Benji Hutchinson

CEO, Babel Street

Benji Hutchinson’s most significant recent achievement was leading the Babel Street team in unifying the traditionally siloed risk domains of identity screening, vendor monitoring and threat tracking into a single, AI-native risk intelligence platform. This platform approach reflects the reality that modern adversaries do not operate in a single domain, instead exploiting global supply chains, digital identities and the information environment at the same time.

By delivering mission-grade intelligence that exposes hidden connections across people, suppliers and threats, the platform enables national security organizations and defense contractors to move from reactive defense to predictive protection.

Babel Street supports cost reduction and operational efficiency by replacing fragmented, siloed tools with a unified risk intelligence platform that eliminates duplicated effort and accelerates time to insight. Its AI-native approach scales intelligence capabilities beyond human limits while integrating with systems agencies already use, maximizing return on prior investments rather than requiring costly rip-and-replace implementations.

By automating continuous screening across identity, vendor and threat domains and pushing actionable intelligence directly into existing workflows, the platform enables government organizations to do more with less. The result is faster, data-driven decision-making that protects national security while reducing manual correlation work, overhead costs and the risk of missed connections that can lead to costly security breaches.

Why Watch

In 2026, Hutchinson’s team is operationalizing agentic AI to detect risk and run the full intelligence workflow end to end. The company is deploying agents that reason, orchestrate and cross-correlate data across languages, regions and platforms in real time, matching the output of a full analyst team. These agents integrate directly into mission-critical systems so insights drive action inside case management, procurement, cyber and field workflows rather than sitting in dashboards. The shift moves intelligence from human-assembled analysis to machine-orchestrated tradecraft and positions customers to stay ahead of adversaries operating across a single, connected information battlespace.

“We’re at an inflection point where adversaries no longer respect the boundaries between cyber, physical and supply chain domains — they attack everywhere simultaneously,” Hutchinson said. “At Babel Street, we’ve built the AI-native platform that finally gives defenders a unified view. Our mission is simple: help those who protect us see more, know sooner, and act smarter before threats become crises.”

Fun fact: Hutchinson has two master’s degrees — one in international commerce and one in French — and is fluent in French. That background gives him a distinct perspective on how language and cultural nuance shape global intelligence and security challenges. As a husband and father, he’s committed to ensuring the next generation grows up in a world where AI serves humanity responsibly. He donates his time serving on the Commerce Department’s National AI Advisory Committee, with a focus on law enforcement applications.