AI-Powered Credit Ratings. 100x Faster.

Pistos is building the first full-stack AI credit rating agency for municipal governments and private credit.

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The Credit Rating Gap

The municipal bond market is massive — yet chronically underserved by legacy rating agencies that lack the technology and incentives to provide broad coverage.

98.8%
of muni bonds are unrated or stale-rated

The vast majority of the $4T municipal bond market lacks current, reliable credit analysis.

1/3
of issuers have never been rated

Tens of thousands of municipalities have zero coverage from legacy agencies.

$3.5T
market underserved by legacy agencies

Trillions in outstanding municipal debt lack the analytical coverage investors need.

A New Kind of Rating Agency

Pistos combines frontier AI with deep credit expertise to deliver faster, more accurate, and more transparent credit analysis.

AI-Native

Purpose-built AI models trained on decades of municipal credit data, financial statements, and macroeconomic indicators. Our models analyze in minutes what takes legacy agencies months.

Full-Stack

End-to-end coverage from data ingestion and normalization through credit analysis, rating assignment, and ongoing surveillance. One platform, complete coverage.

Municipal & Private Credit

Starting with the $4T municipal bond market — the largest underserved segment — then expanding into private credit, infrastructure finance, and beyond.

About Pistos

We believe credit markets deserve better. Legacy rating agencies rely on decades-old methodologies, leaving vast swaths of the market unrated and underserved. Pistos combines frontier AI with deep credit expertise to deliver faster, more accurate, and more transparent ratings — starting with the $4T municipal bond market.