ModelFront Announces OpenLoc, the Open TMS Built for AI

Free, open, AI-native enterprise translation management (TMS) software

SAN FRANCISCO — Today at Tech Week in San Francisco, ModelFront announced the launch of OpenLoc , the open TMS built for AI.

“In the AI era, open is winning more than ever. Free, open, AI-native enterprise translation management is key for localization teams to not just survive but thrive,” said Adam Bittlingmayer, CEO and co-founder of ModelFront.

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The TMS creates value in the AI era: reusing human-reviewed content, managing terminology and style, handling and validating formatting, systematic evaluation, vendors and billing, and dashboards.

But traditional TMS software was built before AI. Pricing is per seat and per “processed” word, designed for human translation. AI is sold on top: an add-on, a tier, a quota, and often teams cannot bring their own model. Managing their own prompts is the exception, not the rule, and giving an LLM proper context is hard. Integrations with AI, content and analytics often cost extra.

This friction causes “shadow localization,” whereby the teams across the enterprise with content to translate skip enterprise translation altogether.

The full OpenLoc source code is available under the Business Source License 1.1 by default, which converts to an open-source license. Other licenses can also be requested. The source code will be released publicly on GitHub on October 19, 2026.

Open-source has been the tried and true path to progress in software for decades.

Openness goes beyond reading or running source code, or reducing cost. Open allows teams to get more features sooner.

Enterprise localization teams can host OpenLoc themselves, or get enterprise hosting and support provided by ModelFront at cost, or by third parties.

Migration between systems is getting easier thanks to MCP and free integrations. Traditional TMSes increasingly support MCP, so an agent can read not just translation memories but workflows and settings, and rebuild them in OpenLoc. And with OpenLoc, anything can be done via MCP, so teams can migrate away at any time, workflows and settings included.

ModelFront today also announced the OpenLoc Early Access Program: everything a team needs to switch, for free. Selected companies get enterprise hosting and support, AI credits, integrations and features built for them, and help with their migration.

The ModelFront team will be at Vancouver Localization Week to demo OpenLoc and answer questions (LocWorld booth 46) on October 19–21.