Translation you can trust — where the meaning is the whole point
We translate spiritual books with proven accuracy — you put your name on it with confidence.
We translate spiritual and religious writing of every kind — books, study guides, courses, whole websites — in weeks, not months or years. Every delivery comes with the SpiritualTranslations Assurance Report: a signed, verifiable record of everything a translation expert has checked and a quality score you can confirm. And yes — at a fraction of what an agency charges.
8/8 · The report updates
Assured & verifiable
37 passages ruled · 12 refinements · SPT Quality Index 94
Every translation ships with its papers.
In a blind evaluation, roughly four passages in five needed no human correction.
The choice
Two ways exist. We built a third.
The careful way
A specialist agency
Human translators, months of care, thousands of dollars per book. And at the end, one thing missing: any record you can check. Even the best agency asks you to take its word.
The cheap way
A generic AI tool
Pennies, minutes, and prose fluent enough to hide its own mistakes. Your tradition's central term rendered three ways in three paragraphs. Nobody checks. Nobody signs.
The third way
SpiritualTranslations
Machines carry the volume. Human experts rule where judgment is needed. And every delivery ships with the SpiritualTranslations Assurance Report — a signed, verifiable record of what an expert checked and how good it scored. At a fraction of the agency's price.
Anyone can run the AI — including you. What no tool gives you is a considered judgment that the translation is right for your tradition, and a name signed under it. That's what we provide.
See the honest comparison — including where the others winThe product
What arrives with every translation
The finished translation
A complete book, not raw machine output. It's tuned to your tradition's terminology, tested by multi-layer machine review, and refined by a human expert where it matters most. Delivered in weeks.
The Assurance Report
A signed quality report: one calibrated score, the process laid out, and the exact places where an expert stepped in. It's what lets you publish a book you can't read yourself, and do it with open eyes.
The SPT Assured seal
A small mark for your cover or catalog. It points back to the full report through a verification ID that a reader, board member, or rights partner can look up and confirm is genuine.
Scan to verify
Opens this report's verification record.
Assured by SpiritualTranslations · report #SPT-2026-0007
The line a publisher can print. Anyone can verify it.
Every kind of text a tradition lives by.
The one boundary: we don't translate canonical scripture itself. A tradition's sacred text deserves a process, and a community mandate, beyond what we can offer today.
Which book do you wish existed in your language?
The Wish Ledger is our public list of the translations people are waiting for. Adding one costs nothing and promises nothing. It just makes the need visible, to us and to every publisher who visits.
Visit the Wish LedgerThis is what accountability looks like.
The evidence so far
Tested blind. Judged publishable.
In our first formal evaluation, an independent expert reviewed our output blind — with no idea which system produced which passage. The verdict: publishable-grade with light expert review, and roughly four passages in five needed no correction at all. The remaining fifth is exactly what our expert-review layer exists to catch.
78
passages, reviewed blind
4 in 5
needed no human correction
✳ One study, one language pair (English→Portuguese), one corpus. We'll claim more when we've proven more.
The standing offer
Put us up against the book you already paid for.
Somewhere on your shelf is a book you already paid to translate. Send us the original. We'll translate an excerpt — free — and you compare the two against your own standard, with your own readers. We don't need to see the version you paid for, and we don't need to be told the verdict. We're the only translation service that invites you to grade it against the one you already bought.
Take the BenchmarkExcerpt-sized and first-come while we're small. If demand outruns us, this page will say so.
The careful one
What you won't find on this site
Trust is our entire product, so the marketing is held to the same standard as the translations.
No invented logos.
We're new and we look it. Partners will appear here when they choose to be named, and not before.
No inflated numbers.
Every number we publish comes from a measurement we can show you, with its limits stated right next to it.
No borrowed trust.
Our track record is the verification registry, and it grows at the speed the work does.
No pretending machines are people.
Where a machine checked the work, we say so. Where a human did, we state the credentials.
Yes, it's the slow way to build a brand. We chose it on purpose.
Why we exist
Owned by a ministry. Priced for the mission.
SpiritualTranslations is wholly owned by a ministry — no outside investors, so revenue funds more translation, for more traditions, in more languages. Pricing sits near cost and is published as rules, not quotes, so an organization can translate twenty books where it once could afford one. A voluntary institutional tier lets well-funded buyers pay more on purpose, underwriting communities that can't.
Be early to something careful.
We're small on purpose — a few projects at a time, taken on with care, while we prove the method in the open. Talk to us now and you'll help shape what this becomes. Bring your hard questions. Or bring a book you already paid to translate, and see how we compare.