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Kensho MCP Apps: Visualize, explore, and interact with S&P Global data inside AI applications
Financial professionals increasingly work inside AI applications like Claude and ChatGPT, but most information they get back is locked in static text. Kensho MCP Apps change that. We've built a suite of applications embedded directly inside AI chat interfaces that turn S&P Global’s data into interactive charts, tables, visualizations, and more, all without ever leaving the conversation. Customers can explore, filter, and ask follow-up questions about the charts and tables in real time, making research faster and more intuitive. Kensho MCP Apps are now available in beta for select customers.
Inside Kensho’s LLM-ready API: How engineers enable secure natural language access to S&P Global data
Three engineers share how Kensho — S&P Global's AI innovation engine — built and scaled the Kensho LLM-ready API to deliver financial intelligence wherever customers work.
Kensho LLM-Ready API adds Private Company Financials, S&P Capital IQ Estimates datasets, and enhanced auditability for public company financials
Kensho LLM-Ready API now features access to S&P Global Private Company Financials and S&P Capital IQ Estimates data, along with in-line source document links for existing S&P Global public financials data. These enhancements unlock new possibilities for AI-driven financial analysis workflows to enable deeper insights, transparency, and confidence in data-driven decision-making.
Kensho LLM-ready API expands MCP server access, dataset support, integrations, and more
Announcing remote MCP server support for the Kensho LLM-ready API, which makes it even easier to access trusted S&P Global datasets as a Connector in Claude, or through any MCP-supported GenAI tool. We’ve also rolled out new capabilities and support for a wealth of financial datasets to enable more customer use cases and workflows, from earnings to private markets and beyond.
Announcing Figure Extraction: Unlocking generative AI insights from data visualizations in PDF documents
We’re excited to launch a game-changing new Kensho Extract feature: Figure Extraction is a patent-pending technology capable of extracting hundreds of data points from PDF visualizations with high numerical accuracy.
S&P Global launches Kensho LLM-ready API (beta), making its structured data accessible for generative AI
New solution enables customers to seamlessly integrate complex, high-priority S&P Global datasets into Generative AI models.
Unlocking precision and speed: Discover the latest enhancements to Kensho Scribe
We are excited to introduce the latest update to Kensho Scribe AI, our speech-to-text transcription tool. From meeting note documentation to earnings call transcription, our enhanced model offers cutting-edge technology to streamline your workflow and deliver precise results. This new model delivers a 30% reduction in errors compared to our previous model while significantly increasing output quality. These latest advancements can transform your transcription experience and drive greater efficiency in your operations.
Analyzing complex documents just got easier
Need help parsing your complex, messy documents? Kensho Extract has you covered.
Introducing S&P Global Marketplace generative AI search
Announcing enhanced natural language search functionality utilizing large language models (LLMs). The initial release of Marketplace Generative AI search enables users to ask an array of questions — from simple data questions, such as a dataset’s geographic coverage or history, to more complex questions where answers are pulled from dataset user guides.
Kensho now offers a connection to Business Entity Cross Reference Service from its Link solution
Kensho Link can now connect not only to S&P Global CIQ IDs, but also all BECRS-provided IDs. This new unified service combines the ML-powered entity mapping accuracy of Link with the expansive company identifier data from BECRS into a single efficient workflow.
Kensho Classify: The solution to common text classification challenges
Kensho Classify lets you find whether and where specific concepts occur in text, and is specifically tuned for business and finance.
Kensho NERD: Introducing People Linking
The most-requested new feature for Kensho NERD has arrived: recognizing and disambiguating people in financial documents.
Kensho launches Word Error Rate Calculator
WER Calculator is for Automated Speech Recognition Developers to Determine Accuracy of Transcription Outputs
Kensho industry use case: Natural language processing for document management systems
In today’s information-driven world, organizations face the daunting challenge of efficiently managing and extracting value from vast amounts of textual data. This is where Natural Language Processing (NLP) comes to the rescue. NLP, a branch of artificial intelligence, empowers document management systems to understand, interpret, and extract meaningful insights from unstructured text. By combining the power of linguistics, machine learning, and data processing techniques, NLP revolutionizes how organizations handle documents, enabling them to unlock the untapped potential of their textual data.
Kensho industry use case: Entity & thematic tagging for document filtering and search
Expert networks are professional services firms that are increasingly diversifying their business model to include online platforms to complement their core expert call business, usually one-on-one research consultations. Through an expert network service, a CEO can find and interview a professional with relevant expertise to interview on a topic. The audio of the conversation is recorded, transcribed into text, then provided to the client. From there, expert networks compile all transcribed interviews into an online web-based library, which is accessible with a paid subscription.
Combining speech-to-text AI and human effort to create bespoke transcriptions
With Kensho’s Scribe’s Human-In-The-Loop (HITL) service, you receive an AI-assisted human-edited transcript where every word is transcribed the way you intend it to be and every page looks the way you intend it to look.
Kensho industry use case: Lease abstraction
Managing a portfolio of commercial real estate is no easy task, though, particularly considering the length and complexity of leases involved. That’s why REITs have a shared services division tasked with a process called lease abstraction, in which the most pertinent information within a complex commercial lease agreement is extracted and uploaded to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
Kensho industry use case: Extraction of SASB data from CSR reports
The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) sets rules called SASB standards, which identify environmental, social and governance issues most relevant to financial performance in various industries. The process of finding and extracting SASB data from CSR reports is manual and time consuming. Kensho’s AI Toolkit can provide automation and time savings.
Kensho Extract is now available on S&P Global Marketplace
We’re thrilled to announce that Kensho Extract is now available on the S&P Global Marketplace. S&P Global Marketplace is a site that enables users to easily find datasets and machine-enabled solutions from across S&P Global. The inclusion of Extract underscores the growing importance of Kensho’s technology in the financial services industry.
Monetizing audio is the new competitive advantage
Audio, and the emerging trend of audio as a data set, is a valuable but underutilized resource. Until recently, the transcription of audio was expensive and often slow due to manual processes. In short, it was only as fast as qualified humans could properly transcribe it. That’s changing thanks to major breakthroughs in AI transcription.
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