What is Kensho?
Kensho is S&P Global’s AI engine that connects large language models, agents, and AI applications to trusted enterprise data. Think of it as a bridge between cutting-edge AI and the real-world financial and business information you actually need. It provides ready-to-use machine learning building blocks, NLP tools, and a powerful LLM-ready API that make building trustworthy AI workflows faster and easier. Whether you're in finance, research, or operations, Kensho helps you retrieve, structure, and enrich data so your AI systems give accurate, reliable answers.
What are the features of Kensho?
- Kensho LLM-ready API: A flexible, developer-friendly API that connects any LLM or AI agent directly to S&P Global's trusted data sources, so your AI gets accurate, vetted information instead of guessing.
- Kensho Extract: A core AI capability that automatically structures and extracts key information from complex documents, turning messy financial reports, filings, and research into clean, usable data.
- Trusted Data Retrieval: Multiple retrieval methods designed for how AI actually works, giving you flexible access to S&P Global's essential intelligence without breaking your workflow.
- ML & NLP Building Blocks: Pre-built, finance-tuned machine learning and natural language processing components that make your AI applications fast, accurate, and reliable out of the box.
- Agentic Workflow Support: Purpose-built infrastructure for powering agentic AI systems that can make decisions and take actions based on trusted, real-time data.
What are the use cases of Kensho?
- Financial Analysis: Automatically pull relevant data from thousands of earnings reports, filings, and news articles to generate instant summaries or answer specific questions for analysts.
- Compliance & Risk Management: Use AI agents to monitor regulatory filings and market data, flagging potential risks or compliance issues before they become problems.
- Research Acceleration: Let researchers query massive datasets using natural language, getting structured answers instead of spending hours digging through spreadsheets and documents.
- Custom AI Workflows: Build proprietary AI applications on top of Kensho's API that can retrieve, structure, and reason over S&P Global's data to solve unique business problems.
How to use Kensho?
- Get API Access: Sign up for the Kensho LLM-ready API through S&P Global's developer portal to get your authentication keys and documentation.
- Connect Your AI: Integrate the API into your existing LLM, chatbot, or agent system using standard REST calls or SDKs.
- Define Your Data Needs: Specify which S&P Global datasets or retrieval methods your AI workflow needs to access.
- Use Kensho Extract for Documents: If you have messy PDFs or reports, route them through Kensho Extract to get structured, ready-to-use data.
- Test and Iterate: Run your AI workflows against Kensho's test environment to validate accuracy before going live with production data.
