About us
A language company that had to become an engineering company.
Not a strategy deck. The volume our clients needed could not be met by hiring more people, so we built the system instead — and then discovered that the system was as valuable as the service.
401 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL
How we got here
Sixteen years, one city.
2009
Linguanational is founded in Chicago
Janie Markos starts the company as a language services provider, working with local institutions where accuracy is not negotiable.
2010s
Institutional work becomes the core
School districts, healthcare organizations and legal teams — clients with compliance obligations, audit trails and calendars that do not move.
2024
The partnership with Flix Translations Group LLC
Flix Translations Group brings an engineering team and a production AI platform. Linguanational stops being a company that buys technology and becomes one that builds it.
Today
Two practices under one roof
The language business runs on the platform we built. The engineering team that built it now takes on AI work for other organizations across Chicago.
Leadership
Founded and led by Janie Markos.
In 2024 she brought Flix Translations Group LLC into the business — the partnership that gave Linguanational an engineering team and, with it, a second practice.expand with bio + leadership team
The company
- Legal entity
- Linguanational Translations, Inc.
- Founded
- 2009
- Headquarters
- Chicago, Illinois
- Partnership
- Flix Translations Group LLC (2024)
- Practices
- Translation as a Service · AI solutions
How we work
Four positions we have not been talked out of.
Measure it or don't claim it
Numbers on this site come from a live production endpoint. We would rather publish an unflattering figure than an unverifiable one.
The honest 'no'
Some processes should not be automated, and some AI projects should not be funded. We say so during discovery, when it still saves you money.
Ugly data is the real data
Scans, mixed languages, five-year-old templates, tables across three pages. If a system only works on clean input, it does not work.
The people doing the work are here
Chicago-based team, in your time zone. In an engagement you talk to the engineers and linguists, not only to an account manager.
In production right now
The platform, in numbers we do not control.
- 55.5M
- Words processed
- 153
- Language pairs
- 1,990h
- Audio transcribed
- 98.0%
- Automated QA pass rate
- 10.4 min
- Median turnaround
in production, to date
104 target languages
multi-speaker included
12 checks on every job
per job, end to end
Next step
Come see how we work before you hire us.
A thirty-minute call with the people who would actually run your engagement. No slide deck unless you ask for one.