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A briefing half the crew didn't follow isn't a briefing.

Toolbox talks, shift handovers, town halls, and works council meetings — translated live to every worker's own phone.

Two-page guides: industrial & frontline (PDF) · corporate & works councils (PDF)

The rooms where being understood is the job.

Briefings and toolbox talks

Open the languages your site actually speaks and leave them running for the whole shift.

Shift handovers and instructions

What went wrong on the last shift and what is still open — in writing, in both languages, as it is said.

All-hands and town halls

Leadership says the same thing to everyone at once, and everyone hears it in their own language rather than reading a summary a week later.

Works councils and employee representation

Every session saves a transcript in each language it ran in, so the minutes and the version each representative could read are the same document.

Nothing to issue at the gate.

A code on the muster board replaces receiver hardware, and people use the phone and earbuds already in their pocket.

  • No capital purchase and no asset to track between shifts
  • A new language the same morning a new crew arrives
  • Anyone can run it — a supervisor with a clip-on mic, not an AV team

What you can show afterwards.

A transcript per language

Timestamped: the actual text each language group received, in the language they received it in.

Private by default

Nothing is published anywhere unless you publish it, and recording is a separate switch you turn on.

Searchable later

Find the shift where a change was announced without scrubbing through audio — see recordings & archive.

Koine is not a certified translation of your safety documentation, and not a substitute for a qualified interpreter where your regulator or your legal team requires one. A transcript records what was communicated — it does not certify that anyone understood it.

Per language-hour, not per worker.

A daily twenty-minute briefing in three languages is one language-hour a day. Each plan is sized for a typical audience (75, 150 or 500 listeners; unlimited on Campus and one-off events).

Interpreter on siteOften $1,000+ per language, per day — booked in advance, for a talk that lasts minutes.
Receiver fleetA capital purchase plus charging, cleaning, and someone to hand them out every shift.
Koine — $10 / language-hourThe one-off event rate; monthly plans cost less per hour. On phones your crew already carries, with the record included.

What would it cost your site?

Languages at once 3 · up to 20
Briefings at the same time 1
Hours of translation / week 3 · per briefing
Plans start at
$96/month
Start free

Estimate only. Final price is confirmed before you pay, and unused hours do not roll over.

Questions from safety and HR.

Is machine translation good enough for a safety briefing?

For following what is being said, it is generally far better than the realistic alternative, which is a briefing in a language part of the crew does not speak. Where a regulator or your legal team requires a qualified interpreter, use one.

Our floor is extremely loud. Does that work?

A clip-on or headset mic close to the speaker's mouth handles a loud room well. In the loudest areas, captions on a screen or on phones are usually the better output.

What about workers without a smartphone, or without data?

Everyone needs a phone and a connection, and site wifi is usually the answer. If a meaningful part of your crew has neither, this is not the tool for that room.

Does the transcript prove compliance?

It documents what was said, when, and in which languages it was delivered. It cannot show that a given person read or understood it, and we do not claim otherwise.

Run tomorrow's briefing in every language on the roster.