Clavis Sinica

Clavis Sinica offers software for learning written Chinese, focusing on character structure and providing digitized texts and audio stories. The job it does: building software for you when nothing off the shelf fits.

Who is it for? Mostly companies with a specific process to automate. Related areas on their profile: Language Learning and Translation Service. As a small company team themselves (11 to 50 people), they tend to serve customers of a similar scale best. You will probably talk to the people who build it, which is great until you need 24/7 support.

Clavis Sinica is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Their site is clavisinica.com.

Things worth asking about: portfolio relevance, who owns the code, and how they handle changes. Ask for a trial on your own data, not a canned demo.

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