Frequently Asked Questions

KnowYourCompany.ai is an AI-native equity research platform built for public market investors who need accurate, source-linked financial analysis. We process filings, earnings transcripts, and annual reports from SEBI, BSE, and NSE to deliver institutional-grade research in seconds. Our platform combines deep financial data extraction with a conversational AI interface, so analysts can ask complex questions about any listed company and receive answers grounded in verified primary sources rather than hallucinated summaries.

Every insight on KnowYourCompany.ai is linked directly back to the original filing, transcript, or report it was extracted from. When you see a data point, you can click through to the exact page and paragraph of the source document to verify it yourself. We built this because trust is non-negotiable in financial research. Our system parses each document at the paragraph level, indexes it semantically, and maintains a citation chain from raw filing to final answer. This means no black-box outputs, every number is traceable.

KYC.ai analyzes regulatory filings from SEBI (DRHP, annual reports, quarterly results) and BSE/NSE exchange filings. We also process earnings call transcripts, investor presentations, credit rating reports, and management commentary. Our pipeline ingests over 500 filings daily and structures them into a queryable knowledge base. Each source is tagged by company, filing type, date, and section, so the AI can retrieve precisely the right context for any research question.

We process over 500 filings daily from SEBI, BSE, and NSE exchanges. This includes quarterly results, annual reports, earnings transcripts, exchange announcements, and investor presentations as they are published. Our ingestion pipeline runs continuously so new filings are typically available for querying within hours of publication. During peak earnings seasons, volume can exceed 800 filings per day across Indian markets.

Yes, Indian market coverage is one of our core strengths. We analyze filings from SEBI, BSE, and NSE including quarterly results, annual reports, DRHPs, corporate announcements, and credit rating reports for all listed Indian companies. We built KYC.ai with the Indian market as a first-class citizen because we saw a massive gap in AI-powered research tools for emerging markets. Most global platforms treat Indian filings as an afterthought. We treat them as primary data.

Absolutely. Sell-side analysts are one of our primary user segments. KYC.ai helps analysts cover more companies with greater depth by automating the tedious parts of research, extracting financial data from filings, comparing metrics across quarters, and surfacing material changes in disclosures. Analysts at brokerages use our platform to build initiation reports faster, prepare for management meetings with filing-backed questions, and monitor their coverage universe for material developments they might otherwise miss.

Yes, retail investors can use KYC.ai to access the same quality of source-linked research that institutional investors rely on. Our free plan gives individual investors the ability to query company filings and get verified, citation-backed answers. We believe every investor deserves access to accurate financial data, not just those with Bloomberg terminals. KYC.ai levels the playing field by making regulatory filings searchable and understandable through natural language.

The AI Copilot is our conversational research interface that lets you ask complex financial questions in plain English and receive structured, source-linked answers. It can extract data into tables, compare metrics across periods, summarize risk factors, and analyze management commentary. Unlike generic AI chatbots, the Copilot is grounded in actual filings and documents. It understands financial concepts, GAAP/Ind AS accounting standards, and the structure of regulatory disclosures, so it can parse balance sheets, income statements, and notes to accounts with precision.

KYC.ai offers a free plan for individual investors and paid plans starting at competitive rates for professionals and teams. Our pricing is designed to be a fraction of what traditional financial data terminals charge while delivering comparable depth of analysis. We offer transparent, usage-based pricing with no hidden fees. Visit our pricing page for current plan details, or contact us for custom enterprise pricing if you need team-wide access, API integrations, or dedicated support.

Yes, we offer a 14-day free trial of our professional features so you can experience the full power of KYC.ai before committing. The trial includes unlimited queries, full filing access, and all AI Copilot capabilities. We also maintain a permanent free plan with core features so you can continue using KYC.ai for basic research even after the trial period ends.

The free plan includes access to our AI Copilot for basic company research queries, source-linked answers from recent filings, and the ability to explore financial data for listed companies across Indian markets. Free plan users get a generous monthly query allowance and access to the most recent filings. Professional plans unlock unlimited queries, historical filing access, advanced analytics features, portfolio monitoring, and priority processing.

Bloomberg is a comprehensive financial data terminal built for trading floors and institutional desks. KYC.ai is purpose-built for equity research, specifically for extracting insights from company filings and documents using AI. We are not a replacement for Bloomberg. We complement it. Where Bloomberg gives you market data, pricing, and news feeds, KYC.ai gives you deep document intelligence. Our AI reads and understands filings the way an analyst would, extracting specific data points, comparing disclosures across periods, and surfacing material changes, tasks that are manual even on Bloomberg.

ChatGPT is a general-purpose AI with a knowledge cutoff that generates responses from its training data. KYC.ai is a specialized financial research tool that generates responses exclusively from verified, real-time company filings and documents. Every answer includes source citations. The critical difference is reliability. ChatGPT can hallucinate financial data, mix up companies, or present outdated figures as current. KYC.ai cannot. Our answers are constrained to what actually exists in the source documents, and every claim links back to the exact filing.

Traditional research tools like Capital IQ, Refinitiv, or FactSet provide structured databases of financial data that analysts query through fixed templates and screens. KYC.ai takes a fundamentally different approach by understanding unstructured documents through AI. This means you can ask questions that structured databases cannot answer -- like "What did management say about margin pressure in the last three earnings calls?" or "How has the risk factors section changed between this year and last year?" Our AI reads the actual documents, not just the extracted numbers.

AI equity research refers to the use of artificial intelligence to analyze company filings, financial statements, and market disclosures to generate investment-relevant insights. It automates the most time-intensive parts of fundamental analysis: reading documents, extracting data, and identifying patterns. This is not about replacing human judgment. AI equity research augments the analyst by handling the data processing layer so humans can focus on interpretation, thesis development, and investment decision-making. The best AI research tools, including ours, keep humans in the loop with source transparency.

A modern research stack combines AI-powered document analysis, real-time filing ingestion, and conversational interfaces to replace the fragmented workflow of traditional equity research. Instead of toggling between PDF readers, Excel models, and data terminals, analysts work through a single intelligent layer. We believe the modern research stack has three pillars: automated data extraction from primary sources, AI-assisted analysis that understands financial context, and source-linked outputs that maintain institutional trust standards. KYC.ai is built to be the foundation of this stack.

AI is compressing the time between a filing hitting the exchange and an analyst having a structured understanding of its contents. What used to take hours of reading and manual data entry now takes seconds with AI-powered extraction and analysis. The biggest shift is in coverage breadth. A single analyst using AI tools can meaningfully monitor 50-100 companies instead of the traditional 10-15. This does not mean shallower coverage. It means the tedious extraction work is automated so analysts spend more time on the high-value thinking that drives alpha.