Case Study: GTMK achieves rapid staffing and streamlined translator management with Smartcat

GTMK - Customer Case Study

GTMK, a Volgograd-based translation agency led by CEO Viktor Kuryshev, faced the challenge of scaling fast and onboarding qualified linguists while moving away from the expensive, inflexible Trados setup. To manage urgent orders and a growing variety of language pairs and subjects, GTMK needed a reliable platform for finding, testing, and managing freelancers and teams — which is why they built their workflow around Smartcat (Marketplace, Editor and My Team).

Using Smartcat, GTMK implemented a repeatable sourcing and validation workflow: targeted Marketplace searches and mass invitations, narrated screencast training, paid 150–200 word tests, in-house editing and feedback, and staged validation (moving translators into My Team after 50–100k words). The approach yields predictable outcomes — inviting ~100 candidates typically nets ~50 responses (10–15% within an hour) and about 15–20 linguists who meet GTMK’s standards — and lets GTMK rapidly scale work by tapping Smartcat’s open Marketplace of some 250,000 suppliers.

GTMK

Viktor Kuryshev

Owner