Case Study: Dataduck achieves continuous localization and cuts localization costs with Smartcat

Dataduck - Customer Case Study

Dataduck, an international digital marketing agency, faced costly, fragmented localization: they relied on SDL Trados and Upwork, which imposed a 20% commission, difficult payments in Russia, hard onboarding for freelancers, and time-consuming file updates and cross-system coordination. To solve this, they sought a more efficient CAT and vendor management solution and moved their localization operations to Smartcat.

Using Smartcat’s cloud CAT, marketplace and open API, Dataduck implemented continuous localization with connected repositories, translation memories, glossaries and pre-translation rules, plus in-platform vendor sourcing and communication. As a result, TM leverage reached about 15%, per-word and payment costs fell (payments to translators decreased by half versus Upwork), project managers spend 40% less time on localization, and translated content consistency improved — all achieved via Smartcat.

Dataduck

Anastasia Taymanova

Localization Team Lead