we work in four, and we know every reviewer by name.
Spanish, German, Japanese and Portuguese. If you need a fifth, we’ll say so plainly and point you somewhere sensible.
How we started
a small firm, on purpose
Whitcombe & Hale works from 2900 Lamontville Rd in Decatur, Tennessee — by appointment, mostly by phone and secure file transfer.
Whitcombe & Hale grew out of a frustrating kind of work: fixing translations that had already been paid for.
Manuals where the same part had three different names. Warning text that was grammatically fine and clinically wrong. Device screens where the German simply ran off the edge. None of it came from careless people. It came from files passing through too many hands, with nobody holding the whole thing from start to end.
So we built the opposite — a firm small enough that the person who quotes your project is the same person who sends it back, certificate signed.
if a nurse would hesitate over it, it isn’t finished.
The test we wrote down on the first day, and still apply to every warning line.
That test is also why we stopped at Spanish, German, Japanese and Portuguese. Four languages means we know our reviewers personally, follow what each regulator actually expects, and can answer your question the same day instead of passing it along to someone you’ve never met.
Most of our clients never visit Decatur. The work runs on calls, a shared glossary and secure transfers. But the door is open if you’d rather sit across a table and go through a printed proof together.