Partnerships

Editing and translation partnerships for institutions

Reliable, high-volume language services for publishers, journals, societies and universities. Formatting that comes back intact, terminology that stays consistent across languages, and specialist review across hundreds of files rather than one.

In a globalized world your organization receives more good research than ever, and it arrives in English of wildly varying quality. Uni-edit extends the language expertise we have given individual researchers for eighteen years to the institutional level: an editing programme you can hand work to with confidence, rather than a vendor you have to keep checking.

What changes at organizational scale

One manuscript is an editing job. Two hundred is an operations problem. The question stops being "is the English good?" and becomes "will every one of these files come back consistent, and formatted the way we asked?"

Human specialists do the language work that needs judgement. That has not changed and will not. Our own technology takes care of the things that break down when the volume grows:

Formatting that comes back intact

Tracked changes, field codes, cross-references, equations and numbering return exactly as they were sent. This is the problem most often found late, when a file is already with a journal.

Consistency across every document

Terminology and style are held across every document in a project, not only within each file. That is the difference between a batch of separate jobs and a programme.

References and citations checked

References are checked against the style guide you name, and citations are matched against the reference list. Available on its own as a reference report.

A clear delivery record

Every submission and delivery is recorded, so a question asked months later is answered from the record rather than from somebody's inbox.

How working with us actually feels

  • A single point of contact. A dedicated manager who knows your requirements, rather than a ticket queue
  • Customer service in English, Japanese and Chinese. Our staff are bilingual and understand publication workflows, not just language
  • Authorial meaning respected. Our editors improve the language and abstain from criticising the research
  • Fewer iterations between your authors and your editors, which is where institutional time is actually lost
  • Paper-by-paper project management, with on-time or early delivery treated as the baseline
  • Tailored workflows built around how your organization already works

Strict confidentiality and secure handling

Institutional material is frequently pre-publication, commercially sensitive, or strictly confidential. We work under confidentiality agreements, with agreed retention and deletion periods, and we delete on request.

For highly restricted material we offer a controlled translation environment. The work is done offline, on a system that sends nothing to the internet or to any cloud service and uses no AI or machine translation. It keeps a complete record of what was done to each document, which you can hand to your compliance team. Available now*

* Each setup is agreed with you, around your own requirements and the assurances you actually need. Enquire for details. One thing we say up front, because it is the reason the record is worth anything: it covers a defined piece of work in an environment we control. It does not claim to show what happened on someone else's computer, or what was done to a document before it reached us. Anyone who tells you their system proves that is selling you something it cannot do.

Who partners with us

  • Publishers, journals and learned societies handling submission volume
  • Universities and research institutions running editing or translation programmes
  • Law firms and companies processing contracts, tenders and official documentation

Uni-edit are specialists in journal manuscripts, conference papers, research reports, theses and dissertations, presentations, university applications, book chapters and websites.

How to start

Send us one real document, the difficult one rather than the easy one. We quote, you approve, and nothing begins before that. For a large institutional programme the first step is usually a paid pilot on live material, so you can judge the quality on work that matters to you.

Send a document, not a meeting.

A person reads every enquiry and replies, usually within one working day.

Send a document

Governed AI-human document operations, for technology partners

For software and services companies that want to implement the system Uni-edit runs its own production on, inside their own product or operation.

What is licensable is the UE AI Editor Suite: job intake, document forensics, protected-span detection, a bounded AI first pass, QA, second-editor handover, release authorization and delivery. The process is the product. Uni-edit does not sell raw AI output; it sells a structured, human-governed editorial process.

We say this plainly: the Suite is the system we run our own production on, and it has been operated by Uni-edit for Uni-edit. Offering it to another organization is a new step, and we would rather scope it honestly than sell you a track record it does not yet have.

Three ways to work together

Licensed, run by you

The Suite deployed into your environment and operated by your people, scoped component by component, because they are not all at the same stage.

Operated by us, under your brand

White-label delivery with agreed communication, branding, pricing and escalation boundaries. An engagement model we offer, not a history we are claiming.

A combination

You run the parts that touch your data and your customers; we operate the rest.

What is not on offer yet

No price list, standard licence, SLA or support tier exists, because none has been agreed. We will not invent one to close a conversation.

Component by component

  • Reference work. Offered as add-on services and reports rather than as a licence. Basic mode normalizes references deterministically with no network calls; detailed mode verifies against Semantic Scholar, and we always say which mode ran
  • Legal and government documents. A working demonstrator built for one real Chinese-to-English tender and contract job, and the reference implementation behind a white-label conversation. It governs terminology and flags inconsistency for a human reviewer. It is not a product you can buy today, and it gives no legal advice or opinion of any kind
  • UE Secure Offline CAT. A deterministic, offline-first translation system with no AI, machine translation or cloud calls in its runtime, producing a tamper-evident evidence package. It is deliberately separate from the Suite. Implemented is not the same as satisfied: an audit test that lacks its evidence reports incomplete, and an incomplete blocks unqualified assurance exactly as a failure does

Technical architecture, including how AI is used and where, is shared under a confidentiality agreement during evaluation.

Start with one workflow, not a demo.

Tell us what you would run and for whom. A person replies, usually within one working day.

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