AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence for business and finance. With the world’s largest content library that includes premium, proprietary, public, and private sources, as well as AI technology that extracts key insights and delivers analysis-ready outputs, AlphaSense helps you make smarter business decisions, expedite your research workflows, and get the competitive edge.
Founded in 2011 by Jack Kokko (CEO) and Raj Neervannan (CTO), AlphaSense was built to solve a problem Kokko experienced firsthand as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley: the inefficiency of manual research. Today, AlphaSense serves over 6,500 enterprise customers, including 88% of the S&P 100, 90% of the top investment banks, and 95% of the top consultancies.
What Does AlphaSense Do?
AlphaSense combines three critical elements in one unified workflow to transform how professionals conduct research and make decisions.
The World's Largest Premium Content Library
AlphaSense aggregates over 500 million documents, with 300,000+ new documents added daily. This includes:
- Company documents, such as SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, and press releases
- Broker reports from 1,700+ providers through Wall Street Insights
- Patent data for US and European patents (includes 20+ years of historical data)
- Private company intelligence
- Premium news sources, trade journals, and regulatory documents
Tegus Expert Insights
With Tegus Expert Insights, AlphaSense offers the world’s best expert transcript library and bespoke call services - now offering expanded content and call service offering leveraging our AI-Interviewer to deliver even faster, sharper, real-time market perspectives.
- Proprietary expert call transcript library with over 240,000 investor-led call transcripts (the industry's largest collection) across public and private markets.
- Channel Checks - As a piece of expert call library - allows you to now access real-time channel insights —delivering timely, unbiased perspectives on demand, pricing, sentiment, and competitive shifts at market speed.
- Expert call services, we connect you live with the most relevant experts to fit your research needs. Delivering unparalleled quality, best-in-class compliance, and calls without the markup.
- AI-Led Expert Calls: Unlock a new stream of proprietary insights leveraging our AI-Interviewer build to act as an extension of your team and conduct high-quality, comprehensive expert calls to your behalf. Giving you the ability to scale insights without extending your resources, get high signal discovery, maintain control and consistency and eliminate MNPI exposure.
Enterprise Intelligence: Integrating Internal Content as a Core Content Pillar
AlphaSense Enterprise Intelligence bridges the gap between your proprietary internal data and our premium external content library. While the platform provides a foundation of over 500 million third-party documents — including exclusive expert transcripts and premium trade journals — it goes further by integrating your organization’s own internal knowledge as a core content pillar. Through seamless integration (Sharepoint, OneNote, Evernote, Box, Egnyte, Google Drive, and Dropbox), upload, file-sync, and API capabilities, users can co-mingle internal assets with external market insights to eliminate silos, deepen context, and accelerate the creation of high-impact deliverables.
Security remains central to this solution, ensuring that your most sensitive data is protected by an enterprise-grade architecture. AlphaSense provides best in class security and control with BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) encryption, regional cloud hosting, and sophisticated permission mirroring — giving organizations full control over their data and access protocols. This granular, role-based access control ensures that internal information is only accessible to authorized users, maintaining the highest standards of institutional privacy.
In a landscape where enterprise data volumes double annually, AlphaSense transforms fragmented, siloed information into decision-ready insights. By powering this combined content ecosystem with purpose-built Generative AI, AlphaSense delivers unmatched precision and speed. Our best-in-class indexing and embedding architecture creates a high-fidelity knowledge graph across structured and unstructured data, ensuring every insight is grounded in a foundation of data integrity, security, and relevance. The result is a single system of intelligence that allows your team to move from raw data to confident, strategic action in a fraction of the time.
Comprehensive Financial Data
AlphaSense Financial Data equips investment and strategy teams to analyze companies, benchmark markets, and update valuation models with greater speed, accuracy, and confidence.
The suite includes clean, auditable datasets across 22,000+ global companies (financials, consensus estimates, and market data), 4,100+ ready-to-use Canalyst models with granular KPIs, extensive M&A and private funding data covering approximately 1M transactions and 700K+ funding rounds, and 2M+ private company workforce data points.
What sets AlphaSense apart is its ability to connect numbers and narrative in a single workflow. Analyze a company's financials and immediately access the qualitative context from earnings transcripts, expert insights, and broker research that explains the story behind the data. Domain-specific AI trained on financial language lets you ask complex questions and get analyst-grade, cited answers that combine quantitative metrics with qualitative intelligence that generic tools miss.
Purpose-built research tools like customizable screeners, pre-built industry comps across 115+ sectors, company profiles with integrated statements and comparables, and a native Excel add-in make complex financial analysis simple without toggling between fragmented systems.
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AI Search and Summarization Technology
AlphaSense's AI is purpose-built for business and financial research. Unlike consumer-grade AI tools, AlphaSense's AI understands industry-specific terminology, context, and workflows.
Generative Search, now with Deep Research capabilities, transforms how users can extract insights from our vast library of premium content sources. 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.
Generative Grid applies multiple genAI prompts to many documents at the same time to quickly provide organized answers to research questions at scale, in an easy-to-read table format. This enables clients to summarize documents using pre-built criteria to save time when executing repeatable workflows.
Smart Summaries allows users 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 summaries provide links to the exact location in the text from where the summaries pull — combining high accuracy with easy verification.
AI Workflow Agents automate routine research workflows. Users can generate company primers, market landscapes, and competitive analyses with a single click. Slide Agent eliminates hours of non-differentiated work by creating first drafts of pitchbook slides in a firm's own templates. These agents, which can also be completely customized and scheduled to run systematically, compress weeks of analysis into minutes without requiring users to write prompts.
Sentiment Analysis is a natural language processing (NLP)-based feature that parses content and identifies nuances in language such as tone and subjective meaning. It then uses color coding to help users identify instances of positive, negative, and neutral sentiment throughout the document.
Monitoring, Analysis, and Collaboration Tools
AlphaSense is designed to help users find insights faster. In order to do that, we offer a number of 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 alerts provide real-time updates.
- Powerful collaboration tools like Notebook+ and commenting features help teams manage and share insights more effectively.
- Table Tools allow you to move faster with spreadsheet-style visualizations directly from company filings, so you can chain together, edit, and optimize tables for analysis.
- Image Search allows you to discover insights buried in charts to quickly return data without reading through pages of documents.
- Snippet Explorer allows you to effortlessly assess any topic or theme and all its historical mentions in a single view.
- 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.
Who Uses AlphaSense?
AlphaSense serves over 6,500 enterprise customers, spanning across three primary segments:
Financial Services: Investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, asset management, venture capital, family offices, and sell-side research teams.
Corporations: Corporate strategy, corporate development, competitive intelligence, and business development teams across life sciences, technology, energy, industrials, and consumer and retail.
Professional Services: Consulting firms, law firms, and insurance companies.
Where Does AlphaSense Fit in the Market?
AlphaSense occupies a unique position at the intersection of market intelligence, financial data, and AI-powered workflow automation.
Compared to Traditional Data Terminals
Traditional financial data terminals excel at quantitative data and real-time market information. AlphaSense wins over these platforms by providing:
- Broader and more qualitative content coverage: Broker research, expert call transcripts, news, and company documents provide necessary qualitative context to raw numbers.
- Advanced search and AI-powered discovery: AlphaSense’s AI is purpose-built for business and financial workflows, and it understands queries beyond literal keywords — reducing the risk of missed insights. It also supports searching across both structured and unstructured data, resulting in more complete research.
- Faster, more efficient research workflows: AlphaSense saves countless hours of manual research by offering tools like customizable dashboards, watchlists, real-time alerts, and other monitoring tools. These help you stay on top of developments without having to manually re-run searches. AlphaSense is also cloud-based, which makes it more accessible and supports streamlined collaboration within organizations.
Compared to Specialized AI Research Tools
Specialized AI tools often address specific use cases like document summarization or data extraction, but they usually lack built-in content sets and do not usually support end-to-end workflows from discovery to deliverable. AlphaSense wins over these platforms by providing:
- Broad enterprise-grade content coverage and domain breadth: AlphaSense indexes hundreds of millions of business documents across a wide array of industries, making it ideal for multi-domain, cross-sector intelligence.
- Integrated end-to-end AI-assisted workflows: Rather than just retrieving or summarizing documents, AlphaSense wraps AI-powered search, summarization, analytics, and modeling into one unified platform. With features like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and financial modeling, AlphaSense compresses days of manual effort into minutes or hours while maintaining citation-level traceability.
Compared to General-Purpose AI Assistants
General-purpose AI tools offer broad capabilities but lack access to premium content like broker research and expert transcripts, and they usually are not suitable for enterprise-grade research. AlphaSense wins over these platforms by providing:
Access to a large, curated domain-specific content universe: AlphaSense provides access to a vast universe of business and finance-oriented documents, many of which are proprietary to our platform and cannot be found elsewhere.
Enterprise-grade security and data accuracy: Because AlphaSense is purpose-built for financial and business enterprises, it prioritizes compliance, data security, auditability, and governance. Our AI is never trained on customer data, and AlphaSense complies with all regulatory and security standards.
Domain-specific AI: AlphaSense’s AI is built specifically for financial and business research and is trained on premium financial and business content, which means it’s much less likely to hallucinate and is better geared to support market intelligence workflows.
Why AlphaSense?
Unique content access: Premium broker research, 240,000+ expert transcripts, and proprietary data sources that cannot be found elsewhere.
Full citation transparency: Every AI-generated insight links to the exact sentence in the source document. This is critical for compliance, audit trails, and trust in high-stakes decisions.
End-to-end workflow support: Unlike tools that solve single use cases, AlphaSense supports the entire research and analysis workflow from discovery to deliverable.
Enterprise security: Multiple deployment options (SaaS, BYOK, BYOB, Private Cloud) meet the requirements of financial institutions and large enterprises. SOC 2 Type II certified with permission mirroring for internal content.
Quantitative and qualitative insights in one place: The only platform that unifies financial data with qualitative intelligence, eliminating the need to switch between systems.
Key Acquisitions and Partnerships
Tegus (2024): Added 200,000+ expert call transcripts, expert call scheduling capabilities, and expanded private company intelligence.
Canalyst: Contributed 4,500+ detailed financial models with assumptions and forecasts.
BamSEC: Enhanced SEC filing search and visualization capabilities.
Sentieo: Expanded platform capabilities for financial research workflows.
Cerebras Systems (2025 Partnership): Provides up to 10x faster AI inference using Cerebras WSE-3 chips, enabling real-time research at unprecedented speed.
Carousel: Automation of work products like models in Excel and PowerPoint presentations
Frequently Asked Questions
Is AlphaSense a Search Engine?
AlphaSense started as a search platform but has evolved into a comprehensive AI platform. While search remains a core capability, AlphaSense now includes autonomous AI agents that conduct research, generate deliverables, and automate workflows on behalf of users.
What Content Does AlphaSense Include?
AlphaSense aggregates over 500 million documents from public and premium sources. This includes SEC filings, earnings call transcripts, news from 90,000+ sources, broker research from 1,500+ providers through Wall Street Insights, over 240,000 expert call transcripts, and private company intelligence. Organizations can also integrate their own internal documents through Enterprise Intelligence for federated search across proprietary content.
How Does AlphaSense AI Differ from ChatGPT or Other AI Tools?
AlphaSense AI is purpose-built for business and financial research by teams with industry experience. While it uses the best and most relevant models across the platform where it makes sense, it has access to premium and proprietary content that general AI tools cannot access, provides citations linking every claim to source documents, and meets enterprise security requirements for regulated industries. General-purpose AI assistants lack this specialized training, content access, and audit-ready transparency.
What is Deep Research?
Deep Research is AlphaSense's autonomous research agent that conducts comprehensive analysis on behalf of users. Rather than requiring users to run multiple searches and synthesize results manually, Deep Research handles the entire research process and delivers findings with full citations. Tasks that previously took days or weeks can be completed in minutes.
Does AlphaSense Have Financial Data?
Yes. AlphaSense Financial Data, launched in October 2025, unifies quantitative financials with qualitative market intelligence. It includes standardized financials across thousands of public and private companies, detailed financial models, and M&A and funding data. Users can analyze the numbers and immediately access the qualitative context that explains them.
Is AlphaSense Secure for Enterprise Use?
Yes. AlphaSense offers multiple deployment options to meet enterprise security requirements, including SaaS, bring-your-own-key (BYOK), bring-your-own-bucket (BYOB), and Private Cloud. For organizations using Enterprise Intelligence to search internal documents, content never leaves the customer's network. The platform is SOC 2 Type II certified and supports permission mirroring to maintain access controls.
How Do Citations Work in AlphaSense?
Every AI-generated insight in AlphaSense links directly to the exact sentence in the source document. Users can click any claim to view the original context, verify accuracy, and build audit trails. This citation transparency is critical for compliance, quality assurance, and trust in high-stakes business and investment decisions.
Who Uses AlphaSense?
AlphaSense serves over 6,500 enterprise customers across financial services (investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, asset management, venture capital), corporations (life sciences, technology, energy, industrials, consumer goods), and professional services (consulting, law firms, insurance). More than 88% of S&P 100 companies use the platform.
