Competitive Intelligence for Leading Corporations

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Why AlphaSense is the Leading Competitive Intelligence Tool

AlphaSense is a leading provider of competitive intelligence, including 10,000+ high-quality content sources from hundreds of thousands of public companies and over 1.4 million private companies — all in a single platform.

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 #8 on CNBC’s 2025 Disruptor 50 list.

AlphaSense is the ideal tool for competitive strategists and business professionals across industries because it combines two integral components of competitive intelligence — access to premium, proprietary content sets and advanced AI search technology to accelerate and enhance research.

With AlphaSense, you’ll get access to exclusive competitive data ordinarily found in disparate locations and often behind expensive paywalls. We then layer our AI-based smart search technology over this content to accelerate your research process, maximize confidence, and minimize informational blind spots. Our automated alerts and customized watchlists ensure you never miss an update from the companies and industries you care about, and advanced filtering features help you easily navigate through the specific types of content you need for more granular research.

These features and more are why leading corporations across various industries choose AlphaSense.

Competitive Intelligence in Pharma and Biotech

How AlphaSense Supports Competitive Intelligence Processes

Competitor Analysis

AlphaSense helps you quickly identify your competitor’s strengths and weaknesses. Simply search for your competitor on the platform and explore the company tearsheet, which provides information on market cap, revenue, earnings transcripts, segments, and fundamentals & estimates.

Competitive Benchmarking

AlphaSense makes it easy to compare your own business against competitors to identify potential areas of improvement. In the platform, you can create a watchlist for all companies you are interested in following, and then set real-time alerts to always stay in the know on relevant updates. Then, use the Trending Topics module to instantly see the most important, talked-about phrases and topics found across earnings calls, conferences, and company presentations.

Competitive Landscape Analysis

AlphaSense helps you quickly understand the competitive environment in which your business operates. This includes industry trends, macroeconomic factors, and regulatory changes. With our vast universe of content—including company documents, analyst reports, expert calls, regulatory documents, and news—you can quickly get a sense of your competitive landscape. And with our AI search technology, you can filter through the noise and extract the most relevant insights from our content in seconds.

Competitor Monitoring

AlphaSense helps you consistently track your competitor’s activities and measure their impact on your business so that you can be proactive—rather than reactive—in your strategic planning.

By building custom watchlists for your competitor companies on our platform, you can always be the first to know of any pertinent developments at those companies. Our AI company recognition feature also enables you to easily extract data such as market share, pricing benchmarks, and company performance for each company of interest. Finally, our generative AI feature Smart Summaries instantly summarizes your competitors’ earnings transcripts so you can shave time off earnings analysis without losing any confidence.

How AlphaSense Takes Your Competitive Intelligence Further

Aggregated Market Research

AlphaSense houses over 10,000 trusted content sources, including but not limited to:

Company documents including SEC and global filings, earnings transcripts, company presentations, press releases, event transcripts, and more
Industry research from the world’s top analysts
Unique industry expert perspectives
News outlets
Company and competitor websites
Government and regulatory data

This includes two content sets exclusive to AlphaSense:

Wall Street Insights® – a leading collection of broker research covering global sector themes, industries, and companies from 1,000 sell-side and independent firms
AlphaSense Expert Insights – 200,000+ transcripts of one-on-one calls with industry experts, customers, professionals, competitors, and former and current executives, with the ability to conduct your own 1:1 expert calls for less

Our content includes everything you need to monitor clinical pipelines, track new developments and competitor moves, and assess deal making opportunities.

Financial Data

Financial Data is our newest competitive intelligence solution, 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 CI:

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

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.

Semantic Search

With our AI search technology, you no longer have to manually CTRL-F through fragmented research documents and reports. Instead, our AI automatically recognizes what you are looking for and surfaces results that directly match your search intent—while filtering out the excess noise. This means you can shave hours of time off your research and be more confident in the accuracy and comprehensiveness of your results.

Our patented AI search feature, Smart Synonyms™, identifies phrases and keywords that are meaningfully related to provide relevant and useful data for your search query, mitigating the risk of missing critical insights.

Sentiment Analysis

Our sentiment analysis and natural language processing (NLP) technology analyzes how the market feels about a given company, industry, or topic and color-codes positive and negative sentiment for easy recognition as you browse documents and search results. These AI features work in seconds, saving hours previously spent combing through dozens of earnings reports.

Sentiment analysis is instrumental in earnings research, as it uncovers subtle shifts in a competing company’s messaging on relevant topics and themes.

Monitoring, Analysis, and Collaboration Tools

AlphaSense is designed to help users find insights faster. In order to do that, we offer a number of tools that extend beyond search and summarization to help users accelerate research tasks.

Customizable Dashboards create a centralized information hub for monitoring key companies and themes, while tailored real-time alerts provide real-time updates.
Powerful collaboration tools like Notebook+ and commenting features help teams manage and share insights more effectively. Check out the 5 Competitive Intelligence Templates to Use in AlphaSense’s Notebook.
Table Tools allow you to move faster with spreadsheet-style visualizations directly from company filings, so you can chain together, edit, and optimize tables for analysis.
Image Search allows you to discover insights buried in charts to quickly capture data without reading through pages of documents.
Snippet Explorer allows you to effortlessly look at any topic or theme and all its historical mentions in a single view.
Automated Monitoring allows you to set up real-time alerts that send instant updates on any relevant market movements, news, emerging trends, and competitor activities. We also generate snapshots of companies and topics regularly that keep you ahead of the curve with actionable insights.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is competitive intelligence and why is it critical for leading corporations?

Competitive intelligence is the process of gathering and analyzing competitor data — in order to inform business strategy, anticipate market changes, and mitigate risk.

This process is critical for leading corporations who wish to be on the leading edge because it allows them to be proactive, rather than reactive, to competitor moves and market shifts. It allows corporations to know precisely where they stand, relative to competitors, and where they might be able to fill gaps in the market. This can often lead to more innovation and ideation as to how they can differentiate from their competitors.

By continuously monitoring the competitive landscape, corporations can reduce the risk of being caught off guard by new entrants or regulatory shifts, and they can anticipate market changes before they turn into existential threats.

How does AlphaSense's competitive intelligence solution differ from other CI platforms?

AlphaSense's competitive intelligence solution differs from other platforms in several key ways.

1) We have the most extensive library of premium, proprietary, public, and private content on the market — including company documents, 200K+ expert call transcripts, broker reports, news, trade journals, and regulatory documents. This provides a much more comprehensive view of the competitive landscape, as well as pertinent market trends, which helps you stay informed and proactive in your research strategy.

2) Our AI search and automation features are industry-leading, and they help you extract the most crucial insights from the content more quickly and efficiently than ever. Our customizable dashboards, watchlists, and real-time alerts ensure you are always the first to know of any important updates, helping you keep the competitive edge.

This is why our platform is trusted by 88% of the S&P 100, 92% of the largest pharmaceutical companies, 95% of the top consultancies, and 90% of the top asset management firms.

How does AlphaSense's sentiment analysis help identify competitive threats and opportunities?

Sentiment refers to the tone and nuance beyond the semantic meaning of what an executive leader, news source, or expert is saying. AlphaSense's sentiment analysis is an NLP-based feature that sifts through documents, extrapolating the subtext of what is being said in an expert transcript, earnings call, or news source. It also assigns a sentiment score, which clearly denotes how positive, negative, or neutral a particular statement or document is.

This helps you read between the lines and pick up on subtle shifts in tone or inflection, which can provide important insight into competitors' shifting strategy and help you spot risks and opportunities early.

How does AlphaSense reduce time spent on competitive research while improving insight quality?

AlphaSense accelerates speed to insight with our advanced AI search technology and generative AI features that filter out the noise, extract the most relevant insights, and give you streamlined, verifiable, citable information that you can incorporate into your competitive strategy — in seconds.

Rather than wasting hours or days on manual research, you can use our platform to automate tedious workflows and put your time and energy into higher-level analysis and strategy. Additionally, AlphaSense integrates both external and internal research, so rather than toggling between multiple information sources, you can unify and centralize all your insights for maximal efficiency and searchability.

What competitive intelligence can AlphaSense provide on private companies versus public competitors?

Private company intelligence tends to be more opaque and harder to find than public company intelligence. AlphaSense provides crucial insights for both public and private companies, but the latter relies more on alternative data sources:

Expert Insights – Our 200K+ expert call transcripts provide differentiated, unique insights directly from executives, customers, former employees, and industry specialists who have firsthand experience with the private company in question. These interviews are proprietary and only available in the AlphaSense platform.
Private Company Data – Over 4M private companies are indexed in our platform, and our content includes over 10M private company profiles via CreditSafe. You can find over 13M private company documents in our platform, including news, trade journals, and regulatory sources.

How can users verify the sources behind AlphaSense's competitive intelligence insights and AI-generated summaries?

AlphaSense makes it easy to verify every single insight with citations that take you to the exact snippet of text that the insight was sourced from — whether you are using Generative Search, Generative Grid, or Smart Summaries.

AlphaSense's AI is highly transparent and is built to surface sources alongside summaries, so users don't ever have to take AI output at face value. Additionally, AlphaSense prioritizes auditability and quality control, so every document has timestamps showing you when it was published. Additionally, users can easily save searches and annotations (via Notebook), creating an audit trail for how insights were derived.

Can AlphaSense automatically alert users to competitive intelligence developments in specific product lines, geographic regions, or strategic initiatives?

Yes, one of AlphaSense's strongest advantages is its ability to proactively alert users about competitive and market intelligence developments across specific dimensions that are of most relevance to the user. You can set customizable real-time alerts for whatever company, topic, or industry you are most interested in.

This means that even without extra effort on your part, you will always be given critical insights that keep you informed and proactive.

Product Lines – Track mentions of [product] across a specific competitor set, which will pull from competitors' earnings transcripts, analyst reports, and expert calls.
Geographic Region – Track mentions of [competitor]+[geographic region] to easily detect competitors' entry into emerging markets or any new regulatory approvals.
Strategic Initiatives – Set up alerts for [key initiative] across a specific competitor set, whether you are interested in M&A, ESG, digital transformation, or other initiative.

Which industries see the most success with AlphaSense's competitive intelligence solution?

AlphaSense is a trusted competitive intelligence platform for leading corporations across all industries, as well as financial firms and consultancies.

Among corporations, AlphaSense is trusted by 88% of the S&P 100 and we have clients across life sciences, energy, industrials, retail, consumer goods, technology sectors. Our clients also include 80% of the top financial firms— including investment banks, private equity, asset management, and hedge funds — and 95% of the top consultancies.