About
Language access works when the interpreter shows up and stays.
Minnesota has one of the most linguistically diverse populations in the country and language-access obligations to match. Hospitals, courts, school districts, and social-services agencies have been required to provide qualified interpreters for decades. Most still coordinate those sessions by phone, text, and spreadsheet. Lingfaro replaces that with a platform that dispatches in real time, documents each completed session, and pays interpreters within days.
The name
Lingfaro
/lɪŋˈfɑːroʊ/ nounling·FAH·roh
1. The Minnesota-built platform that dispatches vetted interpreters to the institutions that need them, documents every completed session, and pays interpreters within days.
2. figurative. A guiding light across a language barrier; whatever makes meaning arrive intact when the words don't match.
What we believe
Three things we won't negotiate on.
Community trust comes first.
A Somali patient misunderstanding their diagnosis. A Karen family missing what's said in an IEP meeting. A refugee misreading the terms of their benefits. Each of these is a trust failure, and trust failures are how institutions lose the communities they serve. Lingfaro is built to get the right interpreter to the right session, reliably.
Interpreter fairness is operational, not aspirational.
Daily caps. Rate floors. Posted rates. Direct-deposit payouts within 1–2 business days. No exclusivity. No deboost for declining offers. These are built into the platform, not buried in a contract addendum. Interpreters see the rate before they commit. They set their own schedule. They get paid within days. The system protects the people doing the work.
Institutional reliability requires evidence.
When a Joint Commission surveyor, an OCR investigator, or a CMS reviewer asks for interpreter utilization records, the answer shouldn't be a clipboard. Every session Lingfaro dispatches produces a documented record (interpreter credentials, timestamps, dual confirmation) that an auditor can read without specialist tools or a week of manual work.
What Lingfaro is
A platform, not an agency.
Lingfaro does not employ interpreters. Institutional clients post a request, vetted interpreters accept the work, and the platform handles dispatch, session documentation, billing, and payouts. Interpreters set their own availability within published rate bands. Clients see every dispatch attempt and every session record.
Our revenue is a transparent platform fee on each completed session. We don't sell data, run behavioral advertising, gate basic features behind premium tiers, or upsell. The fee is what it is.
Where we are
Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded 2025.
Pre-revenue and focused on the Twin Cities metro and Greater Minnesota, in that order. We're not pretending to be national. We're not pretending to have a customer list we don't have.
Business Associate Agreements available for HIPAA-covered entities. Data Processing Addendums available for state and county agencies. Standard subcontract paperwork available for ORR-funded resettlement agencies. Documentation packets available to procurement and compliance teams on request.
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