Great AI, Solid Data, Awesome for Depth - Working on Breadth
March 17, 2025

Great AI, Solid Data, Awesome for Depth - Working on Breadth

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AlphaSense

M&A research and market intelligence for strategic and market trends are the main use cases. I am exploring how to better understand some regional markets within specific sectors and for specific clients as well. The searches usually center on where the money is going and where the policies are affecting the money that is being used to develop infrastructure and the built environment.

Pros

  • Generative Grid for side by side comparison of company transcripts is fantastic.
  • If I know what type of sources I am looking for or if I can use a ticker for a publicly traded company the ability to quickly get to what I want in the document is very easy and user friendly.
  • Deep diving on a specific research topic that is very clearly defined is quite user friendly and works well.

Cons

  • The generative search is limited in its functionality by the exactness of the responses that the model is required to give. There is a wealth of power from the LLM with the RAG architecture of your full data set, but it is hampered by what appears to be the risk intolerance of the tool. By all means, caveat the hell out of it and put disclaimers everywhere, but there is a lack of breadth to help users get high level insights and trends that could otherwise be obtained from your tool.
  • Having a more data from private companies, although devilishly hard to obtain, would be absolute gold for some of the spending pattern research I need to do about my clients and also what I could use when looking at companies to potentially acquire.
  • I am still developing my understanding of the tool and the use cases, but I see a lot of potential value in stronger strategies and better focused pursuit strategies and acquisitions
It is a little hard to learn, but I am not sure that is due to anything other than the number of features that exist. I is very hard to just get back to my last search, that feels impossible or is at least not intuitive. I just found out how to get back to a dashboard from a search that is linked to it after a month and a half.
I am not sure why you won't let me select EMIS Next, but that is a great tool with a lot of very good data that does not seem to be on your platform:
Frost & Sullivan
Mordor Intelligence
Fitch Solutions
Euromonitor
Global Research & Data Services (GRDS)
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

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?

No

Would you buy AlphaSense again?

Yes

Depth where I know the company I am researching and it is publicly traded is fantastic.

Breadth research on markets and regions is lacking pretty heavily. I see the value and the Gen AI solutions you have already implemented give hope for this, but it needs to be fleshed out.

AlphaSense Feature Ratings

Financial Research
6.4
Public Company Data
9
Private Company Data
2
Industry and Sector Research
7
Industry-Specific Information
7
Independent Research Access
Not Rated
M&A Analysis
5
Supply Chain Data
Not Rated
ESG Data
Not Rated
Credit Ratings Reports
Not Rated
Macroeconomic News
7
Search Tools
8

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