# Kensho

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kensho/  
**Website:** https://kensho.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 43.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 42.7 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 42.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 69.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 51.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | verified |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Kensho Scribe** — 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 ...
- **Kensho Extract** — Document intelligence API that transforms PDF documents into structured JSON, with hierarchical extraction, optical character recognition (OCR), enhanced table extraction, and b...
- **Kensho NERD** — 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 organ...
- **Kensho LLM-ready API (kfinance)** — 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-k...

## MCP servers (2)

- **Kensho MCP Server**
- **Kensho MCP Server** — Official hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Kensho / S&P Global LLM-ready API (kfinance). Exposes S&P Global's trusted financial data to LLMs and agents. Verifie...

## Security (3)

- **Kensho Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 4 schemes
- **Kensho Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Kensho Trust Center** — SOC 2

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine-Learning, Financial Data, Speech-to-Text, Transcription, Document Extraction, Named Entity Recognition, Natural Language Processing, LLM, MCP, Retrieval, S&P Global

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/kensho/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.