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AlphaSense vs. PitchBook: Key Differences
| Feature | AlphaSense | Pitchbook |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced AI search including Smart Synonyms, sentiment analysis, and more | ✓ | ✕ |
| Access to expert call library | ✓ | ✕ |
| Access to broker research | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ability to upload your own internal content | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ability to use AI to search through and interrogate internal content, alongside external content | ✓ | ✕ |
| Integrations | ✓ | ✓ |
| Capacity to search through varied content sources across companies, industries, and topics | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ability to add annotations, comments and share | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ability to set up monitoring tools (like alerts, and dashboards) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Emerging Spaces | ✕ | ✓ |
Frequently Asked Questions
The AlphaSense extensive content universe provides access to the Four Key Perspectives you need to make fully-informed business decisions and get the full scope of the market and your research.
The Four Perspectives AlphaSense utilizes are:
- Company– documents published by public and private companies, including company filings, presentations, earnings transcripts, ESG reports
- Analyst– research published by top Wall Street analysts on a national and global level
- Journalist– content published in news and trade journals, as well as publications by government agencies and NGOs
- Expert– on-demand interviews with customers, partners, competitors, former employees, and industry experts
PitchBook holds a large amount of private company data that is particularly valuable for VC, PE, and M&A needs, as well as non-financial data such as employee counts, but they simply do not have enough data sets to truly tap into these four key voices that are integral for holistic research.
When stacked up against the Four Perspectives, here is where PitchBook lacks:
- Company- PitchBook holds limited earning transcripts, no SEC or global filings, and their ESG reports are created in-house.
- Analyst- PitchBook only offers Morningstar Institutional Equity Research in their standard offering.
- Journalist - PitchBook does not hold any trade journals, which severely limits this perspective.
- Expert- PitchBook does not have an expert transcript library in its content offering.
For those users who are looking for an end-to-end research process—one that allows them to quickly get smart on an area of interest and understand it from every angle—PitchBook falls short.
Additionally, while PitchBook has a robust keyword search and filtering functionality that allows users to create screeners for private companies and pinpoint specific private companies of interest, they do not have AlphaSense’s AI-based synonym recognition technology nor sentiment analysis, which streamline workflows and prevent research blindspots. Instead, their search functionality allows for basic NLP.
For users who need a 360 degree view of the market and their industries of interest, AlphaSense is the clear choice.
