1998
Andrea Ferrari and Steve Dept seek advice from survey methodologists and psychometricians to develop a linguistic quality control framework for PISA.
History
2000
cApStAn comes into being.
2002
Over 60 international verifiers have a framework contract with cApStAn.
2005
A set of verifier intervention categories is created.
2007
Acquisition of BranTra, an existing technical translation agency.
2010
cApStAn becomes a member of the PIAAC Consortium.
2011
Design of a Translatability Assessment.
2012
cApStAn has become the port of call for a host of major comparative surveys, international attitudinal surveys, psychological screening tests, multilingual polls and social surveys. The network of contributing experts reaches the 200 mark.
2014
Creation of a US branch in Philadelphia: cApStAn Linguistic Quality Control, Inc.
2017
Acquisition of KLS International, a translation agency.
2019
Core team of 22 linguists and translation technologists, over 400 freelance experts under contract. Consolidation of all cApStAn companies through silent mergers.
2020
cApStAn turns 20 and weathers the Covid-19 storm without any damage.