GRID Translate delivers real, reviewed translations of your whole municipal website, including the bylaws, forms and notices linked from it. For residents, newcomers and investors, in the languages they actually speak.
Pickup moves to Tuesdays starting in December.
Pickup moves to Tuesdays starting in December.
A free translate button changes the text on the page. The linked PDFs, bylaws, forms and agendas stay in English.
Machine output goes straight to residents. There’s no chance for staff to check it first.
Instant translations aren’t saved pages, so someone searching in their own language won’t find you.
If a free tool changes or disappears, so does your translation.
Too often, a translated municipal website is just a language skin. The home page switches languages, but the moment a foreign investor clicks to the investment page, the incentives or the land listings, they’re back in English. So they leave. They’re gone before you even knew they were there.
| What residents need | Free translate button | GRID Translate |
|---|---|---|
| Page text in their language | Yes, instantly | Yes, saved in advance |
| Linked PDFs, bylaws and forms translated | No | Yes |
| Staff can review before publishing | No | Yes |
| Translation disclaimer on the page | Not usually | Yes |
| Found in other-language search | No | Yes |
| Depends on a free outside tool | Yes | No |
Together we choose the pages and documents residents use most.
Pages and documents are translated in advance, and your staff can review them before anything goes live.
Translated versions are saved as real pages, with a disclaimer, so residents and search engines can find them.
French, Tagalog, Punjabi, Chinese, or whatever your residents speak. Newcomers to your community shouldn’t have to guess what a bylaw or a permit form says.
Real translation means the important documents are covered too, not just the words on the page.
Your staff see translations before residents do.
The bylaws, forms and notices behind the page get translated too.
Built in Saskatchewan by a sitting city councillor, for the people who keep municipalities running.
Prairie towns were built around the grain elevator: one tall, practical structure the whole community relied on. GRID is built the same way. One platform, eight modules, each one solving a real problem municipalities and local businesses deal with every week.
People. Process. Potential. · Small towns build big tomorrows. · Simplify today. Stronger tomorrow.
A short walkthrough with Marshall. Bring the pages residents ask about most and the languages you hear at the counter.
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