Kensho Technologies
S&P Global's AI unit for transcription, extraction and data retrieval
Kensho is S&P Global's in-house AI group, providing Scribe audio transcription, NERD entity recognition, Extract for machine-readable PDFs, Link for mapping data to S&P identifiers, and an LLM-ready API over S&P Global data. Institutional investors reach it mainly through S&P products and APIs rather than as a standalone tool.
GAII take
Best evaluated within an S&P Global data relationship; the LLM-ready API matters most for firms building agents on Capital IQ data.
Best evaluated within an S&P Global data relationship; the LLM-ready API matters most for firms building agents on Capital IQ data.
- Website
- kensho.com
- Headquarters
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Founded
- 2013
- Company type
- Incumbent
- Latest round
- Acquired by S&P Global for approximately $550m, announced March 2018
- Status
- Active — Wholly owned by S&P Global since 2018 and no longer an independent vendor. Its current commercial relevance is as the AI retrieval layer over S&P Global data, i
- Also in
- Enterprise AI Platforms & Infrastructure
- Buyer
- Asset managersHedge fundsInvestment banks
- Asset class
- Multi-asset
- Workflow
- Research & diligence
- Ai capability
- Voice & transcriptionDocument extractionSearch & RAGNLP & sentiment
- Delivery
- API / data feed
GAII ID GAII-T0245 · Updated 2026-10-22 · Compiled from public sources for educational and informational purposes. Not investment advice.