Kensho – Building Amazing Tools to Help People Make Fact-Based Decisions

There is a growing consensus around the transformative and innovative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. AI will transform which products are launched and how new business models will be developed to support them. Despite this, little research exists today that systematically explores how AI will change and support various aspects of innovation management. To address this question, this article proposes a holistic, multi-dimensional AI maturity model that describes the essential conditions and capabilities necessary to integrate AI into current systems, and guides organizations on their journey to AI maturity.

Kensho is the AI and Innovation Hub for S&P Global. They develop cutting-edge technologies that transform businesses. By pairing the latest advances in machine learning with the unparalleled breadth and depth of data at S&P Global, Kensho gives customers comprehensive, timely, actionable insights for making decisions with conviction. Kensho was acquired by S&P Global in 2018, and continues to operate independently, retaining its distinct brand, culture and technology stack. The company’s world-class solutions discover, extract, link and enrich unstructured data, creating value for users at all levels and roles in an organization. Whether you’re looking to use Kensho’s solutions on your own data or to leverage the unparalleled breadth, depth and accuracy of S&P Global’s sources, Kensho unlocks insights in hard-to-get-to data, making it accessible, insightful, relevant and, ultimately, transformative.

Best-in-Class AI-Based Products Offered

Kensho Scribe: It is specifically optimized for the complexities of your messy, real-world audio and the nuances of spoken language. The platform is trained on more than 100,000 hours of professionally curated audio and corresponding transcripts. Scribe is a valuable tool for any kind of organization or business that deals with high volumes of audio, from the corporate world to academia, from science and medicine to finance and law. Scribe makes your audio accessible and searchable in a snap. Kensho Scribe is optimized to handle the complexities of messy, real-world audio with particular emphasis on numbers, currencies, company names, stock tickers, industry-specific jargon, product names (such as pharmaceutical drugs and tech products), and more. Kensho Scribe can also handle multiple speakers (speaker diarization), heavily accented speech and the nuances of spoken language, including mumbling, stuttering, filler words, hesitation and even self-correction.

Kensho NERD: NERD (Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguation) is a cutting-edge machine learning system that unlocks the full potential of your textual data by linking it to existing sources of structured knowledge. Trained on millions of business-related documents, NERD is the only technology on the market specifically optimized to extract financial entity information from text documents. Uncover the companies, subsidiaries, and other financial organizations that appear in your textual data, powering smart search and supercharged research workflows. Link those entities to their entries in S&P Global's rich Capital IQ database, augmenting your textual data by making new connections and enabling deeper insights. Leverage the unique power of NERD's AI to find the people, places, and events with NERD's Wikimedia engine, which links to a broad knowledge base containing tens of millions of entities. Discover powerful synergies when you combine NERD with other Kensho AI-enabled services including Link and Scribe.

Kensho Link: It is a machine learning service that maps entities in your database with unique ID numbers drawn from S&P Global’s world-class company database with precision and speed. Link uses an AI algorithm trained to return high quality links, even when the data inputs are incomplete or contain errors. Once mapped to these unique IDs, a database becomes much more powerful. It is linked and cleaned, making data enrichment and deduplication seamless. Kensho Link compares your submitted data to S&P Global’s Capital IQ database, a leading company database with over 20 million (and growing) entities. To find a match, Kensho Link works with what you have, even if it’s just a company name. If available, Link will also use aliases, URL, phone number, street address, city, zip code, state, country, and year founded to increase the quality of its predictions.

Kensho Codex: It is Kensho’s AI-powered document research platform built atop its world-leading ML services, solves the biggest problem of the knowledge age: the challenge of finding and extracting useful information within massive amounts of unstructured data, in this case, documents. With an intuitive interface and a powerful search capability, Codex streamlines this workflow, freeing information analysts of all kinds to focus on higher-value analysis work. Codex is embedded within S&P’s Capital IQ Pro platform, enabling users around the world to easily search across financial documents - filings, transcripts, and more.

The Leader Upfront

Bhavesh Dayalji is the Chief Executive Officer at Kensho.

“Our products power S&P Global and deliver innovative solutions and capabilities to their clients.”