About
Healthcare expertise carried through delivery.
BENZAIT is an AI, data, and engineering firm founded in New Orleans to help healthcare organizations make better technology decisions and put them to work.
Who we are
Judgment that stays with the work.
We work only in healthcare. The sector's data, workflows, safety obligations, and decision structures shape every AI program and product we build. We bring strategy, governance, data, and engineering together so decisions survive implementation.
Our teams work directly with the people responsible for care, operations, and technology. They define what success would mean, make the tradeoffs visible, and remain involved as the work moves into use.
The three principles
Clear
The problem named plainly, and success defined in numbers before the work starts.
Concise
The shortest path to production. Senior team, no ceremony, no coordination tax.
Complete
It runs in production and your team owns it. Nothing left half-built.
The name
BENZAIT comes from Benzaiten, the Shinto-Buddhist goddess of everything that flows: water, music, words, knowledge, eloquence.
She is the patron of articulation, of making complex things speakable. That is the work. The open ring in our mark is left open on purpose.
Leadership
The people leading the work.

Ralph Whalen III
Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Maggie Rose
Vice President of Operations

Lauren Kaye
Vice President of Strategy

Mallorie Wilson
Vice President of Development
The firm
- SecurityPrivacy, security, and access requirements are designed into each engagement and reviewed in the client's environment.
- ClientsLarge health systems, provider organizations, and healthcare services companies.
- CloudExperience across Azure and Google Cloud, selected around the client's environment and use case.
We hire people who can think with a client and build with a team.
The work spans healthcare strategy, governance, data, AI, and software. Ownership continues through the hard decisions that appear during delivery.
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