S&P Global Launches Adaptive Retrieval to Help AI Agents

S&P Global announced on July 21, 2026 the launch of Adaptive Retrieval, a service that allows AI agents and large language models to access and assemble S&P Global's licensed data through natural language queries, without the engineering overhead that has historically made connecting high-quality financial data into AI systems a significant undertaking.

The launch makes S&P Global what it describes as the first data provider to offer two complementary retrieval methods through a single portal, according to the press release.

Deterministic Retrieval, built on the Kensho LLM-ready API available to customers since 2025, gives AI systems structured, API-driven access to specific data, suited for focused tasks like researching a single company or analyzing an earnings call transcript.

Adaptive Retrieval handles the more demanding requirement: enabling AI agents to pull data from multiple sources simultaneously and automatically manage requests that span datasets, covering the kind of complex multi-step tasks that autonomous and multi-agent systems increasingly need to perform.