Kensho

aid: kensho
name: Kensho
description: 'Kensho Technologies is the AI innovation hub of S&P Global, building machine learning and AI systems that structure,
  connect, and extract meaning from the world''s financial and business data. Kensho''s developer platform exposes a suite
  of production APIs: Scribe for speech-to-text transcription of audio and video, Extract for turning PDF documents into structured
  JSON, NERD for named-entity recognition and disambiguation against Wikimedia and S&P Capital IQ knowledge bases, and the
  LLM-ready API (kfinance) that connects LLMs, agents, and AI applications to S&P Global''s trusted data through Adaptive
  Retrieval and a hosted, OAuth-secured Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Authentication is bearer-token based, issued
  from Kensho''s services platform via personal tokens or production key pairs, with OAuth 2.0 (authorization code, client
  credentials, and refresh token flows, PKCE, and dynamic client registration) for the MCP surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kensho/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://services.kensho.com/icons/favicon-32x32.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- general-catalyst
x-parent: sp-global
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Financial Data
- Speech to Text
- Transcription
- Document Extraction
- Named Entity Recognition
- Natural Language Processing
- LLM
- Model Context Protocol
- Retrieval
- S&P Global
apis:
- name: Kensho Scribe
  description: Asynchronous speech-to-text transcription API that turns audio and video into text with high accuracy. Supports
    batch, real-time, and human-in-the-loop transcription, multipart and remote-URL submission, HEAD polling for completion,
    and webhook callbacks.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
  baseURL: https://scribe.kensho.com
  tags:
  - Speech to Text
  - Transcription
  - Audio
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/developer-guide
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/scribe/v2/batch-api-specification
- name: Kensho Extract
  description: Document intelligence API that transforms PDF documents into structured JSON, with hierarchical extraction,
    optical character recognition (OCR), enhanced table extraction, and bounding-box locations. Supports both direct upload
    and a presigned upload/download URL flow for large documents.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/home
  baseURL: https://extract.kensho.com
  tags:
  - Document Extraction
  - PDF
  - OCR
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/home
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/extract/api
- name: Kensho NERD
  description: Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation API that identifies and links concepts in text to knowledge bases
    (Wikimedia for general entities, S&P Capital IQ for financial organizations and people), returning entity positions, IDs,
    types, and confidence scores (ner_score and ned_score).
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/overview
  baseURL: https://nerd.kensho.com
  tags:
  - Named Entity Recognition
  - Entity Linking
  - NLP
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/nerd/api
- name: Kensho LLM-ready API (kfinance)
  description: LLM-ready API that connects LLMs, agents, and AI applications to S&P Global's trusted data through flexible
    retrieval, Adaptive Retrieval data agents, a Python library (kensho-kfinance), and a hosted, OAuth-secured Model Context
    Protocol (MCP) server.
  humanURL: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/overview
  baseURL: https://kfinance.kensho.com
  tags:
  - LLM
  - Retrieval
  - Model Context Protocol
  - Financial Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/api
  - type: MCPServer
    url: https://kfinance.kensho.com/integrations/mcp
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://kensho.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.kensho.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.kensho.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.kensho.com/authentication/personal-token
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kensho-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/kensho-scopes.yml
- type: SignUp
  url: https://services.kensho.com/free-trial
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/support
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.kensho.com/llmreadyapi/release-notes
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kensho-technologies
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.kensho.com/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.kensho.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.kensho.com/
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/kensho-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kensho-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/kensho-well-known.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/kensho-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/kensho-packages.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kensho-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kensho-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kensho-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/kensho-changelog.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/kensho-scribe-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/kensho-problem-types.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kensho-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kensho-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence