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# Bilingual AI Content Workflows

A draft-review-publish pipeline for English and German marketing content that uses AI for speed without losing voice or accuracy.

Reviewed by the UHL team · 27 October 2026

PlaybookUpdated 27 October 2026

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## Why bilingual AI content fails without structure

Letting a model write directly to the public page creates three predictable problems: invented claims that nobody verified, a voice that drifts between authors, and German text that reads like a translation instead of Swiss business language. The fix is not a better prompt - it is a pipeline in which the model only ever sees a draft role.

Rule one: AI produces candidates for publication. People publish.

## The three-stage pipeline

- **Draft**
  The model produces a first version from a content brief: audience, claims allowed, forbidden topics, source pages to reuse. Write the brief in English; it anchors terminology for both languages.

- **Review**
  A person checks every factual claim against something verifiable - a live page, a repository, a contract. Anything the model asserts that is not in the brief gets deleted, not softened.

- **Publish**
  The reviewed English version is translated and edited natively for de-CH - not machine-post-edited - then both versions ship together or not at all.

## Editorial gates that hold

A gate is a question a reviewer must answer before the text moves on. Four are enough:

- Facts: can every claim be pointed at a verifiable source - a live system, a document, a released artifact?

- Voice: does it sound like the rest of the site - direct, technical, no marketing inflation?

- Scope: does it avoid forbidden territory - unreleased features, client names without consent, aspirational roadmap presented as fact?

- Locale: is the German written for Switzerland - ss, never the German Eszett, formal Sie, local business register terms?

## Keeping the voice identical across languages

Do not translate the prompt - translate the approved output. Maintain a small bilingual glossary of terms that must stay consistent (service names, product names, legal entities) and a short style sheet: sentence length, how to address the reader, what adjectives are banned. Our own rule of thumb: if a sentence would embarrass us in a contract, it does not go on the website.

## What this playbook deliberately excludes

- Fully automated publication - every public word still passes a human gate.

- AI-translated legal text - Impressum, privacy and contract language is written natively in each language.

- Voice-cloning individual people - content speaks as the company, not as a simulated person.

- Content brief exists before any draft (audience, allowed claims, forbidden topics)

- Every factual claim verified against a source before publish

- DE version written natively for de-CH, not machine post-edited

- Both locales shipped together

- Glossary and style sheet updated with any new term

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