Kensho

Name

Kensho

Legal name

Kensho Technologies, LLC

Website

https://kensho.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Enterprise Financial Data & AI APIs

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

Search, Retrieval & Semantic Ranking (BM25/vector, hybrid) (HDAAADAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Annotation Tooling & Workflow Management (HDAAALAC), NLP Developer Tools & Evaluation (prompting, testing, benchmarks) (HDAAADAK), OCR, ICR & Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) (BPAAAKAB), Image Classification & Tagging (HDAAAEAA)

Keywords

• Enterprise data retrieval
• Financial data APIs
• AI transcription services
• Document extraction AI
• Entity recognition NLP

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. API subscriptions (LLM-ready API, Extract, Scribe, NERD, Adaptive Retrieval, Link): Recurring access to Kensho's REST APIs/MCP servers (production keypair auth path, batch and real-time endpoints), positioned as paid tiers beyond the free trial.
2. Enterprise licensing to financial institutions: Enterprise commercial agreements sold via dedicated sales ([email protected]) for regulated banks, asset managers, private equity and other financial services firms (e.g., Tegus case study reducing admin workload 70%).
3. S&P Global Marketplace listing: Distribution of Kensho solutions (Link, Scribe, Extract, etc.) through the S&P Global Marketplace storefront, enabling curated third-party discovery and dataset/solution bundling.
4. AI-platform embedded skills/plugins: Embedded financial-skills plugins inside partner agentic platforms (Anthropic Claude Cowork, Cohere North, ChatGPT), monetized through S&P Global/Kensho enterprise agreements tied to platform usage.
5. Human-in-the-loop transcription services (Kensho Scribe MRHR): Professional services layer wrapping Kensho Scribe with human reviewers trained in business/finance language, sold to expert-network firms and S&P Global for earnings calls.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Kensho builds AI-powered data retrieval, document understanding, speech-to-text, and entity recognition products that connect S&P Global's trusted financial datasets to large language models, agents, and enterprise AI workflows. Offerings include the Kensho LLM-ready API (with MCP server support and a Grounding multi-agent framework), Kensho Scribe ASR, Kensho Extract document parsing, Kensho NERD entity recognition, Kensho Link entity resolution, and Kensho Classify text classification. Products are sold as APIs, enterprise licenses, and embedded plugins across partner AI platforms.

Product overview

Kensho is S&P Global's AI innovation engine, operating as a platform-plus-modules architecture. Its core products span enterprise data retrieval and AI capabilities, organized around three pillars: (1) data retrieval — led by the flagship Kensho LLM-ready API (including the Grounding multi-agent framework on LangGraph, Adaptive Retrieval, and MCP integrations), (2) core AI capabilities — Kensho NERD, Kensho Link, Kensho Classify, Kensho Extract (with OCR and Figure Extraction), and Kensho Scribe (ASR/transcription), and (3) open-source tooling like Kenverters, plus research outputs such as PubTables-v2 and S&P AI Benchmarks. Together these connect S&P Global's trusted financial datasets (S&P Capital IQ Financials, Earnings Call Transcripts, Private Company Financials, etc.) to LLMs and AI agents across enterprise and partner ecosystems.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kensho LLM-ready API: API offering enabling customers to query S&P Global's financial datasets using natural language via large language models.
• Kensho Extract
• Kensho Scribe
• Kensho NERD
• Kensho Link
• Kensho Classify
• Adaptive Retrieval

Products and services

• Kensho LLM-ready API An API that connects LLMs, agents, and AI applications to S&P Global's trusted financial datasets via natural-language queries, with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, Python client library, OAuth-based custom setups, and remote MCP server support for tools like Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Amazon Quick Suite, Databricks, and Mistral.
• Kensho Scribe Machine learning-based Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) service that transcribes business and financial audio (e.g., earnings calls, expert calls) with industry-tuned models, optional Human-in-the-Loop review for Machine-Readable Human-Reviewed (MRHR) transcripts, custom dictionaries, and batch/real-time APIs.
• Kensho Extract Document parsing service that transforms PDF documents into structured JSON, featuring first-class text ordering, state-of-the-art table structure recognition, OCR for scanned documents, and patent-pending Figure Extraction for pulling raw data from charts.
• Kensho NERD Natural entity recognition and disambiguation product that identifies key elements in text and links them to connected data sources such as S&P Capital IQ or Wikimedia, recognizing nearly 100 million total entities. Includes a NERD UI for visual research.
• Kensho Link Machine learning service that maps company entities in customer databases to unique ID numbers from S&P Global's Capital IQ database of over 31 million entities, even when data inputs are ambiguous or contain errors; integrates with BECRS for cross-reference identifiers.
• Kensho Classify Text classification solution tuned for the language of business and finance that identifies where specific concepts occur in text via concept-set, zero-shot, and custom-concept modes, returning paragraph-level annotations with confidence scores.
• Kensho Grounding Unified multi-agent AI framework built on LangGraph that routes natural-language queries to specialized data retrieval agents, unifying and streamlining access to fragmented S&P Global financial datasets with verified, citation-backed answers.
• Kensho Adaptive Retrieval Adaptive retrieval system featuring Data Agents that route queries to appropriate S&P Global datasets, with MCP guide and third-party integrations, sample prompts, and supported datasets for AI-driven workflows.
• Kensho MCP Apps Suite of applications embedded inside AI chat interfaces (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) that turn S&P Global data into interactive charts, tables, and visualizations, allowing users to explore, filter, and ask follow-up questions in real time without leaving the conversation.
• Kenverters Open-source Python developer toolkit that provides conversion tools for Kensho Extract output, supporting conversion to Items, full text extraction, markdown conversion, table extraction, organized sections, and visually formatted text.
• S&P Global Plugin for Anthropic Claude Cowork Plugin that provides financial skills for AI agents on Anthropic's Claude Cowork platform, including generation of company tearsheets, industry transaction summaries, and earnings previews, with model-agnostic customizable skills.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced Tegus's administrative workload by 70% via Kensho AI for transcription/compliance
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability6 records

Feature11 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• Cohere (North platform)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 June 2026S&P Global strategic collaboration with Cohere integrating S&P Global's financial data into Cohere's secure enterprise AI platform North to provide verifiable, citation-backed AI workflows for regulated financial institutions. Targets the trust deficit in financial AI adoption via sovereign AI deployment inside institutional firewalls, addressing data residency and compliance. Customers can access financial data directly within Cohere's secure agentic AI platform.
• OpenAI (ChatGPT)flagshipTechnology or Integration · 5 March 2026S&P Global delivers trusted financial data and insights to customers through ChatGPT, enabling them to access S&P Global datasets including Capital IQ Financials and Earnings Call Transcripts via natural language. Builds on the existing MCP connector integration with Anthropic and pairs with Kensho's LLM-ready API.
• InceptionflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 October 2025Inception and Kensho announced a strategic collaboration at GITEX Global 2025 to develop AI solutions for financial institutions. The partnership aims to enable clients to extract insights, optimize decision-making, and improve operational efficiencies globally, leveraging Kensho's AI expertise and Inception's regional knowledge.
• Anthropic (Claude)flagshipTechnology or Integration · 15 July 2025S&P Global and Anthropic announced collaboration to bring trusted financial data into Claude. Kensho developed a cutting-edge Model Context Protocol (MCP) server enabling seamless access to S&P Global's trusted financial and market data (Capital IQ Financials, earnings call transcripts) through Claude, including a financial-skills plugin for Anthropic's Claude Cowork platform that generates company tearsheets, industry transaction summaries, and earnings previews, with future capabilities planned for valuation modeling and M&A transaction analysis.
• Google CloudcoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Cloud is featured as one of Kensho's AI ecosystem partners via logo placement on kensho.com; consistent with the company's broader LLM-ready API and Adaptive Retrieval integrations.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationAWS is featured as a partner on kensho.com, and Kensho's distributed-training infrastructure runs on AWS (EC2 GPU nodes, S3, EFS, Elastic Fabric Adapter). Amazon Quick Suite is also listed as a third-party MCP integration for the LLM-ready API.
• SnowflakecoreTechnology or IntegrationSnowflake is featured as one of Kensho's AI ecosystem partners via logo placement on kensho.com, aligning with Snowflake-based data delivery for Kensho's financial data products.
• LangChaincoreTechnology or IntegrationLangChain is featured as a partner on kensho.com; Kensho's Grounding multi-agent framework is built on LangGraph (LangChain's graph-based orchestration library), enabling routing of natural-language queries to specialized data retrieval agents.
• Microsoft (Copilot Studio)coreTechnology or IntegrationMicrosoft Copilot Studio is listed as a supported third-party integration for Kensho's LLM-ready API via MCP, enabling Copilot-based agentic access to S&P Global datasets.
• DatabrickscoreTechnology or IntegrationDatabricks is listed as a supported third-party integration for Kensho's LLM-ready API via MCP, complementing Kensho's prior collaboration with the Databricks Data + AI Summit (DAIS 2023) and S&P Global Marketplace presence.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• LSEG (Refinitiv): LSEG / Refinitiv is a direct peer combining proprietary financial datasets (Workspace, DataScope) with AI and NLP features for capital markets participants, competing for the same AI-for-financial-data workflows.
• Bloomberg (BloombergGPT): Bloomberg is the closest direct peer: it pairs proprietary financial datasets (terminal data, earnings transcripts, news) with proprietary AI (BloombergGPT) sold into the same financial-services buyer base. Both target the same agentic-AI-for-finance workflow that Kensho powers.
• FactSet: FactSet is a direct peer in financial data, content, and analytics with growing AI capabilities (FactSet Mercury, AI-powered workflows), serving the same buy-side and sell-side institutional customers that Kensho targets.
• AlphaSense: AlphaSense is a direct peer in AI-powered market intelligence and document search for financial-services enterprises, overlapping with Kensho's research and document-extraction use cases.

Emerging players

• Hebbia: Hebbia is an emerging AI platform for analyzing financial documents and structured data, directly overlapping Kensho's Extract / Figure Extraction and LLM-ready API workflows in the agentic-finance space.
• RavenPack: RavenPack is an emerging AI-driven alternative-data and NLP analytics provider for financial markets, comparable in its focus on applying NLP to financial text, news and transcripts.
• Cohere: Cohere is both a partner (North platform integration) and a partial competitor in enterprise LLMs, with sovereign-deployment capabilities targeted at the same regulated financial-institution buyers.

Broad incumbents

• Moody's (AI / Knowledgator): Moody's is a broad incumbent in financial data and credit analytics that is investing in generative-AI workflows over its own proprietary datasets, mirroring the S&P Global + Kensho model and competing for similar enterprise financial-services buyers.
• Databricks (Mosaic AI): Databricks is a broad incumbent AI/data platform that distributes Kensho's MCP integration and also competes for the same enterprise data-and-AI workloads through Mosaic AI and its own data agents.
• Palantir (Foundry / AIP): Palantir's Foundry and AIP platforms deliver agentic AI over enterprise financial and operational data, with deep financial-services penetration that overlaps with Kensho's enterprise buyer base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kensho
• GitHubgithub.com/kensho-technologies
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kensho-technologies

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds7 records

Investors19 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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