Kensho

What it does

Kensho (owned by S&P Global) is an AI technology company building financial intelligence tools that power S&P Global's data products and are available to external financial institutions. Kensho's AI products include NERD (Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation) that identifies and links companies, securities, and financial entities in text to S&P Global's knowledge graph, SCRIBE - a financial speech-to-text model optimized for earnings calls, analyst conferences, and financial media, Extract that processes financial documents and extracts structured data, and Classify that categorizes financial documents and news by topic. These AI capabilities underpin financial data workflows for investment banks, asset managers, and financial intelligence teams.

Strengths

• Investment banks, asset managers, and financial data teams use Kensho's AI capabilities for financial document intelligence - NERD linking entities in news and reports to structured financial data and SCRIBE transcribing earnings calls for analysis.
• Kensho (owned by S&P Global) is an AI technology company building financial intelligence tools that power S&P Global's data products and are available to external financial institutions.
• Kensho's AI products include NERD (Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation) that identifies and links companies, securities, and financial entities in text to S&P Global's knowledge graph, SCRIBE - a financial speech-to-text model optimized for earnings calls, analyst conferences, and financial media, Extract that processes financial documents and extracts structured data, and Classify that categorizes financial documents and news by topic.

Watch-outs

• S&P Global ecosystem orientation: Kensho's tools are most powerful when integrated with S&P Global's Capital IQ data and knowledge graph — financial institutions not using S&P Global's data ecosystem get less benefit from Kensho's entity linking capabilities.
• Financial NLP specialty only: Kensho's AI is specialized for financial content — general enterprise NLP, customer service AI, and non-financial document processing use cases find other AI platforms more appropriate.
• Enterprise financial services focus — not accessible to SMBs: Kensho's financial AI capabilities are priced for institutional financial services clients — smaller financial firms and non-financial companies cannot justify the cost.

Pricing

Kensho API and enterprise products priced by usage and deployment scope. Not published. Financial institution contracts negotiated. Annual contracts.