Overview
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a leading all-in-one market intelligence platform that helps research and business professionals—from analysts and financial researchers to corporate professionals— implement a qualitative research strategy powered by automation and proprietary AI search technology.
Consistently ranked as an industry leader by TrustRadius and G2, AlphaSense was also recognized by Forbes as a top 50 AI company in 2023.
Here’s how AlphaSense helps you extract insights from both high-value internal and external content with the power of artificial intelligence—all in a single platform.
Extensive Out-of-the-Box Content Library
AlphaSense features an expansive repository of external market intelligence and research that comprises over 10,000 public, private, premium, and proprietary data sources. Our platform is purpose-built to speed up your team’s access to information on all the relevant topics and companies driving your market.
Our external content sources include earnings transcripts, news wires, trade journals, and SEC and global filings. Within that, AlphaSense also gives users access to two proprietary and premium content offerings. These are:
These offerings are:
- Wall Street Insights® – A collection of broker research from Wall Street’s leading firms, covering global sector themes, industries, and companies from 1,000+ sell-side and independent firms, available within the AlphaSense platform. Research professionals can even preview the contents of a broker report, saving them wasted time and money on potentially fruitless research.
- Expert Insights – 40,000+ expert transcripts from one-on-one calls with industry experts, professionals, competitors, customers, and former and current executives. You can also request bespoke 1:1 expert calls at affordable rates.
In addition to these sources, AlphaSense enables you to upload, index, and search through your own content. That includes:
- Internal research, notes, and presentations
- Reports from industry and market intelligence providers
- Newsletters, web pages, and RSS feeds
- Meeting and conference notes
This enables you to use the power of AlphaSense’s AI and generative AI technology to fill in gaps in your internal research and enhance the quality of your insights.
AI Search & Summarization Technology
AlphaSense comes with the following industry-leading AI capabilities:
Smart Synonyms™
Smart Synonyms™, proprietary to AlphaSense, is a feature that uses AI technology to recognize both the keyword and search intent behind any query.
AlphaSense uses advanced algorithms to eliminate noise from your search (i.e., content with matching keywords but ultimately irrelevant to your search objective) and leverages variations in language to pinpoint the exact information you need.
Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis, a natural language processing (NLP)-based feature, parses through content and identifies nuances in the tone and subjective meaning of text. It then uses color coding to help readers identify the document’s positive, negative, and neutral sentiments.
This technology assigns each search term a numerical sentiment change score to help users track any slight change in market sentiments across time. Users can take advantage of it to make better-informed investment decisions and improve their risk management strategies.
Generative AI
Unlike other consumer-grade generative AI (genAI) tools trained on publicly available data, AlphaSense takes an entirely different approach. Our industry-leading suite of generative AI tools is purpose-built to deliver business-grade insights and leans on 10+ years of AI tech development. Our proprietary AlphaSense Large Language Model (ASLLM)—trained specifically on business and financial data—matches or beats the leading third-party LLMs over 90% of the time.
Our suite of tools currently includes:
- Smart Summaries – this feature allows you to glean instant earnings insights—reducing time spent on research during earnings season, quickly capture company outlook, and generate an expert-approved SWOT analysis straight from former competitors, partners, and employees.
- Enterprise Intelligence – a first-of-its-kind offering that delivers AlphaSense’s AI-powered search and summarization capabilities to customers’ internal organizational knowledge.
- AlphaSense Assistant (in beta) – a generative AI chat experience that transforms how users can extract insights from hundreds of millions of premium content sources.
Integration Capabilities
Even the best companies fall victim to silos. But forward-thinking organizations know to avoid this pitfall by leveraging the advanced collaborative tools found in modern market intelligence platforms.
Seamlessly Integrate with Other Tools
AlphaSense works with the apps and tools you already use to help you be more productive with less effort. Connect with integrations to Box, Sharepoint, OneNote, or leverage our API suite to securely upload your proprietary content.
APIs
API capabilities provided by your market intelligence platform allow you to build your own tools to get maximum ROI from the content sources you can now access. For example, AlphaSense offers the following APIs for users to leverage our proprietary technology and content across other parts of their strategies:
- Alert Feed API: Real-time data feed based on saved searches & alerts.
- Search API: Solution that provides real-time, programmatic access to AlphaSense search infrastructure to query and filter the database of documents from a third party domain.
- Ingestion API: Integration, processing, and enrichment capabilities for internal or custom content sets.
- AI API: Enrichment capabilities that enable company recognition, sentiment, themes and KPI services for internal content.
Monitoring, Analysis, and Collaboration Tools
AlphaSense is designed to help users find insights faster, and then effectively share those insights with teams and C-Suite leadership. To do that, we offer several tools that extend beyond search and summarization to help users accelerate research tasks:
- Customizable Dashboards create a centralized information hub for monitoring key companies and themes, while tailored real-time alerts provide real-time updates.
- Smart Alerts monitor the most important themes, companies, and market updates with weekly, daily, or real-time alerts.
- Notebook+ and commenting features increase collaboration and help teams manage and share insights more effectively. Notebook+ also includes templates that streamline the process of creating deliverables, as well as folders for better content organization and retrieval.
- Table Tools allow you to streamline your quantitative analysis by enabling you to export modeled time-series data on company financials.
- Image Search allows you to discover insights buried in charts to quickly capture data without reading through pages of documents.
- Snippet Explorer allows you to effortlessly look at any topic or theme and all its historical mentions in a single view.
- Our Black-lining feature allows you to automatically identify any QoQ changes in SEC filings
- Automated Monitoring allows you to set up real-time alerts that send instant updates on any relevant market movements, news, emerging trends, and competitor activities. We also generate snapshots of companies and topics regularly that keep you ahead of the curve with actionable insights.
AlphaSense Pros
- Extensive content universe that spans the four key perspectives, including broker research, expert calls, company documents, news & regulatory sites.
- Incorporates AI search technology, machine learning, and sentiment analysis
- Generative AI features, like Smart Summaries, for earnings and image search
- Automated and customizable alerts
- All-in-one research platform
- User-friendly interface
- Internal messaging and collaboration features
- Support for APIs and integrations
- Supports enterprise-level organizations and teams
- Enterprise-grade data production complying with global security standards
- Excellent customer support team, including 24/7 chat with product specialists, a live Help button on the website, and regular live AlphaSense Education webinars
AlphaSense Cons
- Visualization tools are limited at this time
- Collaboration tools are limited to users with AlphaSense licenses
Contify
Contify is another distinctive player in the market and competitive intelligence space, leveraging a vast repository of unique customer insights and market research from over 500,000 sources. With Contify, professionals can track information on competitors, customers, and industry segments, as well as share actionable intelligence across their organizations.
Contify uses AI and NLP technologies to collect, curate and analyze company data from websites, job boards, social media, regulatory portals, and market research reports.
In terms of competitive intelligence, it can be used to track competitor business expansions, thought leadership, new innovations, technology, and operational and legal challenges. You can also use Contify to obtain market information, consumer insights, and track news across different time zones.
With Contify you can monitor recent trends, read case studies, and observe key market players to help move your business in a profitable direction. Contify gives users access to a massive range of insights related to market and competitive intelligence, including:
- Regulatory changes
- Emerging threats and opportunities,
- Company and executive profiles
- Current and future business priorities
- Mergers and acquisitions analysis
- Global and regional industry trends
- Significant market changes
- New technology and innovations
Some of Contify’s key features include:
- Taxonomy builder for competitive intelligence
- Intuitive dashboards
- Curated news feed
- Email alerts
- Integrations with Slack, Salesforce, etc.
- Website change tracker
- Global news feed
- User management and analytics
- Sourcing manager
- Smart translate
Users can collaborate and exchange knowledge using the News API, which enables teams and coworkers to collaborate more effectively and make better data-driven decisions.
Small and large businesses of all kinds can use Contify’s services. It is also well-suited for various market sectors, including consumer products, healthcare, technology, and finance. It is especially useful to businesses wanting to increase their market presence, roll out new products, or remain one step ahead of the competition.
Contify Pros:
- Uses artificial intelligence and natural language processing to collect and analyze data
- Real-time updates and customizable alerts
- Provides a centralized platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Offers a user-friendly interface with easy-to-use features
- Robust library of sources with intelligence on multiple functions, including regulations, innovations, M&A, Industry themes, and patents
- Features smart translation feature for over 100+ languages
Contify Cons:
- Some users have reported issues with data accuracy and customization options
- Lacks access to broker research
- Lacks sentiment analysis
- No expert calls
- No enterprise compatibility
