How the Diglot Editor Works
Diglot is one bilingual editor that takes you from a rough native-language idea to English you can hand in. Here’s what happens on the screen.
Four things happen in one document, not six tabs
Diglot keeps drafting, translating, correcting, and recording how the text was written in one editor. Here’s how the pieces connect.
Apologetic fluff & boilerplate
Defaults to verbose, deferential openings ("I hope this email finds you well", "I am writing to kindly inquire"). Reads as subordinate and wastes senior stakeholders' time.
Native-speaker syntax bias
Catches basic comma splices and spelling typos, but completely misses L1 cultural transfers, Japanese Keigo servility, Spanish false cognates, or tone mismatch.
Isolated sentence translation
Translates sentences accurately in isolation, but lacks document-level tone calibration, context memory, and consistent business terminology across releases.
Calibrated executive workspace
In-place three-tier translation, register calibration, L1-transfer neutralization, and persistent translation memory inside a single focused editor.
Built around real bilingual business workflows
Everything non-native professionals need to write, translate, and verify high-stakes English in one place.
Register & Formality Calibrator
Calibrate writing to target US vs UK executive norms. Neutralize Keigo-style subservience, legalese filler, and culturally awkward greetings before sending to leadership.
- Senior Executive vs Peer tone tuning
- Eliminates "kindly", "as per", and "revert"
- Action-oriented CTA phrasing
Three-Tier Inline Translation
Translate difficult words or full sentences inline without leaving the editor. View Literal, Idiomatic, and Executive Business translations side-by-side.
- In-place paragraph translation
- Literal vs Idiomatic vs Executive tiers
- Preserves source context and document formatting
Persistent Translation Memory
Brand names, product terms, contractual clauses, and company acronyms stay 100% consistent across every email, proposal, and report you write.
- Locked vocabulary across documents
- Shared team glossaries
- Zero terminology drift between releases
AI Cowriter for Business Formats
Transform rough bullet points, meeting notes, or native-language thoughts into polished client emails, status memos, and executive decks in seconds.
- Instant expansion of rough bullet notes
- Calibrated for non-native thinking habits
One connected workflow from raw draft to final deliverable
Move from bilingual rough ideas to polished English in one calm flow instead of stitching together separate tools.
Start from a rough idea
Write in your native language or a mix of both. The editor keeps your source and English together so nothing has to be perfect on the first pass.
Select text and act
Highlight any passage to translate, rewrite, or explain it in place — the action happens on the selection inside the document, not in a separate app.
Let corrections and the co-writer help
L1-aware grammar explains why a sentence reads translated, and the Cowriter agent drafts or rewrites from inside the document using the surrounding context.
Finish with a record of how you wrote it
Every edit feeds a signed revision history — your Authorship Certificate — so the finished document carries a tamper-evident record of how it was written.
Built for high-stakes business communicators
Diglot works best when English is your delivery language, but not always your thinking language.
International students
Move from rough documents to cleaner English submissions with structure, paraphrasing, and grammar review in one place.
Multilingual professionals
Write faster for work without sounding translated. Diglot helps you refine tone, clarity, and confidence before you hit send.
Researchers and graduate writers
Keep academic structure and wording quality in one workflow when your final output needs to sound precise and credible.
Confidentiality & editorial standards
Your business drafts, customer proposals, and internal communications belong strictly to your team.
Zero model training on your data
Your drafts, emails, and translations are never used to train public AI models. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest with strict multi-tenant isolation.
Calibrated specifically for non-native professionals
Examples, register models, and workflow conventions are shaped for managers, engineers, and consultants who need confident English output without losing meaning.
Reviewed by Diglot Editorial Team
Page updated July 18, 2026. We regularly update guidelines as international business English standards and corporate communication norms evolve.
A signed record of how the document was written
The certificate PDF Diglot issues, filled with sample data. A real one carries a QR code and a live verification link.
- Session 1 · Outline and notes22 min
- Session 2 · Drafting, two languages, 4 citations48 min
- Session 3 · Cowriter /formalize and grammar review15 min
- Certificate exported with a verification linkfree
- Example timeline. Writing the whole document in Diglot is what gives the record its weight: a pasted paragraph shows up as a paste.
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know before getting started.
How does the Diglot editor work?
You work in one bilingual editor that keeps your native-language source and your English side by side. Highlight any passage to translate, rewrite, or check it where it sits. Grammar and paraphrasing are L1-aware, the AI co-writer drafts and rewrites from inside the document, and each edit is logged into a signed history. Drafting, translating, correcting, and recording how the text was written happen without you leaving the page.
Can I translate and write in the same editor?
Yes. Translation is part of the editor, not a separate site you paste into. Select text to translate it inline with literal, idiomatic, and formal options, keep the source on screen while you tune the English, then move straight into grammar and rewriting on the result — one document throughout.
What is the AI co-writer and when does it help?
The Cowriter agent runs inside your document. Drop the cursor and it can keep writing from there; select a passage and it can rewrite it, shift the tone, or make a stiff paragraph read more like a native wrote it — always using the surrounding draft as context, not a blank chat box. You see every change before it lands.
What does the revision history show?
Every edit gets written into an append-only, cryptographically signed chain — your Authorship Certificate. Google Docs version history is easy to dispute; this is tamper-evident, showing how the document was built over time. It is a record of process, not proof of authorship, and you can share it if questions ever come up about how your text was written.
Do I need to install anything to use the editor?
No — Diglot runs in any modern browser on desktop and mobile. The free plan includes the bilingual editor, translation, grammar, and paraphrasing; paid plans raise the usage limits and add premium model tiers. The Authorship Certificate is free on every plan.
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People ask how Diglot works because it doesn’t follow the usual one-tool-one-job pattern — a translator here, a grammar checker there, a version-history feature off in some menu. Diglot is a single bilingual editor where those parts are wired together, so it’s worth walking through what a session actually looks like. You start with a rough idea in your native language.
You highlight a passage and translate it in place — literal, idiomatic, or formal — with the source staying pinned so you don’t lose your bearings the way an in-place translator makes you. You edit the English right next to it, and the grammar feedback is L1-aware: it recognizes that a missing article or a flattened tense traces back to your first language, and it explains the fix instead of just underlining it. Need a hand drafting?
The Cowriter agent works from inside the document, continuing from the cursor or rewriting a selection while it can see the paragraphs around it. And underneath all of that, every edit is written into a signed, append-only history — your Authorship Certificate — so if anyone ever asks how your text was written, you can show how it was built, which is harder to dispute than the Google Docs version history most students fall back on.
That’s the whole loop: draft, translate, correct, and keep a record of how it was written, in one editor, so meaning survives from your first language to the final line.
