jimdawdy-hub/outlook-corporate-translator

Corporate Jargon Translator is an Outlook add-in that adds a button to your email ribbon for converting plain English into corporate buzzword prose using an AI model. After installing it, you open any email in Outlook, click Translate to Corporate, pick a jargon intensity level, and get back a rewritten version you can insert into the email or copy to the clipboard. The add-in offers four intensity levels. Mild adds light corporate phrasing. Medium introduces alignment and deliverable language. Extreme pushes into paradigm shifts and synergies. Unhinged produces the kind of text that wins awards in internal communications. You supply your own API key from either OpenAI or Google Gemini, both of which offer cheap or free-tier access for this kind of short-text task. The key is saved locally in your browser's storage and is only ever sent directly to the AI provider you choose, never to any intermediate server. There is no analytics or data collection. The add-in works in Outlook on Windows, Mac, Outlook on the Web, and the newer Outlook for Windows. Setup requires Node.js version 16 or later. You clone the repository, run npm install, then npm start, which starts a local HTTPS development server and automatically sideloads the add-in into Outlook. If automatic sideloading does not work, the README includes step-by-step manual instructions for the Windows desktop version. When you use the translator, you can keep both the original text and the corporate version stacked in the email, or replace the original with the translation alone. The underlying mechanism uses Office.js, Microsoft's library for reading and writing email content from add-ins, combined with a call to the AI API using a system prompt tuned to the chosen jargon level. The project is released under the MIT license.