The bureau
Accountable for every line since 2024.
Verlineo was founded on a straightforward premise: that a translation which will be filed, signed or published deserves a different process from one that will be skimmed and forgotten.
The bureau began in 2024 with a simple rule: read an important document in full, translate the concept rather than the isolated word, and flag ambiguity instead of guessing.
We have stayed deliberately small. Twenty staff linguists, a partner network we have used for years, and a rule that no project is assigned to someone without history in its subject. That constrains how much work we can accept, which is the point: capacity has never been the thing our clients were short of.
Today the bureau works in ten languages for clients in law, life sciences, finance, technology and manufacturing across Europe, Asia and the Americas. There is no head office the work routes through: the linguists are where their language is spoken. Most clients arrived on a recommendation, and most of them are still here.
- Founded2024
- Working languages10
- Main service areas6
- Stages in the independently revised tier2
How the bureau grew.
- 2024
The bureau begins
Scoping, translation, editorial review and transparent delivery become one working process.
- 2024
Specialist team
Every project goes to a linguist with experience in its field and a separate reviser.
- 2025
More disciplines
Localisation, medical and technical content were added under the same project controls.
- Today
Ten languages, one standard
Twenty staff linguists, a vetted partner network, and the same rule about who is allowed to touch your file.
Four commitments we are willing to be held to.
Precision over fluency
A translation that reads beautifully but shifts a meaning has failed. Where the source is ambiguous we render the ambiguity and tell you about it, rather than resolving it on your behalf.
Discretion as standard
We do not publish client names without permission, we do not use your documents to train anything, and we assume everything is confidential until you tell us otherwise.
Continuity over scale
The same linguists return to your account year after year. We would rather turn work away than hand your terminology to someone meeting it for the first time.
Candour about limits
If a deadline cannot be met properly, if a language pair is outside our depth, or if machine translation would genuinely serve you better and cheaper, we say so.
Who runs the work.
Four of the people you are most likely to deal with. Every project has one of them accountable for it by name.
Anna Volkova
Founder & Managing Director
NL · EN · DESince 2024
Founded the bureau in 2024 and oversees legal projects and the team’s work.
Mikhail Petrov
Head of Quality
DE · ES · ENSince 2024
Owns the revision process and the audit record, which makes him the person who says no when a deadline can only be met by skipping the second reading. Trained as a chemical engineer before he translated a sentence, and still takes the technical work he can get.
Ksenia Abramova
Lead Linguist, Legal
RU · EN · FRSince 2025
Practised commercial law for six years before moving to translation, and reads a contract for what it obliges rather than for what it says. Runs the legal termbase and the query discipline the rest of the bureau now works to.
Pavel Sokolov
Lead Linguist, Localisation
JA · ENSince 2025
Came from the product side: eight years shipping software, which is why our localisation work argues with the code as often as with the copy. Responsible for the pseudolocalisation pass that keeps release layouts intact.
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