At AlphaSummit 2026, we opened up SuperAnalyst to our customers and asked a simple question: What would you build if you could teach an AI agent to run your exact workflow?
Skills are how SuperAnalyst learns to work the way you work. Instead of re-explaining your process every time, you give SuperAnalyst instructions, templates, and reference files once, and it runs that exact workflow on demand from then on, the same way a new analyst would pick up your team’s playbook after their first few weeks on the desk.
At the Experience Lab, we turned that capability into a hackathon. Over two days, attendees built their own custom skills and submitted them for a shot at a premium AlphaSense experience. The response was bigger than we expected: 56 skills, built by teams across investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, life sciences, law, and half a dozen other industries. Conference attendees voted for their favorites at the Lab and in the AlphaSummit app, narrowing the field down to a winner: End Market Demand Pulse, built by Danish Parvaiz of Sensata Technologies.
Three patterns kept showing up across the 56 submissions: trust-scoring built into skills, multiple takes on stress-testing a thesis, and builders who came back with a second and third entry. Below, we’re spotlighting ten of the skills that stood out for their creativity, problem-solving, and real-world impact across key workflows.
The Skills
End Market Demand Pulse (Our Winner)
Built by Danish Parvaiz, Sensata Technologies
The skill that took the top prize gives an evidence-backed read on whether demand in one industrial end market is accelerating, stable, or slowing. It pulls in drivers, headwinds, a regional view, and a Demand Signal Scorecard, then compares the current read against the previous pulse so you can see the trend, not just a snapshot.
Our panel of product leaders, who picked the winner from the hackathon’s most popular skills, called out how clearly End Market Demand Pulse surfaces the 12 indicators behind the overall demand score. It’s the kind of output that would otherwise take days to assemble by hand, delivered as a single, repeatable workflow.
So Says You
Built by Jeff Gregg, Susquehanna International Group
Management’s credibility is a trailing indicator worth tracking on its own. So Says You goes through every promise a company’s management has made over the last five years and evaluates whether it was kept, missed, or landed somewhere in between. This gives you the context to know how much weight to put on the next promise, especially the ones that show up in Generative Search answers without any of that history attached.
Receipts
Built by Alex Sherman, BioCryst
Landing on almost the exact same idea as So Says You, Receipts grades management on whether it delivered what it said, when it said it, and re-dates the next promise accordingly. Both skills were built independently; neither builder knew the other had the same idea. That’s a strong signal that “does management actually do what it says” is a gap worth solving for a lot of people.
TAM Sizing Analysis
Built by Jessica Hacker, Insight Partners
Total addressable market estimates have a reputation problem: The headline number is often a top-down guess dressed up as analysis. This skill performs real analysis from the bottom up instead, counting the businesses that could actually buy a product and multiplying by what they’d actually pay. It includes an iterative process for defining the market and ideal customer profile, plus a prioritization step for which data sources to pull from first.
Market Mapper
Built by Siddhant Shah, Rosenblatt Securities
Market Mapper turns a market’s moving parts — the players, the activity, the choke points — into an interactive map you can visualize and keep monitoring. Rather than a static landscape slide that’s out of date the moment it’s exported, it’s built to be revisited as the market shifts.
What Would Change Your Mind?
Built by Eladio Mendez, McKesson
This skill is built to catch a weak assumption before it becomes an expensive decision. Feed it a business thesis, and it stress-tests that thesis against both supporting and contradictory evidence, then returns a cited verdict along with the specific signals that would change the conclusion. It’s a skill built to address confirmation bias, telling you where you’re wrong before the market does.
KillSwitch
Built by Jack Leung, Barclays
Every long thesis has an expiration date; most investors just find out after the fact. KillSwitch pits management’s optimism against harder signals such as customer churn data, broker downgrades, and cash-flow decay to lock in non-negotiable exit triggers before a guidance cut actually hits.
Note: Prompts are reproduced solely as examples of AlphaSense usage and should not be interpreted as representing the views of Barclays or the author, or as research views or recommendations regarding any company, security, or sector.
AfterShock
Built by Jack Leung, Barclays
Whereas KillSwitch is about knowing when to exit a position, AfterShock is about finding what the obvious trade misses. Start with any catalyst — earnings, capex, a regulatory shift, a product launch — and this skill traces the causal chain across customers, suppliers, competitors, and bottlenecks to surface second- and third-order effects. It deliberately filters out the first-order impact everyone already sees, on the theory that the headline is only the beginning of the story.
Note: Prompts are reproduced solely as examples of AlphaSense usage and should not be interpreted as representing the views of Barclays or the author, or as research views or recommendations regarding any company, security, or sector.
Internal Briefing PowerPoint Deck
Built by Armana Saffie, RGA
Ahead of a key client meeting, this skill builds a full internal briefing deck for your executives, complete with financial analysis, business segment analysis, peer analysis, earnings call implications, positioning and strategy, recent news, watchlist items, M&A history, and more. You add your own relationship intel, and SuperAnalyst handles the rest, down to specific slides on individual business units if you need them.
Pharma PDFUA Signal Tracker
Built by Brandon Comstock, MERGE
Built for tracking a drug candidate through FDA review, this skill keeps a dated, frozen record of where six label questions stand (indication, dosing, safety, regulatory, approval, and breadth) at each point across the PDUFA runway. Disagreement between sources stays visible instead of getting averaged away, silence on a question gets recorded as its own finding, and on approval day, the whole record gets scored against what the label actually says. It’s a rigorous way to track a slow-moving, high-stakes decision without losing the nuance along the way.
Build Your Own Skills
You don’t need a hackathon to build a skill. Every skill above started the same way: someone sat down with SuperAnalyst and described a workflow they already run, a report they already produce, a question they already ask on repeat. SuperAnalyst asks what it needs to know, you answer, and from there it’s yours to run whenever you need it.
Start with something you already do often enough to be sick of doing it manually. A recurring report. A check you run before every meeting. A framework you’ve built up over the years that lives in your head and nowhere else. That’s usually the best first skill: not the most ambitious idea, but one you’ll actually use next week.
Join our Customer Education team on November 17 or 19 to learn more about how to automate your research workflows. (For full access, log into your AlphaSense IQ account or sign up for one today.) Go deeper on skills, learn what you can do with customizations, and understand the best way to set up scheduled automations that run workflows without you having to ask. See how teams put AlphaSense's SuperAnalyst to work on real workflows during two live sessions on November 5, and watch past sessions on demand.
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