It started with one person in the room who couldn't follow.
InterScribe was built by a son for his mom. This is how it happened, in six short chapters.
The conference she couldn't follow
He travelled with his mom to conferences. The halls were full and the talks went on, and she could not follow, because no translation was available.
“Seeing someone you love sit in the same room but still feel left out.”
Sentence by sentence, over WhatsApp
So he would step away from the crowd, start a WhatsApp call, and interpret the speaker live through the phone, sentence by sentence, while the event was still happening.
She heard the conference. He heard it twice.
Again and again
It wasn't one conference. It happened again and again, conference after conference, one phone call at a time.
He looked for something they could simply use. There were products and enterprise tools, but nothing accessible and affordable that people could just pick up when they needed it.
A prototype for one person
In 2024, after months of interpreting over WhatsApp calls, he built a prototype for her: something that listened to the speaker and put the words, in her language, on her phone.
It worked. After more rounds of improvements it went to a church community, and the feedback was strong.
During the break
At one global conference, InterScribe already supported around 90 languages. A participant asked for one we didn't have.
During the break, the founder rushed to build it in a few hours and brought it back live. The participant's response was simple: they just wanted to understand.
What it taught us
Everything we build still starts from that phone call in the corridor. Four rules came out of it.
Captions in every language, included
Understanding shouldn't be rationed. Adding a caption language never changes your price.
Churches and nonprofits pay less
It started in a church community. Say it's for a church or nonprofit and the discount is in the price you see.
Works on the phone you have
No app and no headset. Guests scan a QR code and read or listen. If she had to install something, it wouldn't have worked.
Human interpreters welcome
A son on a phone call was the first interpreter. Yours can work from our browser booth, alongside the AI.
Every voice in the room, understood.
Help everyone in the room understand and take part, in their own language, during the event and long after it.
A world where nobody sits in a room and still feels left out. Every gathering, from a home group to a world conference, understood by everyone in it.
How we work
- We spend your money and your volunteers' hours as if they were ours.
- Many languages, one room, the same moment.
- We do the work so the volunteer at the sound desk doesn't have to.
- It has to work on Sunday morning, every Sunday morning.
- AI and people, working side by side.
- New tools only when they help someone understand.
- We say what it does, and what it doesn't.
Headquartered in Canada, with a team across regions.
A broader team joined in 2025 to build on the prototype. We are spread across regions so we can work closely with customers around the world.
- Canada
- United States
- Brazil
- Africa
- India
Along the way
- 2024A prototype for one person
Built so the founder's mom could follow conferences in real time, after months of interpreting for her over WhatsApp calls.
- 2024A church community, then a global conference
After rounds of improvements it went to a church community. At a global conference, a missing language was added during the break, the same day.
- 2025A team forms
A broader team joined to build a platform with stronger reliability, controls and room to grow, for live events.
- TodayChurches, events and more
Growing across churches, corporate events and other audiences around the world, with a focus on access, quality and affordability.
Is someone in your room sitting where she sat?
Try it at your next event. Hear a recorded sample first, on the phone in your hand.