We provide multilingual translation, content, localization, and cultural adaptation solutions that help organizations convey meaning across languages, cultures, and technologies with precision, responsibility, and long-term clarity.
From institutional messaging to digital interfaces, we align language, intent, and perception across global environments.
AI-assisted. Human-guided. Precision across languages and jurisdictions — without loss of meaning.
Every translated document becomes a representative of your organization in another linguistic and cultural environment.
Translation and localization influence how clients, institutions, partners, and markets perceive your organization. They shape reputation, trust, credibility, and global presence.
At Aldus, we believe language is one of the most smart investments an organization can make. Every word contributes to the way an organization is understood, remembered, and valued across cultures.
For more than 30 years, Aldus has helped organizations communicate across languages, cultures, and regulatory environments through professional translation, localization, and multilingual communication services.
Our approach combines linguistic expertise, technological efficiency, and human judgment. We believe that effective translation requires more than linguistic accuracy; it requires an understanding of context, audience, intent, and cultural nuance.
From education and legal environments to technology, public services, and international commerce, Aldus helps organizations communicate with confidence while preserving the integrity, purpose, and meaning of their message.
Every project is guided by a simple principle: language should not merely be translated. It should be understood, adapted, and communicated in a way that strengthens trust, reputation, and long-term relationships.
Professional management of multilingual projects in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages and language pairs. From technical documentation and regulatory content to corporate, educational and strategic communications, projects are coordinated with accuracy, consistency and accountability from planning through final delivery.
Adaptation of brand, branding, marketing and strategic content across languages while preserving tone, intent and positioning. From campaigns to product messaging and digital platforms, communication remains culturally precise and aligned with audience expectations.
Certified translations by certified translators for immigration, educational, legal, administrative and official documentation. Processes are designed to meet institutional, governmental and professional requirements while ensuring accuracy and reliability.
Use of advanced AI-assisted language technologies under strict human oversight. Automated systems accelerate production, while expert linguists ensure accuracy, coherence and accountability in high-stakes, regulated and product-driven environments.
Design and structuring of multilingual communication systems across websites, SaaS platforms and digital ecosystems. Includes software, product and user interface localization for digital environments, together with structured documentation and content architecture that support consistency, version control and alignment across languages and markets.
Subtitling, voice-over, transcription and multilingual media adaptation, combined with language data structuring for reuse across platforms, applications and product environments. Ensures coherence between audiovisual content, documentation and global communication assets.
I am Dr. Alfonso De Franco. I hold a PhD in Communication Sciences and Semiotic Linguistics from EHESS in Paris.
Over the past 30 years, I have learned a profound but simple principle: translation is a vital human asset and a cornerstone of communication. It helps people navigate cultures, connect values, and bring communities and markets closer together. I founded Aldus Intelligence with these guiding principles in mind.
Every Aldus assignment combines experienced human judgment, carefully governed technology, and direct professional oversight. We learn your terminology and develop a clear understanding of your business and audience, ensuring that your manuals, guides, onboarding documentation, regulatory materials, and corporate communications work naturally across languages and markets.
Through this approach, we add value beyond translation—protecting meaning, strengthening credibility, reducing communication risk, and supporting dependable multilingual content.
I personally review and follow every project, and I will bring the same commitment to quality and client satisfaction to yours.
Dr. Alfonso De Franco Founder & CEO
Aldus proudly maintains strong ties to Canada’s professional translation and interpreting community.
Trust in financial communication begins with precise language. Our accounting, banking, financial-services, and insurance translation work includes annual reports, financial statements, investment and stock-market documents, regulatory and securities filings, prospectuses, shareholder communications, insurance policies, claims documentation, compliance materials, contracts, customer communications, and employee training content.
Marketing language should sound as though it belongs in the new market, not as though it arrived by translation. Our marketing translation, transcreation, and brand-localization work includes advertising campaigns, multilingual SEO content, brochures, social media, product launches, and corporate communications while preserving voice, intent, and cultural relevance.
In aerospace, a small ambiguity can become a serious problem. Our aerospace translation work includes technical manuals, maintenance procedures, operating guides, training materials, specifications, and corporate communications for the people who build, maintain, and operate aircraft.
Engineering and construction documents must convey complex information without introducing uncertainty. Our work includes technical specifications, feasibility studies, project reports, tender and RFP documentation, drawing notes, operating and maintenance manuals, safety procedures, quality-control materials, and construction documentation.
Consumer products often enter several markets at nearly the same time. Our translation and localization work supports product launches, packaging, labels, product documentation, menus, policies and procedures, employee onboarding, training materials, brand messaging, websites, and customer communications while preserving a recognizable voice across markets.
Educational content must be clear to students, educators, researchers, and administrators alike. Our academic translation work includes course and training materials, research documents, admissions information, institutional policies, academic programs, assessment materials, and student communications for diverse learning communities and disciplines.
Stories cross borders most successfully when their rhythm, tone, and cultural references travel with them. Our audiovisual translation and media-localization work includes subtitling, closed captioning, script translation, transcription, voice-over adaptation, synopses, press kits, festival materials, and promotional content.
Environmental and energy communication brings scientific evidence, engineering priorities, public policy, and community interests together. Our work includes environmental impact assessments, land-reclamation and mine-closure plans, site-remediation documentation, sustainability and ESG reports, scientific studies, regulatory documentation, public consultation materials, climate-change communications, and operational content.
Public information should be understandable to everyone it is meant to serve. Our
government
and public-sector translation work includes policies, reports, public notices,
parliamentary
speeches, procurement documents, forms, service guides, municipal newsletters, and
citizen
communications, with close attention to clarity, consistency, institutional
accountability,
and province-specific language requirements, including Quebec’s 
Law 96.
Healthcare information must be accurate without becoming inaccessible to the people who need it. Our medical, pharmaceutical, and life-sciences translation work includes clinical-trial documentation, informed-consent forms, patient information, regulatory submissions, product monographs, standard operating procedures, training guides, and institutional communications.
Good documentation should help users move forward without having to call support. Our technology and telecommunications translation work includes software and website localization, user interfaces, user guides, onboarding documentation, help centres, knowledge bases, product documentation, technical manuals, release notes, and training materials.
Legal language leaves little room for approximation. Our legal, regulatory, and immigration translation work covers contracts, court documents, legal opinions, regulatory filings, due-diligence materials, civil-status records, academic records, police certificates, and certified translations, with careful attention to terminology, context, jurisdictional requirements, and official acceptance.
A manual has to work on the shop floor, not just read well on the page. Our manufacturing and industrial translation work includes technical manuals, standard operating procedures, installation and maintenance guides, product specifications, safety documentation, quality-control materials, and employee onboarding documentation.
In resource-based industries, documentation must remain clear in demanding and often high-risk environments. Our mining, oil, and natural-resources translation work includes technical manuals, engineering specifications, safety procedures, environmental reports, operating guides, maintenance documentation, and regulatory materials for field and corporate teams.
A non-profit’s language carries its mission, values, and relationship with the communities it serves. Our non-profit and NGO translation work includes advocacy reports, grant proposals, annual reports, fundraising campaigns, humanitarian communications, training resources, program materials, donor communications, and community-outreach content that supports strong, healthy, and well-informed communities.
In security, defence, and law-enforcement environments, accuracy is part of operational safety. Our work includes policies, standard operating procedures, training manuals, emergency-response plans, technical documentation, incident reports, risk assessments, safety instructions, and public information, supported by controlled terminology that is systematically updated and applied consistently.
International trade moves on documents as much as it does on goods and capital. Our work includes market research, commercial agreements, import-export and trade-finance documentation, letters of credit, customs and shipping documents, proposals, product catalogues, corporate presentations, and cross-border business communications.
Transportation documentation must remain clear from the engineering office to the maintenance floor. Our transportation, railway, and automotive translation work includes technical manuals, operating procedures, maintenance guides, safety instructions, training materials, engineering specifications, tenders, and project documentation.
For nearly three decades, Aldus has delivered multilingual communication, translation, and localization services to leading organizations across the corporate, academic, legal, technical, and aerospace sectors.
Our long-standing client relationships reflect a commitment to precision, reliability, confidentiality, and lasting professional trust.
Francisco García
Director of Business Development, Latin America
"Aldus successfully completed several multilingual translation projects for Bombardier to our full satisfaction. These projects required a high degree of accuracy while consistently meeting demanding turnaround times."
Francine Robillard
Planning Coordinator
"Aldus successfully completed several translation projects for McGill University to our full satisfaction. Working with a leading Canadian university, we expect excellence from our suppliers, and Aldus consistently met those expectations."
Kari Coppen
Director of Strategy & Proposals
"Cascade Aerospace operates in an environment where precision and reliability are essential. Aldus was entrusted with a series of translation projects, all of which were delivered accurately, professionally, and on schedule."
Jean-Paul David
CEO & Founder
"Aldus has consistently met our expectations for translation quality, on-time delivery, and professional service. In this industry, confidence in your language partner is invaluable. Entrusting Aldus with our multilingual projects has always given us complete peace of mind."
Supporting multilingual communication across Canadian, U.S., Latin American, and international markets.
Canada
Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Toronto, Mississauga, Regina, Winnipeg, Calgary,
Edmonton, Vancouver, and Victoria.
United States
New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
Latin America
Colombia, Mexico, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Additional markets supported according to project scope and operational requirements.
We integrate advanced AI into controlled translation workflows to improve speed and consistency. Each output is reviewed by experts to ensure accuracy, reliability, and high-quality multilingual communication.
Our linguists govern every stage of the translation process, validating meaning, tone, and intent. Human oversight ensures reliable multilingual content aligned with professional and institutional standards.
We adapt content through localization to match language, culture, and audience expectations. This ensures clear, natural, and effective communication across markets and multilingual environments.
We help organizations communicate across languages, cultures, and technologies with precision, responsibility, and long-term clarity.
From institutional communication to digital interfaces, we align language, intent, and perception across global environments.
In multilingual environments, errors are rarely linguistic. They are contextual, strategic, and often invisible until their consequences emerge.
At Aldus, translation is governed as a system of meaning that must remain stable across languages, cultures, and jurisdictions. This requires more than conversion. It requires human oversight, structured workflows, and accountability.
For over 30 years, Aldus has supported institutions, organizations, and businesses where multilingual communication carries legal, reputational, and operational consequences.
We design and manage translation, localization, and multilingual content so that meaning remains clear, controlled, and aligned with its purpose across platforms and markets.
Language is not neutral. It is governed.
Multilingual communication for academic institutions, educational programs, credentialing and assessment materials, high-stakes testing, onboarding documentation, instructional content, and specialized educational networks for clarity, accuracy, and reliability across languages and audiences.
Translation of immigration, official, certified, notarial, legal, and administrative documents, prepared with the accuracy, consistency, and compliance required for official acceptance.
High-precision translation and localization of professional, technical, and institutional content, including technical manuals, structured documentation, onboarding materials, and digital product ecosystems.
Branding, corporate communication, multilingual marketing content, localization, market-segment adaptation, slogan creation, transcreation, and cross-cultural messaging designed to preserve brand identity, intent, tone, and market relevance across languages and cultures.
Commercial documentation, international trade communications, patents, notarial permits, domestic and international tax and banking documents, business operations documentation, multilingual business content, and cross-border communication supporting organizations active across markets and jurisdictions.
Website localization, UI translation, digital documentation, subtitles, multilingual media adaptation, and cross-platform communication designed to support accessibility, clarity, usability, and culturally intelligent engagement across Canada’s diverse communities and international audiences.
Quebec compliance (Law
96)Aldus provides translation and linguistic compliance services aligned with Quebec’s Loi 96 and OQLF requirements. We support organizations in ensuring that their communications, documentation, and digital content meet the legal and linguistic standards required for operation in Quebec.
Services include terminology alignment, francization support, regulatory documentation, and multilingual content governance, ensuring consistency, clarity, and compliance across all communication channels.
Core working languages supported by a network of specialized linguists, with extended coverage across additional regions and markets.
Additional language pairs and regional variants are supported based on project requirements.
Aldus supports a carefully selected range of language combinations serving Canadian, U.S. and international markets. Our principal combinations include English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, together with additional European and Asian languages. Availability depends on the subject matter, language pair and professional expertise required for each assignment.
We translate corporate communications, legal and regulatory materials, technical documentation, manuals, guides, policies, websites, digital content, training materials, marketing communications and multimedia content. We assess every assignment individually to ensure that the appropriate linguistic and subject-matter expertise is available.
Every assignment follows a controlled process that may include terminology preparation, translation, linguistic revision, formatting verification and final quality assurance. The process is adapted to the content, intended audience, jurisdiction and level of risk involved. Experienced professionals remain responsible for all final decisions and deliverables.
Aldus uses language technology and AI selectively to support research, terminology management, consistency and efficiency. These tools do not replace professional judgment or accountability. Qualified human professionals review the content, verify meaning and terminology, resolve ambiguities and ensure that the final translation is appropriate for its intended purpose and audience.
Yes. Depending on the document, jurisdiction and receiving institution, Aldus can arrange translations completed or certified by appropriately qualified professionals. Because requirements vary, we review the intended use of the document before confirming the appropriate certification procedure.
Yes, subject to availability and a careful assessment of the project’s volume, complexity, languages, formatting and required delivery schedule. Large or urgent assignments are planned in stages, with appropriate professional resources, terminology control and quality-assurance procedures. We confirm a realistic schedule before work begins.
Delivery time depends on the document’s length, complexity, language combination, formatting and required quality-assurance process. Short, straightforward projects can often be completed within one or two business days after confirmation. We provide a realistic delivery schedule with every quotation and assess urgent requests individually.
Clients may contact Aldus by email, telephone or WhatsApp and provide the source documents, required language combination, intended use and preferred delivery date. After reviewing the material, we provide a quotation outlining the scope, price, estimated delivery schedule and any relevant requirements or assumptions.
Client documents and project information are treated as confidential and used only for the authorized assignment. Access is limited to the professionals and resources required to complete the work. Project-specific confidentiality, file-transfer, retention or deletion requirements can be discussed and agreed upon before the assignment begins.
Translations completed or certified by appropriately qualified professionals are prepared according to the stated requirements of the intended authority. However, acceptance criteria may vary by institution, document type and jurisdiction, and the receiving authority retains the final decision. We therefore recommend confirming its specific requirements before the project begins.
A high-quality professional translation accurately conveys the source meaning while reading naturally in the target language. It uses appropriate terminology, tone and style; respects cultural, legal and technical requirements; remains consistent throughout; and undergoes careful linguistic review and quality assurance before delivery.
Aldus consults specialized dictionaries and recognized terminology databases across different fields and disciplines. These resources help standardize terminology and support the accuracy, consistency, and readability of translated content.
In addition, depending on the nature and continuity of the projects, Aldus may establish, with the client’s authorization, a client-specific terminology database. This resource saves valuable time, optimizes resources, and maintains terminological consistency in future assignments completed for the same client.
Each client-specific terminology database remains confidential and is reserved exclusively for that client. When documents are highly sensitive, specific conditions governing data retention, access, or deletion may be established before the assignment begins.
Yes, whenever the source file and project requirements make this possible. We can reproduce or adapt headings, tables, lists, page structure and other formatting elements so that the translated document remains clear, functional and consistent with the original. Complex layouts, scanned documents or specialized publishing files may require additional formatting work, which we identify during the quotation process.
Yes. Aldus can review an existing translation for accuracy, completeness, terminology, grammar, style, consistency and suitability for its intended audience. Before beginning, we assess the source and translated materials and clarify whether the assignment requires proofreading, bilingual revision, substantive editing or a more extensive retranslation.
Aldus works with common business, publishing and digital formats, including editable word-processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs and selected Web and multimedia files. File compatibility depends on the software, layout and technical requirements involved. We review the source files before confirming the workflow and advise the client if conversion or specialized formatting is required.
For project inquiries, strategic collaboration, or high-stakes multilingual communication needs, please get in touch. All requests are handled with confidentiality and professional care.
Aldus welcomes experienced translators, revisers, interpreters, language specialists, and other multilingual professionals who value accuracy, sound judgment, confidentiality, and the responsible use of technology.
We are particularly interested in professionals working in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, as well as specialists in technical, legal, medical, regulatory, corporate, educational, and multimedia content.
To be considered for future assignments, please send your résumé, language combinations, areas of specialization, professional credentials, and availability to info@aldustranslation.com
Applications are reviewed according to project requirements. We contact candidates when a suitable opportunity arises.