WattShed Translate

The program speaks the applicant's language.

Translate puts a program's intake surfaces into the applicant's language: the application form, the guided photo checklist, and the status updates a resident actually reads. Equity-focused rebate programs routinely lose eligible households at the language barrier, and a translated surface is the difference between an application that finishes and one that stalls at the first field. Reviewer-facing content stays in the reviewer's language, with the applicant's original text preserved alongside any translation.

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What it does.

Translates the resident-facing intake flow: forms, photo checklists, guidance, and status updates.
Preserves the applicant's original text alongside translations, so nothing is reviewed through a translation alone.
Keeps program rules identical across languages. Translation changes the words, never the thresholds.
Covers the languages a program's service area actually speaks, chosen with the funder per program.
Runs inside the intake flow it translates. There is no separate app for the applicant to find.

Who it is for.

Utilities and public program administrators

Meet language-access obligations on the same surface that runs the program, not a PDF appendix.

Equity-focused funders

Stop losing eligible households at the first English-only field.

Community organizations

Help residents apply in the language the household actually uses.

How it works.

Pick the languages

The program chooses its languages from its own service area, per program.

Translate the surfaces

Forms, checklists, guidance, and status updates carry the applicant's language end to end.

Review with originals

Reviewers see the applicant's original text with translations alongside, never a translation alone.

What it does, and what it deliberately does not.

Translate does	Translate does not
Translates the applicant-facing program surfaces	Does not alter program rules, thresholds, or eligibility in any language
Preserves original text alongside translations	Does not review or decide anything through a translation alone

Translate does

Translates the applicant-facing program surfaces

Translate does not

Does not alter program rules, thresholds, or eligibility in any language

Translate does

Preserves original text alongside translations

Translate does not

Does not review or decide anything through a translation alone

Availability.

Offered per program, arranged with WattShed directly. Languages are chosen with the funder from the program's service area.

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The rest of WattShed Applications

09 / ApplyIntakeApplication intake that enforces program rules from the first field.10 / ApplyQualifyEligibility rules a program sets, checked the same way on every applicant.16 / ApplyReachThe application that stalled gets a way back in.17 / ApplyConformCatch the mechanical accessibility misses before the audit does.

The other suites

01 / WattShed Design and PricingDesign a program and price every project inside it, on one published methodology.03 / WattShed Field AssessmentEverything a field visit needs to know about one home, in the order the visit needs it.04 / WattShed VerificationCheck the evidence before anyone is paid, and send what the checks cannot settle to a person.05 / WattShed OperationsRun a live program: budget, contractors, job costs, payments, and the systems you already use.06 / WattShed ReportingTurn program data into a number a regulator, a board, or a utility partner can trust.