Item: AlphaSense
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use AlphaSense to stay on top of news and other information about the companies I cover and leverage historical information for specific projects I'm working on. I'm able to quickly dive into an analysis of specific topics or technologies that I'm investigating, whether for one company or across the industry. It is much easier than checking all the blogs, press releases, articles, and filings for each company, news, and industry source. The smart text search and highlighting features are a simple but huge productivity booster.

Pros and Cons

aggregates all data and information sources
search functionality is flexible and easy to use
the search term highlighting feature makes it super easy to just jump to the relevant text

a little more flexibility on the dashboard building

Return on Investment

faster time to insights
a one-click search in one window replaced dozens of browser tabs

Usability

AlphaSense beats anything else I've ever used by a mile. It's not even close. I've never had access to a single portal with so much information, which is so easy to search through, and set up dashboards and alerts. By adding a feature to help synthesize my searches into more immediately usable bits, my rating would go to a perfect 10.

AlphaSense Market Intelligence

AlphaSense has not been adopted by my immediate team. I've already been able to stay ahead of the rest of my team and share my insights without wasting so much time, or worse, missing important information as it comes across the wire. It will become evident to the rest of my team soon enough that AlphaSense is responsible for the huge productivity and output boost that I've exhibited over the last couple of months.

Alternatives Considered

PitchBook, S&P Capital IQ, Crunchbase, ZoomInfo SalesOS, Owler and LinkedIn Premium Business

Nothing else had the platform capabilities nor the level of access to information that AlphaSense does. Everything else I tried had one area or type of information it aggregated, but none of them were able to integrate information the way AlphaSense does, and most of them didn't really enable access to news, so I had to supplement my work with RSS feeds and dozens of open browser tabs. AlphaSense collapsed all of that effort into one search in one window.

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

Microsoft Copilot

Likelihood to Recommend

AlphaSense works very well for researching topics related to companies, technologies and/or industries. The information access is super useful. Sorting by search relevance and filtering by source type can help curate the information to what you are looking for. One area that could use some help is how to digest that information down to usable chunks. If your goal is to synthesize the information into your research, then the platform seems to have some tools to help do that, but it will still be a manual process. A CoPilot or similar integration could go a long way to improving the time to value of using this tool and the information it gathers for you.

AlphaSense consolidated my effort from multiple platforms and dozens of browser tabs down to one window.

Overall Satisfaction with AlphaSense