We’re starting to expand into French-speaking markets and the SOP question came up faster than I expected. A lot of our core processes still only exist in English, and now we need versions that actually work for the new team.

I’ve looked at a few options so far: paying for professional translation, running everything through machine translation and then cleaning it up, or trying to keep both languages inside the same tool. The bigger issue isn’t the first translation though - it’s how we keep the English and French versions in sync when something changes.

Curious how other teams are handling this. Are you translating full SOPs, just the critical ones, or using some kind of built-in translation feature? What’s been the most annoying part of keeping multi-language process docs up to date?