Competitive Intelligence for Leading Healthcare Companies

Why AlphaSense is the Leading Competitive Intelligence Tool For Life Sciences

The AlphaSense platform features 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 named in Inc’s 2025 Best in Business list in the “Best AI Implementation” and “Best in Innovation” categories for the second year in a row.

Competitive strategists and decision makers in the healthcare sector normally have to scour disparate locations — often behind paywalls — to access exclusive competitive data. With AlphaSense, healthcare organizations can conduct comprehensive quantitative and qualitative research that results in smarter, more confident decision-making.

AlphaSense also saves you hours of research time by centralizing the insights you need and delivering them to you with intelligent, AI technology — maximizing confidence and minimizing informational blind spots. 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 navigate through the specific types of content you need for more granular research.

These features and more are why leading life sciences corporations trust AlphaSense to gain their competitive edge.

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Components of Effective Competitive Intelligence in Healthcare

Competitor Analysis

Competitor analysis is easy to do in the AlphaSense platform. Simply search for your competitor on the platform and explore the company tearsheet, which provides extensive quantitative insights. These include market cap, revenue, standardized financials, sector-specific KPIs, valuation multiples, price and volume data, and management commentary. Additionally, you can find all the qualitative insights relevant to this competitor that are aggregated in the AlphaSense platform, including earnings transcripts, filings, press releases, broker reports, and expert transcripts.

Competitive Benchmarking and Monitoring

Competitive benchmarking is the process of comparing your own business against your competitors in order to identify potential areas of improvement or to see how you stack up against your peers.

In the AlphaSense platform, you can create a watchlist for all your competitors and set real-time alerts to always stay in the know on company updates. If you need to perform earnings analysis, you can also use our Smart Summaries feature to instantly extract key insights from your competitors’ earnings transcripts.

Additionally, you can use our Generative Grid to monitor a specific list of competitors across particular topics. Generative Grid pulls data from both premium external documents in the AlphaSense platform and users’ internal content. Users can leverage this tool to track clinical trials, compare competitors at a glance, parse through medical studies in seconds, track biopharma deal activity, or analyze merger proxy filings, among many other use cases.

Competitive Landscape Analysis

AlphaSense makes competitive landscape analysis easier with our Generative Search feature. With Generative Search, you can ask natural language questions and source intelligence at scale from specific sources, including ClinicalTrials.gov, FDA, EMA, and PubMed — or from across our entire aggregated library of content. Generative Search will instantly return citable, verifiable answers, and you can dive deeper into each topic by asking follow-up questions or clicking into the source.

With Deep Research mode, users can automate the creation of in-depth analyses about companies, trends, or industries. The model conducts dozens of searches, parses through thousands of potentially relevant results, and reasons over all of it to produce comprehensive, detailed research reports about any topic in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

How AlphaSense Takes Your Competitive Intelligence Further

Leading healthcare and pharma companies trust AlphaSense as their all-in-one market intelligence tool that helps them maximize efficiency, keep on pace with innovation, and stay on the leading edge.

Here’s what sets AlphaSense apart from other market intelligence solutions:

Premium External Market Insights

Our library of qualitative content includes:

Over 1,700 broker sources, including Wall Street Insights, a premier and exclusive equity research collection for corporate teams (healthcare included)
Expert calls, which includes over 240,000 interviews with pre-qualified experts (including doctors, customers, competitors, and industry experts), as well as the ability to conduct your own 1:1 calls with 70% cost savings compared with traditional expert networks
Regulatory documents from publications including ClinicalTrials.gov, FDA, EMA, MedlinePlus, and PubMed
Company documents and filings, including earnings transcripts, company presentations, SEC and global filings, ESG reports, and press releases
News and trade journals

Generative Search

Generative Search allows users to ask natural-language questions and source intelligence at scale from across premium external content, internal knowledge, and quantitative data sources.

With Deep Research mode, users can automate the creation of in-depth analysis about companies, trends, or industry topics. The model conducts dozens of searches, parses through thousands of potentially relevant results, and reasons over all of it to produce comprehensive, detailed analysis about any topic — in a fraction of the time it would take a human.

Generative Grid

Generative Grid applies multiple genAI prompts to 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 clients to summarize documents using pre-built criteria to save time when executing repeatable workflows.

Smart Summaries

Every earnings transcript in AlphaSense features an AI-generated Smart Summary, which creates a tearsheet of key takeaways, analyst Q&A, and the most critical topics discussed in each call. AlphaSense users leverage Smart Summaries during earnings season to extract the most crucial insights from each call in just minutes, ensuring a comprehensive and timely view of key insights.

Semantic Search

Instead of digging through fragmented reports and alerts, you can rely on our semantic search to make sure 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

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 are all executed in seconds, saving analysts hours previously spent combing through broker research reports (often 20+ pages or more) and other complex research unique to the healthcare industry (for example, clinical trial results) for the best insights.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is competitive intelligence important for modern healthcare organizations?

The healthcare industry is evolving at a rapid pace. New technologies, regulations, market entrants, and shifting consumer expectations are continually reshaping the landscape, making it critical for healthcare organizations to stay ahead in order to maintain a competitive edge.

Organizations that don’t prioritize competitive intelligence often find themselves reacting too late — leading to inefficient spending and loss of relevance, sometimes without realizing it until margins or volumes start to decline.

That’s why having a reliable platform for conducting competitive intelligence is essential, enabling you to take a proactive, rather than reactive, approach to market changes. With AlphaSense, healthcare teams can automatically monitor competitors, track market and regulatory trends, and identify emerging technologies through premium content sets aggregated in a single platform. Powered by advanced AI and real-time monitoring, AlphaSense enables more efficient and effective research and delivers alerts that help organizations stay one step ahead of markets.

What kind of information can be gathered through competitive intelligence?

Competitive intelligence yields a wide range of information and key insights, including but not limited to:

Competitors' market share, product offerings, pricing strategies, and marketing tactics
Industry trends, regulations, and policy changes that may impact the market
Emerging technologies, research and development activities, and innovations in healthcare
Customer preferences, needs, and expectations
Partnerships, collaborations, and mergers and acquisitions within the industry

How can healthcare organizations gather competitive intelligence?

Healthcare organizations can gather competitive intelligence through various methods, such as:

Monitoring competitors' websites, social media channels, and press releases
Participating in industry conferences, trade shows, and professional networks
Analyzing market research reports, industry publications, and academic studies
Conducting surveys, interviews, and focus groups with customers and industry experts

Utilizing online tools and software (such as the AlphaSense platform) for data analytics and market research

What are the key benefits of implementing competitive intelligence in healthcare?

Implementing competitive intelligence can offer several benefits, including:

Identifying new business opportunities and potential areas for growth
Understanding customers' needs and preferences to incorporate those into product development
Gaining insight into peers’ R&D spend and strategic priorities to make more proactive decisions
Anticipating market changes and adapting business and marketing strategies accordingly
Monitoring and analyzing drug pipelines to get ahead of industry trends
Minimizing risks by keeping track of competitors' activities and market dynamics

What are some common challenges in implementing competitive intelligence in healthcare?

Implementing competitive intelligence in healthcare can pose certain challenges, such as:

Gathering accurate, reliable, and timely data across disparate sources: Healthcare intelligence is fragmented across clinical data, regulatory filings, earnings calls, trials, policy updates, and news. Siloed sources and inconsistent data quality make it difficult to build a complete, trustworthy view of the market.
Ensuring data privacy, security, and regulatory compliance: Strict regulations such as HIPAA and evolving data governance requirements add complexity to how organizations collect, store, and analyze information.
Analyzing complex and rapidly changing market dynamics: Healthcare markets are shaped by overlapping forces, including reimbursement models, policy shifts, technology adoption, and demographic trends. Translating this complexity into clear, actionable insights can be challenging..
Limited resources and expertise: Many healthcare organizations lack dedicated competitive intelligence teams or the advanced tools needed to scale research efficiently, making it hard to keep pace with competitors and market changes.
Breaking down organizational silos: Competitive insights are often spread out across strategy, finance, clinical, and marketing teams. Without alignment and shared access, intelligence efforts can be duplicated or underutilized.

With AlphaSense, these challenges are easy to overcome. All content is accurate, reliable, and vetted. We aggregate company documents, broker reports, expert transcripts, news, and regulatory documents in one centralized location, eliminating the need for toggling between multiple sources or platforms.

Our AI-based workflows and generative AI features speed up time to insight without ever sacrificing comprehensiveness, and they make it easy to spot and analyze complex market trends. Additionally, our expert transcript library has a dedicated compliance team that diligently reviews all calls to ensure that no material or non-public information is published, and all experts are vetted for conflicts.

Our enterprise search capabilities, internal knowledge integration, and collaboration features allow you to easily share competitive insights across teams and maintain a central repository of all organizational knowledge in one place.

How can competitive intelligence help healthcare companies differentiate themselves from competitors?

Competitive intelligence enables healthcare organizations to differentiate themselves by:

Understanding competitors' strengths and weaknesses to emphasize unique value propositions
Identifying gaps in the market and developing innovative solutions
Monitoring customer feedback and adapting services to maximize customer satisfaction
Anticipating market trends and staying ahead of emerging technologies
Building strategic partnerships and collaborations to enhance offerings

How often should healthcare organizations update their competitive intelligence?

Competitive intelligence is not a one and done deal. Healthcare organizations should regularly monitor and update their competitive intelligence to stay abreast of industry changes, emerging trends, and competitors' strategies. Particularly in the rapidly evolving healthcare and pharmaceutical spaces, making sure that your competitive intelligence is as current and comprehensive as possible is key to setting and reaching smart strategic goals.

Does AlphaSense replace my existing competitive intelligence tools or complement them?

AlphaSense is a standalone research platform, which life sciences clients use to consolidate workflows that previously required multiple disjointed tools. The platform’s ability to aggregate broker research, expert insights, company documents, and news allows it to replace the following:

General search engines
Disparate news sources
Individual broker portals
Expert network content libraries

For life sciences clients, AlphaSense is viewed as a "complement" rather than a complete replacement for specialized databases (platforms such as Evaluate Pharma and Cortellis), business intelligence dashboards, CRM systems, and internal data repositories. AlphaSense enhances the value of all these tools through integration, AI capabilities, and additional external sources that provide important context.

Can AlphaSense monitor competitors in real-time, or is it just for historical research?

AlphaSense is a valuable tool for both real-time monitoring and historical research capabilities. You can set up real-time alerts to get notified when a competitor files earnings, announces a drug approval, or issues a press release. Additionally, AlphaSense includes a feature for live events, allowing users to join or set reminders for company calls as they are happening. You can also add all important competitors to your watchlist, so any pertinent updates will show up on your dashboard.

In terms of historical research, you can use our generative AI features and agentic workflows to pull insights in seconds from across 10,000+ sources aggregated in our platform — all cited and verifiable.

Do I need IT involvement to set up and use AlphaSense?

There is no mandatory IT integration to set up and use AlphaSense. Users can start using the platform immediately once login credentials are set up.

AlphaSense’s default multi-tenant SaaS deployment enables most professionals to begin searching external and internal content without waiting for corporate IT, thanks to web-based access, single-sign-on (SSO) support, and intuitive self-service document ingestion that gets users up and running almost instantly. IT engagement becomes optional — but advisable — when firms activate advanced security controls or choose alternative hosting models such as single-tenant or private-cloud deployments.

Competitive Intelligence in Healthcare