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TermBoy scans your website and related online sources, your text archives and your translation memories – and identifies the most frequently used technical terms.
AI agent for terminology · by TTN Translation Network
AI agent for terminology and visibility in chatbots
TermBoy is an AI agent that builds, maintains and standardises your terminology autonomously. With clear definitions, references and semantically structured term data, TermBoy makes your website and your expertise understandable to search engines and AI systems – and therefore findable.
ISO 9001·ISO 17100·ISO 27001 ·SDL MultiTerm & Trados integration
What is a kingpin?
The kingpin (Ger. Königszapfen, Fr. pivot d'attelage) is the central coupling pin on the semi-trailer that engages with the fifth wheel of the tractor unit.
your-company.com/term/kingpinBenefit no. 1 · Visibility
Consistent terms. Better AI visibility.
Search behaviour is shifting: from result lists to direct AI answers. If you don't appear there, you are invisible to a growing share of your customers.
TermBoy extracts technical terms from your website, your documents and your translation memories. It adds definitions, synonyms, images and sources, and publishes the terminology on the web in structured form.
This increases the chances that your products, services and specialist topics are correctly recognised, classified and used or linked as a source by systems such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Google Search.
- More mentions in AI answers – visibility where decisions are made
- Citable content: clearly structured, machine-readable, with sources
- GEO as a complement – your existing SEO remains fully effective
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityAI Overviews
GEO
Generative Engine Optimization
GEO is the new term no marketing plan can do without. More and more questions are asked directly to chatbots. Large language models (LLMs) are based on transformer technology, which connects millions of words in a second. A single keyword fizzles out unnoticed in the crowd – transformers need context. That is exactly what TermBoy delivers: semantic connections that anchor your content in the context being searched for.
Your website becomes part of the answer – not just another hit in a list.
Benefit no. 2 · Consistent terminology
One terminology.
Right in the CAT tool.
The termbase is an SDL MultiTerm database – firmly connected to your translators' CAT tool.
As soon as a text segment contains a technical term, the TermBoy entry automatically appears in the translation window. A quality assurance program ensures that only the defined terms are used – across all languages, all jobs, all years.
So your website, catalogues, contracts and translations all speak the same language – yours.
With every new job
TermBoy checks for unknown terms
If a text contains a term that is not yet in the database, TermBoy researches it autonomously, adds images and creates a complete entry.
Reliability below 80 %
Your expert approves
The term is sent by SMS, WhatsApp or email to the relevant expert – review and approval within a short time.
Four-eyes principle + AI checks
Quality, checked several times over
In the modern translation process, every sentence is checked by QA tools and AI checks. TermBoy closes the remaining gap: the alignment between the technical language used in your organisation and the terminology of the translation.
How it works
Four steps – fully automatic.
TermBoy works like a terminologist with unlimited time: thorough, consistent, around the clock.
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Define
Each term gets a complete record card: definition, images, standards, Wikipedia entries, reference passages, synonyms, pronunciation and gender. From the frequency of use, TermBoy calculates a reliability code.
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Approve
If reliability is below 80 %, the term is automatically forwarded to your expert – notification by SMS, WhatsApp or email.
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Publish & connect
Publication on the web with semantic tags, entry in the sitemap.xml – and provision in SDL MultiTerm for the CAT tool.
Examples
From two-column glossary to term record card.
Classic glossaries don't tell you what a term means – the translator adopts it blindly. TermBoy turns every entry into real added value.
Until now: the classic glossary
| Königszapfen | kingpin |
| Sattelkupplung | fifth wheel |
| Auflieger | semi-trailer |
Two columns, no context: what a kingpin actually is remains unclear.
kingpin, the
Noun · Vehicle engineering · Frequency: high
Central coupling pin on the underside of the semi-trailer that engages with the fifth wheel of the tractor unit and creates the pivoting connection between tractor and semi-trailer.
Translations
DEKönigszapfen
FRpivot d'attelage
IT+ more languages
Synonyms
fifth-wheel pin
Sources & references
Every entry is created automatically – with definition, image, translations, synonyms, standards and the reference passages where the term is actually used.
Who benefits
One agent – five winners.
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Translators
Terms automatically appear in the CAT tool as soon as a segment contains a technical term. QA ensures that only defined terms are used.
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Employees
New employees quickly find their way around the company's terminology – with images, descriptions and links to catalogues and web pages.
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Training & education
The terms used in your organisation match those of the vocational schools and the SERI training plans – with no extra effort.
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Associations & authorities
TermBoy aligns your terminology with the official federal databases – important for consultation procedures, without isolated solutions.
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Customers & the public
All terms are published with semantic tags. A consistent, publicly accessible terminology becomes a competitive advantage.
Why a consistent terminology at all?
If all you can do is chirp, you build a bird's nest. To build Versailles, you need language.
Language is convention: it only works because everyone has agreed on the same terms. Where there is no agreement on elementary concepts, every joint undertaking ends in chaos. In the Middle Ages there were 280 different units of area in today's Switzerland alone – it was the standardisation of units of measurement that triggered the real economic boom.
Canton of Aargau – the ell before standardisation
| Aarau | 1 ell = 593.87 mm |
| Laufenburg | 1 ell = 597.55 mm |
| Rheinfelden | 1 ell = 548.03 mm |
| Zofingen | 1 ell = 597.39 mm |
| Zurzach | 1 ell = 602.67 mm |
Five towns, five ells – trade became a gamble.
The first prototype metre was defined in Paris in 1799 as a platinum bar and deposited in the French national archives.
One measure for all.
What the prototype metre was for trade, consistent terminology is for your communication: the common, reliable foundation. If your company speaks a secret language, the market won't hear you – not people, and certainly not AI.
Pricing & plans
Two ways to your termbase.
Whether it grows organically with your translation jobs or is built as a standalone project: you choose the model, TermBoy does the work.
Job-driven
The termbase grows with your translations – slowly, organically, without a project budget.
Includedfully covered by the line or word price of your translations
- A term is added as soon as it actually occurs in a translation
- Automatic research, record card and reliability code
- Approval workflow with your experts
- Publication on the web and connection to the CAT tool
Build-up as a subscription
Terminology database independent of specific jobs – built from your website, translation memories and documents.
CHF 0.05 per term and language version (creation) · then CHF 0.01 per year on subscription
- Example: 10,000 terms in 4 languages = CHF 2,000 creation, CHF 400 per year
- Including AI compute costs and database operation in TTN's data centre
- Including programming, backup and maintenance
- Text extraction from your website, translation memory or submitted documents
~ CHF 400'000manual build-up: avg. CHF 10 per entry and language, 10,000 terms × 4 languages
CHF 2'000the same volume with TermBoy – around 1,000 times cheaper
> 99 % savingsconsistent terminology, now affordable for SMEs and associations too
AI-built terminology databases of this scale and quality have only been possible since March 2026 – TermBoy sets the new standard.
About us
A product of TTN Translation Network, Geneva.
TermBoy is developed and operated by TTN Translation Network in Geneva – a translation provider that has been building its own translation technology since 1988: from the translation management system to the server farm and deep integration with SDL Trados, MultiTerm and GroupShare.
At TTN, translation follows the proven four-eyes principle, complemented by AI-supported quality checks. TermBoy combines both worlds: the precision of human specialist translation and the research power of AI.
ISO 9001 – Quality
ISO 17100 – Translation services
ISO 27001 – Information security
- Headquarters
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Technology
- In-house translation management system – Swiss hosting in Geneva's high-security data centre
- Process
- Four-eyes principle + AI checks (quality assurance)
- Languages
- Over 200 languages, public translator database with more than 1,500 entries
Ready to become visible?
Request a demo or start with a pilot project: using your own website, we'll show you what your termbase will look like – and what it will cost.
Request a demo or by email to info@termboy.com · www.termboy.com