Confidential translation: client documents translated without leaving Switzerland
A contract arrives in German, the client reads French, and the deadline is Friday. The quickest route is a free online translator: paste, copy, done. The contract, the parties and the price are now on someone else's server, under someone else's terms. Was that the plan?
The short answer: open models translate between French, German, Italian and English on servers in Switzerland, Meow's or your own, so the text doesn't go to an online translator. For contracts and anything that will be signed, a person who reads both languages still checks the result. How good it is on your texts is something to test, on your texts.
Checked against the law on 30 September 2026
Who else reads it?
- Four languages
French, German, Italian and English, the languages of Swiss clients, translated on the same servers.
- No online translator
The text is translated on servers in Switzerland, operated for you, instead of being pasted into a public website.
- A person checks
For contracts and legal texts, someone who reads both languages checks the result before it counts.
How to test it
0 of 8 checked
Letters, contract clauses, reports: the kinds you translate most, in the language pairs you need.
Where a professional translation already exists, it's the reference to compare against.
Your terms and how you translate them: services, legal terms, how you address clients.
Translate the 30 texts and have someone who reads both languages mark each one: usable as is, light edits, or wrong.
A missing “not”, a changed figure, a date written the other way round: count these apart, they matter more than style.
Tables, numbered clauses and formatting in Word or PDF: note what survives the translation.
Internal notes may go as they are; contracts and anything signed get checked.
If your engagement terms promise work by a professional translator, honour that promise, or agree the change with the client before using AI translation.
Ticked them all? The kit turns this into a test you can run next week: what to check by kind of text, a glossary to start from, the test plan, and what to count before sizing a server. Get the kit
What it handles, and what to check
The kit sorts six kinds of text. Two of them:
- An internal email or note
- Usable after a quick read.
- A letter to a client
- A good first draft; a person checks the tone and the figures.
- A contract clause
- In the kit
- A decision from a court or an authority
- In the kit
- Marketing text for your website
- In the kit
- Tables of figures
- In the kit
Why it runs in Switzerland
If an online translator processes the text abroad and the text holds personal data, that is a disclosure abroad, which needs a legal basis under the Data Protection Act (arts. 16 and 17). Translated on servers in Switzerland, operated for you, the text stays in Switzerland.
What it needs
A server with a graphics card; long documents need more memory than short emails. The Meow Academy describes the families of open models and how they fit on hardware.
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Where does your firm stand?
The self-check takes two minutes and says which first step fits. Or talk it through in a free 15-minute call.
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Your situation
What AI should do for you, and what it must never see.
- 5–10 min
What's possible
Which tasks can run privately, roughly what it costs, and what should stay human.
- 10–15 min
The next step
A test on your own documents, an assessment, or nothing yet.
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