How translation agencies can keep making money in the age of AI translation

AI isn’t coming. it’s already here, and it’s hitting translation agencies hard. Prices are dropping, clients are moving to AI-first workflows, and the old agency model is breaking apart. If you keep doing business the same way, the next five years could mean shrinking revenues and lost clients.

In this talk, Gabriel Fairman lays out what’s really happening and what agencies must do to survive. You’ll see:

• The AI Reality – Proof that machine translation is improving fast and pushing rates down.
• Who Survives, Who Doesn’t – Why agencies in some areas are thriving while others are collapsing.
• The Survival Plan – Four urgent steps: fix your processes, protect your margins, invest in tools, and become a real partner to clients.
• A Clear Warning – A roadmap showing exactly how agencies that fail to adapt will fall behind.