# The Assurance Report · SpiritualTranslations > The SpiritualTranslations Assurance Report: one calibrated quality score, the review process made visible, and a verification ID your readers and rights partners can look up. Signed, and honest about its limits. Source: https://spiritualtranslations.com/assurance --- The trust artifact # Every translation ships with its papers. The SpiritualTranslations Assurance Report is a signed record of how your translation was checked — and your readers and rights partners can verify it. Here is the whole thing, part by part. ## Why a report, and not just our word You're being asked to publish a book you may not be able to read. Every translation vendor says "trust us." None of them hands you something you can hold, share with your board, print in your colophon, and let strangers verify. That's the gap the Assurance Report fills. You can't personally re-check a translation into a language you don't read — so you get the next best thing: the process, the people, and the record, stated plainly and signed. The anatomy ## What's inside a report Below is a sample report. The data is illustrative, the format is real. Every book ships in two forms: a one-page executive summary for your board, and this full report for the record. SAMPLE — illustrative data SpiritualTranslations · SPT ### SpiritualTranslations Assurance Report An attestation of SPT's review process for this book. Report ID SPT-2026-0000 Verify at spiritualtranslations.com/verify Work The Inner Country — Collected Talks Languages English → Portuguese Tradition / corpus Contemplative teaching Issued June 2026 Version v1.0 94 out of 100 SPT Quality Index · Publishable Grade One score, calibrated to the same criteria on every report. A score in this band means the work is ready for your editorial review: expect routine polish, not rescue work. There's no such thing as a perfect translation. The score tells you how the work stood up to review. [How this score is calculated →](https://spiritualtranslations.com/methodology) Machine review — produces the bulk of the testing - ✓Terminology & glossary adherence — every tradition term checked - ✓Consistency across the full manuscript - ✓Formatting & structure preserved - ✓Completeness — omissions detected: none AI review panel · five lenses: source-language scholar · native reader · domain expert · literary stylist · lay reader Human approval — where it matters most Lead reviewer · C.R., professional linguist. Credentials stated in full on every issued report. Ruled on 37 passages the machine flagged for human judgment, and approved them with 12 refinements to nuance and tone. Quality by dimension Source accuracy 96/100 Fidelity to tradition 93/100 Terminology consistency 95/100 Readability 92/100 Machine and human working together, not a line-by-line human re-translation. Human judgment was applied at setup and wherever the system flagged for review. Gabriel Rymberg Quality Assurer, SpiritualTranslations · report co-signed by the reviewing expert in the tradition and the terminology lead SPT certifies a review performed to its published standard, not that the translation is flawless. 1 ### One calibrated score The SPT Quality Index: a single overall score, calibrated to the same criteria on every report, so a 94 means the same thing on every book. There's no perfect translation, so you'll never see us promise a 100. The score measures how the work stood up to review, and the methodology behind it is published, not proprietary. 2 ### The process, visible The exact checks that ran by machine, the five lenses the AI review panel applied, and how many passages it flagged for a human to judge. 3 ### The people, credentialed The reviewing expert in the tradition and the terminology lead both appear by initials and stated credentials on every report, so the accountability accrues to named people, not just logos. 4 ### Scores by dimension Source accuracy, fidelity to the tradition, terminology consistency, readability. Each is scored and explained in plain language a non-translator can read. 5 ### The honest boundary Every report states what the review is and isn't. No fine print. The limits are part of the product. 6 ### Signed and verifiable Signed by the reviewing expert in the tradition, the terminology lead, and SPT, with a verification ID and a QR code that resolve to this exact report on this site. [Read the full methodology behind the score](https://spiritualtranslations.com/methodology) ## The seal: SPT Assured The report is the document. The seal is what you show. SPT Assured is the small mark a publisher can print on a cover, a catalog page, or a rights sheet, and it always points back to the full report through its verification ID. A seal that can't be checked is decoration. Ours resolves in one lookup to the exact report for the exact book, and that's what makes it worth printing. The line a publisher prints: Assured by SpiritualTranslations · report #SPT-2026-0007 [Try the verification page](https://spiritualtranslations.com/verify) ## What the report certifies ### It certifies - That this specific translation went through our published review process - That the stated checks ran, with the stated results - That a named, credentialed expert ruled on every passage the system flagged - That SPT and its Quality Assurer sign their names to that record ### It does not claim - That the translation is flawless. No honest review can warrant that. - That a human re-read every word. Ours is a targeted, machine-triggered review. - That we endorse the book's ideas. We attest to the translation, not the theology. We certify a review performed to a published standard. That's a smaller claim than "perfect," and a more useful one, because it's true. ## 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. [Start a conversation](https://spiritualtranslations.com/contact) [Read the method first](https://spiritualtranslations.com/method)