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AlphaSense

Overview

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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TrustRadius Insights

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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Love this product

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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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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Features

Financial Research

The most important features for the effectiveness of a financial research platform

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Avg 8.1
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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.

AlphaSense Videos

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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.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Kym Stewart | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Supply Chain Monitoring.
  • We are providing strategic insights to improve supply chain efficiency and enhance competitiveness.
  • Reporting process supports more efficient and informed decision making.
  • Investor/Analyst reports accesses model is an area for improvement.
Sarah Pitman, MBA | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Key market trends- I input a topic name and get information related to the topic.
  • Competitor filings- Alphasense is able to get all the regulatory documents quickly.
  • Earnings calls- Alphasense now provides transcripts, which is incredibly helpful when I can't attend the earnings call live.
  • The dashboard changed its layout recently which makes it hard to relearn.
  • There are local websites that repost news articles. Alphasense frequently misses posts about competitor activities when news sites mention a competitor.
  • If there were some sort of effort to track competitor ads (visuals), that would be extremely helpful.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Amazing Data Repository of documents from multiple sources
  • Leveraging new technologies to increase speed to insight
  • Constant innovation in the product/platform
  • Support team that is always available to help get the most out of the platform
  • Tiktok type learning - ability to learn new features with 30 second clips
  • More use of GenAI to distill information based on specific questions
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Large library of analyst reports from top banks
  • Easy to navigate and search for information
  • AI generated summaries of recent earnings calls and events are helpful
  • Good customer support
  • No financial databases to pull data
  • GenAI summaries are still a little buggy - don't always summarize well with the proper context
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • User-Friendly Interface.
  • Watchlists
  • Customer Experience.
  • Access to reputable sources.
  • Ability to export particular formats using search terms.
  • Credit taken after 4 second page views discourages platform use.
  • Best practices/staff examples of notebook use.
  • Monthly feature release newsletter.
June 07, 2024

Alphasense review.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Timeliness in falling.
  • Constant improvement in dashboard UI.
  • Ease of usage.
  • Provide a time indicator on the transcript so we can scroll to the relevant section of the recording.
  • Table merging remains poor.
  • Integrate events with Outlook.
  • Automatic table recognition for non-US fillings.
  • Match transcript to relevant company presentation.
  • The company's financials and estimates page is still lacking. This page should include other indicators like gross margin, OP margin, R&D Margin, etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Custom dashboards and automated alerts
  • Expert transcripts
  • Document analysis and notes
  • Incorporate GenAI to answer questions of interest
  • Separate noise from signals in searches
  • Increase customization of dashboard to allow for more specific trend analysis
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Get the right insights quickly
  • Pay only for the pages of research consumed
  • Industry research
  • Search within financial disclosures
  • Cite sources for financial numbers
  • Create Excel API for financial data
  • Provide ability to create comp sets like in CapIQ
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Smart Summaries for key highlights
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Notebook Collaboration
  • Patent Landscape/Analysis
  • I think if the dashboards were a little easier to pre-save that would be helpful
  • I think if there was a template to work off of for dashboards based on topics or industries that you could then customize that would be extremely helpful
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • AlphaSense has a unique database of expert network calls
  • AlphaSense allows a full text search across SEC and non-SEC documents
  • AlphaSense allows you to use it as a central repository for notes on names
  • AlphaSense isn't a full replacement for CapitalIQ or Bloomberg. It lacks all the fundamental data of those sources (i.e. historical revenue, earnings, cash flow)
  • AlphaSense can be a bit overwhelming because there is so much depth to the product. It requires some training to master
  • Sometimes the website can be a little slow to load when searching for things.
March 27, 2024

AlphaSense

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • New "Smart Summaries" are a useful new development to improve research speed
  • Document highlighting capabilities are better than most peers
  • Expert network interviews are fantastic to dive deep into a company
  • Earnings summaries are AI generated and often miss key points
  • Sentiment scores are often misleading or make mistakes (and aren't overly useful to my research process)
  • the data / table stitcher struggles to provide "clean" data that is easy to consume in Excel
March 27, 2024

Love this product

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • equity reports
  • expert interviews
  • key word trend
  • financial report summaries
  • When adding companies by industry, the AI should suggest similar companies
  • Adding industries using the standard code in the system, e.g. "durables" is too broad and pointless
  • Conglomerates are in many industries, it would be good to be able to select a particular division of a conglomerate
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Organization's Financial Background
  • Peer Comparison
  • News feed and news release compilation
  • Analyst's reports
  • Overall Market assessments
  • Opportunity sizing
  • Data-driven non-financial analysis
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Key word searches
  • Summarizing sentiment for a company
  • Providing access to all documents, articles, etc. pertaining to a search
  • conducting research, highlighting, taking notes
  • listening in on expert commentary not readily available elsewhere
  • Smart syllables are not too smart... often confuses intended meaning for something else
  • Mail alerts are hard to read and digest... would prefer summary of finding versus presenting snippets
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • aggregates all data and information sources
  • search functionality is flexible and easy to use
  • the search term highlighting feature makes it super easy to just jump to the relevant text
  • a little more flexibility on the dashboard building
March 25, 2024

AlphaSense Review.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Boolean-based search, especially finding quantitative figures.
  • Bring together all publicly available and 3rd party information to a single platform/view.
  • Sort results by different factors (i.e date, score, etc.).
  • Search always treats "and" as a boolean "AND".
  • Certain broker reports (notably Citi) sometimes breaks the UI.
March 08, 2024

Alphasense review.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Once I had to see the filings of Bargain Purchase cases, it helped me finding that.
  • The other day I had to identify sale of a ROU asset under pro forma sections.
  • There are instances where we have to search for words that are in combination. Like for example, the sale of ROU assets, Deloitte Auditor, and some other criteria, Alphasense, I think, can improve where the required criteria are multiple. Even if not, I think it's awesome.
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