Sous-Chef

Sous-Chef adds intelligence to every translation step, inferring intent, tone, and audience so your content stays natural, precise, and on-brand in every language.

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Sous-Chef: Targeted Discourse at Scale

Not just translation, identity-aware communication. Sous-Chef infers intent, audience, and voice, then lets you dial domain, formality, tone, audience, and creativity to deliver copy that resonates for each market.

Available Where You Work

Use Sous-Chef in the Editor for full files (segment-by-segment) or in the Portal for instant copy-paste translation.

Control the Voice, Beyond Words

Set Domain, Formality, Tone, Audience, and Creativity to keep your brand consistent at scale.

Beyond a Generic LLM

Context, audience, and instructions make outputs clear, natural, and ready to publish.

Name your agents

Name an Agent for Each Kind of Content

Set who it writes for, how it sounds, and the rules it keeps. Each agent keeps its own.

Name as many agents as you need. In the editor, each one is saved as a Sous-Chef profile.

  • Retail marketing, for product pages and campaigns. Writes for shoppers in each market, informal, persuasive and conversational. Short sentences. Lead with what the reader enjoys.
  • Legal and compliance, for terms of sale, warranties, and privacy notices. Writes for customers and their counsel, formal, professional. Keep defined terms exactly as written. Never shorten a clause.
  • Product documentation, for assembly guides and care instructions. Writes for customers assembling their furniture, neutral, clear and precise and technical. Short, factual sentences. Keep product names and measurements exactly as in the source.
  • Patient information, for patient leaflets and labels. Writes for patients and caregivers, formal, clear and precise and professional. Approved terms only. Plain words, one instruction per sentence.

Where it works

Where Your Agent Works in Every Translation

Your agent steps in after your memory and glossary, and before a single word is suggested.

  1. 01Read the sentence

    What it says, and what the file around it is about.

  2. 02Find what you knowMemoryGlossaryMachine translation
  3. 03Put the best first

    Recent, human-approved, and specific answers rank higher.

  4. 04 · Your Sous-Chef agentApplies its briefAudienceToneFormalityInstructions
  5. 05Suggest one translation

    The AI weighs it all and proposes the line you are most likely to keep.

  6. 06You confirm

    Keep it or change it. Your choice goes back into your memory.

EN

Discover our new teak lounge set, designed for long summer evenings on the terrace.

FR

Profitez des longues soirées d’été en terrasse avec notre nouveau salon en teck.

Written by the Retail marketing agent

In the editor

Here Is Where Your Agent Shows Up

Click the screen to watch Sous-Chef profiles in the editor, step by step.

1The agent at work

Every context-sensitive translation names the agent behind it.

2Switch in place

Pick another agent from the same menu. It applies to the whole work unit.

3Edit the brief

Edit profile opens the brief in one form. Shared agents stay as they are.

Sous-Chef profiles in the editor2:00 · Vanilson Buregio, narrated by Hugo Vieira

Translate Your Way

Sous-Chef lets you customize every aspect of your translation before you hit “Generate.” Define your audience, set the tone, adjust formality, and control creativity to deliver content that feels perfectly written for its purpose.

Audience

Tell us who this is for (e.g., General Public, Students, Power Users, Executives). Sous-Chef adjusts clarity, depth, and examples to match the reader.

Instructions

Guide Sous-Chef with your own creative brief. Add rules, brand voice, terminology, or examples to follow. It interprets your intent and generates outputs aligned with your unique style.

Formality

Choose how polished or relaxed your message should sound. Sous-Chef adjusts structure, vocabulary, and rhythm to fit cultural and professional expectations for each market.

Tone

Decide how your content speaks, Professional, Conversational, Persuasive, Technical, or Witty. Sous-Chef fine-tunes the personality behind the words so your message lands exactly right.

Creativity

Control how literal or inventive the output should be. Lower levels ensure precision and compliance; higher levels unlock narrative flow and originality, without losing accuracy.

Localization That Moves at Dev Speed

From commit to deployment, wxrks streamlines your workflow — and Sous-Chef keeps your voice consistent in every release.

Enterprise-Grade Security

Access controls, audit logs, and policies to keep translations compliant and traceable.

Trusted by Engineering Teams

Preset Sous-Chef by environment and pipeline to scale safely.

Automation-First Workflows

Trigger configurations by project, domain, product, or country.

Context-Sensitivity

Bring the right background for each topic; reduce ambiguity and rework.

Quality Gate Checks

Compare alternatives, tune creativity, and validate terminology before shipping.

Built for AI, Not Retrofits

Designed to collaborate with MT/LLMs without breaking your process.

Future-Ready Localization

Scale new languages, brands, and product lines with consistent voice.

SEO-Optimized Store Content

Pick the tone/formality that performs for app stores, blogs, and help centers.

Customizable Creativity

Dial outputs from precise to imaginative with one slider.

Integrations

Connect your content to the tools your team uses every day - plus create your own micro-apps using no code integration

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