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What is AlphaSense?

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, their AI-based technology has helped professionals make business decisions by delivering insights from public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity…

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Recent Reviews

Alphasense review.

10 out of 10
June 07, 2024
Incentivized
We are a Family Fund House focused on investing in US public equity. We use AlphaSense to analyze filings and gain insights from expert …
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AlphaSense is a versatile tool that has become indispensable for users across various industries. Leveraged for equity research, investor …
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AlphaSense

7 out of 10
March 27, 2024
Incentivized
AlphaSense helps me keep up to date on news flow and management appearances for my coverage and watchlists. The document highlighting …
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8 out of 10
March 27, 2024
Incentivized
AlphaSense gives us the ability to do many things -
1) quick and thorough research before client meetings, understand the client and …
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How AlphaSense Differs From Its Competitors

AlphaSense Market Intelligence

I don't currently have access to all the sources of data and the ability to search all of it to get insights enables real-time insights that certainly keep us up to date on key trends and competitor moves
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

In general, it's been very useful for pulling information on topics of interest. I don't use it as much to identify when these events happen; more just to understand them once they do occur. Also, the addition of the expert interview transcripts has been helpful. Just getting a summary of recent …
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

Alphasense has made our everyday work more efficient, as we spend less time identifying the right source. For example, identifying an analyst report on a specific market—on other platforms, there would be the need to download each report to view its contents, but the preview tool enables users to …
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

It allows us to rapidly access interesting insights that we otherwise wouldn't uncover. There's so many sources we could look at, but often don't have the time go through everything. By using AlphaSense we monitor a few key trends our team is interested in, and with the alerts are made aware of …
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

It is extremely helpful in getting up to date data for the industry in which we conduct business in. This industry is constantly changing, and the landscape is always looking different due to policies and regulations as well. I think if it were not for AlphaSense, keeping track of this data would …
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

It has clearly helped me find information on the competitors that I would not have found otherwise - either through its ease of finding the information, or because it surfaced items I would not have found anywhere else.
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

The keywork alerts have helped alot. I have several setup that provide weekly updates on key themes and topics in our research flow. Furthermore, the ability to search through the expert call library has allowed us to identify more companies tangential to themes we are tracking that we may not …
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

It has been impactful in better understanding specific companies I'm researching. I'm able to find some documents and news articles that I couldn't find elsewhere and it helps me keep up to date on all the newest headlines for my coverage. The expert library is a huge plus by providing first-party …
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

AlphaSense has impacted our team's ability in being more aware of developments in competitive landscapes through the monitoring of companies via the customized Dashboards and monitors along with the alerts that can be added on top of a custom search or monitor. This has allowed us to stay up …
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

So much easier and less time consuming to look up search results across a wide variety of data bases. Consolidates access to all paid research into one platform. All in all, a killer market intel app
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

AlphaSense has not been adopted by my immediate team. I've already been able to stay ahead of the rest of my team and share my insights without wasting so much time, or worse, missing important information as it comes across the wire. It will become evident to the rest of my team soon enough that …
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AlphaSense Market Intelligence

Alphasense has been critical in providing valuable market intelligence. Sell-side broker reports have definitely added credibility to triaging our internal views and estimates with experts in the field, who have access to company management teams and have done their own research as they do this …
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Popular Features

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  • Search Tools (136)
    9.1
    91%
  • Industry-Specific Information (142)
    7.7
    77%
  • Independent Research Access (136)
    7.6
    76%
  • Private Company Data (118)
    5.1
    51%

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Financial Research

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Product Details

What is AlphaSense?

AlphaSense is a market intelligence and search platform used by companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, the technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from a universe of public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and equity research. The platform boasts users among over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500.


Content and data types include:


  • 10,000+ searchable data sets aggregating broker research, SEC filings, regulatory content, earnings & conference call transcripts, private company data, news, and 4,000+ trade journals

  • Wall Street Insights®, an exclusive collection of real-time and aftermarket research from global bulge-bracket brokers, as well as regional and boutique firms

  • Expert Insights' library of expert call transcripts between business operators and buy-side analysts

Users can also upload their own internal reports and data, making it indexable for internal users in the AlphaSense platform.

AlphaSense helps corporations track market forces and monitor competitors. For financial services firms, AlphaSense’s time-saving search capabilities help generate investment ideas and mitigate risk without the fear of missing critical information.

AlphaSense Screenshots

Screenshot of AlphaSense's AI search, available across 2,000+ premium business data sources including SEC filings, earnings calls, broker research, business journals, news & more. It can be used to stay ahead of market-moving trends and instantly surface critical information buried within millions of documents.Screenshot of a single view of the industries, companies and themes within a fully-customizable dashboard, that can be tailored to fit any research process.Screenshot of a purpose-built generative AI that offers insights from a premium content universe.

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AlphaSense Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS

Frequently Asked Questions

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, their AI-based technology has helped professionals make business decisions by delivering insights from public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. The platform boasts users among 4,000 enterprise customers. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 1,000 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and India.

S&P Capital IQ, Bloomberg Terminal, and Tegus are common alternatives for AlphaSense.

Reviewers rate Search Tools highest, with a score of 9.1.

The most common users of AlphaSense are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

AlphaSense is a versatile tool that has become indispensable for users across various industries. Leveraged for equity research, investor relations, and market intelligence, the platform aids in sourcing ideas, conducting research through SEC documents and expert calls, and maintaining comprehensive research notes.

Users have benefited from time savings when delving into Market and Competitive Intelligence research, appreciating the ease with which information can be discovered. AlphaSense's document highlighting features, search capabilities, SEC filings, and analyst research sets it apart from competitors. AlphaSense can provide associated words beyond specific keyword searches, this contributes significantly to streamlining market research processes and keeping users informed on industry developments.

Unique Database: Users have appreciated AlphaSense's unique database of expert network calls, enabling full-text search across SEC and non-SEC documents. This feature has significantly enhanced their research capabilities by providing access to a comprehensive range of information sources in one platform.

Valuable Sources and Search Functionality: Reviewers highlighted the availability and variety of valuable sources on AlphaSense, emphasizing its effective search functionality using keywords and filters. The diverse sources offer users rich insights into different industries, enhancing their research depth and breadth.

Smart Summaries and Document Highlighting: Customers praised the introduction of Smart Summaries for enhancing research speed. They also found the document highlighting capabilities to be superior, aiding in quick information identification. These features streamline the process of extracting key data points from extensive documents, saving users time during analysis.

Overwhelming Depth: Some users have found AlphaSense overwhelming due to the depth of the product, suggesting that it requires significant training to master. They feel that navigating through the extensive features can be a challenge.

Slow Search Function: Some users have experienced delays with the search function, impacting their overall user experience on the platform.

Inaccurate AI-Generated Content: Users have reported issues with AI-generated content, specifically mentioning missing key points in earnings summaries and misleading sentiment scores.

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Reviews

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June 19, 2024

Accuracy of data and real-time insights drive the value of this product.

Sarah Pitman, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sarah Pitman, MBA
Competitive Intelligence Analyst
NRG Energy (Oil & Energy, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Alphasense is great for tracking subjects revolving around a topic. Also incredibly useful when I have to do a deep dive about a competitor in a field that is adajacent to the one I work in. Analyst reports are fantastic and worth the additional cost. Less helpful when it comes to things like tracking marketing efforts (search and display ads, social media campaigns, direct mail, radio/tv commercials). I have to use alternate sources for that. Also, I utilize linkedin to see public job postings of competitors because that potentially has a lot of useful and public data for understanding my competitors next actions Not appropriate for tracking pricing due to the way pricing is hidden from competitors and price is based on service address
June 18, 2024

Learn AlphaSense's power and you won't ever look back

Verified User
Vice-President in Corporate
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Great at leveraging financial resources from multiple sources (paid research, public information, proprietary interviews) to quick get insights into almost any topic that I have thought of so far. Would like to see it expand to more sources of data beyond financials (e.g., Gartner, IDC, Forrester) to be able to do similar analysis.
June 17, 2024

Good Market Intelligence Tool

Verified User
Analyst in Other
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense is well suited for the following: Market research, competitive intelligence, sourcing inputs and assumptions for models, tracking industry events.

It isn't as well suited for accessing large data sets of financial information. If you're looking for a summary of consensus analyst forecasts, I don't think it has that either
June 17, 2024

A leader in market intelligence.

Verified User
Contributor in Corporate
Financial Services Company, 51-200 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Alphasense is a one-stop shop for quality data available in various formats. The information available is relevant to employees in the Research department, from Finance to Software Engineering, and the platform's functionalities only increase when considering the integrations available. Finally, customer service is top-notch, given your assigned contact and the live chat feature found on the platform.
June 07, 2024

Alphasense review.

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Financial Services Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Using keyword search is suitable for analyzing company filings or understanding certain trends across multiple industries. It is less appropriate for ideas screening. The "Financial & Estimates" page also lacks fundamental indicators like gross margin, OP margin, etc.
June 05, 2024

AlphaSense - Valuable Competitive Insights

Verified User
Manager in Corporate
Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense is great for understanding an emerging trend and exploring who is doing what. I particularly find the document reviews helpful to quickly find relevant materials. However, the company profiles are a bit limited and leave some to be desired. I am also occasionally overwhelmed by the number of alerts. A synthesis of that material would be helpful.
May 23, 2024

AlphaSense Helps Get Us to the Right Datapoint or Insight Quickly and You Only Pay for the Research You Consume!

Verified User
Supervisor in Professional Services
Management Consulting Company, 51-200 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Suited for a scenario where you have to search for a particular phrase or metric within public disclosures or within broker research for a particular company or industry or when searching within annual reports or investor materials.
May 13, 2024

The most valuable tool on the market!

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Chemicals Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
I really enjoy using AlphaSense in market research and competitive intelligence. My company is still figuring out how best to utilize it as there are so many more functionalities being added regularly, it is helpful to meet with the sales team quarterly to review new additions. I think it is very helpful for earnings calls/documents, reviewing patents of all kinds, and being able to collaborate in the notebook with other users at the company.
April 08, 2024

Huge AlphaSense fan!

Verified User
C-Level Executive in Corporate
Market Research Company, 1-10 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is excellent for both qualitative and quantitative information on public companies. We especially love how easy it is to search and find relevant information. And the new AI summarization feature is a huge time saver. It is less well-suited for information on private companies.
April 03, 2024

A strong tool for expert call insights!

LS
Luis Sanchez
portfolio manager
lvs advisory (Financial Services, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense is well suited for analysts looking for expert call insights on a broad swath of names. AlphaSense is a good replacement for Tegus and other similar expert call libraries because it has more to offer than just call transcripts. AlphaSense is a great place to centralize a body of work and build keyword alerts on specific topics or companies.
March 29, 2024

AlphaSense has been a fantastic tool for Market and Competitive Intel work in the Energy space.

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited as the starting point for any kind of research whether it is on broad topics or looking at specific companies. Allows to build a decent knowledge base in very short time leveraging reliable sources and experts content.
March 27, 2024

AlphaSense

Verified User
Analyst in Other
Capital Markets Company, 1-10 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense is fantastic when performing deep research on a topic, as the expert interviews and depth of information available are impressive. AlphaSense is a great complement to my research process, however, I don't think I could replace any tools with AlphaSense. Also, while the volume of information is vast, it can be very easy to get lost in the "noise" of news flow.
March 27, 2024

Investor Relations - AlphaSense Supporter

Verified User
Executive in Finance and Accounting
E-Learning Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Likelihood to Recommend
It really saves a lot of time for small IR teams. I think the price is fair, if it was more expensive it would be difficult to continue to justify. Also, the ability to donwload reports for many different companies is great. We want to continue to leverage the relationship
March 26, 2024

AlphaSense Review

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Investment Management Company, 51-200 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense is well suited for companies that need to access research reports, SEC filings, expert commentary, or other high-quality data sources on specific companies or sectors that are of interest. AlphaSense does a great job at creating an easy-to-use platform for any user to search for whatever they want. The customer support is fantastic and always responsive to anything I need.
March 26, 2024

AlphaSense's excellent ROI

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Computer Hardware Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense is well suited for scenarios where your needs are around financial data.
However, if your data is less public, broader in scope, or simply "softer", AlphaSense does not work as well.
However, for overall market sentiment directional analysis iot is a good tool.
The fact that you may search an enormous number of data sources from a single control pane with advanced features and filters works remarkably well.
March 26, 2024

AlphaSense consolidated my effort from multiple platforms and dozens of browser tabs down to one window.

Verified User
Vice-President in Other
Market Research Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense works very well for researching topics related to companies, technologies and/or industries. The information access is super useful. Sorting by search relevance and filtering by source type can help curate the information to what you are looking for. One area that could use some help is how to digest that information down to usable chunks. If your goal is to synthesize the information into your research, then the platform seems to have some tools to help do that, but it will still be a manual process. A CoPilot or similar integration could go a long way to improving the time to value of using this tool and the information it gathers for you.
March 25, 2024

AlphaSense Review.

Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting
Computer & Network Security Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
AlphaSense is well suited for finance/strategy roles, where teams are heavily involved in gathering external data about a company, industry, and trends. It helps customers save hours of their time sifting through SEC filings, earnings transcripts, broker reports, etc. AlphaSense is less appropriate for those that may only need to pull minimal/generic financial data (i.e., P&L), not explicitly using key search terms/keywords (i.e., trying to find how much a company paid for an acquisition as reported in their 10K).
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