Content Update Coworker: Signals Trigger Translations for Always Up-to-Date Global Content
Keeping translated content in sync with the source is a quiet, constant drain. Someone edits a help article, a product page, or a policy document, and now every localized version is silently out of date — until a human notices, tracks down exactly what changed, and kicks off a new translation job. Most teams find out too late, and re-translate far more than they need to.
What it does
The Content Update Coworker is an AI agent that monitors your source content on a schedule and acts the moment something changes. It will:
Checks your source system for content created or modified since its last run.
Compares against your existing Smartcat projects and flags each item as new (never translated), stale (source changed after the last translation), or up to date.
Alerts your localization manager with exactly what needs attention.
On confirmation — or fully automatically — creates re-translation work for only the changed segments, reusing your translation memory so nothing already approved is redone.
Key benefits
No more manual monitoring — the agent watches for changes so your team doesn't have to.
Delta re-translation, not full re-runs — only what changed is re-translated, reusing approved translations from your TM.
Content that stays current — localized versions track the source automatically, instead of drifting out of date.
You stay in control — review and confirm before work starts, or let it run hands-free.
Use cases
Learning and development courses for global employees
Help centers and knowledge bases where source articles are edited frequently.
Regulated documentation that must reflect the latest approved source.
Marketing and web content updated on an ongoing cadence.