Solving business challenges beyond translation with DeepL Agent
From the outset, DeepL’s mission has been to solve real-world business problems with AI. We started with language, because we knew we could create value for businesses by breaking down barriers and helping employees and customers communicate more effectively. We’re immensely proud of the Language AI platform we have built to enable this — a platform that’s now known for its quality, innovation and trust.
We’re also excited about what comes next. Building on the expertise that we’ve developed in tackling the complex challenge of language, we can now apply DeepL to do even more. In doing so, we’re able to take on a central role in the era of agentic AI that the world is now embarking on.
Stepping into the Agentic AI era
Agentic AI will reinvent how people work, thanks to smart AI co-workers that can handle repetitive, time-consuming tasks, speed up workflows and help employees focus on the strategic and creative work they do best. Language runs through the workflows that AI agents will take on: writing emails and reports, organizing meetings and documenting the outcomes. Having brought fluency to how AI tackles language, DeepL is therefore in a great position to unlock agentic AI’s potential for transforming the business workflows that run on language.
It helps that we’ve developed DeepL with an eye toward the needs of global, enterprise organizations. We’ve embedded the highest standards of data security, compliance and traceability within our platform, so that organizations in even the most sensitive industries can be confident working with our solutions. As AI touches more of businesses’ daily workflows, this well-earned trust becomes even more important.
We’ve also build DeepL to be customizable to the needs of each business, reflecting the specific knowledge and terminology they have, and the nuances of how they communicate. We’ve engineered solutions that can work with the demands of different platforms, formats and environments, from translating the text within PDF files to real-time voice translation in virtual meetings. And we’ve developed breakthrough capabilities that interact intelligently with users, knowing when to ask the right questions to clarify meaning, and enabling people to feel empowered, not excluded, when working with AI.
Applying all of DeepL’s expertise to DeepL Agent
All of this foundational innovation, research and deep knowledge of how businesses and individuals work has enabled us to develop DeepL Agent: an autonomous, general-purpose AI agent that can take on any task you would normally use a computer for, and can handle workflows for any function from sales and marketing to HR, finance, legal, logistics and localization.
We’ve designed DeepL Agent to reason and act autonomously, but also to interact with each user in a way that suits how they like to work. DeepL Agent can understand simple, human instructions in almost any language, just as a co-worker would. It can plan work in response, analyze data and diagrams, solve problems, make decisions and execute on those decisions from start to finish. At each stage, it can communicate what it’s doing, ask questions when required, and work in the background while employees get on with other tasks. It’s able to do this because we’ve equipped it with a virtual keyboard, browser and mouse that mean it can work with all of your existing systems and tools, and get started assisting teams straight away.
An AI assistant that can take on any task, in any language
Localization teams can use DeepL Agent to comb through internal documents, compile glossaries of how particular terms should be translated, and then apply those glossaries for consistent, on-brand translations going forward. They can ask it to perform specialized quality checks and audits on websites, and aggregate performance data from different markets in different languages. Work that used to take weeks can be left to DeepL Agent to handle in a matter of hours. When it comes to sales, DeepL Agent is able to navigate CRM systems, analyze the best approach to an account, and conduct additional research to help teams prepare for meetings. It does all of this while team members are focused on other tasks, helping to give them time back.
A trusted assistant that understands how your organization operates
Not only is all data that DeepL Agent works with or generates secure and protected, but we’ve also built many levels of safeguards into how DeepL Agent operates. These ensure transparency and control for individual users, their managers and the organization as a whole.
DeepL Agent has tools for managing tasks, pausing and reviewing the actions it takes, and setting requirements for human validation. Its degree of autonomy can be set by an organization as well, so employees and managers can decide the degree of human-in-the-loop validation that’s required for different tasks. It’s easy for users to intervene when the agent needs help, and doing so helps it to learn how best to use your systems.
DeepL AI Labs: Here to help organizations do more with AI
In our eight years developing DeepL to tackle complex language problems, we’ve found customers asking us one particular question with increasing regularity: How can my organization do more with AI?
As we’ve developed our platform to become ever-more context-aware, interactive and intelligent, we’ve been watching the answer take shape before our eyes. DeepL Agent is a game-changer for business because of the way it uses our expertise to maximize human potential and performance, and to support people and organizations in the personalized ways that work best for them. It’s a natural extension of the platform we’ve built for language, and the exciting thing is, it’s just the start of the new solutions we’re developing to help AI do more for businesses.
As we keep moving DeepL Agent through Beta testing and prepare for our general release, you’ll find regular updates in our DeepL AI Labs hub. We’ve created it as a window into the different projects that our research team and engineers are working on to apply DeepL AI to ever more business challenges. It started with language, and with that foundation, there are few limits to what else our platform can take on.