Capabilities

Technical translation services by confidential human translators

Professional translation across twenty five languages, produced entirely by people. No AI models touch your documents, which is exactly why banks, funds and energy companies trust us with the material they cannot afford to leak.

NDA before you send a page. Fixed quote from a named person. No portals, no machines. Insured to £10m.

25languages covered
15+years of delivery
0AI models used, ever
1business day to a fixed quote

PEF Consulting Partners provides human translation services through consultants and professional linguists covering twenty five languages, with more than fifteen years of delivery on large translation programmes, including work for BP and private, confidential contract translation for hedge funds. No AI models are used at any stage: your documents are never entered into machine translation tools or language models, translated or reviewed by them, or used to train them.

That policy is not nostalgia, it is confidentiality engineering. Every document pasted into an AI translation tool leaves your control, and for a fund agreement, an acquisition contract or an engineering specification that is an unacceptable risk. Our translations are produced by named, accountable people under confidentiality agreements, and the work never leaves that circle.

Technical translation services

Precision where a single mistranslated term becomes an incident

Technical material is where translation quality is most visible and most expensive to get wrong: engineering specifications, operating and maintenance manuals, safety documentation, patents and technical contracts, where a single mistranslated tolerance, unit or defined term becomes a site incident or a dispute. Our technical translations are produced by linguists working with subject matter reviewers, drawing on fifteen plus years of programme delivery in energy and industry, including our work for BP. Terminology is agreed with you up front, held in a glossary, and applied consistently across every document and every language.

Technical and engineering documents

Specifications, manuals, safety and patent material, translated by people who check the terminology with your engineers, not a model that guesses it.

Contracts and legal documents

Commercial contracts, fund documentation and agreements where precision carries legal weight and confidentiality is absolute, handled under NDA.

Financial and fund documents

Confidential translation for hedge funds and financial institutions, built on fifteen plus years of handling private contract material without incident.

Large translation programmes

Sustained, multi language programmes run with the same delivery discipline as any PEF engagement: owners, deadlines, quality review and confidentiality throughout.

How it works

Three steps from first call to delivered translation

1

Talk to us, NDA first

Tell us the languages, the material and the deadline. We put a confidentiality agreement in place before you send us a single page.

2

A fixed quote within one business day

You get a clear price and delivery date from a named person, not a portal. No surprises later.

3

Named linguists deliver

Your documents are translated and reviewed by accountable people, with agreed terminology and a quality check before anything comes back to you.

Why human only matters

If your document deserves a lawyer or an engineer, its translation deserves a person

Machine translation is fast and cheap, and for public, low stakes text it is often good enough. It is the wrong tool the moment a document is confidential, legally binding or technically exacting.

🔒Confidentiality

Text sent to an AI service leaves your control. Ours never leaves a named circle of people under NDA.

⚖️Accountability

When a clause or a specification is mistranslated, a machine cannot be questioned, corrected or held responsible. Our named linguists can.

🎯Judgement

Contracts and technical documents turn on nuance, defined terms and convention that a human specialist recognises and a model merely approximates.

The record

Proof, not promises

✓Twenty five languages covered by our consultants and professional linguists
✓Large translation programmes delivered for BP
✓Private, confidential contract translation for hedge funds
✓More than fifteen years of continuous translation delivery
✓No AI models used, ever, at any stage of the work
Questions we are asked

Straight answers before you get in touch

Do you use AI or machine translation?

No. No AI models are used at any stage. Documents are never entered into machine translation tools or language models, and the work is produced and reviewed entirely by named people under confidentiality agreements.

How quickly will I get a quote?

Within one business day, as a fixed price with a delivery date, from a named person. A confidentiality agreement is put in place before you send any material.

How many languages do you cover?

Our consultants and professional linguists cover twenty five languages, and have delivered large multi language translation programmes for over fifteen years.

What experience do you have with technical and confidential material?

Our translation team has delivered large translation programmes for BP, technical and engineering material across energy and industry, and private, confidential contract translation for hedge funds over more than fifteen years, always under NDA.

Need something translated that cannot leak?

Send us the languages, the material type and the deadline, and you will have a fixed quote from a named person within one business day. NDA in place before you send us anything. No obligation, no portals, no machines.

Or email chris.fagan@pefconsultingpartners.co.uk directly.

HOW WE WORKA controlled path from goal to benefit1UnderstandYour goals, systems and risks2ShapeThe approach and business case3MobiliseThe team and operating model4DeliverControlled, governed delivery5AssureIndependent quality and control6RealiseStabilised, savings secured