# SpiritualTranslations — Expert-checked translation for spiritual books > Expert-checked translations of spiritual and religious books at a fraction of the usual cost, each delivered with the SpiritualTranslations Assurance Report: a signed record your readers and rights partners can verify. Source: https://spiritualtranslations.com/ --- 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. [Start a conversation](https://spiritualtranslations.com/contact) [See how it works](https://spiritualtranslations.com/method) The method, running sample 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 win](https://spiritualtranslations.com/compare) The 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. Commentaries & study guides Devotionals & prayer collections Curricula & course materials Articles, essays & newsletters Website & app content Transcripts of talks & teachings 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 Ledger](https://spiritualtranslations.com/ledger) ## This is what accountability looks like. [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 → 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. See a full Assurance Report](https://spiritualtranslations.com/assurance) 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 Benchmark](https://spiritualtranslations.com/contact?purpose=benchmark) Excerpt-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. [Our pricing philosophy](https://spiritualtranslations.com/pricing) [Where this goes as translation becomes abundant — the long view](https://spiritualtranslations.com/about#horizon) ## 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)