Your market, your variant
Spain or Latin America. Brazil or Portugal. France or Canada. You pick the variant, and your translator and reviewer live in it. No “neutral” Spanish that belongs nowhere.
01 Why the Yard exists
Every product team has shipped a button that sounded wrong.
It usually starts the same way. A strong product, a launch date, and a spreadsheet of strings sent off to be translated by whoever quoted by the word. Back comes Spanish that is technically correct and sounds like a tax form. Nobody notices until a customer in Mexico City does.
Lantern Yard was set up in Mclean to close that gap. One translator drafts against your glossary. A second linguist, living in the market you’re selling to, reviews it inside your running build, not in a spreadsheet, and sends back annotated screenshots of anything that truncates, misgenders or reads cold.
We only work in three languages, Spanish, Portuguese and French, and only for software and medtech. That narrow focus is the whole point: we know why “dose” can’t drift between screen 4 and page 12 of an IFU, and why French needs room to breathe on a mobile button.
Why a fixed fee, specifically
You need a budget line to hand your finance lead, not an hourly clock you watch. So we scope your files first, name one number, and hold it. If the scope changes we tell you before work starts, never after.