LILT
LILT is an AI-native enterprise translation and multilingual content platform that combines proprietary contextual AI models with a 10,000+ expert human-in-the-loop network to serve enterprises, public-sector/defense agencies, and AI/ML frontier labs across 200+ languages.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2015
- HeadquartersEmeryville, United States
- Headcount251–500
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What LILT does
LILT, Inc. is an AI-native enterprise translation and multilingual content platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in Emeryville, California. The company combines proprietary contextual AI models (built over more than a decade by a PhD-led research team) with a Human Intelligence Layer called Horizon — a curated network of 10,000+ vetted bilingual domain experts across 40+ domains and 200+ languages — and uses continuous human-in-the-loop feedback to retrain its models in real time. The core LILT AI Platform orchestrates translation workflows and is extended through modular products including LILT Assist (autonomous AI agent), LILT Verify (expert human verification), LILT Translate and Create (AI copilots and multilingual content generation), LILT Converse (on-device, air-gapped speech translation), LILT Connect (100+ native connectors), and the LILT Multilingual AI data and evaluation platform used by AI/ML frontier labs.
LILT sells to three primary buyer groups through a tiered, quote-based subscription model: Enterprises (Business and Enterprise plans covering technology, retail/e-commerce, manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare), the Public Sector (Government plan with IL6+ compliance, cloud on-prem and air-gapped deployment, and U.S.-based cleared personnel supporting defense, intelligence, state and local government, HHS, and law enforcement), and AI/ML Frontier Labs (API-led multilingual training data, RLHF/RLAIF/RLVR, evaluation, benchmarking, and safety testing). Named customers include Canva, Intel, Lenovo, ASICS, Emerson, and the U.S. Air Force, Department of War (CDAO/DIU), National Weather Service, and Department of Justice. The company has raised approximately $162M across disclosed rounds through 2025, with its most recent confirmed equity round being a $55M Series C in April 2022 led by Four Rivers, followed by ~$70M in additional rounds during June 2025.
The company's GTM motion blends enterprise field sales, government/public-sector direct sales, product-led self-serve via a sign-in portal, and channel/distribution through 100+ pre-built connectors into CMS, CRM, code repositories, e-commerce platforms, and LLM providers (including an industry-first MCP Server and Agent-to-Agent integration with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini). Compliance certifications span SOC 2 Type II, ISO 9001, ISO 17100, HIPAA, CJIS, Section 508, and IL6+, enabling high-consequence regulated deployments. As of 2026, LILT is actively operating as an independent, venture-backed private company with no parent or controlling entity.
LILT firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- LILT
- Legal name
- LILT, Inc.
- Website
- https://lilt.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2015
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 251–500 employees
- Short description
- LILT is an AI-native enterprise translation and multilingual content platform that combines proprietary contextual AI models with a 10,000+ expert human-in-the-loop network to serve enterprises, public-sector/defense agencies, and AI/ML frontier labs across 200+ languages.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
LILT industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Enterprise AI Translation Software
- NAICS
- Translation and Interpretation Services (541930), Translation and Interpretation Services (54193), Computer Systems Design Services (541512)
- SIC
- Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Machine Translation & Multilingual NLP (HDAAADAD)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Generative AI & LLM Solutions Services (RAG, Agents, Copilots) (BPAEAHAG)
Keywords
Where LILT is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Emeryville
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices1 record
Markets served
LILT business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Enterprise AI Translation Platform Subscriptions: Recurring SaaS revenue across three quote-based tiers (Business, Enterprise, Government) with custom invoicing aligned to enterprise procurement and multi-year contracts. Enterprise tier adds human expert verification, API access, enterprise connectors, SSO/SAML, 99.9% uptime SLA, and 24/7 support. Government tier adds cloud on-prem and air-gapped deployment plus IL6+ compliance.
- Managed Services and Human Verification: Revenue from expert human verification services delivered via LILT Verify — fully managed subject matter experts for guaranteed quality on regulated and high-impact content. Bundled into Enterprise and Government tiers and priced per project/program for Business tier.
- AI/ML Data, Evaluation, and Training Services: Revenue from custom AI research program design, multilingual data labeling/annotation, RLHF/RLAIF/RLVR, model evaluation and benchmarking, and safety/red teaming delivered to frontier AI labs and AI/ML teams. Powered by the Horizon network and deployed via APIs.
- Government and Defense Contracts: Government contract revenue from U.S. Department of War (CDAO/DIU) partnership and other federal/military engagements requiring IL6+ compliance, air-gapped deployment, and U.S.-based cleared personnel.
Pricing tiers
| Model | Billing | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Other | Annual | Business — growing global content teams; core AI platform with business connectors, contextual AI models, and agents/copilots |
| Subscription | Multi-year contract | Enterprise — advanced security and performance for high-consequence deployments |
| Subscription | Multi-year contract | Government — Defense, Intelligence, and Public Sector Missions |
| Other | Annual | MCP (Model Context Protocol) — available for all plans, with full LLM integration |
Go-to-market motion5 records
Distribution channels6 records
Marketing channels10 records
LILT product offering
Product offeringCore offering
LILT provides an AI-native enterprise multilingual platform that combines proprietary contextual AI models with a Human Intelligence Layer of vetted bilingual domain experts to produce, translate, and verify multilingual content across 100+ languages. The platform serves as a central hub for translation workflows, autonomous AI agents, human expert verification, real-time speech translation, AI safety monitoring, and multilingual data services for AI/ML model training and evaluation.
Product overview
LILT offers a unified, platform-based enterprise AI translation and multilingual content platform organized around the LILT AI Platform as the core hub, with a suite of modules that work together: LILT Translate (AI Copilots & Agents) and LILT Create handle automated translation and multilingual content generation; LILT Verify adds expert human verification for regulated content; LILT Connectors integrate the platform with 100+ enterprise systems and LLMs; LILT Assist serves as an autonomous AI agent for prompt-driven multilingual content operations; LILT Converse delivers secure, real-time offline speech translation; the Human Intelligence Layer powers human-in-the-loop AI training and evaluation; LILT Multilingual Benchmarks and Model Evaluation support frontier-lab model development; and LILT Safety and LILT Govern provide multilingual AI risk monitoring and responsible deployment. The architecture combines proprietary in-house multilingual AI with optional BYO foundation models (Gemini, GPT, Claude) and certified human experts across 200+ languages and 40+ domains, with deployment options spanning SaaS, hybrid, on-prem, fully air-gapped, and IL4/IL5 environments via Palantir FedStart.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- LILT Assist: Autonomous AI agent for global enterprise that manages, creates, and translates multilingual content via prompt-powered workflows.
- LILT Verify
- LILT Converse
- LILT AI Platform
- LILT Multilingual AI
- LILT Multilingual Benchmarks
- LILT Human Intelligence Layer
Products and services
- LILT AI Platform Central hub for producing multilingual content with end-to-end workflow management, workflow automation, copilot/agent observability, real-time analytics, AI Model Builder, data management, and user/domain management for global enterprise translation programs.
- LILT Assist Autonomous AI agent that allows enterprise users to manage, create, and translate multilingual content using plain-English prompts, automating translation lifecycle, multilingual content creation, terminology management, and analytics/reporting.
- LILT Verify (Expert Human Verifiers) Provides optional expert human-in-the-loop AI review embedded directly into workflows, with certified linguists refining meaning, tone, and terminology for regulated and high-impact content across healthcare, legal, government, and manufacturing domains.
- LILT Translate (AI Copilots & Agents) Provides AI-driven translation across 130+ languages including low-resource languages, combining AI Copilots with human verification, an AI Review Agent for automated error amendment, and LILT Create for multilingual content generation at scale.
- LILT Converse Provides secure, real-time speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translation running entirely offline on Android devices, tailored for federal/defense, healthcare, education, public services, and law enforcement use cases where connectivity or privacy is constrained.
- LILT Safety Operationalizes multilingual safety evaluation across languages, regions, and modalities, including cultural and normative benchmarking, jailbreak/adversarial pattern detection, multimodal safety misinterpretation, and pipeline-native continuous QA and drift detection.
- LILT Govern (Responsible Deployment) Provides bias detection and mitigation, transparent data provenance, alignment with global AI standards (EU AI Act, G7 AI Code of Conduct), human-in-the-loop oversight, and explainability and traceability reporting for responsible multilingual AI deployment.
- Human Intelligence Layer AI-native system for sourcing, calibrating, and deploying human judgment at scale for AI training, evaluation, and governance, combining model-driven expertise assessment, agentic task routing, role-aware human judgment, and continuous calibration/signal monitoring backed by the Horizon network of 10,000+ vetted experts.
- Multilingual Benchmarks Provides AGI benchmarks that remain comparable across languages, cultures, and time for global AI model evaluation, designed for frontier labs and AI developers.
- LILT Multilingual AI Training Provides multilingual data workflows across 200+ languages and 40+ domains to train, test, and refine LLMs, including custom AI research program design, a verified multilingual human expert network (Horizon), API-centric data platform, RLHF/human evaluation, and speech & audio services.
- LILT MCP Server Industry-first Model Context Protocol server and Agent-to-Agent integration that brings professional, brand-aligned, human-verified translation into AI assistants, enabling them to meet enterprise translation quality standards.
Quantifiable outcome
- 40% year-over-year translation cost reduction at Intel while doubling content volume; translators work 3-5x faster across 60+ countries for 110,000+ employees
- +12 more outcomes
Companies that use LILT
Customer profileNamed customers21 records
Segments11 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
LILT technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- Yes
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration49 records
AI capability17 records
Feature12 records
LILT partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
39 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship — flagship federal/defense customer and partner, core — enables il4/il5 federal distribution, core — flagship cms integration, standard — design collaboration integration, core — flagship code repository integration, standard — code repository integration, standard — file sharing integration, core — flagship crm integration, standard — e-commerce integration, standard — crm integration, standard — support integration, core — flagship e-commerce integration, standard — marketing automation integration, standard — project management integration, standard — collaboration integration, standard — tms integration, core — tms integration, standard — cms integration, standard — cloud storage integration and core — flagship llm integration via mcp.
- U.S. Department of War (CDAO and DIU)flagship — flagship federal/defense customer and partnerSecretary of War Pete Hegseth directed the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to integrate commercial AI technologies across the U.S. military, leading to a partnership with LILT, Inc. to deploy AI-powered translation capabilities across all military services. The system's first major deployment at the U.S. Army's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) translated an entire year's worth of Command and General Staff Officer Course materials from Spanish in just weeks versus a typical year-long timeline, dramatically improving accuracy for Latin American and Caribbean partner-nation students.
- Palantir FedStartcore — enables il4/il5 federal distributionIntegration that enables LILT to be securely deployed in an IL4/IL5 environment for translating mission-critical government content, supporting federal and defense customers requiring higher impact-level compliance.
- Contentfulcore — flagship cms integrationNative CMS connector that transfers content between LILT and Contentful to simplify localization for enterprise content workflows.
- Figmastandard — design collaboration integrationPlugin that localizes fidelity designs directly in Figma with the LILT plugin for design collaboration workflows.
- GitHubcore — flagship code repository integrationNative integration that sends files from GitHub repos into LILT for translation, supporting continuous localization within developer workflows.
- GitLabstandard — code repository integrationNative integration that simplifies translation by sending content from inside GitLab into LILT.
- Bitbucketstandard — code repository integrationNative integration that streamlines localization by sending content from inside Bitbucket into LILT.
- Google Drivestandard — file sharing integrationNative integration that translates files with ease by connecting Google Drive to LILT.
- Microsoft OneDrivestandard — file sharing integrationNative integration that accelerates localization by transferring files from OneDrive directly into LILT.
- Dropboxstandard — file sharing integrationNative integration that localizes files with ease by connecting LILT to Dropbox.
- Boxstandard — file sharing integrationNative integration that translates files by connecting Box to LILT.
- Salesforcecore — flagship crm integrationNative CRM connector that transforms localization workflow by connecting Salesforce to LILT.
- Salesforce Commerce Cloudstandard — e-commerce integrationNative e-commerce integration that translates catalogs in place and launches new markets faster via Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
- Hubspotstandard — crm integrationNative CRM integration that seamlessly translates emails, blogs, pages, forms, and landing pages.
- Zendeskstandard — support integrationNative support integration that sends content directly from Zendesk into LILT for localization.
- Intercomstandard — support integrationNative support integration that sends content to LILT from inside Intercom.
- Helpshiftstandard — support integrationNative support integration that provides live support to global customers in their native language.
- Adobe Experience Managercore — flagship cms integrationNative CMS connector that sends content from AEM into LILT for translation with one click.
- Shopifycore — flagship e-commerce integrationNative e-commerce integration that creates a multilingual eCommerce experience in a matter of clicks.
- Magentostandard — e-commerce integrationNative e-commerce integration that localizes customer experience for global impact.
- Brazestandard — marketing automation integrationIntegration that automates manual and error-prone file exchange and reformatting directly within Braze.
- Jirastandard — project management integrationNative project management integration that easily tracks LILT projects with streamlined ticketing in Jira.
- Slackstandard — collaboration integrationNative collaboration integration that delivers translation status updates from inside a Slack workspace.
- Adobe Workfrontstandard — project management integrationProject management integration that auto-launches translation projects from any Workfront request with real-time status.
- Lokalisestandard — tms integrationNative TMS integration that allows sending, monitoring, and receiving LILT localization projects directly within Lokalise.
- Phrase TMS (prev. Memsource)core — tms integrationNative TMS integration that connects LILT to translation management systems to keep projects organized.
- Trados Enterprisestandard — tms integrationNative TMS integration that sends projects back and forth between LILT and Trados with ease.
- Crowdinstandard — tms integrationNative TMS integration that sends projects back and forth between LILT and Crowdin with ease.
- Sanitystandard — cms integrationNative CMS integration that transfers content between LILT and Sanity to simplify localization.
- Sitecorestandard — cms integrationNative CMS integration that transfers content between LILT and Sitecore to simplify localization.
- Contentstackstandard — cms integrationNative CMS integration that transfers content between LILT and Contentstack to simplify localization.
- Drupalstandard — cms integrationNative CMS integration that simplifies localization by transferring content directly from Drupal into LILT.
- WordPress (WPML)standard — cms integrationNative CMS integration that efficiently transfers content directly from WordPress via WPML.
- AWS (S3)standard — cloud storage integrationCloud storage integration that accelerates localization by sending content from Amazon S3 into LILT for translation.
- Google Cloud Storagestandard — cloud storage integrationCloud storage integration that enhances the localization workflow by connecting Google Cloud and LILT.
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storagestandard — cloud storage integrationCloud storage integration that translates content between Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and LILT.
- ChatGPT (OpenAI)core — flagship llm integration via mcpIndustry-first Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server and Agent-to-Agent integration that brings LILT's professional, brand-aligned, human-verified translation into ChatGPT and other AI assistants.
- Anthropic (Claude)core — flagship llm integration via mcpIndustry-first MCP Server and Agent-to-Agent integration that delivers LILT's professional, brand-aligned, human-verified translation inside Claude and other AI assistants.
- Google (Gemini)core — flagship llm integration via mcpIndustry-first MCP Server and Agent-to-Agent integration that delivers LILT's professional, brand-aligned, human-verified translation inside Gemini and other AI assistants.
Scale indicators14 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
LILT competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- DeepL: Premium AI translation provider offering high-quality neural MT for enterprise and prosumers; competes head-on with LILT on translation quality, language coverage, and enterprise contracts.
- Smartling: Enterprise translation management system and AI translation platform with deep CMS/TMS integrations; directly comparable to LILT's connector-led, enterprise translation motion.
- SYSTRAN: Long-standing machine translation vendor serving enterprise, government, and defense customers with custom MT engines; comparable to LILT in regulated and security-sensitive deployments.
Broad incumbents
- Google Cloud Translation: Hyperscaler MT service bundled into Google Cloud and Workspace; competes on raw translation quality, language coverage, and price for enterprise workloads that LILT also targets.
- Lionbridge: Large language services provider combining human linguists with machine translation; competes with LILT on enterprise and government localization programs and on AI-enabled workflow tooling.
- TransPerfect: Global language and business services incumbent offering translation, interpretation, and AI localization; overlaps with LILT's enterprise and government translation offerings.
- RWS Group (SDL/Trados): Owner of Trados TMS and a major LSP; offers enterprise translation technology and services and is integrated into LILT's connector ecosystem while competing for the same enterprise buyers.
- Microsoft Translator / Azure AI Translator: Microsoft's enterprise MT offering within Azure and the Microsoft productivity stack; competes for enterprise translation workloads via bundled cloud and Office integration.
- Amazon Translate: AWS-managed neural MT service competing on price and cloud-native integration; a direct alternative for enterprise translation workloads in AWS-centric customers.
Emerging players
- Unbabel: AI-powered translation platform combining neural MT with a community of human post-editors; comparable AI-plus-human model targeting enterprise customer support and content localization.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses4 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
LILT social profiles
Digital presenceLILT compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance9 records
LILT financial estimates
Financial estimateRevenue estimate
Valuation estimate
LILT leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles11 records
LILT funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds7 records
Investors11 records
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LILT M&A and investment
M&A and investmentM&A
Investments
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Frequently asked questions about LILT
What does LILT do?
LILT provides an AI-native enterprise multilingual platform that combines proprietary contextual AI models with a Human Intelligence Layer of vetted bilingual domain experts to produce, translate, and verify multilingual content across 100+ languages. The platform serves as a central hub for translation workflows, autonomous AI agents, human expert verification, real-time speech translation, AI safety monitoring, and multilingual data services for AI/ML model training and evaluation.
Is LILT a public or private company?
LILT is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.
When was LILT founded?
LILT was founded in 2015. It employs 251 to 500 people.
Where is LILT based?
LILT is headquartered in Emeryville, United States, in the North America region.
How does LILT make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Enterprise AI Translation Platform Subscriptions are the primary driver. The others are managed Services and Human Verification, AI/ML Data, Evaluation, and Training Services and government and Defense Contracts.
Who are LILT's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are DeepL, Smartling and SYSTRAN. Broad incumbents are Google Cloud Translation, Lionbridge, TransPerfect, RWS Group (SDL/Trados), Microsoft Translator / Azure AI Translator and Amazon Translate. Unbabel is listed as an emerging player.
Does LILT have an API?
Yes. LILT provides full API support as part of the Enterprise plan ("API Access – Power custom applications and workflows with full API support"), enabling custom applications and workflow automation. The API is also available alongside the MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server, which enables professional, brand-aligned translations within AI assistants and supports Agent-to-Agent integration. The MCP integration is available across all plans.
What industry is LILT in?
LILT's product category is Enterprise AI Translation Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDAAADAD, Machine Translation & Multilingual NLP, with a secondary code of BPAEAHAG, Generative AI & LLM Solutions Services (RAG, Agents, Copilots). Its NAICS code is 541930 and its SIC code is 7372.