Item: AlphaSense
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AlphaSense helps me quickly sift through (1) thousands of publicly available company information and (2) thousands of value-added third-party research. This helps our team gather differentiated data points about companies and industries.

Pros and Cons

Boolean-based search, especially finding quantitative figures.
Bring together all publicly available and 3rd party information to a single platform/view.
Sort results by different factors (i.e date, score, etc.).

Search always treats "and" as a boolean "AND".
Certain broker reports (notably Citi) sometimes breaks the UI.

Return on Investment

Deeper competitive insights.
Efficiency / Productivity gained.
Broader content sources.
Informed decisions.

Usability

Personally, I found it quite intuitive to use and quick to onboard. I treat AlphaSense as a "Google for financial research."

AlphaSense Market Intelligence

Alphasense has been critical in providing valuable market intelligence. Sell-side broker reports have definitely added credibility to triaging our internal views and estimates with experts in the field, who have access to company management teams and have done their own research as they do this full-time.

Key Insights

Do you think AlphaSense delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AlphaSense's feature set?

Yes

Did AlphaSense live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of AlphaSense go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AlphaSense again?

Yes

Other Software Used

PitchBook

Likelihood to Recommend

AlphaSense is well suited for finance/strategy roles, where teams are heavily involved in gathering external data about a company, industry, and trends. It helps customers save hours of their time sifting through SEC filings, earnings transcripts, broker reports, etc. AlphaSense is less appropriate for those that may only need to pull minimal/generic financial data (i.e., P&L), not explicitly using key search terms/keywords (i.e., trying to find how much a company paid for an acquisition as reported in their 10K).

AlphaSense Review.

Overall Satisfaction with AlphaSense