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Expert networks have become indispensable tools for businesses and professionals across industries as they offer direct access to expert insights, market intelligence, and real-time data to inform decision-making. These firsthand perspectives are a critical addition to secondary research.
While some expert network platforms focus on expert calls and more traditional offerings, others, like AlphaSense, are equipped with artificial intelligence capabilities that enable you to accelerate and streamline your research process. These all-in-one platforms also feature rich content sets that add necessary context to the research narrative.
In this guide, we compare AlphaSights and Third Bridge — two traditional expert networks — with AlphaSense, covering key features, strengths, and weaknesses. We will also cover which use cases are best served by each tool and how you can choose the right platform for your business needs.
AlphaSights
Best for: Fast access to specialized expertise through expert interviews
AlphaSights is a leading global expert network that connects businesses with industry experts to provide insights and advice for strategic decision-making. The platform combines expert network coverage, technology, and compliance to provide business intelligence and analysis to its clients.
The AlphaSights network of experts is suitable for investment bankers, private investment firms, mutual funds, management consulting firms, corporations, and non-government organizations (NGOs).
AlphaSights provides mostly qualitative insights, which may not meet the needs of teams that require detailed quantitative analysis and data-driven decision-making. Additionally, the platform’s reliance on human expertise may be an ill fit for organizations seeking more robust automated offerings.
AlphaSights also lacks broker research, company documents, news, and other critical content sets, as well as AI-powered search capabilities and sentiment analysis. This makes the platform insufficient as a standalone solution for conducting full-scale market or investment research.
AlphaSights includes the following key features:
Expert Consultations
AlphaSights provides access to pre-qualified industry experts for video or in-person sessions. Experts are typically sourced and scheduled within 24 to 48 hours, depending on task complexity.
Content Library
AlphaSights features a searchable archive of previously conducted expert interviews, transcripts, and insights — allowing clients to access curated insights on demand.
Surveys and Custom Insights Projects
Clients can request quantitative surveys or qualitative insight collection across specific expert audiences. This supports hypothesis testing, market validation, or structured data gathering efforts from a targeted group of experts.
AI-Powered Tools
AlphaSights incorporated several AI tools in 2024 to summarize expert calls, synthesize documents, and generate project briefs automatically.
Customizable Workflow Tools
AlphaSights features a centralized dashboard for managing expert consultations, recordings, transcripts, and collaborative team efforts. Its scheduling, tagging, and categorization tools are designed to streamline the research process, while real-time notifications aim to help users stay on top of workflows.
AlphaSights Pricing
While AlphaSights does not publicly disclose its pricing, online sources state that clients typically prepay for a certain amount of credits that allows them to conduct a specific number of calls, with the potential for additional fees or mark-ups.
AlphaSights Pros:
- Large network of industry specialists
- Serves a diverse array of industries and business functions
- Offers expert call services and consultations
- Incorporates some AI tools
AlphaSights Cons:
- Quantitative offerings are limited
- No advanced AI-powered smart search or sentiment analysis
- No broker research, company documents, or news
- Cannot upload internal content
- No support for integrations or organizations
- Scheduling process for expert consultations can be time-consuming
Related Reading: AlphaSights vs Third Bridge
Third Bridge
Best for: In-depth expert insights, alongside industry and thematic research
Third Bridge is a global primary research provider and expert network service that delivers qualitative insights to investors, consultants, and business leaders. The firm specializes in analyst-led interviews and direct access to industry professionals, geared toward helping clients evaluate opportunities, assess competitive dynamics, and refine investment strategies.
Third Bridge is best suited for users who need real-time access to specialized knowledge and expert calls, but who do not need quantitative insights or qualitative proprietary insights beyond expert calls.
Third Bridge’s key features include:
Third Bridge Advisors
The Advisors feature connects clients with senior industry specialists across the globe for long-term, flexible engagements. Clients receive detailed profiles of each advisor, including screening information, network history, and leadership background, to ensure the right fit. Clients can then engage advisors through multiple touchpoints such as calls, meetings, emails, and written reports, typically at a lower cost than traditional headhunting or consultancy services.
Third Bridge Library
Third Bridge Library is a repository of company-level research covering more than 65,000 public and private firms. The content comprises expert interviews enhanced with structured data, giving clients on-demand access to profiles, market perspectives, and sector insights. Built-in AI search and summarization capabilities are designed to streamline discovery and insight generation.
Third Bridge Data Feeds
Data Feeds deliver continuously updated company intelligence and transcripts from Third Bridge Library, supporting deeper analysis alongside a client’s own internal datasets. Sentiment analysis capabilities and seamless integration with other feeds adds further utility for quant and data science teams.
Third Bridge Expert Calls
Expert Calls provide one-on-one access to Third Bridge’s proprietary global expert network of industry veterans, former executives, investors, and functional specialists. Third Bridge matches experts to the client’s brief, enabling targeted due diligence. Third Bridge’s multilayered compliance framework ensures that every participant is properly vetted and approved before each call.
Third Bridge Surveys
Surveys offer rapid access to B2B insights across markets, customer segments, pricing tiers, and competitive landscapes. Drawing on Third Bridge’s proprietary network of over 1.5 million vetted professionals across industries and functions, surveys are launched within 24 hours and typically return results within days. Dedicated project managers oversee each stage, while strict quality controls are designed to ensure reliable and compliant responses.
AI Capabilities
In 2024, Third Bridge rolled out a new AI-powered search feature layered on top of its legacy search tool. This feature allows users to ask natural language questions about insights found in the expert transcript library, and get summarizations of expert views on specific topics.
Third Bridge has also partnered with third-party AI platforms to enable integration of qualitative expert insights from Third Bridge with clients’ own AI workflows in other tools.
Third Bridge Pricing
While Third Bridge does not publicly disclose its pricing, online sources state that the platform uses a pay-per-call model, with pricing via credit packages or subscriptions.
Third Bridge Pros:
- Curated library of expert calls covering over 65,000 companies
- Client-driven one-on-one interviews with experts
- Partnerships with third-party AI platforms
- AI summarizations and search across expert insights
- Proprietary company ranking model
Third Bridge Cons:
- Cannot upload internal content
- Lacks broker research, company documents, news, and most quantitative data
- AI capabilities are not as advanced as some competitors’
- Scheduling expert calls can be time-consuming
Related Reading: Third Bridge Alternatives & Competitors
AlphaSense
Best for: All-in-one market intelligence — including comprehensive quantitative and qualitative data sources — with advanced AI features for added speed, accuracy, and scope
AlphaSense is a leading enterprise-grade market intelligence and AI search platform built for robust market and investment research. The AlphaSense platform unifies financial research, expert transcripts, one-on-one calls, and AI-powered research into one seamless workflow.
Consistently ranked as an industry leader by TrustRadius and G2, AlphaSense was also recently named one of Fortune’s Top 50 AI Innovators and was ranked No. 8 on CNBC’s 2025 Disruptor 50 list.
AlphaSense uniquely combines qualitative and quantitative research, generative AI analysis and search, and deep market intelligence on both private and public companies.
Here’s how AlphaSense enables you to extract insights and intelligence from both high-value internal and external content with the power of genAI, all on a single platform:
Extensive Out-of-the-Box Content Library
AlphaSense's exclusive collection of 10,000+ private, public, premium, and proprietary data sources is unmatched and includes:
- Company documents for both private and public companies, including earnings transcripts, company presentations, SEC and global filings, ESG reports, and press releases
- Wall Street Insights®, an exclusive collection of equity research covering more than 1,000 broker sources, including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Citibank
- Tegus Expert Insights, a call transcript library with over 220,000 vetted interviews (including with competitors, suppliers, customers, and KOLs). Learn more about the combined offering of AlphaSense and Tegus here
- News, industry reports, trade journals, and regulatory documents
Enterprise Intelligence
AlphaSense’s Enterprise Intelligence solution allows you to integrate and query your own internal content alongside the premium external sources listed above. That includes:
- Internal research, notes, and presentations
- CIMs, virtual data rooms, and investment memos
- Reports from industry and market intelligence providers
- Emails, newsletters, web pages, and RSS feeds
AlphaSense centralizes all your internal and external knowledge in one place, and allows you to leverage our industry-leading search, summarization, and monitoring tools to enhance and accelerate your research.
Powerful AI Search & Summarization Technology
AlphaSense has invested 10+ years into the development of our tech stack. Our industry-leading suite of AI tools, purpose-built to deliver business-grade insights, includes:
Generative Search
Generative Search, now with Deep Research capabilities, transforms how users can extract insights from our vast library of premium content sources. Generative Search is trained to think like an analyst, so it understands the market research intent behind your natural language queries.
Generative Search helps you get up to speed on a company or topic by instantly surfacing the answers you need. You can dig deeper into topics by asking follow-up questions or choosing a suggested query. Each answer provides citations to the exact snippet of text from where the information was sourced, so that it can always be referenced back.
Generative Grid
Generative Grid applies multiple genAI prompts across many documents simultaneously to quickly provide organized answers to research questions at scale, in an easy-to-read table format. This enables users to summarize documents using pre-built criteria to save time when executing repeatable workflows.
Generative Grid pulls data from both premium external documents in the AlphaSense platform and users’ internal content. From there, users can choose pre-built templates or create their own to automate routine workflows. Each summary provides a direct citation to the source material it was pulled from.
Smart Summaries
This feature allows you to glean instant earnings insights (reducing time spent on research during earnings season), quickly capture company outlook and bull/bear cases from analyst research, and generate an expert-approved SWOT analysis straight from former competitors, partners, and employees. All Smart Summaries provide you with citations to the exact snippets of text from where the summaries are sourced — combining high accuracy with easy verification.
Smart Synonyms
This unique, proprietary AlphaSense feature can understand both the keyword and search intent behind any of your queries, factoring in search results that include variations in business language. For example, a search for “TAM” will also return results on “addressable market” and “market size.”
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 sentiment over time. Users can take advantage of it to make better-informed investment decisions and improve risk management strategies.
Tegus Expert Insights
Over 10 years of investment in AI development and the acquisition of Tegus in July 2024 has culminated in AlphaSense’s market-leading AI capabilities. Our powerful AI technology allows you to surface millions of valuable critical insights from Expert Insights, without spending valuable time manually searching for the right expert.
Expert Transcript Library
The Tegus expert transcript library offers the largest curation of public and private company transcripts built on top of leading AI-powered functionality to easily surface and sort powerful insights.
Dive into an extensive library of 220,000+ expert transcripts and audio to access proprietary insights from former executives, customers, competitors, and channel participants across a range of industries.
Leverage on-demand access to our premium intelligence on thousands of public and private companies to create strategies that lead to fresh insights on new products, market sizes, and sector trends.
Expert Call Services
AlphaSense’s Expert Call Services offering allows you to quickly connect with experts for customized interviews to fill in any research gaps in your investment strategies. Gain access to more than 1 million pre-qualified expert profiles spanning all industries across the globe with seasoned subject matter experts, including thought leaders, former executives, customers, partners, and competitors.
Expert Call Services saves ~70% versus traditional networks by charging calls at cost (expert rate + $75 transcript fee). Flexible durations (30, 45, 60 min) and packages with no expiration give users control. Calls are seamlessly integrated into the AlphaSense platform, so you can discover experts, book calls, and analyze transcripts in one place.
Industry-Leading Compliance
Compliance is built into every stage of the expert call process — rigorous pre-call vetting, live monitoring, and post-call transcript review. Embargo periods and pay-to-delay options safeguard client advantages, while a 75+ person compliance team ensures alignment with global regulatory standards.
Additionally, AlphaSense’s hand-picked team of compliance reviewers manually evaluates every single transcript prior to its publication to provide our clients with confidence about the safety of their research.
Financial Modeling and Company Data
Financial Data and Models (Canalyst)
Gain instant access to over 4,000 global fundamental pre-built models and over 60 industry dashboards, all hand-built and sourced by sector-focused analysts. Unlike building your own models and comp sheets, using our off-the-shelf models, dashboards, and data reduces time spent on manual data sourcing. This allows you to focus your time on analyzing data, not aggregating it.
AlphaSense’s Financial Data solution is built to give research professionals a complete, up-to-date view of their competitive landscape. With standardized financials, key performance metrics, and valuation data — as well as purpose-built features such as ready-made comps tables and instant Excel refresh functionality — you can benchmark competitors, spot market shifts, and uncover strategic moves faster than ever before.
Financial Data includes a variety of data sets, each with its own competitive intelligence use cases:
- Historical financials: Benchmark competitor performance and pinpoint strengths and weaknesses
- Consensus estimates: Track market expectations and anticipate competitors’ future moves
- Company KPIs: Monitor segment and product-level trends across your peer set
- Market data: Assess competitive positioning and analyze real-time market reactions
- M&A transactions: Stay on top of competitor deal activity and strategic direction
BamSEC Company Data
Make quantitative investment research easier by transforming how you work with public company data. By streamlining access to SEC filings, earnings and events transcripts, financial documents, and more, BamSEC saves analysts time, freeing up capacity to focus on work that matters.
BamSEC allows users to search across multiple companies and SEC filings simultaneously. Customers can use these documents to perform due diligence on companies and explore performance metrics efficiently. Using the tables on BamSEC, users can explore past filings, create models, and benchmark company performance, all in one place, without needing to pull up individual filings to manually track a company’s metrics.
AlphaSense Pricing
AlphaSense users can access an all-in-one market research platform that includes unparalleled access to market data and expert analysis, proprietary AI search features, and a better, customer-centric user experience at a competitive price point. Users can choose between enterprise and per-seat pricing, making it more accessible for businesses of all sizes.
Contact us for more information on pricing options, or start a free 2-week trial here.
AlphaSense Pros:
- Extensive content database that spans key market perspectives, including expert call transcripts, broker reports, company documents, news, and regulatory sites
- 10+ years of investment in AI
- AI search technology, machine learning, and sentiment analysis
- GenAI features like Generative Search, Deep Research, Smart Summaries, and Generative Grid that can be applied to both external and internal content
- 4,000+ pre-built financial models that update automatically
- Live transcripts that allow users to view past, present, and future event transcripts in a calendar and real-time view
- Automated and customizable alerts
- All-in-one research platform
- Mobile app that includes all platform content and AI search capabilities
- User-friendly interface
- Internal note-taking, sharing, and collaboration features
- Supports APIs and integrations
- Purpose-built for enterprise-level organizations and teams
- Enterprise-grade data production complying with global security standards: SOC2, ISO270001, FIPS 140-2, and SAML 2.0
- 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
See how AlphaSense compares to other market intelligence platforms.
A Better Alternative to AlphaSights and Third Bridge?
When selecting a platform for effective market intelligence, buyers should consider platforms that offer both qualitative and quantitative data analysis, AI-driven insights, and real-time access to an extensive content universe. These valuable offerings enable organizations to get a holistic and comprehensive view of the market landscape and make informed decisions quickly and efficiently.
While AlphaSights and Third Bridge are strong expert network providers, AlphaSense offers a distinct advantage over both platforms, serving as a comprehensive market intelligence platform that goes beyond simply connecting users with experts.
Unlike AlphaSights and Third Bridge, both of which focus primarily on facilitating expert calls, AlphaSense integrates AI-powered search and genAI capabilities into a vast content universe. With AlphaSense, users can quickly access and analyze a vast array of data sources, including quantitative financial data, company filings, news, analyst reports, and expert call transcripts — all in one place.This enables deeper and faster insight generation without the need for multiple consultations.
AlphaSense’s platform is built for delivering real-time information and actionable insights, making it a highly versatile and efficient tool for market research, investment decisions, and corporate strategy.
Additionally, AlphaSense offers a user-friendly experience with robust customer support, making it accessible to a wide range of organizations, from startups to large enterprises. The platform’s combination of AI technology, extensive content coverage, and ease of use makes AlphaSense a superior option for companies looking to streamline their research processes and make more informed business decisions.
AlphaSense is the best choice for you if:
- You are looking for a platform that can aid functions across your organization and help teams meet strategic goals.
- You need a platform that takes away the tedious, manual parts of research and surfaces relevant, real-time insights, saving you precious time for deeper analysis and strategy.
- You are interested in accessing an expansive content universe of proprietary, premium, private, and public content that is inaccessible to the general public and many of your peers.
- You are looking for a holistic view of any market with access to financial data, broker research, expert transcripts, regulatory documents, company documents, and real-time news.
- You want a platform that will keep you ahead of the curve with advanced search, AI, and genAI capabilities that accelerate your research and ensure you never miss critical insights.
- You want a platform that will replace all your various other research avenues and be the one-stop shop for all your market intelligence needs.
- You want a platform that will work behind the scenes to ensure you never fall behind or miss critical information, with customizable real-time alerts, watchlists, and dashboards.
The combination of AlphaSense and Tegus offers a robust and comprehensive research solution that streamlines both qualitative and quantitative research in a single platform with powerful AI technology.
