Cost of Inaction Calculator
What is silence costing you?
Every event, service, or meeting without language access has a price - in lost revenue, lost people, and lost trust. See yours.
Conferences
Half your audience checked out after the first slide.
You invested months planning the perfect event. But without live translation, non-English attendees disengage, skip sessions, and leave negative reviews. Next year, they don't come back.
Your numbers
2,000 people
100 people20,000 people
30%
10%60%
$500
$50$2,000
25%
10%50%
25% of the people a language barrier touches are lost or underserved.
Your annual cost of doing nothing
estimated annual loss$75,000every year, at today's numbers
150people lost or underserved
Loss breakdown
Lost ticket revenue (next event)$75,000
Sponsor value erosion (est.)$30,000
Negative reviews impact45 negative
Compliance risk
Sponsor dissatisfaction & DEI commitment gaps
The human cost
"Attendees feel excluded from the conversations that matter most"
Fix this for a fraction of the cost
InterScribe costs less than 3.2% of what inaction is costing you. No hardware. No extra cost per language. Just understanding.