation of a single book costs thousands of dollars. AI has made translation cheap, but not trustworthy: fluent output can hide real errors of meaning, and nobody signs it.
What SpiritualTranslations does
- Translates spiritual and religious writing with AI tuned to the tradition's terminology, on a foundation approved by a human expert of that tradition.
- Checks the work with deterministic tests and a five-lens AI review panel; a credentialed human linguist rules on every passage the system flags.
- Delivers in weeks, at roughly a tenth of traditional agency cost, with the SpiritualTranslations Assurance Report: a signed record of how the work was checked, carrying a verification ID anyone can look up.
The evidence so far
In a first formal evaluation, an independent expert translator blind-reviewed 78 passages of baseline output (English→Portuguese): publishable-grade with light expert review; roughly four passages in five needed no human correction. One study, one language pair, one corpus — each new language pair gets its own evaluation before we sell into it.
Pricing and ownership
Wholly owned by WMOJ, a ministry; no outside investors. Prices sit near cost and are published as rules, in three tiers (mission / standard / institutional) that share cost fairly — every tier gets the same review and the same report.
The boundaries, stated plainly
- Machine and human together — not a line-by-line human re-translation. The report states exactly what was checked, and by what.
- We do not translate canonical scripture; a tradition's sacred text deserves a process and a community mandate beyond what we offer today.
- We attest to the translation, not the theology, and we never claim a translation is flawless — no honest review can.
Verify
Every report can be checked at spiritualtranslations.com/verify. The line a publisher prints:
Assured by SpiritualTranslations · report #SPT-2026-0007
Prepared by SpiritualTranslations · spiritualtranslations.com