AI translation for one specific document: the apparel tech pack. English spec sheets go in, Chinese a factory can sew from comes out, with every image, formula, and cell format where it was.
What I did
Product and pricing
Translation engine build
Glossary curation
Payments and admin ops
Subscriptions from $100/mo · Stripe · Ask me for an invite code
845+
Curated apparel terms in the glossary
100%
Images, formulas & formats preserved
2
Speed tiers: fast preview or pro accuracy
$100
Per month, unlimited use
The problem
Chinese garment factories live inside English spreadsheets they can't read. General translators fail twice. They miss trade vocabulary ("topstitch" is a sewing instruction, not a phrase) and they break the file. Images shift, formulas die.
For this user, format preservation is the product.
What I built
- Surgery on the file. The tool edits text inside the file's internals and touches nothing else.
- A glossary as the moat. 845+ curated terms, injected per document.
- A second pass catches misses. Untranslated cells get another round. SKUs and product codes stay untouched on purpose.
- PDFs get an overlay. Chinese sits over the original as movable layers and the source survives.
Decisions that mattered
- Sell access through invite codes. Stripe for payment, WeChat for support, because that's where this buyer lives.
- Specialized translation models instead of famous chatbots. Faster, cheaper, and better with terminology, tuned per model.
- An honest AI disclaimer in the UI. For documents that become physical garments, trust is retention.
A weekend prototype became a paid product with payments, an admin console, and PDF support in six months.