Market Research for Consulting

AlphaSense is the Leading Market Intelligence Platform for Consulting

AlphaSense is a leading provider of market intelligence, featuring 10,000+ high-quality content sources from more than 1,500 leading research providers—all in a single platform.

With AlphaSense, consultants can conduct deeper, more effective market research to craft better proposals, enhance client relationships, and get the competitive edge.

AlphaSense saves you hours on research and proposal writing by centralizing the insights you need and delivering them to you with intuitive, AI-based smart search technology. Features like Smart Synonyms™ and Smart Summaries recognize the intent behind your search and zero in on the most relevant insights contained within each source, while Trending Topics and customized dashboards enable you to monitor the precise themes and companies that are of most interest and value to your clients.

Advanced filtering features help you easily access the types of content needed for your specific research. And automated real-time alerts ensure you never miss an update from the companies and industries that need to be on your radar.

These features and more are why G2 has consistently rated AlphaSense a leader in market intelligence.

How Top Consulting Firms Use AlphaSense

Corporations frequently rely on consulting firms for innovative and forward-thinking solutions, and yet the irony is that many consulting firms are still relying on highly inefficient and manual research methods. Consultants’ time is highly valuable and needs to be balanced between new business development, client delivery work, and practice development—which is why a tool like AlphaSense is essential.

Our platform helps you surface insights faster, so you can spend less time on research and more time on high-level strategy and client interactions. With AlphaSense, you get access to our exclusive, premium content sets and proprietary AI search technology—giving you a leg up over competitors and accelerating your research process.

Here are some of the ways our consulting clients use AlphaSense to drive their business forward:

Stronger Proposals & Value Propositions

As a consultant, you need to have a strong understanding of your client’s strategy and pain points, so that you can adequately convey your value proposition within your proposal.

AlphaSense gives you access to premium content sets like broker research and company earnings calls, all of which enable you to quickly get smart on your client. Additionally, our AI search technology dramatically reduces time to insight and helps you filter through the noise, so that your research becomes faster, sharper, and more efficient.

Finally, our generative AI feature Smart Summaries instantly delivers digestible, citable snippets sourced from our content universe so that you get all the most critical insights you need at a glance.

Deeper Client Relationships

Clients trust and rely on you more when you proactively bring new ideas to the table and demonstrate deep industry expertise. AlphaSense allows you to quickly become an expert in any topic or industry that is relevant to your client. We also make it easy for you to forecast market movements and trends—through features like our customizable dashboards and real-time alerts—so that you can develop proactive strategies for your clients that keep them ahead of the curve.

Additionally, our Enterprise Intelligence solution enables consultants to personalize pitches for clients by leveraging historical proprietary intelligence to deepen the understanding of the client’s pain points and increase trust. Consultants can also integrate previous client proposals into our enterprise search software, so that when similar opportunities arise from future clients, they can easily draw inspiration from prior solutions and strategic recommendations.

Better Internal Team Alignment

Productivity and efficiency are impossible without internal team alignment, and Enterprise Intelligence sets you up for success by empowering your team to manage and access internal knowledge more effectively. With enterprise search, users can interrogate and retrieve relevant information quickly, promoting collaboration and minimizing duplicative work.

Advanced search capabilities, such as natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms, enable every team member to quickly find contextually relevant information even in large and complex datasets. This results in better internal team alignment and collaboration, which leads to improved productivity and efficiency, which in turn promotes client satisfaction and firm growth.

Related Reading: Enterprise Search Use Cases

M&A Deal Strategy

For M&A consultants, having a finger on the pulse of major M&A deals is essential to your corporate and financial services clients’ success. AlphaSense is your one-stop shop for getting smart on the M&A landscape with our extensive content library and AI technology.

With AlphaSense, you get access to broker research from leading research analysts; company filings, events transcripts, and investor presentations; industry or sector-specific trade journals; and expert perspectives that offer first-hand perspectives on M&A and deal rumors.

AlphaSense also allows you tocreate a watchlist, so that you can keep tabs on a short list of companies and be alerted when relevant insights surface. This saves valuable time in lieu of regularly running thematic searches across the same group of companies, or when conducting a deep dive on a client company and its competitors.

Finally, our Smart Synonyms™ technology helps ensure you don’t miss any relevant insights by surfacing results that are thematically related to your search and filtering out the noise.

Related Reading: M&A Due Diligence: A Complete Guide

Thought Leadership and Practice Development

Consulting firms must establish themselves as thought leaders in order to continue attracting new clients and remain competitive. AlphaSense makes it easy with our AI-driven features that help to unlock quantitative insights buried in qualitative information sets. For example, you can use AlphaSense’s Search Summary to identify trends that would otherwise be impossible to glean, or sentiment analysis to understand how market sentiment has shifted over time regarding a particular topic, company, or industry.

By gaining access to premium, proprietary content sets that are unavailable elsewhere, you can also bring unique, differentiated insights to your clients that set your business apart and establish your firm’s thought leadership.

Accelerate Your Research Process with AlphaSense

AlphaSense aggregates all the essential market research perspectives you need in one place, so you can have a complete picture of the company profiles, industries, markets, or trends you are researching.

Combined with proprietary AI and automation functionality not found on other platforms, AlphaSense helps you dramatically increase the breadth, speed, and accuracy of your research.

Here’s what you get when you use the AlphaSense platform for your market intelligence:

Aggregated Market Research

AlphaSense houses a vast universe of over 10,000 vetted content sources, including but not limited to:

Company documents including event transcripts, global filings, press releases, company presentations, product brochures, and ESG reports
Industry research from the world’s top financial research firms, including Goldman Sachs, Citi, Bank of America and Morgan Stanley
Unique industry expert perspectives from customers, competitors, product leads, directors, and partners
Thousands of curated news sources, trade publications, and regulatory information

Our platform not only houses all of the content you need for effective market research, it also helps you cut through the noise with advanced search functionality.

Semantic Search

Instead of digging through fragmented reports and alerts, you can rely on our semantic search to ensure you never miss out on critical insights. Our AI search technology automatically recognizes what you are looking for and delivers the results that match the intent behind your query. This means you don’t have to do multiple searches to get the results you need, and you can be more confident in the comprehensiveness and accuracy of your research.

Sentiment Analysis

Sentiment analysis is useful to identify, quantify, and analyze levels of emotion within text, particularly earnings calls and expert transcripts. Understanding sentiment can help you catch the subtle inflection points in language that move markets. This feature works in seconds, saving hours previously spent combing through company documents and expert transcripts for the best insights.

Generative AI

Unlike other generative AI (genAI) tools that are focused on retail users and trained on publicly available content, AlphaSense takes an entirely different approach. As a platform purpose-built to drive the world’s biggest business and financial decisions, ourSmart Summaries feature leverages our 10+ years of AI tech development and draws from a curated collection of vetted business content.

With Smart Summaries, you can glean instant earnings insights—reducing time spent on research during earnings season, quickly capture company outlook, and generate an expert-approved SWOT analysis straight from former competitors, partners, and employees.

Consulting Case Studies with AlphaSense

Consulting Firms’ Secret to Winning More Business

We interviewed partners, managing directors, and managers at Tier 1 management consulting firms to discover how they use AlphaSense to win more deals and unlock increased organizational efficiency.

FTI Consulting

FTI shares how they have leveraged AlphaSense to identify new business opportunities and gain a deep understanding of their prospective clients.

Consulting Firm Keeps Clients Up-to-Date on Competitors

One of our boutique consulting clients discusses how AlphaSense helped them quickly and efficiently synthesize large volumes of information to produce more comprehensive and timely reports for their clients.

Molekule Consulting

Molekule Consulting shares how they used AlphaSense to help their clients navigate the uncertain landscape of the pandemic. Our platform ultimately helped them cut through information overload to proactively deliver relevant insights to their clients.

Consulting Industry Insights From AlphaSense

Consulting Industry Trends and Outlook for 2024

Using the AlphaSense platform, we identified 7 key trends shaping the consulting landscape this year, as well as an outlook for the future of the industry.

Building Winning Consulting Proposals During Economic Uncertainty

We share an in-depth guide for how to create successful client proposals even in a period of economic uncertainty.

Consulting Trending Topics

Discover our smart Trending Topics feature, where you can search for consulting-related topics and uncover the most critical insights from millions of documents—in seconds.