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Measuring Translation Against Shoghi Effendi
How CTAI's translation pipeline works, how we test it against Shoghi Effendi's own translations, and what each stage adds.
The Writer Sets the Style, the Editor Catches the Errors
See what each member of CTAI's translation committee adds to accuracy and to Shoghi Effendi's style, measured on 24 untranslated Arabic and Persian passages.
Phrases, Not Words: A Smaller, Sharper Translation Guide for AI
Get Shoghi Effendi's renderings of whole phrases, idioms and metaphors, plus the right sense of each word, in one free report sized for an AI agent's prompt.
Show AI How Shoghi Effendi Translated, and It Translates Better
A REST API that gathers relevant examples from Shoghi Effendi's translations to inject into AI context — so your translation pipeline can learn from the Guardian's word choices.
Every Word Shoghi Effendi Translated, Traced to Its Original
How we built a 100,000-entry Arabic/Persian concordance by aligning every word in Shoghi Effendi's translations with its English rendering — and what we learned about the hidden complexity of mixed-script text processing.