Two years ago, three women sat down with a shared frustration and a simple question: Why is the creative and content industry so hard on the people who actually do the work?

We'd all experienced it firsthand – exploitation, dishonesty, unpaid invoices, and a general sense that freelance language professionals were disposable. So instead of waiting for someone else to fix it, we built LikeLingo.

Why We Started

LikeLingo wasn't born from a business plan or a funding round. It was born from a "never again."

We wanted to create something we'd personally never had: a language agency that treats its in-house team with integrity and honesty, communicates openly about money and expectations, and genuinely invests in the people doing the work – even when budgets are tight.

That mission hasn't changed. Two years in, it's still the reason we show up every day.

What We've Built

Building a startup is messy, and we won't pretend otherwise.

We've expanded our in-house team, moved into a bigger office in Copenhagen, and spent two years figuring out who belongs at LikeLingo HQ and what startup-ready talent actually looks like. We've hired the wrong people and paid for it. We've lost clients we thought we'd keep. We've had weeks where everything felt uncertain.

But we've also built something we're genuinely proud of: a remote, online community of freelance language professionals – our Lingonauts – who work together, grow together and communicate openly about the things that actually matter in this industry right now.

A Safe Space to Work, Connect and Explore

One of the things we care most about at LikeLingo is giving our in-house linguists more than just a job to do.

We want them to have a real community: a place to network with other language experts, exchange experiences and support each other across borders and time zones. Remote work can be isolating, especially in a field as niche as ours. We work hard to make sure our Lingonauts never feel like they're working alone.

We also want them to stay ahead. The content and language industry is changing fast – AI tools for writing, translation and localization are evolving by the month. At LikeLingo, we give our community the space and safety to explore these tools together, test new workflows, share honest feedback and figure out what actually works and what doesn't.

We communicate openly about AI. We don't pretend it isn't there, and we don't pretend it replaces human expertise. Instead, we treat it as a tool our linguists can learn, critique and use on their own terms – within a community that has real conversations about it.

What We Believe

Freelance language experts deserve respect. They deserve honest communication about pay, workload and expectations. They deserve a community that invests in their growth, even when it can't pay top dollar (yet – and we're transparent about that too).

They deserve to work in an environment where integrity and honesty aren't nice-to-haves. They're the baseline.

That's what LikeLingo is built on. That's what we're continuing to build in year three.

Thank You!

To our Lingonauts: thank you for trusting us with your time, your skills and your professional growth. You are LikeLingo.

To our clients: thank you for trusting us with your words, your markets and your brand voice.

To everyone who has believed in this from the start: we're just getting started.

Here's to year three – more languages, more humans, more brands sounding like locals. 🦄💜