Navigating today’s markets means filtering through an overwhelming flow of information and trying to pinpoint the insights that actually matter. The challenge isn’t access to data—it’s identifying timely, reliable intelligence that can directly inform strategy and drive performance.
Legacy expert network models often add friction—slow scheduling, costly markups, and fragmented workflows. At moments when accuracy and speed matter most, delays create real risk.
Modern expert network models were created to solve part of this problem with streamlined processes and fast-tracked AI technology. These firms quickly connect companies with subject-matter experts—from former executives to product engineers to customers themselves—who can provide firsthand perspectives on industries, companies, and trends.
With AlphaSense Expert Insights, this model has been redefined into a unified workflow — combining calls, transcripts, and AI-powered research to deliver insights continuously, not episodically.
These qualitative insights add depth to traditional quantitative research and are often used in investment due diligence, market landscaping, and strategic planning. By layering experiential knowledge from industry operators into data-driven research, professionals can shift their research approach from reactive to proactive.
Below, we explore the leading expert network providers in today’s market.
AlphaSense
AlphaSense is a leading enterprise-grade market intelligence and AI search platform built for robust market and investment research. The AlphaSense platform unifies financial research, expert transcripts, one-on-one calls, and AI-powered research into one seamless workflow.
Consistently ranked as an industry leader by TrustRadius and G2, AlphaSense was also recently named one of Fortune’s Top 50 AI Innovators and was ranked No. 8 on CNBC’s 2025 Disruptor 50 list.
AlphaSense uniquely combines of qualitative and quantitative research, generative AI analysis and search, and deep market intelligence on private and public companies.
Here’s how AlphaSense enables you to extract insights and intelligence from both high-value internal and external content with the power of generative AI — all on a single platform:
Extensive Out-of-the-Box Content Library
AlphaSense's exclusive collection of 10,000+ private, public, premium, and proprietary data sources is unmatched and includes:
- Company documents for both private and public companies, including earnings transcripts, company presentations, SEC and global filings, ESG reports, and press releases
- Wall Street Insights®, an exclusive collection of equity research covering more than 1,000 broker sources, including Goldman Sachs
- Expert call transcript library with over 200,000 vetted interviews (including with competitors, suppliers, customers, and KOLs). Learn more about the combined offering of AlphaSense and Tegus here
- News, industry reports, trade journals, and regulatory documents
Enterprise Intelligence
AlphaSense’s Enterprise Intelligence solution allows you to integrate and query your own internal content alongside the premium external sources listed above. That includes:
- Internal research, notes, and presentations
- CIMs, virtual data rooms, and investment memos
- Reports from industry and market intelligence providers
- Emails, newsletters, web pages, and RSS feeds
AlphaSense centralizes all your internal and external knowledge in one place, and allows you to leverage our industry-leading search, summarization, and monitoring tools to enhance and accelerate your research.
Powerful AI Search & Summarization Technology
AlphaSense has invested 10+ years into the development of our tech stack. Our industry-leading suite of AI tools is purpose-built to deliver business-grade insights:
Generative Search
Generative Search, now with Deep Research capabilities, transforms how users can extract insights from our vast library of premium content sources. Generative Search is trained to think like an analyst, so it understands the market research intent behind your natural language queries.
When searching for insights, 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, so that it can always be referenced back.
Generative Grid
Generative Grid applies multiple genAI prompts across 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 users to summarize documents using pre-built criteria to save time when executing repeatable workflows.
Generative Grid pulls data from both premium external documents in the AlphaSense platform and users’ internal content. From there, users can choose pre-built templates or create their own to automate routine workflows. Each summary provides a direct citation to the source material it was pulled from.
Users can leverage this tool to track earnings transcripts, compare competitors at a glance, parse through deal rooms in seconds, track macro event impacts, or analyze merger proxy filings, among many use cases.
Smart Summaries
This feature allows you 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 you with citations to the exact snippets of text from where the summaries are sourced — combining high accuracy with easy verification.
Smart Synonyms
This unique feature is proprietary to AlphaSense and has the ability to understand both the keyword and search intent behind any of your queries, factoring in search results that include variations in business language. For example, a search for “TAM” will also bring back results on “addressable market” and “market size.”
Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment Analysis, a natural language processing (NLP)-based feature, parses through content and identifies nuances in the tone and subjective meaning of text. It then uses color coding to help readers identify the document’s positive, negative, and neutral sentiments.
This technology assigns each search term a numerical sentiment change score to help users track any slight change in market sentiment over time. Users can take advantage of it to make better-informed investment decisions and improve risk management strategies. `
Tegus Expert Insights
With over 10 years of investment in artificial intelligence (AI) development and the acquisition of Tegus in July 2024, AlphaSense’s powerful AI technology allows you to surface millions of valuable critical insights from Expert Insights, without spending valuable time on manually searching for the right expert.
Learn how the price of Expert Insights can keep you ahead of the competition without the associated costs of a traditional expert network.
Expert Transcript Library
The Tegus expert transcript library offers the largest curation of public and private company transcripts built on top of leading AI-powered functionality to easily find, sort, and surface powerful insights.
Dive into an extensive collection of 200,000+ expert transcripts and audio in our library to access proprietary insights from former executives, customers, competitors, and channel participants across a range of industries.
Leverage on-demand access to our premium insights on thousands of public and private companies to create strategies that lead to fresh insights on new products, market sizes, and sector occurrences.
Expert Call Services
Our Expert Call Services offering allows you to quickly connect with experts for customized interviews to fill in any research gaps in your investment strategies. Gain access to more than one million pre-qualified expert profiles spanning all industries across the globe with seasoned subject matter experts—such as thought leaders, former executives, customers, partners, and competitors.
Legacy networks often charge $1,200–$3,000 per call with rigid hour-long minimums. AlphaSense Expert Call Services charges calls at cost (expert rate + $75 transcript fee), typically saving ~70% vs. traditional networks. Flexible durations (30, 45, 60 min) and packages with no expiration give users control. Calls are seamlessly integrated into the AlphaSense platform, so you can discover experts, book calls, and analyze transcripts in one place.
To ensure our pricing meets your specific needs, we offer flexible platform subscriptions to accommodate team sizes, content needs, and more, ranging from enterprise packages to per-seat options.
Industry-Leading Compliance
Compliance is built into every stage — rigorous pre-call vetting, live monitoring, and post-call transcript review. Embargo periods and Pay-to-Delay options safeguard client advantages, while a 75+ person compliance team ensures alignment with global regulatory standards
Additionally, Expert Insights’s hand-picked team of compliance reviewers has reviewed every single transcript prior to its publication to provide our clients with confidence about the safety of their research.
AlphaSense’s customizable compliance programs offer tailored solutions to ensure each customized call adheres to company-specific standards and laws, securing operational excellence and SEC-compliance. These rigorous compliance protocols provided by AlphaSense allow investment professionals to make faster investment decisions with confidence.
Financial Modeling and Company Data
Financial Data and Models (Canalyst)
Gain instant access to over 4,000 global fundamental Canalyst, pre-built models, and over 60 industry dashboards, all hand-built and sourced by sector-focused analysts. Unlike building your own models and comp sheets, using our off-the-shelf models, dashboards, and data reduces your time spent on manual data sourcing, allowing you to focus your time on analyzing data, not aggregating it.
Additionally, our Financial Data solution is built to give research professionals a complete, up-to-date view of their competitive landscape. With standardized financials, key performance metrics, and valuation data — as well as purpose-built features such as ready-made comps tables and instant Excel refresh — you can benchmark competitors, spot market shifts, and uncover strategic moves faster than ever before.
Here are the datasets included in Financial Data, as well as how you can use them for competitive intelligence:
- Historical Financials – Benchmark competitor performance and pinpoint strengths and weaknesses
- Consensus Estimates – Track market expectations and anticipate competitors’ future moves
- Company KPIs – Monitor segment and product-level trends across your peer set
- Market Data – Assess competitive positioning and analyze real-time market reactions
- M&A Transactions – Stay on top of competitor deal activity and strategic direction
BamSEC Company Data
Make quantitative investment research easier by transforming how you work with public company data. By streamlining access to SEC filings, earnings and events transcripts, financial documents, and more, BamSEC enables analysts to focus on what matters, save time, and do better work.
BamSEC allows users to search across multiple companies and SEC filings. Customers can use these documents to perform due diligence on companies and explore performance metrics efficiently.
Using the tables on BamSEC, users can explore past filings, create models, and benchmark company performance, all in one place, without needing to pull up individual filings to manually track a company’s metrics.
Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG)
GLG is one of the longest-standing players in the expert network industry, founded in 1998. Today, it claims a network of more than 1.2 million vetted professionals spanning industries, geographies, and seniority levels. Its client base includes financial institutions, consulting firms, life sciences organizations, technology companies, and large enterprises.
GLG recently introduced its redesigned platform, myGLG, aimed at making it easier to search for experts, launch projects, and generate transcripts from expert calls. In addition, GLG offers the following features:
GLG Member Interactions
GLG Member Interactions connects you with experts for one-on-one sessions across specific topics, businesses, or industries. This service offers private meetings, placements, or expert witness services.GLG Library
A subscription service to GLG Library grants you access to event transcripts and on-demand video replays. This service features AI-powered interactive tools to extract insights by chatting with its AI Assistant, letting users chat with an AI assistant to distill insights from content.
GLG Integrated Insights
For mid-sized or large business owners, GLG Integrated Insights allows them to outsource all research to GLG. It packages detailed quantitative and qualitative research via market assessments, company research studies, and competitive landscape analyses to ensure a well-rounded outlook for consumers.
GLG Surveys
GLG Surveys helps you meet your research objectives by delivering a full spectrum of insights from the world’s most diverse source of first-hand B2B expertise.
GLG Events
GLG Events connects you with content that will jump start or augment your research journey with live and on-demand content, including conversations with experts and industry peers on trends, professional development, and company-specific exploration.
GLG Qualitative
GLG Qualitative provides you with in-person or virtual focus groups, workshops, discussion panels, moderated calls, or other insight-gathering experiences with Network Members.
GLG Overall
GLG provides scale and depth, but it primarily supports only qualitative research through expert calls. For clients looking for additional qualitative insights — such as those found in broker research, news, or company documents, or those looking for more quantitative insights, or advanced AI-powered workflows, a supplementary platform to GLG would be necessary.
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Third Bridge
Third Bridge is a global primary research provider and expert network that delivers qualitative insights to investors, consultants, and business leaders. The firm specializes in analyst-led interviews and direct access to industry professionals, helping clients evaluate opportunities, assess competitive dynamics, and refine investment strategies.
While Third Bridge is a strong partner for qualitative research, its focus remains on expert-driven content. It does not combine proprietary data or advanced AI research capabilities into its platform, which can be limiting for teams that need faster, data-driven intelligence.
Third Bridge offers the following features:
Third Bridge Advisors
Advisors connects clients with senior industry specialists across the globe for long-term, flexible engagements. Clients receive detailed profiles of each advisor — including screening, network history, and leadership background — to ensure the right fit. Advisors can be engaged through multiple touchpoints such as calls, meetings, emails, or written reports, typically at a lower cost than traditional headhunting or consultancy services.
Third Bridge Library
Third Bridge’s Library repository of company-level research, covering more than 65,000 public and private firms. The content is built from expert interviews and enhanced with structured data, giving clients on-demand access to profiles, market perspectives, and sector insights. Built-in AI search and summarization capabilities make it easier to surface relevant findings quickly across geographies and industries.
Third Bridge Data Feeds
Data Feeds allow clients to integrate Third Bridge’s research directly into their own systems and workflows. The feed delivers continuously updated company intelligence and transcripts from the Library, supporting deeper analysis alongside internal datasets. Quant and data science teams can apply techniques like sentiment analysis or combine feeds with other sources to uncover trends and patterns.
Third Bridge Expert Calls
Expert Calls provide one-on-one access to industry veterans, former executives, investors, and functional specialists sourced from Third Bridge’s vetted network. Experts are recruited globally and matched to the client’s brief, enabling targeted due diligence and unique perspectives. A multilayered compliance framework ensures that every participant is properly vetted and approved before each call.
Third Bridge Surveys
Surveys offer clients rapid access to B2B insights across markets, customer segments, pricing, and competitive landscapes. Drawing on Third Bridge’s proprietary network of over 1.5 million vetted professionals — from executives to hard-to-reach niche respondents — surveys are launched within 24 hours and typically return results within days. Dedicated project managers oversee each stage, while strict quality controls ensure reliable and compliant responses.
Third Bridge Overall
Third Bridge has significantly expanded its platform with offerings like Library, Data Feeds, and AI-powered search tools, alongside its traditional strengths in expert calls and analyst-led interviews. Third Bridge excels in analyst-led interviews, but its emphasis remains on qualitative research. For organizations needing both qualitative and quantitative data integrated into AI workflows, AlphaSense offers a more complete solution. For organizations that need both qualitative insights and a richer mix of quantitative data, company fundamentals, and advanced AI analysis, AlphaSense offers a more comprehensive research solution.
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AlphaSights
AlphaSights is a global expert network that connects businesses, investors, and consultants with industry specialists to provide actionable insights for strategic decisions. The platform combines a curated expert network with robust compliance, technology, and research services to help clients evaluate opportunities, map competitive landscapes, and accelerate outcomes.
AlphaSights has expanded with AI-powered tools, yet remains rooted in manual, expert-led workflows. AlphaSense complements human expertise with AI and integrated quant datasets. Teams seeking large-scale quantitative data or fully automated research may still find the platform limited compared with more data-centric solutions like AlphaSense.
AlphaSights offers the following features:
AlphaSights Calls
The core offering remains one-on-one expert consultations. Clients submit research briefs, and AlphaSights quickly matches them with vetted specialists from its network. Calls can also be moderated by AlphaSights’ roster of ex-investors and strategy professionals to guide discussions and deepen analysis.
AlphaSights Transcripts
AlphaSights allows its users to order a transcript record of any call. All calls can be transcribed quickly, and AI-generated summaries are available to highlight key points for easy sharing and internal collaboration. Dynamic project summaries provide an evolving overview as additional calls or data are collected.
AlphaSights Surveys
AlphaSights supports fully managed surveys for both qualitative and quantitative insights. From survey design and panel sourcing to live monitoring and results analysis, the platform enables rapid, reliable data collection from vetted experts, with follow-up options where deeper exploration is needed.
AlphaSights Deal Advisors
Deal Advisors allow clients to bring experienced industry professionals into deal teams. Advisors can assist with market mapping, due diligence, and strategic guidance, and the Executive Partnerships team performs bespoke searches to match clients with specialists who meet specific investment or business requirements.
AlphaSights Al Technology
AlphaGraph, AlphaSights’ proprietary knowledge graph, powers expert matching by analyzing more than 25 million expert-to-company relationships. This AI-driven platform improves search precision, accelerates discovery, and helps clients identify the right experts faster. The platform also supports scheduling, messaging, and tracking research progress, enhancing workflow efficiency.
Clients gain access to structured research on companies and markets, with transcripts and summaries available on demand. AlphaSights’ private library (AlphaView) stores research content securely, giving teams centralized access to past calls and surveys.
In addition, AlphaGPT — an AI tool built on AlphaGraph — enables natural-language queries to retrieve insights quickly across the expert research database.
AlphaSights Overall
AlphaSights has broadened its offerings to provide curated, expert-led insights with strong support and technology enhancements. Its AI tools, private library, and AlphaGraph platform increase efficiency and access, but the focus remains primarily qualitative. Organizations that require broad quantitative datasets, automated insights, or deeper company-level intelligence may find platforms like AlphaSense more suited to those needs.
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Guidepoint
Guidepoint is a long-standing expert network provider that connects clients with professionals across industries for research and decision-making. The firm reports access to more than a million advisors and is commonly used by finance, consulting, and corporate strategy teams, as well as private equity and venture capital firms conducting due diligence. Its services are built around facilitating direct access to experts and layering in supplemental research formats like surveys and topic-driven events.
Guidepoint offers the following features:
Guidepoint One-to-One Interactions
Guidepoint’s core service is arranging private consultations with subject matter experts, often within a day or two of a request. These conversations may include former executives, engineers, researchers, or end users who can provide practical insights into markets or products.
Guidepoint Surveys
Through Guidepoint Surveys, clients can quickly canvass targeted experts to validate hypotheses, explore consensus views, or surface hard-to-reach information. The Guidepoints team handles questionnaire design, distribution, and response delivery, aiming to turn results around quickly.
Guidepoint Insights
Guidepoint’s Insights business packages industry perspectives into different formats. This includes moderated calls that are later made available in transcript form, teleconferences covering topics such as policy shifts or M&A activity, and group meetings or roundtables tied to industry conferences. Short “focus polls” are also used to capture quick-read perspectives on product launches or business trends.
Guidepoint Compliance
Guidepoint’s compliance framework ensures advisors are vetted through background checks, ongoing monitoring, and training modules. Clients can also set custom screening rules or monitor consultation activity in real time. This structure is designed to mitigate risk in industries with strict oversight.
Guidepoint Qsight
For healthcare and MedTech clients, Guidepoint offers Qsight, a data product built to complement its expert network. Qsight combines traditional research with proprietary datasets and survey panels to deliver recurring insights into procedure trends, purchasing behavior, and brand performance.
Sub-offerings include Qsight Tracker, which surveys physicians on a monthly basis, and Qsight Sales Measurement, which tracks point-of-sale data from aesthetics and MedTech practices.
Guidepoint Overall
Guidepoint offers broad access to expert knowledge and structured data solutions, making it useful for organizations needing specialized insights quickly. Guidepoint provides quick expert access and healthcare depth, but lacks the proprietary transcript scale and AI discovery tools of AlphaSense.. Unlike platforms such as AlphaSense, Guidepoint does not provide advanced AI search capabilities or access to proprietary company-level datasets beyond its expert network.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do you need an expert network?
Expert networks can provide clients access to various experts with specific, niche perspectives and expertise that cannot be found anywhere else. Rather than spending hours searching for answers to your queries through published research, expert networks can quickly surface the intel you need — whether it be from a consultation with an expert or a content library. More importantly, the best expert networks implement rigorous compliance standards that limit the exchange of information, safeguarding both client and expert from potential risk.
Expert networks also provide a more cost-effective way for investors to access industry insights in a shorter turnaround. Rather than spending countless hours searching for a person to interview, expert transcript libraries streamline the whole process by asking experts the pressing questions industry professionals have in a searchable format. When seeking out an expert network, look for depth of experience, both in the professionals helping you reach your research goals and the network that fuels its insights.
Who uses expert networks?
No longer just a powerful resource for the financial services space, expert calls provide valuable insights and a competitive advantage to top companies’ corporate strategists and competitive intelligence professionals.
Knowledge professionals, from individuals to teams and leaders, across industries and roles, rely on expert networks to enable strategic decision-making. The industries using expert networks the most are: information technology, industrials, media, healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, energy, consulting, asset management, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, investment banking, and sell-side equity research.
How do various industries benefit from expert networks?
Major industries leverage expert networks to evaluate market landscapes, understand various perspectives, and scout out trends worthy of investment. From corporate strategy to the MedTech space to the technology sector, professionals utilize expert insights to drive major financial and operational decisions that will impact their present and future performance–and consequently, keep them ahead of the competition.
How do you choose the right expert network for your needs?
If you’re questioning what to look for in an expert network, especially if it will be a long-term engagement, you need to outline your expectations and needs. Then, once you have a clear idea, use these questions below to help you decide what platform will give you the most ROI for your investment:
- Do they have relevant experts specially vetted for your project or consultation needs?
- Are their experts rooted in the subject or industry to ensure reliable insights?
- Do they have a competitive pricing strategy in place?
- Do they have a quick turnaround time to provide insights when needed?
- What sort of support are you seeking from an expert network?
- Do they have the kind of machine learning and AI functionalities that elevate and speed up research processes?
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AlphaSense is redefining expert networks into Expert Insights — where trusted human voices meet AI speed and scale. With the largest transcript library, integrated call services, and proprietary AI tools, AlphaSense transforms research from episodic to continuous, helping you move from questions to conviction faster than ever.
AlphaSense takes a unique approach to market intelligence by unifying an unparalleled content universe of Expert Insights and financial data with an unmatched AI technology research stack. AlphaSense transforms expert networks into a far more powerful service: a centralized, proactive intelligence platform.
With AlphaSense, you gain access to experts and the ability to connect their perspectives to the data and market signals that drive real business outcomes. The result is faster, deeper, and more actionable intelligence that helps you cut through the noise, anticipate change, and act with confidence.
