Mazile is a two-person translation practice. We work on technical documentation — installation manuals, maintenance procedures, material specifications and the paperwork that has to go with them.

Most of what we translate is read by someone standing next to a machine. That shapes how we work: terminology is kept in a glossary per client and reused, measurements and part numbers are checked twice, and anything ambiguous in the source gets queried rather than guessed. We would rather send a short list of questions than deliver a document that reads well and says the wrong thing.

What we usually handle

Manuals and procedures

Installation, operation and maintenance documents, including the illustrations and callouts that go with them.

Specifications and data sheets

Material and product specifications where the numbers matter more than the prose.

Compliance paperwork

Declarations, safety instructions and labelling text that has to match a required wording.

Revisions

Updating an existing translated set when the source document changes, so the two stay in step rather than diverging over a few releases.

How we quote

By the document, not by the word, once we have seen it. A short manual with heavy repetition and a short manual full of one-off terminology take very different amounts of time, and word counts hide that. Send the file and we will come back with a figure and a date.

We take a limited amount of work at a time and are usually booked a few weeks ahead. If the timing does not fit we will say so rather than accept and run late.