# Data Overview > Babel Street Data Dominance provides global access to open-source data, giving decision-makers clarity, confidence, and advantage in complex situations. --- *Babel Street Data Advantage™* # See the Risks. Know What’s Close. Babel Street transforms hard-to-reach global content into connected risk intelligence, helping organizations uncover hidden relationships and understand how threats connect to the people, businesses, locations, assets, operations, and missions they need to protect. --- ## Context is critical for evaluating proximity to risk An individual, business, location, or asset may not appear risky on its own. Its owners, suppliers, affiliates, digital infrastructure, operating locations, historical activity, or other network relationships may tell a different story. Babel Street Data Advantage™ provides the contextual foundation for qualifying content, resolving entities, connecting threats, identifying risk proximity, and preserving provenance across Babel Street’s [Agentic Risk Intelligence Platform](https://www.babelstreet.com/platform). ## From global content to connected intelligence - **Differentiated Global Content**: Access relevant information from global, multilingual, regional, unlisted, deep-web, dark-web, procurement, business, identity, location, and adversarial information environments. - **Qualified Content**: Understand where information came from and how reliable it is with source qualification, credibility, reporting accuracy, historical context, provenance, and permissible use. - **Identity and Entity Intelligence**: Move beyond isolated records by resolving fragmented records into clearer views of the people, businesses, locations, vessels, events, digital identities, and other entities that matter. - **Relationship and Proximity Intelligence**: Babel Street connects entities, historical context, locations, and threat indicators to reveal relationships that can expose risk even when an entity has no direct risk finding. ## Gain insight into the whole risk picture Traditional screening often asks whether a person or business has a direct risk finding. That’s only part of the picture. Babel Street Data Advantage helps organizations see the broader risk landscape. ### Global and Event Risk Connect multilingual reporting, emerging events, local sources, and geographic context to the people, facilities, suppliers, and operations potentially affected by changing conditions. ### Identity Risk Resolve fragmented identity information, aliases, watchlist context, adverse information, digital activity, and relationships to uncover direct and indirect exposure. ### Business and Supply-Chain Risk Connect corporate records, ownership, procurement, trade, maritime, location, and adversarial-network intelligence to identify hidden affiliations and risk beyond the company being screened. ### Matching and Screening Apply globally enriched identity and entity context to support more informed matching, screening, monitoring, and risk review. ### Investigations and Analysis Carry source context, entities, relationships, and historical information from an initial signal through deeper investigation, analysis, and reporting. ### Global and Regional Collection Reach important and adversarial information environments through specialized collection infrastructure, regional access, multilingual capabilities, and risk-focused collection expertise. ### APIs, AI, and Agentic Workflows Provide qualified, provenance-aware, and context-rich intelligence that applications, APIs, models, agents, and analysts can use more effectively. *Why Babel Street Data Advantage Is Different* ## Focused on risk, not just volume - **Global by Design**: Wide range of global, regional, and multilingual sources to bring broader geographic and linguistic context to investigations and assessments. - **Difficult-to-Reach Environments**: Specialized collection technology, infrastructure, and tradecraft for accessing hard-to-reach and adversarial sources. - **Expanded Intelligence**: A coherent view of risk by connecting records and profiles with documents, online activity, business information, locations, and relationships. - **Evidence and Provenance**: Source context, evidence, historical information, confidence, provenance, and lineage to support more transparent analysis and defensible findings. - **Strengthens Human Judgment**: See relevant signals, relationships, and context more clearly while enabling humans to apply tradecraft and determine appropriate actions. ## Intelligence for complex risk decisions - **Government and National Security**: Understand adversarial networks, economic and logistical support structures, threat activity, and connections to people, infrastructure, and missions. - **Enterprise Security and Resilience**: Assess threats to employees, facilities, events, travel, operations, executives, and critical business assets. - **Supply Chain and Vendor Risk**: Identify hidden ownership, adversarial affiliations, sanctions exposure, contested logistics, procurement relationships, and other indirect risk. - **Corporate Intelligence and Investigations**: Resolve entities, uncover relationships, preserve evidence, and develop clearer context around people, businesses, locations, and activity. - **Identity, Screening, and Compliance Teams**: Use globally enriched identity and entity information to support matching, watchlist review, adverse-information research, and risk assessment. - **Data, Technology, and AI Leaders**: Integrate qualified, connected intelligence into applications, APIs, analytics, and governed AI-enabled workflows. ## Learn more about Babel Street Data Advantage - **Babel Street Data Advantage™ Overview**: Reveal hidden risk through connected intelligence, entity resolution, and global data context. - **Better Insight Starts with Optimized Data from Babel Street**: How qualified, connected data improves risk intelligence, entity resolution, AI analysis, and decision-making while reducing critical blind spots. - **Speed Isn’t Enough: How to Generate Defensible Investigative Insight**: How agentic AI, investigative tradecraft, and explainable intelligence help organizations move beyond data collection to defensible investigative insight. - **Babel Street Data Advantage™: Not more data. Better-connected intelligence.**: How enriched global data uncovers insights, connections, and decision advantages. ## Get closer to the intelligence that matters Learn how the Babel Street Data Advantage can strengthen your organization’s monitoring, screening, investigation, analysis, and risk-intelligence workflows. [Speak with an expert](https://www.babelstreet.com/contact) ---