Benjamin is a co-founder of Agaric, a web strategy and development firm devoted to making awesome web projects that connect people in power-increasing ways. He is also a founder of a non-profit organization for building democratic technology and infrastructure (People Who Give a Damn, Inc. / Visions Unite) and a founding elected director of the Amazing Things Arts Center in Framingham, Massachusetts.

More recently, the 1,111 page Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 has been widely blamed on him, but fortunately it has redeeming features from the 33 other major contributors.