Expert calls are one-on-one interviews with seasoned subject matter experts — such as thought leaders, former executives, customers, partners, and competitors — from a specific industry or company. These experts provide unique perspectives that otherwise would be inaccessible to investment analysts and corporate professionals.
In the AlphaSense platform, these calls are either conducted by seasoned analysts and stored in our expert transcript library, or they are conducted by the user themselves to get specific answers to their most critical research questions. Our AI and generative AI search and summarization features help users get the most value out of these calls — all while saving time and money.
The top companies of the world are already seeing how integral and powerful these unique perspectives are in making more confident decisions. Investment and corporate professionals are retiring traditional expert networks and incorporating powerful expert insights into their comprehensive research strategies to gain a competitive edge.
AlphaSense customers are able to unlock expert insights in hours, not days, allowing them to adjust their strategies in real-time and take proactive action before the next headline impacts the market. And with our transparent pricing and 70% cost saving compared to traditional expert networks, our customers are constantly maximizing their research ROI.
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Proprietary Insights from Expert Calls
First-hand perspectives, such as those discovered in expert calls, are a critical addition to secondary research. Not only do they transform your research process from reactive to proactive, they ensure you stay ahead of the curve and competition. While quantitative insights and data are important for painting an objective picture, company leaders need first-hand experiential knowledge gained through expert calls to build a holistic view of any market, industry, or trend.
Here’s how Tegus by AlphaSense enhances and streamlines your market research:
Reliable and Objective Knowledge

It’s not always easy to find objective qualitative information in market research, especially when relying solely on company documents. In earnings and investor relations calls, companies want to present themselves in the best possible light, making it difficult to glean the nuances of company culture, industry-specific competitive landscapes, or even consumer behavior.
Expert calls are valuable because they offer a highly informed yet unbiased perspective since the experts are no longer involved with the company in question (and in rare cases where the expert is still part of the market or industry, they have to abide by strict disclaimers to combat conflicts of interest).
Expert network calls are completely legal, provided they adhere to strict compliance standards regarding the sharing of material non-public information (MNPI). Reputable platforms like AlphaSense ensure that all calls are conducted within legal and ethical boundaries, with robust mechanisms in place to prevent the disclosure of MNPI, safeguarding all participants.
At AlphaSense, experts are required to be at least six months out of their prior role with the target company of the expert call transcript. This ensures that AlphaSense’s expert transcripts provide significantly more objective insights than interviews with current company employees or stakeholders.
Faster, Deeper Insights with AI

Even when you have all the right expert transcripts at your fingertips, actually finding and extracting the most relevant insights from lengthy conversations can be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack — tedious and unlikely to yield success. But with AI features, such as AlphaSense Generative Search (with Deep Research), you can ask natural-language questions about any topic and get instant answers sourced directly from expert calls. Each answer links back to the precise snippet of the interview that it was sourced from for easy verification and further research.
You also have the option of expanding your AI search from just expert transcripts to AlphaSense’s entire universe of content. That way, you get the benefit of additional context and verifiability because you can see if the expert’s words are backed up by other sources, such as analyst reports and company documents.
Early Insight into Demand and Pricing Signals

One issue with traditional expert networks is it can be difficult to get the insights you need immediately. Unless the specific topic you are interested in has already been covered sufficiently in an existing transcript, you need to spend time on finding the right expert, conducting your own interview, and then validating the insights acquired.
But with AlphaSense Channel Checks, you can glean actionable intelligence instantly through our living channel intelligence system. Thousands of consistent conversations every month surface clean, comparable signals on demand and pricing from ground-level channel sources weeks before the market catches on. Our AI-led interviews surface demand trends, pricing movements, and competitive dynamics as they happen instead of in static postmortem reports.
You can simultaneously interrogate dozens of Channel Check interviews across peer sets to extract demand, inventory, and pricing insights in seconds. And with full transcript access, you can build conviction through source-level verification and defend investment recommendations with primary source evidence, eliminating the trust gap inherent in third-party research summaries.
Insight into Highly Regulated Industries and Markets
Industries like healthcare, financial services, and tech are some of the hottest in the current investment landscape, but they are also highly regulated. As these industries are currently experiencing some of the highest growth rates in the US, demand for expert knowledge in these areas is high to capitalize on high-growth opportunities.
However, these industries are rapidly changing, and many investors do not have a full understanding of all the relevant factors at play to make well-informed business and investment strategies within these markets. AlphaSense Expert Insights can fill in these gaps and ensure that investors’ decisions are not hindered by a lack of technical expertise by providing critical context to data-driven market research.

Commentary on Larger Trends
Research analysts know how to recognize trends in market or industry data. But they don’t always understand the “why” behind these trends, what the larger implications of the trends are, or how these trends should be considered in relation to investment decisions.
Expert calls offer access to contemporary perspectives that are crucial for staying ahead of trends in rapidly changing markets. This access to real-time, relevant insights helps businesses and investors adapt to emerging trends and regulatory changes, maintaining a proactive approach to market challenges.
Our experts have the extensive experience and deep knowledge to answer all those questions. Whether you are conducting your own call or consulting our transcript library, you will unlock proprietary insights that will give you the confidence to make smarter business decisions and navigate any market conditions. Additionally, our analysts know how to conduct interviews to recognize and get beyond any subjective motivations in an expert’s response, uncovering valuable insights that can serve as a launching ground for additional research.

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How AlphaSense Clients Use Expert Calls to Get Ahead
No longer just a powerful resource for the financial services space, expert calls are now providing valuable insights and a competitive advantage to corporate and professional services professionals at top companies.
Here’s how our customers utilize our Expert Insights offering for their financial and strategic research:
Corporate Strategy
Corporate professionals utilize expert calls to validate market assumptions, assess competitive dynamics, and identify emerging trends for informed financial and strategic decisions. These insights enable corporate strategy teams to refine growth plans, mitigate risks, and stay ahead of industry shifts.
- Peer and competitive landscaping – An expert can provide valuable intel on a company’s operations, history, internal teams, competitors, and other relevant strategies. Knowing these details about one’s peers or competitors can empower more proactive strategy and help uncover specific competitive advantages and gaps of competitive interest.
- Understanding industry trends and market-moving events – Experts can help professionals understand how certain trends will impact their company, as well as how other companies in the industry are being affected. This is important whether you are looking into M&A opportunities or simply benchmarking with your competition. An expert on a target company can help you understand how that company navigates evolving business environments.
- Technical expertise – For companies looking to launch a new product, it is imperative to have a clear understanding of how other products are both built and operated. Experts who have worked in engineering and product development teams within a company are capable of providing deep insight into these areas.
Hedge Funds
For hedge funds, expert calls are a strategic tool used to gain detailed insights into specific industries or companies. These insights help in formulating strategies that anticipate market movements, thereby optimizing investment positions.
- Outpace the competition – Our library of 240,000+ expert call transcripts is full of proprietary insights only accessible to AlphaSense users. Our Expert Call Services allow you to connect with our vast global network of pre-qualified experts and conduct your own 1:1 interviews at a 70% cost saving, compared to traditional expert networks. These offerings, combined with our powerful AI and generative AI search and summarization features, maximize your research ROI and give you the unequivocal competitive edge.
- Research use cases – With our diverse body of experts, ranging from former employees — executives to lab techs to sales to competitors, customers, channel partners, and more — you have every perspective you need. These perspectives are crucial in long and short-book idea generation, exploring potential M&A or restructuring candidates, searching for sector or thematic insights, and monitoring portfolio holdings.
- Industry-leading standards for compliance – All of our experts are vetted for conflicts, and our compliance team diligently reviews all calls to ensure that no material or non-public information is published. Internal compliance teams are also able to vet requested transcripts before use.
Asset Management
Asset managers use expert calls to analyze market trends, assess investment risks, and validate portfolio strategies with industry expertise. These qualitative insights help them make data-driven decisions, optimize asset allocation, and identify new opportunities.
- Save time and money – Our AI search technology enables you to find the information you need faster by searching across our expert transcript library of 240,000+ expert transcripts, all for less than the cost of a typical call bundle. If you cannot find the insights you need in our transcript library, you can conduct your own 1:1 calls with pre-qualified experts for a much lower cost than with traditional expert networks.
- Gain early access to fresh perspectives – We add thousands of new transcripts to our library monthly, which means you always get updated, differentiated insights that empower better idea generation and portfolio monitoring. And when you conduct your own expert calls, you ensure the fastest, most relevant answers to each of your research questions.
- Industry-leading standards for compliance – Expert Insights prioritizes compliance throughout the content development process and has a team of trained compliance reviewers who ensure research safety for clients.
Private Equity
Private market investors leverage expert calls to gain a clearer understanding of niche markets or to evaluate unlisted companies. These insights are crucial for identifying undervalued opportunities or assessing potential investment risks, providing a competitive edge in a less transparent market segment.
- Discover winning opportunities faster – Our patented AI-search technology helps you bypass any irrelevant expert calls and surfaces only the most pertinent insights. We make sure you never waste time scheduling interviews with mediocre experts again.
- Get the insights you need for a better offer – Because our calls are conducted by buy-side analysts, you can be sure they are going in deep on the topics that matter most. Learn about competitive moats, tech stacks, industry headwinds and tailwinds, and get answers to the questions that matter most. Schedule your own expert calls to get answers to highly specific questions and the most tailored advice.
- Increase your value add in the boardroom – Expert calls equip you with differentiated competitive intelligence, industry best practices, and notable companies to consider for add-on acquisitions.
Venture Capital
Venture capitalists utilize expert calls to validate business models, assess market potential, and understand industry dynamics. These insights directly inform investment decisions, particularly in emerging sectors or startups where traditional data may be scarce.
- Improve your market knowledge – Expert calls provide critical market insights at scale straight from the source. Unearth pain points and new opportunities for disruption, and discover the strengths and weaknesses of emerging companies.
- Gain a deep understanding of product roadmaps – Expert calls will help you map out buy vs build plans, learn the difference between official messaging and an engineer’s code, and discover relevant partners and customers.
- Increase your value add in the boardroom – Expert calls equip you with differentiated competitive intelligence, industry best practices, and notable potential acquirers to help you rise above your competition.
Consulting
Consultants use expert calls to gather industry expertise, validate market assumptions, and assess competitive landscapes for client strategies. These insights enhance decision-making, support data-driven recommendations, and identify growth opportunities.
- Gain deep insights for clients – Whether you consult an expert transcript in our library or conduct your own 1:1 call with an expert, you’ll get differentiated insights that fill in research gaps and go far beyond the industry knowledge that internal team members may have.
- Source leading subject matter experts – The Expert Insights database can be used to find experts, including former or current executive leaders, to speak at internal workshops, or clients’ workshops.
- Conduct thorough due diligence on clients – Expert calls enable consultants to get smart on their clients quickly and thoroughly—by hearing from experts who have firsthand experience with those companies—which enables them to meet clients’ needs much more effectively and better than the competition.
The diverse applications of expert calls across different industries underscore their importance as a strategic resource in modern business and investment environments. By providing direct access to specialized knowledge and industry leaders, expert calls empower companies and investors to make informed, effective decisions with confidence.
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