Lilt

Lilt is a highly disruptive, enterprise-grade AI translation and localization platform fundamentally designed to make the world's information universally accessible. Founded in 2015 by former Google Translate researchers Spence Green and John DeNero, and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company operates as the ultimate contextual AI engine for global communications. Under the hood, Lilt seamlessly blends cutting-edge Large Language Models (LLMs) with a proprietary "Human Intelligence Layer"—empowering organizations to orchestrate complex translation workflows, automate technical documentation, and launch multilingual brand campaigns with unprecedented speed. Their primary target audience spans massive Fortune 500 enterprises (including Intel, Canva, and Lenovo), frontier AI developers, and high-security public sector agencies like the U.S. Department of Defense who desperately need defense-grade, SOC 2 compliant localization without sacrificing brand accuracy. What sets Lilt apart in the crowded localization ecosystem is its continuous model improvement and Agentic AI capabilities; instantly retraining its custom algorithms with every human translation to deliver massive cost reductions and up to 5x faster workflows, all while maintaining 100% data control across on-premise and air-gapped environments.