Babel Street is the trusted technology partner for addressing identity and threat intelligence challenges. The company is dedicated to delivering artificial intelligence- (AI-) powered solutions for advanced data and analytics to close the Risk-Confidence Gap – that space of uncertainty between the amount of data that needs to be examined and the resources available to analyze it.

Babel Street’s solutions are force multipliers that provide automation and multilingual tools used by intelligence analysts to transform diverse data sources into actionable insights, helping users identify risks and connect crucial information about people and organizations.

The API-based solutions support critical use cases across sectors, including real-time, independent, and open-source analysis of ongoing military operations and insurgent activities. Other use cases include operations intelligence, situational awareness, insider threats, anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-trafficking identity verification processes, border security, law enforcement investigations, supply chain integrity, and high-profile personnel and event protection.

Driven by the need to protect what matters most, Babel Street was founded in August 2009. Guided by an experienced board from various branches of the U.S. armed forces, clandestine services, and military academies and Babel Street CEO Michael Southworth, the company aims to reduce risk, improve decision-making, and contribute to a safer world via cutting-edge technology solutions that make the digital world accessible, understandable, and actionable.

While intelligence has traditionally been based on classified data, today unclassified data is increasingly being used to provide context and queuing for other types of intelligence. In its early days, the Internet and social media were mostly in English by default. This has changed.

Another crucial way in which technology has advanced is in Natural Language Processing (NLP), which has evolved to recognize the richness and variety of words and names in multiple languages and scripts, as well as their use across cultures.

Babel Street’s unwavering commitment to innovation and excellence sets it apart. The company doesn’t just provide access to content – it delivers analysis-ready data derived from ultra-rare sources and applies NLP to deliver insights derived from as many as 200 languages and scripts. Babel Street’s intuitive platform requires zero training, ensuring that users can start gleaning new insights and making informed decisions on day one.

As part of its push to provide real-time intelligence, military analysis, and strategic assessments of conflicts around the world, Babel Street launched Insights Elite Regional Access to provide crucial insights for global decision advantage in mission-critical and continuously evolving situations and use cases.

Elite Regional Access subscriptions are additions that enhance Babel Street Insights with meticulously curated regional data sets designed to provide users with unprecedented detail on critical regions worldwide, delivering ultra-rare and hard-to-access data from open sources for strategic insights into regional military capabilities, emerging threats, and the defense technology landscape.

In addition to achieving situational awareness, military supply chain and risk managers who need to optimize global operations can use such intelligence to protect against regional supply chain disruptions, and reduce uncertainty by using rare data for proactive planning.

With access to billions of global data points, enriched with multilingual analysis, AI-powered search, and comprehensive identity resolution, Babel Street users uncover hidden patterns and the information needed to make informed decisions. The in-country and localized data collections yield targeted perspectives and nuanced understanding. The ability to map social media networks reveals influencers, trending topics, and individual insights. Metadata enrichment for location, language, sentiment, violent intent, and topics adds depth to search results.

In addition to multiple military entities, organizations like the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) use Babel Street Insights and Insights APIs to support strategic open-source research and analysis on the most critical conflict areas around the world. Insights’  ability to leverage publicly available data (PAI) from foreign sources at scale provides essential global situational awareness for ISW.

ISW research supports multiple analytics teams across its organization with several focuses, providing daily updates on the war in Ukraine as well as the Israel-Hamas war; analyzing popular sentiment in Iran and regime succession; monitoring Chinese tensions with Taiwan and public persuasion campaigns; monitoring media in the Middle East and Syria; and more.

Babel Street solutions, including Insights Elite Regional Access, provide a continuous flow of hard-to-reach information, enabling users to derive insights into world activities, including in pivotal regions such as East Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East.

Babel Street is headquartered in the U.S., with an established presence in Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the U.K. For more information, visit babelstreet.com.