Intento
by Intento, Inc.
Intento is an enterprise language-operations platform that helps organizations evaluate, route, and manage machine translation and generative AI providers across business applications and localization workflows.
Why Abandoned
Intento's official website remains available and presents its Enterprise Language Hub and related services; recent company materials also describe continuing product development and partnerships.
💵 Pricing & access
- Pricing model
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- Official site
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🩺 Health Signals
- HTTP Status
- 200
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- Confidence
- 88%
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📅 Timeline
Intento founded
Konstantin Savenkov and Grigory Sapunov founded Intento to help enterprises navigate and use machine-translation services. The exact day is not reliably documented.
Seed financing announced
Intento announced a $1 million seed round led by Flint Capital, with participation from Berkeley SkyDeck, SmartHub and angel investors.
Series A funding announced
Intento announced a $3 million Series A led by Flint Capital, with participation from Berkeley SkyDeck, SmartHub and other investors, to expand its enterprise translation platform.
Enterprise Language Hub updated for generative AI
Intento announced GenAI capabilities for its Enterprise Language Hub, extending the platform beyond machine-translation orchestration to enterprise language workflows using large language models.
🔄 Alternatives to Intento
Lilt
🟢ActiveLilt is an enterprise translation platform combining machine translation, human linguists, workflow automation, and APIs. It supports localization teams translating websites, software, documents, and customer content.
Phrase
🟢ActivePhrase is a cloud-based localization platform for managing software, website, and content translation workflows. It combines translation management, string localization, machine translation, integrations, and analytics.
Smartcat
🟢ActiveSmartcat is a cloud-based translation and localization platform that combines AI translation, workflow automation, linguistic quality tools, and access to language professionals for business content.
Unbabel
🟢ActiveUnbabel is an enterprise language-operations platform that combines machine translation, AI quality estimation, and human review. It supports multilingual customer service and other business translation workflows.
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Transifex
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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
What is Intento used for?
Intento is used by enterprises to connect, evaluate, route and manage machine-translation and generative AI services across localization, customer support and other multilingual business workflows.
Is Intento a machine translation engine?
Intento is primarily an orchestration and language-operations platform rather than a single translation engine. It can provide access to and select among multiple language technology providers.
Does Intento offer an API?
Yes. Intento provides enterprise integrations and APIs designed to connect language services with business and localization systems.
Who founded Intento?
Intento was founded by Konstantin Savenkov and Grigory Sapunov in 2016.
What are the best Intento alternatives?
Relevant alternatives include Smartcat, Phrase, Lilt and Unbabel. The best choice depends on whether an organization needs a translation management system, adaptive machine translation, managed language operations or broad provider orchestration.