Kensho

Kensho is the AI and Innovation Hub for S&P Global, dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies that transform businesses by structuring the world's data. By combining the latest advancements in machine learning with the extensive data resources of S&P Global, Kensho provides comprehensive, timely, and actionable insights, enabling organizations to make decisions with conviction. The platform offers a suite of foundational AI services designed to tackle the most pressing challenges related to unstructured and semi-structured data, such as complex documents and speech.

How to use Kensho

Kensho's solutions are designed for enterprise use and can be integrated into existing workflows through robust APIs or used via a web interface. The general process is as follows:

1. Choose a Solution: Select the appropriate tool for your task, such as Scribe for audio transcription, NERD for text analysis, Extract for PDF data, or Link for company data mapping.
2. Provide Input Data: Upload your files (e.g., audio files, text documents, PDFs) or input your data directly through the API.
3. Process with AI: Kensho's machine learning models process the data. For instance, Scribe transcribes audio, NERD identifies entities, Extract structures PDF content, and Link matches company records.
4. Receive Structured Output: The tool returns structured, machine-readable data. This can be a text transcript, a list of identified entities with links to knowledge bases, or a structured dataset from a PDF.
5. Integrate and Analyze: Use the structured output for downstream analytics, to power smart search features, enrich your databases, or streamline manual workflows. Many products offer a free trial to get started.

Core Features of Kensho

• Kensho Scribe (Speech-to-Text): Offers industry-leading transcription accuracy, especially for complex financial and business audio. It handles jargon, accents, numbers, and currencies effectively. It provides both a real-time AI solution (Scribe AI) and a human-in-the-loop (HITL) service for up to 99%+ accuracy.
• Kensho NERD (Named Entity Recognition): Automatically identifies companies, people, places, events, and more within text documents. It links these entities to rich knowledge bases like S&P's Capital IQ and Wikimedia, enabling deep analysis and smart search capabilities.
• Kensho Extract (Data Extraction from PDFs): Converts complex and inconsistent PDF documents into structured, machine-readable formats. It automatically identifies and extracts data from tables and text, standardizing information for easier analysis.
• Kensho Link (Company Data Mapping): Cleans, enriches, and deduplicates messy company data by mapping it to unique S&P Global Company IDs. It uses match scores to identify the best results, requiring no ML model training from the user's side.
• Kensho Datasets: Provides professionally produced, domain-specific collections of high-quality training data for developing machine learning models. These are free for academic and non-commercial use.

Use Cases for Kensho

Kensho's tools are versatile and serve various industries:

• Financial Services: Transcribing earnings calls and management presentations, analyzing financial reports for key entities, and linking disparate company datasets for M&A due diligence.
• Academic Research: Powering studies by systematically identifying and analyzing entities in vast text corpora, as demonstrated by research at the City University of Hong Kong.
• Legal and Compliance: Transcribing depositions and interviews, and creating accurate records to meet regulatory obligations.
• Media and Communications: Generating closed captions for videos, transcribing podcasts, and making audio/video content searchable.
• Corporate Strategy: Automating the extraction of data from market research reports, competitor filings, and internal documents to inform business decisions.

Advantages of Kensho

Kensho stands out due to its deep integration with S&P Global, providing several key advantages:

• Unparalleled Data Access: Models are trained on S&P Global's vast and high-quality proprietary data, including over 100,000 hours of financial audio for Scribe, leading to superior domain-specific performance.
• High Accuracy and Reliability: Solutions like Scribe offer up to 25% better accuracy than other services, with a human-in-the-loop option ensuring near-perfect results.
• Efficiency and Scalability: Automates time-intensive manual data processing, saving thousands of person-hours and allowing businesses to scale their operations.
• Actionable Insights: Transforms unstructured data into structured, interconnected information, unlocking new analytical possibilities and deeper insights.
• Developer-Friendly: Provides comprehensive developer documentation and robust APIs for seamless integration into custom applications and workflows.

Pricing and Plans

Kensho's pricing is tailored to enterprise needs. Several products, including Scribe, NERD, Extract, and Link, offer a Free Trial for evaluation. For Scribe, pay-as-you-go plans and volume discounts are available. For full access, custom enterprise plans, and detailed pricing information, potential customers are encouraged to contact the Kensho sales team directly for a quote.