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Latest update: 18 November, 2025
Documentation here: https://docs.blackbird.io
Blackbird is a 3rd Wave Language Technology Platform (LTP) purpose-built for multilingual workflow orchestration and AI-driven process automation.
The 1st Wave of Language Technology Platforms was centered around CAT tools, with translation memory, fuzzy matching, and term bases as the core technologies. These platforms were visually defined by their “left-pane/right-pane” user interfaces.
The 2nd Wave introduced business management features, cloud deployment, machine translation plugins, and connectors. However, these platforms remained fundamentally linear and still revolved around the CAT tool and its legacy UI — their underlying architecture remained largely unchanged.
Blackbird, as a 3rd Wave LTP, is architected from the ground up for orchestration, microservices, content data lakes, enterprise security, APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and large language models (LLMs). Its core interface is a visual workflow editor with drag-and-drop capabilities for defining process and business logic.
Blackbird supports adaptive, dynamic, and nonlinear workflows — purpose-built to handle today’s content velocity and complexity.
On a technical level, Blackbird offers a modern integration platform as a service (iPaaS) architecture with a data and memory layer (Blacklake). It enables businesses to integrate a wide range of cloud-based and on-premise applications to facilitate hybrid data flows, synchronize data, streamline operations, and enhance visibility.
Ultimately, Blackbird helps businesses adopt an agnostic, headless framework for connectivity, process automation, and workflow orchestration.
See our Apps Page for more details and documentation.
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Coming Soon: Optimizely (Episerver).
Planned next: Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage, Bitbucket, Kentico, Kontent.ai, LinkedIN, Smartsheet, SEMRush, RWS Tridion, Snowflake, Oracle Eloqua, Datadog, Veeva, Gridly, Intercom, Iterable.
Blackbird offers a Software Development Kit (SDK) for building any app - see our developer tools here. We also offer professional services — the Blackbird Solutions Team can build sponsored apps on-demand.
Blackbird Apps aren’t just API wrappers — they expand capabilities, improve workflows, and deliver better user experiences. Learn more about our Secret Sauce here.
Blackbird is a secure, enterprise-grade cloud application running on Azure multi-tenant or single-tenant (private cloud) environments. Each Blackbird tenant runs under a separate account. Permissions limit access to customers’ own data. We enforce a strong password policy. We offer SSO and multi-factor authentication. Most important, we are SOC 2 Type 2, SOC3, ISO27001 and GDRP compliant. You can read more about our security and compliance posture here.
We do! We have an amazing team of Solution Architects and Software Engineers who can help our customers in designing, building, implementing complex solutions. We also offer custom training and premium support.
We are headquartered in the USA, but have been functioning as a fully global, remote team from the beginning. We have key people who can work with customers and partners in the USA, in Canada, Argentina, Ukraine, in the Netherlands and in Hungary. We cover 10 time zones and plan to add more soon. See our job openings!
