Find the work. Then set your price.

You type every word.

Once a business is yours, nothing published came from a model. You translate it yourself, sentence by sentence, the same way you always have — the AI never writes your translation, not even a first draft. A reference suggestion can sit beside the field if you want a second opinion; it’s something to read, never something to accept. Nobody can rush a page through by clicking past a draft, because there isn’t one to click past.

Even a quiet site pays.

It’s not $5 for nothing. Here’s what the owner is actually told: “Five dollars a month, per language, keeps it watched — your certificate, your sitemap, what Google expects — and every improvement we make reaches your site without you touching it.”

A quiet language still pays that $5 floor — charged per language, never pooled across the site. Hold a language and it’s $2.50 a month for you, yours alone, for doing nothing — and once a month he gets a note with your name on it.

One thing to know about when it arrives: each month’s share settles after 30 days, and a payout goes out once your balance reaches $25. A smaller balance rolls forward to the next run — it’s never lost, it just waits for company.

Where the money is.

Prospects works in both directions, and they don’t pay the same. A business abroad that wants to speak to your language’s own market pays full price — it’s a real market for them, and they know it. A local business that just wants to reach English or French speakers pays less: above the floor, every price is set to what that customer can actually spend. Neither is the wrong client to pitch; picking the language in Prospects picks the direction, and the abroad-facing side is usually the richer one.

Bring the client, keep every language you introduced.

When you’re the one who brought a site to us, that stays true even for languages someone else ends up holding. You earn on every language on a site you introduced, even the ones you don’t hold yourself — a share of theirs, not out of it, so the translator actually doing that language still gets her full rate.

One line so nothing surprises you later: that share rides the per-language price, above the $5 floor. A still language at $5 pays the translator holding it and nobody else — there’s no introducer share on a floor line, for you or for anyone.

Not another post-editing rate cut.

If you already do machine-translation post-editing for an agency, you know the shape of it: the rate keeps sliding, the discount gets bigger than the editing ever saved, and the client was never yours to begin with. This is the same skill — reviewing and correcting a draft rather than translating cold — on the other side of that arrangement. You set the price, within a band tied to what the buyer can actually pay, not one imposed from above.

What this isn’t.

If you run Trados or memoQ, your translation memory doesn’t come with you — there’s no import today, so every project starts from the source, not your glossary. Agency work still runs through Trados; this doesn’t replace the terminology and QA tooling agencies standardize on, and it isn’t trying to.

It handles documents too — .docx, .pdf, .txt, .md — the same phrase-by-phrase way, and your corrections carry forward on their own. The parsed file is kept, so a long document you’re coming back to over weeks reopens from Jobs without re-uploading. Two limits, said plainly: a copy over 2 MB once compressed isn’t kept (you reopen that one from your own file — everything you verified is saved either way), and the 50 most recent per account are kept. Good for a homepage, a brochure, a handful of product pages. Not yet the place to run a 200-page manual across a team.

How we check that’s true.

We sample accepted sentences and have them checked independently. Accept only what you have read — that is the whole job.