About the studio

Small studio.
One pair of languages.

Clear Language Studio is deliberately narrow: English into Spanish, for audiences in the United States. Choosing to do one thing means the work is done by someone who knows it, not routed to whoever is free.

The person behind the studio
Renato Fuentes
Renato Fuentes
Linguist & Localization Manager

Renato Fuentes is a linguist and localization manager who supports multilingual communication workflows between English and Spanish.

His focus is language access — making sure critical information actually reaches the communities it was written for, in language they recognise and trust. That takes more than accurate sentences. It takes the right register, the right rhythm, and an ear for the cultural assumptions a reader brings to the page.

Day to day, that means building workflows that hold up under pressure: setting translation quality standards, running linguistic review against frameworks like MQM and ISO 17100, and coordinating linguists on high-stakes material — the kind where a clumsy sentence isn't a style problem, it's someone missing information they needed.

He is unusually interested in the machinery behind good translation: terminology bases, style guides, quality frameworks, and increasingly the AI and automation that let a small studio produce work at a scale that used to require a large one. The technology is a means, never the author. Every deliverable is read and signed off by a human linguist.

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Why the studio exists

Most Spanish content in the U.S. reads like it was translated.

Because it was. Clear Language Studio exists to close that gap. We judge every project by a single test: does this read as though it was written in Spanish, for these readers, from the start?

We work mostly with nonprofits, public health teams and mission-driven organizations, because that is where language carries the most weight. When a translation is about a storm warning, a clinic appointment or a benefits deadline, an awkward sentence isn't a style problem — it's someone missing information they needed.

How we work

What working with us actually looks like

No account managers, no hand-offs between people who have never read your brief. You work with the linguist doing the work.

We ask before we translate
Who is this for, what should it make them do, and where will they read it? A document for a clinic waiting room and the same text as a text message are not the same translation. The brief shapes the language.
Terminology decided once, then kept
Recurring terms, names and turns of phrase go into a glossary and a style guide that belong to you. The second project sounds like the first, and so does the tenth — including anything handed to another linguist later.
You see the reasoning, not just the file
Where a translation departs from the literal — as good ones often must — you get a short note explaining why. No silent rewrites, and nothing you cannot defend to your own stakeholders.