Investors who can surface and act on insights before they become market consensus have a distinct competitive advantage. Channel research gives investors a real-time pulse on a company or market, from sources working on the ground, providing essential intelligence and making channel research an imperative.

Unfortunately, though, for most financial services professionals, investment research remains rooted in outdated, manual processes.Traditional methods, such as conducting one-on-one channel checks and compiling reports, are time-consuming, expensive, and notoriously difficult to scale.

Historically, investors have faced a choice: Spend weeks sourcing contacts, coordinating calls, synthesizing findings, and creating static reports; or purchase costly, pre-packaged insights from third-party vendors. In today’s uncertain market environment, where conditions demand speed, precision, and adaptability, neither choice is wholly satisfactory.

These traditional research methodologies can result in delayed insights, biased sources, and knowledge bottlenecks. Manual research processes are a roadblock to investors in search of real-time, primary insights.

AlphaSense’s AI-led Channel Checks give investors a much-needed better solution. Our capabilities mean investors now have immediate access to timely insights from sources in the channel, available at scale, with no overhead to the investor. Using our AI Interviewer technology, AlphaSense now creates channel research that customers can access the moment it is ready, with no additional work required for users.

Plus, our AI-led Channel Checks are now integrated into our Tegus Expert Insights Library, pairing real-time channel intelligence with the industry's richest investor-led transcript library. This gives users access to the most comprehensive public and private company data available today, enabling deeper, faster, and more confident decision-making.

Human-Quality Interviews, Powered by AI

AI-led expert interviews are much more than a scripted chatbot interaction. Instead, a highly-trained AI interviewer conducts structured, dynamic phone interviews with human experts, probing deeply to uncover nuance while adhering to established best practices.

The key benefits of AI-led interviews include:

• Consistency: Every conversation follows the same proven methodology, with the AI Interviewer posing questions objectively and without biases
• Adaptability: Like in an investor-led interview, probes and follow-ups reflect the flow of the conversation, not a rigid script, based on the AI Interviewer’s training across AlphaSense’s premium content sets
• Scalability: Hundreds of expert calls can run simultaneously without compromising quality

The end result: faster, more consistent, and more scalable insight extraction. The AI Interviewer never loses focus or overlooks key questions and isn’t swayed by unconscious bias or a drive to confirm latent hypotheses. It maintains strict adherence to structured frameworks, while dynamically crafting follow-up questions in real time based on the expert’s responses.

Fed with years of structured, proprietary market intelligence, our AI Interviewer has unmatched contextual awareness. It can think like a top-tier analyst, knowing when to press for more detail, when to pivot, and how to separate market noise from meaningful signals. This deep foundation allows it to understand sector-specific nuances and adjust its questioning accordingly.

Faster Synthesis With Advanced AI Tools

Whether prepping for earnings or conducting due diligence on target companies, you want real-time, firsthand insights from channel partners. Channel checks have traditionally required dozens of calls, extensive note-taking, and manual synthesis of the findings. When real-time channel insights are combined with AI-powered tools for analysis, it changes the game.

AlphaSense’s genAI tools, including Deep Research and Generative Grid, are layered over expert insights and can transform a series of structured one-on-one interviews into a highly-structured analytical output that looks across multiple points of view to give a comprehensive window into a company, channel, or market. Combining primary insights with AlphaSense’s AI tools allows investors to condense the synthesis of channel research into a matter of minutes. Generative Grid automates these workflows by asking multiple natural-language questions across several documents at once, in a table format for easy comparison.

Insights the Moment You Need Them

While legacy approaches can take weeks to surface insights, AI-led interviews produce them in minutes, allowing investors to obtain insights in real time, even intra-quarter. Under this paradigm, research does not have to be a quarterly rhythm of static content, but rather a continuous stream of intelligence gathering. Stale reports quickly became outdated — AI pipelines deliver living, evolving insights, enabling investors to surface and act on insights before the market does.

With AlphaSense's always-on AI Interviewer, insight generation becomes a persistent capability, not a special project. The shift from manual, episodic research to AI-led continuous intelligence is not incremental — it is transformative. AI capabilities are upending how investors track the market, starting with channel checks.

The AlphaSense Advantage

AlphaSense is the first platform to deliver AI-led expert interviews at scale. While other firms may offer partial solutions, AlphaSense combines exclusive expert access, sector-specific context and industry leadership oversight, and a rigorous compliance process into one end-to-end platform.

With the market-leading expert network of Tegus Expert Insights, we have hundreds of thousands of experts ready and available to tap into for insights — quickly, reliably, and at scale. No other AI interviewer platform comes as well resourced with experts as the AlphaSense platform.

As part of AlphaSense, every AI-led call is screened and scrubbed using our robust compliance framework, one of the most rigorous in the industry. This safeguards against the sharing of material nonpublic information, inappropriate disclosures, and regulatory risks — ensuring every transcript is safe, defensible, and ready for audit.

Finally, channel research is in AlphaSense’s DNA: Our leadership team includes veterans of one of the most respected channel research firms in the market. We understand the subtleties of gathering, interpreting, and delivering insights that matter to institutional investors, corporate strategists, and industry specialists alike.

AlphaSense gives decision-makers the power to act decisively in an increasingly dynamic market environment. Find out how our tools can level up your market and investment research. Start your free trial today.

Note: Channel Checks, a data-set built for and used by the financial services industry (or more specifically, the buyside) for years, is initially being made available to this customer group. We're exploring use cases and appetite for this content or a derivation of it for use by our broader customer base. We'll share updates as they unfold.