Corporate jargon translator
Say what the memo means
Leverage, align, circle back, move the needle. The corporate jargon translator rewrites business speak in plain words for the person who has to act on it, and keeps every number, owner and deadline.
6 free pages a month. No card.
Made for
- All-hands memos and strategy decks
- Status updates for people outside the team
- Your own writing, before it goes out
Before and after
Example: 34 → 38 words · every fact kept
Original
Going forward, we need to leverage our core competencies to drive synergies across verticals and move the needle on Q4 revenue. Let’s circle back offline and align on bandwidth before the 12 December deadline.
Result
From now on, we need to use what we already do well across all our product lines to raise Q4 revenue.
Let’s talk after this meeting and agree who has time for it before the 12 December deadline.
- Kept: Q4 revenue
- Kept: 12 December
How Simplify works
Step 01
Every passage is rated
On one six-step scale for every language, from very simple to expert, and checked for unexplained terms and instructions that read two ways.
Step 02
Only hard passages change
Passages already at your reader's level stay word for word.
Step 03
Terms are explained, not removed
A term the reader will meet elsewhere stays, with a short plain explanation the first time.
Step 04
Meaning is checked
Every must, may, unless, deadline and number has to survive, or the passage keeps its original words.
Options
- Reader
- General audience, customers, patients, second-language readers, young readers, newcomers, decision-makers or specialists, or describe your own.
- Level
- Very simple (A1) to expert (C2); simpler or more precise.
- Write in
- Keep the language, or translate while simplifying.
From code, terminal or agent
# REST API
curl https://readable.md/api/v1/transform \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $READABLE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{ "tool": "simplify", "text": "…", "audience": "customers" }'
# Command line
readable simplify letter.pdf --audience customers
# MCP tool: simplifyQuestions
- Business jargon or corporate speak: is it the same thing?
- Close enough. Both use words that sound busy and say little. The translator treats any phrase your reader would not use as something to say plainly.
- Will it lose the actual plan?
- No. Numbers, dates, owners and decisions are checked against the original. If a plain version drops one, the passage keeps its words.
- Can it keep a term the team really uses?
- Use Explain instead: it keeps every word and adds a short explanation after each term.
