For language agencies
Built to sit on your vendor list, not to compete with it.
Tango Federal is the wholesale arm of the Flix Translations Group LLC. Agencies send us the pairs they cannot staff, the overflow they cannot absorb and the media work they do not want to build a department for. It comes back under their brand, with a quality report, at a rate that is the same for every agency.
Why agencies subcontract
Four problems every LSP owner recognizes.
The rare pair on a Friday afternoon
Your client asks for Haitian Creole into Portuguese and your freelancer pool goes quiet. The agency that says yes keeps the account.
Margins squeezed from both sides
Clients push rates down, good freelancers push them up. Overflow has to go somewhere cheaper than your bench without becoming a quality risk.
Vendor audits and QA you have to prove
Enterprise and public-sector clients ask how quality is measured. 'Our translators are very good' is not an answer that survives a vendor questionnaire.
Your assets in someone else's hands
Translation memories, glossaries and client names are the agency's equity. A subcontractor who keeps them, or trains on them, is a liability.
Before anything else
The four things every agency asks us first, answered in writing.
Your client stays your client
We never contact, quote or market to an agency's end clients. It is in the NDA and it is how we have worked with agencies since 2019.
Quality you can put in a questionnaire
12 automated checks on every job, a formal error log from the editing linguist, and back-translation reports on request. Numbers, not adjectives.
Your TMS, not ours
Trados, memoQ, Phrase, XTM and Smartcat packages come back the way they went out: tags, segment status and leverage intact.
A rate sheet that does not move
One wholesale sheet by language tier for every agency. Volume earns a discount; nothing else changes the number, and it is firm for twelve months.
The partner program
Six commitments we put in the agreement.
Onboarding in 48 hours
Mutual NDA, vendor forms, a free test job of up to 500 words and your rate sheet, all inside two business days.
White-label by default
Deliverables carry no Tango branding unless you ask for it. Your client sees your agency, your project manager and your quality report.
Your assets stay yours
Translation memories, glossaries and style guides remain the agency's property, returned or deleted on request. Nothing is used to train external models.
Capacity that scales with you
A linguist network across 175+ languages and an AI-first pipeline: tens of thousands of words a day per language pair without re-quoting.
One rate sheet, the same for everyone
Wholesale rates by language tier, sent on request and identical for a two-person shop and a two-hundred-person LSP. Volume commitments earn an additional discount; nothing else moves the number.
Credit terms for agencies
Monthly invoicing with itemized backup and Net 30 on approved credit. Pay-as-you-go by card for smaller agencies.
Capacity you can check
The floor you would be subcontracting to, measured live.
Production volume by file type
- audio6,044 jobs · 19,565,202 words
- pdf683 jobs · 17,773,590 words
- rtf481 jobs · 2,936,606 words
- docx462 jobs · 1,884,827 words
- batch198 jobs · 917,147 words
- txlf489 jobs · 476,358 words
- sdlxliff213 jobs · 307,866 words
- mqxliff67 jobs · 104,494 words
- xml67 jobs · 15,624 words
- pptx6 jobs · 9,665 words
Onboarding
From first email to first job in two business days.
Day 1
NDA and vendor forms
Mutual NDA, W-9 or equivalent, vendor questionnaire, and a named account manager.
Day 1
Free test job
Up to 500 words from a live project, at the production level you choose. Delivered with the QA report and a back-translation report.
Day 2
Rate sheet and portal
Your wholesale rate sheet by language tier, portal access, API keys if you integrate.
Day 3+
Production
Send jobs by portal, email or from your TMS. Monthly itemized invoice, Net 30 on approved credit.
Service levels
What you can promise your client because we promise it to you.
- Quote or confirmation within one business hour of receiving files
- Up to 2,000 words in 24 business hours; 2,000 to 10,000 in 2 to 4 business days
- Same-day rush for up to 1,500 words when booked before 11:00 ET
- Dedicated account manager in the U.S. time zone; production coverage 24/7
- Every delivery with a QA report; back-translation on request or included with TEP samples
- Corrections at no charge within 30 days of delivery
Integrations
Trados packages · memoQ · Phrase (Memsource) · XTM · Smartcat · Crowdin · Email & FTP · API & webhooks
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Add Tango Federal to your vendor list this week.
One form. A person answers within a business hour with the NDA, the rate sheet and the test-job instructions.