LocNavigator is a practitioner-reported diagnostic platform for the localization industry. It tracks TMS rankings, tool combinations, automation efficacy, and enterprise platform pricing. All data is contributed by the people running the programs.
The dataset gives you an honest picture of how localization actually works: tools, automations, rates, and cost to change (CTC) reported from inside real programs.
No sponsors or conflicts. The picture gets clearer with every submission.
To contribute your tools, automations, rates, and program data, or to benchmark your setup against what practitioners across the industry have reported.
By showing you how programs like yours actually operate: which tool combinations people run, what rates are negotiated in practice, and what a realistic TMS or LSP switch actually costs.
Four practitioner-reported data verticals. Contributed anonymously by the people running localization programs. See the results to navigate buying decisions and program strategy.
Report the tools you use and how well they work together. Vendors publish feature lists. Nobody publishes satisfaction ratings from the people running the programs. This is for measuring real performance: which combinations people run, how they rate them, and where the friction is.
Tools →Report what your program automates and how well. For each workflow function — content ingestion, translation handoff, QA routing, file delivery, and more — report your tool and rate its performance. The industry runs on a mix of automation and manual steps that varies widely. This captures it.
Automations →Estimation tool
Estimate the real cost of switching your TMS or LSP. Migration, re-integration, contract exit, and linguist pool setup are rarely priced before a switch is made. These figures are based on real-world experience and are the kind of numbers that do not appear in vendor proposals.
Cost to change & migration plan →Report what you pay for TMS, automation, MT, and AI platforms. Pricing opacity in this industry benefits vendors, not buyers. Contracts are negotiated privately, benchmarks do not exist publicly, and the gap between what platforms cost and what buyers think they should cost is rarely discussed. This changes that.
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