Case study · Briefly iQ

The multilingual steering committee

An English meeting, German minutes for the board, French for the delivery team — one transcript, three audiences.

Problem statement

Every protocol was written twice — and still disagreed.

An international program ran its steering committee in English, but the German board expected German minutes and the French delivery team worked in French. Someone translated every protocol by hand — doubling the writing time and introducing translation drift between versions that later caused real disagreements about what was decided.

Business objective

One source of truth

All language versions derived from the same transcript, same structure.

Native-quality output

Minutes that read as written, not as translated.

No extra hours

The multilingual step must cost minutes, not evenings.

Our solution

Briefly iQ's 40+ output languages on one transcript.

◆The English transcript generates minutes directly in German and French — same action register, same decisions.

◆Theme profiles per audience: board format for the board, delivery format for the team.

◆Voice input in 50+ languages covers the mixed-language calls too.

◆One pass — every audience gets its version at the same moment.

Results & impact

Before

Manual translation

Еvery protocol rewritten by hand for each audience.

Version drift

German, French and English minutes disagreeing about decisions.

Double writing time

Тhe multilingual step cost more than the meeting itself.

After

One pass, three versions

German, French and English minutes from the same transcript.

Identical registers

Same decisions, owners and dates in every language.

Translation time ≈ zero

Audience-ready formats straight from the theme profiles.

Proof that one source of truth can speak every language the program does.