AlphaSense

What do you like best?

Equity reports - a great feature. They have data that we can't get elsewhere

Ability to easily toggle different search lengths

We often use snips from transcripts to bolster our own research. A quote from the CEO of a public company always helps us improve our credibility

Ability to quickly go through historical financial documents

What do you dislike?

More historical data needed

Acquired company names are rough. We often have to enter multiple names and they are often not well organized or consolidated

more equity brokers needed - Citi has been promised for nearly 6 months with no follow-through

Expensive

Transcript sentiment is overdone - we can read for ourselves to figure out good vs bad

New layout needs a lot of work as it stresses the dashboards too much

AI is totally overblown. It is a mix of relevancy and how many hits. Stop saying that it is AI. Real AI would have much better word association.

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What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Finding obscure datapoints. So much of our job is hunting for specific datapoints without our target markets. Alphasense makes it easy to find them

We've benefited a lot from seeing what the equity analysts have to say about the impact of COVID on our target markets. Seeing the breadth of views helps us create boundary conditions when we are creating our own forecasts. This is a significant value add as our clients have access to these reports and ensure we aren't the outlier (unless we want to be)