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How Localization helps teams align around the customer
August 22, 2026
How Localization helps teams align around the customer
August 22, 2026

Words have the power to shape perceptions and influence actions, which is why reframing is such a powerful tool. In localization, we can reframe our role from simply translating to driving alignment across the company. By ensuring content is consistent, culturally relevant, and strategically aligned with business goals, localization professionals play a key role in helping businesses grow globally. This post explores how we create that alignment and why our work is much more than just translation.

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August 22, 2026
What can Localization learn from about 20 years of shadow IT?
August 8, 2026
What can Localization learn from about 20 years of shadow IT?
August 8, 2026

AI is making it easier for teams to create multilingual content without going through Localization. That sounds very similar to a problem IT has been dealing with for years: shadow IT. In this post, I look at what Localization can learn from that experience and how we can keep visibility, quality and control without slowing the business down

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August 8, 2026
Who decides what “good AI behavior” looks like in each market?
July 24, 2026
Who decides what “good AI behavior” looks like in each market?
July 24, 2026

What if asking AI the same question in English, Hindi, or Arabic leads to different levels of critical feedback? Anthropic’s latest research raises fascinating questions about culture, AI behavior, and why Localization expertise may become increasingly relevant beyond translation.

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July 24, 2026
Can a localization professional make everyone happy?
June 27, 2026
Can a localization professional make everyone happy?
June 27, 2026

Localization Managers are often expected to keep many stakeholders happy: leadership, content teams, linguists, product teams, regional teams, finance, and procurement. But maybe happiness is not the real goal. In this post, I reflect on why stakeholder alignment matters more, and how Localization can make expectations, hidden work, ownership, and trade-offs more visible

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June 27, 2026
Your bilingual employees are not your AI Localization quality strategy
June 19, 2026
Your bilingual employees are not your AI Localization quality strategy
June 19, 2026

AI can help create the first translation faster, but the work does not always disappear. Sometimes it simply moves to someone else’s calendar. In this post, I reflect on the hidden cost of asking bilingual employees to review AI output without a clear process, role, or quality ownership

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June 19, 2026
    A practical way to build your next Localization strategy
June 12, 2026
A practical way to build your next Localization strategy
June 12, 2026

June is strategy season for many corporate teams. And for Localization, this usually means uncomfortable questions about budget, AI, workflows, markets, metrics, and business value. Before jumping into new tools or complex plans, maybe it is worth going back to the basics

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June 12, 2026
Start with purpose because the tool is not the strategy
June 5, 2026
Start with purpose because the tool is not the strategy
June 5, 2026

AI promises faster localization, and that message is attractive. But in many teams, the real issue is not speed. The work gets delivered. The harder question is how much hidden coordination, unclear ownership, and workflow complexity it takes to get there.

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June 5, 2026
Want leaders to listen to you when talking about Localization? Start with risk
May 30, 2026
Want leaders to listen to you when talking about Localization? Start with risk
May 30, 2026

When leaders push back on localization time, resources, or AI, the strongest answer is not to defend every step of the process. It is to reframe the conversation around risk.

In this post, I explore why explaining Localization from a quality perspective, with too many process details, may not always be the best strategy when speaking with senior stakeholders.

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May 30, 2026
    Why buyer-side localization feels different
May 23, 2026
Why buyer-side localization feels different
May 23, 2026

This post explores the key differences between working on the buyer versus the provider side of the localization industry. While there are some tasks common to both, others vary significantly in areas such as people management, operations, strategy, and metrics. The article breaks these tasks into four categories, providing examples for each to highlight these distinctions

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May 23, 2026
LLMs don’t improve by themselves. Localization has seen this before
May 2, 2026
LLMs don’t improve by themselves. Localization has seen this before
May 2, 2026

LLMs don’t learn your brand style just because you use them more. They improve when someone guides them, feeds them with examples, corrects them, and owns the outcome. In this blog post I reflect on how we can create a strategy to do that

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May 2, 2026
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Mar 9 Why do we fail when approaching Agile Localization

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