Product · Portal
Editorial workflow
for newsrooms that publish in five languages.
The Portal is the platform layer of Rallity. We built it to replace the Kodak prepress stack one of our newsroom customers was paying $90K a year to maintain. Their new total cost over three years: $13K.
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The Portal — email-in submissions, translation queue, locked proofs.
Email-in submissions. Locked proofs. Translation queues. Press handoff.
The Portal is what we wished existed when we tried to coordinate a Vancouver newsroom that produces editions in three languages on a 5-day cycle. We couldn’t find it, so we built it.
Step 01
Email-in submissions
Reporters email articles and assets to a project address. The Portal threads, tags, and structures them. No lost attachments.
Step 02
Translation queue
Originals and translations live side-by-side per article. Glossary enforcement keeps terminology consistent across writers.
Step 03
Editorial review
Editors annotate, comment, and approve at the article level. Audit trail per page.
Step 04
Layout & proof
Layout files lock at proof time. Two proof rounds default. Reverse approval is one click and visible.
Step 05
Press handoff
Approved files flow to our floor or a third-party plant via standard PDF/X. No manual file transfers.
Step 06
Distribution
Subscriber files, mailing lists, and addressed copies link directly to fulfillment.
Why it costs one-tenth what it replaces.
Legacy prepress platforms were built for the cost structure of the 1990s. They charge enterprise rates for software that takes one modern engineer to build using current tools.
We built the Portal in 80–125 hours of focused work using current tools. That’s why we can charge a fraction of what Kodak charges and still run a healthy software business.