Retail Market Research in Seconds With AlphaSense

Why AlphaSense is the Leading Market Intelligence Platform for Retail

With AlphaSense, leading organizations can conduct more comprehensive quantitative and qualitative research, giving them the competitive edge against their peers and the ability to make confident business decisions.

AlphaSense’s extensive content universe provides access to 10,000+ sources of private, public, premium, and proprietary content — indexed, searchable, and all in one place. Analysts, researchers, and decision-makers in the retail sector have access to exclusive industry research reports often found in disparate locations or behind expensive paywalls.

In addition to aggregating company documents — such as global and SEC filings, press releases, company presentations, earnings transcripts, and ESG reports — and premium news outlets, AlphaSense provides access to the following proprietary content sets:

• Wall Street Insights®: A collection of leading equity research from 1,000+ sell-side and independent firms, covering global industries, sector themes, and companies. These resources are indexed, searchable, and available from the AlphaSense platform.
• AlphaSense Expert Insights: AlphaSense Expert Insights includes the expert transcript library — an ever-expanding library that currently hosts 200,000+ expert call transcripts with competitors, industry experts, professionals, customers, and former and current executives — as well as Expert Call Services, so you can conduct your own calls for less. Expert Insights prioritizes compliance throughout the content development process and has a team of trained compliance reviewers who ensure research safety for clients.

AlphaSense can save you hours per project by centralizing the insights you need and delivering them to you with intelligent, AI-based smart search technology. Features like generative AI, Smart Synonyms™ and sentiment analysis recognize the intent behind your search and zero in on only the most important insights contained within each source.

Automated alerts and customized watchlists ensure you never miss an update from the companies and industries you most care about. Advanced filtering features help you easily get to the types of content needed to meet specific research needs.

These features and more are why G2 and TrustRadius have rated AlphaSense a leader in market intelligence for corporations and financial institutions alike.

Retail Market Insights From the AlphaSense Platform

Expert Call: Gen Z Influence in Retail

Former Head at Nike discusses the growing buying power of Gen Z customers and why adapting to the trends and preferences of this group is key for retail success today.

Expert Call: AI and Automation in Retail

Head of Experience Design Strategy at Dyson discusses the use cases of AI in retail and why it’s key to successful innovation.

Generative AI in Consumer and Retail

Learn how generative AI has been transforming the consumer and retail sectors, as well as the benefits, drawbacks, and future outlook for this technology.

How Consumer and Retail Companies Can Better Navigate Economic Uncertainty

In this blog, we dive into some of the strategies that companies in the consumer and retail space can utilize to not just survive, but thrive, during times of market uncertainty.

How to Conduct Consumer and Retail Market Research

Learn the components of effective C&R research and how the AlphaSense platform can provide you with a competitive edge.

Retail Media: Key Trends and Outlook for 2025

In this blog post, we dive into the booming retail media industry, discussing key trends and growth drivers, challenges, market leaders, and the future outlook for the space.

The Evolution of Retail: How Technology is Transforming the Industry

Discover the tech-driven trends that are transforming the retail industry, and get some of the best tips for succeeding in this new era.

Broker Insights From the AlphaSense Platform

Love, Lock, Stocks, and Two Smoking Jewelers

HSBC discusses the projected growth of luxury jewelers Tiffany and Cartier in 2023.

From Rabbit Hole to Happy Bunny: How Chinese Shoppers Are Changing Luxury’s Outlook

HSBC discusses what the reopening of mainland China means for the luxury retail sector

European Staples and the Chinese Reopening

HSBC discusses the connection between exposure to mainland China and performance of European Stapes and highlights key sub-sectors where upside to estimates still exists.

Drone Disruption: Transforming Industries

HSBC discusses how growing commercial and consumer use of drones may disrupt certain industries, as well as the key factors influencing the drone industry’s evolution.

European Concessions: Tailwinds on the Horizon

HSBC discusses trading activity across European concession operators following COVID-19 and shares key insights on what to expect from certain concession names in the near future.

Former Competitor Believes Strong Innovative Product, Good Inventory Management and Adding New Services Is Key to Retail Success

In this expert call, a former Macy’s VP shares his thoughts on how retail companies can successfully make it through the economic downturn in 2023.

Inside the Retail Stores of the Future

This is an article from the trade journal Commercial Property Executive that details the changes the retail industry is currently going through, particularly when it comes to blending the digital shopping experience with the physical.

Pinpoint Market-Moving Trends Faster With AI Search Technology

Our platform not only aggregates all of the content you need to make rapid data-driven decisions, it also helps cut through the noise with advanced AI search functionality.

Here’s how:

Semantic Search

Instead of digging through fragmented reports and alerts, our semantic search ensures you are the first to know of any new or relevant information on an event, company, or topic of interest. Our AI search incorporates Smart Synonyms technology and 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 can be more confident in the comprehensiveness and accuracy of your research.

Sentiment Analysis

With AlphaSense, you can use AI-based sentiment analysis to identify, quantify, and analyze levels of emotion within text. Understanding sentiment can help you catch the subtle inflection points in language that move markets and provide early indicators of shifting corporate performance. This feature works in seconds, saving research professionals hours previously spent combing through company documents and expert transcripts for the best insights.

Generative AI

AlphaSense’s generative AI is purpose-built for business professionals, leaning on 10+ years of AI tech development. Our suite of industry-leading genAI features includes:

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.

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, saving 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, peer into 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 citations to the exact snippets of text from where the summaries are sourced — combining high accuracy with easy verification.