Channel-check research used to be a luxury good. Talking directly to the people around a business — its customers, suppliers, distributors, former employees, and the industry experts who follow it — was something only the largest funds could afford to commission.
AlphaSense changed that, putting the market's deepest channel-check library within reach of any investor. But that was only the first step: On any given company name, there is now more expert input than one analyst can read through and extract what matters.
Now, AlphaSense's Channel Check Intelligence turns that library into a clear read on every name you cover.
A Read on Every Name, Built From Every Interview
Behind a single name lie dozens of structured expert interviews, refreshed every quarter, covering a company's demand, supply, pricing, and competitive dynamics — plus the KPIs experts cite along the way, rolled into means, medians, and ranges you can trace back to the quote. That depth is the advantage. The only limit is a human one: No analyst has the hours to read every interview on every name they care about, quarter-after-quarter, and be able to extract the key insights from each read. The more names a fund covers, the more of that depth stays beyond what any one analyst can read in a quarter, leaving the alpha the fund pays for on the table.
AlphaSense’s Channel Check Intelligence reads those interviews for you and synthesizes them into a summary view on every covered name, across 750+ tickers, and down to the names you actually cover.
It leads with a plain-language synthesis of what the channel is saying about a company, and how that discourse has changed quarter over quarter. You get the overview first, before you dig into the details. The work of assembling that view, interview by interview, is already done.
The natural question is whether a general AI tool or a terminal already covers this. Those tools are able to reach a vast amount of information, but the challenge is turning what they reach into something you can actually extract and defend.
A general model doesn't have the channel-check library behind it. AlphaSense adds 9,000+ proprietary channel check expert interviews to that library quarterly, and none of that is available to a general AI tool. Without it, there's no way to synthesize a wide range of expert perspectives and turn them into a single coherent point of view. And general tools can't tie a claim back to the exact expert and quote it came from. For a view you're taking to a portfolio manager or an investment committee, traceability is crucial. "Because the AI model said so," won't hold up. This is why customers described our platform as "mission critical, citing its superiority over general-purpose AI assistants in the recent Forrester Wave for Market & Competitive Intelligence Platforms.
Every Claim Traces Back to the Expert Who Said It
A view you cannot trace is a claim, and claims can be challenged. With Channel Check Intelligence, every claim in the read links back to the expert interview it came from. You can trace any point to the exact quote behind it, and open the full transcript from there.
That traceability is what lets you act on or defend a view when someone pushes back. The interviews follow a consistent method. The same core questions get asked quarter after quarter, and the expert panel is quality-checked, so each quarter lines up against the last on the same terms. Each finding shows the type of expert and the date of the interview it came from, so you can see what's behind the read before you rely on it. This is why AlphaSense scored a perfect 5/5 for accuracy and relevancy in the recent Forrester Wave for Market & Competitive Intelligence Platforms.
Follow Your Universe Between Earnings Cycles
A channel can shift in the weeks between one quarter's transcripts and the next, which is exactly the window where the edge is supposed to live. Reads refresh daily, ensuring Channel Check Intelligence has the latest data and insights to surface what companies have changed, including when, why, and by how much when the changes actually happen — not only when individual new transcripts land. You find out while the channel is still moving, instead of after the fact.
See It on the Names You Cover
Channel Check Intelligence is available now for customers. Check it out in your AlphaSense account.
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