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Financial intelligence that speaks your language

Ask natural-language questions with clearly-defined parameters and get targeted answers from S&P Capital IQ Financials, Earnings Call Transcripts, Company Intelligence, Private Company Financials, and more with source citations. Trusted S&P Global data, now available in any LLM or AI workflow.

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● how it works

Deterministic Retrieval for your AI workflows

The solution provides targeted, API-driven access to S&P Global data. Same question, same answer, every time. And with no AI-driven reasoning or generation, customers maintain full control over orchestration, tool selection, and execution.

An example Kensho LLM-ready API workflow illustrating a question and answer process for determining S&P Global Inc's 2025 revenue, showing user query, API call, and response with revenue details.

● Key use cases

S&P Global data, ready for the way your team works

01 Company research

Pull financials, segment revenue, and consensus estimates across public and private companies. Analyze EBITDA or evaluate performance.

02 Financial analysis

Surface themes and executive commentary from earnings transcripts and company profiles.

03 Transcript intelligence

Surface themes and executive commentary from earnings transcripts and company profiles.

04 Peer benchmarking

Compare against valuation metrics and performance indicators to inform equity research.

05 Competitive analysis

Map market positions, track M&A deal histories, and analyze sector dynamics to develop pitch books and more.

● Benefits

Precise, fast, and predictable results

Seamless integration

Works with any LLM. Native support for Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and more, or embed the API directly within your own AI application.

Direct data access

Pull company details, financial statements, historical market data, and global securities data through your LLM of choice.

Verified and auditable

Every answer is grounded in S&P Global data with consistent, transparent results and source citations you can trace.

Precise control

Query the exact data you need. Pull detailed company information or run comparative analysis across multiple companies.

Advanced LLM insights

Pair with ChatGPT, Claude, and others to interpret financial charts and graphs, generate visualizations, and surface insights.

Agent-ready

Bring trusted S&P Global data into agentic workflows through our MCP connector and the S&P Global Plugin for Claude Cowork, including AI-powered Excel and more.

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● Key capabilities

Built for builders

Source document links

Answers link back to the original filing in S&P Capital IQ Pro where available, ensuring outputs are auditable.

MCP server

Connect to any MCP-compatible application, including Claude, through our remote or local MCP servers.

Python library

An SDK for S&P Global datasets. Handles API requests, function calls, and response parsing so your team can focus on the application.

SQL tooling

A simplified endpoint structure that maps directly to SQL queries, translated into traceable function calls optimized for LLMs and agents.

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● Product insights

News and insights

News

S&P Global launches Adaptive Retrieval, giving customers a new way to access data across AI and agentic workflows

With this launch, S&P Global becomes the first to offer customers two complementary ways to retrieve data, Deterministic and Adaptive, giving AI systems reliable access to trusted S&P Global data across a full spectrum of workflows, from tightly controlled pipelines to autonomous, multi-agent systems. Both retrieval methods will be offered together as part of a single solution called the S&P Global AI Data Portal.

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S&P Global expands AI ecosystem reach with Cohere to power trusted, agentic workflows for financial institutions

New collaboration brings S&P Global's essential intelligence into Cohere's secure enterprise AI platform, North, extending the reach of S&P Global data across the applications and platforms where customers work. Customers can now access financial data directly within Cohere's secure agentic AI platform, accelerating research, analysis, and reporting workflows across financial services.

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Kensho LLM-ready API adds Key Developments and Professionals datasets

Kensho LLM-ready API expands its deterministic data retrieval coverage with S&P Capital IQ Professionals and Key Developments datasets, bringing global executive data and structured event intelligence into AI-driven workflows.

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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.

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