Hence Technologies announced the launch of Hence Global, a groundbreaking AI-powered platform designed to empower businesses of all sizes to proactively manage and mitigate the growing complexities of global risks.
This innovative platform arrives at a critical juncture for businesses. Every day the unruly collision of politics, technology, and law is manifesting in shifting political landscapes, unprecedented trade fractures, market uncertainties and volatility.
“In today’s climate of market fluctuations and escalating international tensions, understanding and effectively managing the risks of changing political, legal and technological systems is no longer a luxury, but a necessity for business resilience,” says Sean West, co-founder of Hence Technologies and author of UNRULY: Fighting Back When Politics, AI and Law Upend the Rules of Business.
Hence Global represents a paradigm shift in how businesses of all sizes manage risk and opportunity in the global economy. This first-of-its-kind, hyper-customizable platform is built upon a foundation of continuous improvement and sophisticated data analysis. It leverages AI to deeply understand each user’s unique business profile, including their operational footprint, customer base and business vulnerabilities. By analyzing vast amounts of public information and integrating it with deep knowledge of the user and AI-driven learning, the platform delivers tailored insights and alerts on global risks that directly impact specific elements of an organization. For example, Hence Global provides distinct analysis and recommendations regarding trade tariffs for an energy company’s General Counsel versus its Head of Government Affairs, or a supermarket chain’s supply chain manager versus its CFO. It can further be used to track risks for a users’ array of clients to understand the particular risks and opportunities that global events pose for each.
As Julio Maniratunga, Head of Engineering, explains, “Our data pipeline analyzes millions of global news items daily. Custom entity recognition models extract key actors, events and regulatory shifts, mapped to each user’s unique business context. The system continuously sharpens relevance through user feedback, filtering signal from noise. Meanwhile, our engineering team ships fast and iterates constantly—so the platform evolves as fast as the world does.”
Traditional approaches to understanding global affairs rely on costly and time-consuming human-generated reports, which can also be limited in scope and scalability. Conversely, many AI-powered reports focus on event summaries that are not necessarily applicable to a user’s unique business challenges. Hence Global overcomes both of these limitations by providing comprehensive, customized AI-driven risk assessment and opportunity identification that is efficient, accessible and actionable.
A key principle driving Hence Global is the desire to make sophisticated global analysis accessible to a wider range of businesses. Steve Heitkamp, co-founder of Hence Technologies, elaborates on this: “For too long, smaller companies have been priced out of this critical intelligence, leaving them vulnerable to global events. Hence Global levels the playing field, meaning companies everywhere can be equipped to operate anywhere.”
Beyond analysis, Hence Global delivers actionable outputs for seamless stakeholder communication, such as board memos. Law and consulting firms are already leveraging the system to generate client alerts tailored to their expertise, while thought leaders rely on it to draft perspective-driven social media content on global events. Demonstrating its power, Hence Technologies has published its own daily briefing of personalized insights from Hence Global in a LinkedIn newsletter which gained 1,000 subscribers in its first week.
Hence Technologies is proud to launch with a strong cohort of founding customers, including industry leaders such as Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman LLP, Three Crowns LLP, the International Council on Mining and Metals, Travelperk, Concordia Summit, Mesmerise Group, DiversiFi Capital, EnquireAI and Capitol Peak Strategies.
“Hence’s personalized daily briefing has become a critical part of my daily process, saving me valuable time,” says Rohitesh Dhawan, CEO of the International Council on Mining and Metals. “It’s amazing how precise the platform is at understanding and filtering down to exactly what matters to me.”
