GTU | About us

About Us

GTU was founded by former Technical Writer, Project Manager and Freelance Translator Veit Guenther in 2012 to help Language Services Providers worldwide succeed with their supply chain for the German language

Most of our customer relationships go back to a time when Veit was still a freelancer. In response to increasing demand, he began building an in-house team in order to handle the rising volume of translations into German.

The idea was quite simple: we wanted to give our clients the opportunity to collaborate with a provider that works like a single freelancer, but has the capacity of many freelancers.

In 2020, GTU started adding other target languages in order to meet our customers’ rising demands. While we have always relied on freelance translators to handle production peaks, we really started outsourcing work to our external translators on a regular basis in 2020.

Our existing customers appreciate the added flexibility. Moreover, our internal employees have the opportunity to move into other roles, such as that of project manager.

Technology

Our technology stack includes the latest translation tools, collaboration software and antivirus application. We run daily incremental backups to protect against ransomware attacks. Our offices are connected through an enterprise-grade VPN solution.

It’s nice to have technology, however, it’s even better if you actually use it daily and consistently.

This became obvious during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis where our technology setup enabled us to work from home immediately.

We will continue to invest in the technology that is right for GTU.