We built this because the existing options were not good enough.
nicetranslation started in Houston in 2017 after one of our founders spent two years as in-house counsel at a multinational energy company, watching bilingual documentation create entirely avoidable legal and regulatory problems. The issue was never the translation agencies' core competence. The issue was the matching. A pharmaceutical clinical protocol went to a translator with a literature degree. A shareholder agreement went to someone whose strongest professional context was marketing.
The matching problem was so consistent that it looked structural. Agencies were optimizing for availability in the right language pair, not for professional alignment between the translator and the content. We set out to fix that specific thing, in the context of the industries we knew from working in them: law, pharmaceutical research, and corporate compliance.
Today we work with immigration attorneys across Harris County and beyond, pharmaceutical research teams in the Texas Medical Center, federal and state courts requiring certified interpreters, and US-based technology companies entering Latin American markets. The approach that defined the first project we took in 2017 is still how every project works in 2025.
