Unlock Proprietary Expert Insights with Our Expert Transcript Library and Expert Call Services

Expert calls are one-on-one interviews with seasoned subject matter experts — such as thought leaders, former executives, customers, partners, and competitors — from a specific industry or company. These experts provide unique perspectives that otherwise would be inaccessible to investment analysts and corporate professionals.

In the AlphaSense platform, clients can access transcripts from calls that are conducted by seasoned analysts and stored in our expert transcript library (after an embargo period), or they can choose to conduct expert calls themselves — either human-led or using our AI interviewer. Our AI and generative AI search and summarization features then help users get the most value out of these calls.

The top companies of the world are already seeing how integral and powerful these unique perspectives are in making more confident decisions. Investment and corporate professionals are retiring traditional expert networks and incorporating powerful expert insights into their comprehensive research strategies to gain a competitive edge.

AlphaSense customers are able to unlock expert insights in hours, not days, allowing them to adjust their strategies in real-time and take proactive action before the next headline impacts the market. And with our transparent pricing and 70% cost saving compared to traditional expert networks, our customers are constantly maximizing their research ROI.

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Proprietary Insights from Expert Calls

First-hand perspectives, such as those discovered in expert calls, are a critical addition to secondary research. Not only do they transform your research process from reactive to proactive, they ensure you stay ahead of the curve and competition. While quantitative insights and data are important for painting an objective picture, company leaders need first-hand experiential knowledge gained through expert calls to build a holistic view of any market, industry, or trend.

Here’s how Tegus by AlphaSense enhances and streamlines your market research:

Reliable and Objective Knowledge

It’s not always easy to find objective qualitative information in market research, especially when relying solely on company documents. In earnings and investor relations calls, companies want to present themselves in the best possible light, making it difficult to glean the nuances of company culture, industry-specific competitive landscapes, or even consumer behavior.

Expert calls are valuable because they offer a highly informed yet unbiased perspective since the experts are no longer involved with the company in question. All experts also have to abide by strict disclaimers to combat conflicts of interest).

Expert network calls are completely legal, provided they adhere to strict compliance standards regarding the sharing of material non-public information (MNPI). Reputable platforms like AlphaSense ensure that all calls are conducted within legal and ethical boundaries, with robust mechanisms in place to prevent the disclosure of MNPI, safeguarding all participants.

At AlphaSense, experts are required to be at least six months out of their prior role with the target company they are being asked to speak about. This ensures that AlphaSense’s expert transcripts provide significantly more objective insights than interviews with current company employees or stakeholders.

Faster, Deeper Insights with AI

Even when you have all the right expert transcripts at your fingertips, actually finding and extracting the most relevant insights from lengthy conversations can be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack — tedious and unlikely to yield success. But with AI features, such as AlphaSense Generative Search (with Deep Research), you can ask natural-language questions about any topic and get instant answers sourced directly from expert calls. Each answer links back to the precise snippet of the interview that it was sourced from for easy verification and further research.

You also have the option of expanding your AI search from just expert transcripts to AlphaSense’s entire universe of content. That way, you get the benefit of additional context and verifiability because you can see if the expert’s words are backed up by other sources, such as analyst reports and company documents.

Scaling Insights Without Expanding Resources

For investors who rely on expert perspectives as a key input to build conviction in their decisions, but face increasing pressure to cover more companies and move faster with resource-constrained teams, AI-Led Expert Calls are the solution. This solution extends the capability of Tegus Expert Call Services by pairing client-chosen experts with AlphaSense’s knowledge-base-informed AI Interviewer, enabling primary research to move at the speed of modern markets.

Acting as a trusted extension of your team, AI-Led Expert Calls unlocks a new stream of proprietary insights — collecting more primary data points, faster — so you can focus on higher-value decision-making. It’s the institutional edge that automates the groundwork, allowing you to scale coverage while preserving analyst time for the deep-dive conversations that drive conviction.

Early Insight into Demand and Pricing Signals

For decades, only the largest hedge funds could afford channel research programs — spending tens of millions on analysts to call suppliers, distributors, and customers. Meanwhile, smaller funds have been forced to either cobble together ad-hoc channel intelligence or rely on static, non-transparent reports from sellside shops.

But with AlphaSense Channel Checks, you can glean actionable intelligence instantly through our living channel intelligence system. Thousands of consistent conversations every month surface clean, comparable signals on demand and pricing from ground-level channel sources weeks before the market catches on. Our AI-led interviews surface demand trends, pricing movements, and competitive dynamics as they happen instead of in static postmortem reports.

You can simultaneously interrogate dozens of Channel Check interviews across peer sets to extract demand, inventory, and pricing insights in seconds. And with full transcript access, you can build conviction through source-level verification and defend investment recommendations with primary source evidence, eliminating the trust gap inherent in third-party research summaries.

Insight into Highly Regulated Industries and Markets

Industries like healthcare, financial services, and tech are some of the hottest in the current investment landscape, but they are also highly regulated. As these industries are currently experiencing some of the highest growth rates in the US, demand for expert knowledge in these areas is high to capitalize on high-growth opportunities.

However, these industries are rapidly changing, and many investors do not have a full understanding of all the relevant factors at play to make well-informed business and investment strategies within these markets. Tegus Expert Insights can fill in these gaps and ensure that investors’ decisions are not hindered by a lack of technical expertise by providing critical context to data-driven market research.

Commentary on Larger Trends

Research analysts know how to recognize trends in market or industry data. But they don’t always understand the “why” behind these trends, what the larger implications of the trends are, or how these trends should be considered in relation to investment decisions.

Expert calls offer access to contemporary perspectives that are crucial for staying ahead of trends in rapidly changing markets. This access to real-time, relevant insights helps businesses and investors adapt to emerging trends and regulatory changes, maintaining a proactive approach to market challenges.

Our experts have the extensive experience and deep knowledge to answer all those questions. Whether you are conducting your own call or consulting our transcript library, you will unlock proprietary insights that will give you the confidence to make smarter business decisions and navigate any market conditions.

How AlphaSense Clients Use Expert Calls to Get Ahead

No longer just a powerful resource for the financial services space, expert calls are now providing valuable insights and a competitive advantage to corporate and professional services users at top companies.

Here’s how our customers utilize our Expert Insights offering for their financial and strategic research:

Expert Calls for Hedge Funds

For hedge funds, expert calls are a strategic tool used to gain detailed insights into specific industries or companies. These insights help in formulating strategies that anticipate market movements, thereby optimizing investment positions.

• Outpacing the competition – Our library of 250,000+ expert call transcripts is full of proprietary insights only accessible to AlphaSense users. Our Expert Call Services allow you to connect with our vast global network of pre-qualified experts and conduct your own 1:1 interviews, either live or using our AI-led interviewer — with 70% cost savings, compared to traditional expert networks. These offerings, combined with our generative AI search and summarization features, maximize your research ROI and give you the unequivocal competitive edge.
• Researching use cases – With our diverse body of experts, ranging from former employees — executives to lab techs to sales to competitors, customers, channel partners, and more — you have every perspective you need. These perspectives are crucial in long and short-book idea generation, exploring potential M&A or restructuring candidates, searching for sector or thematic insights, and monitoring portfolio holdings.
• Industry-leading standards for compliance – All of our experts are vetted for conflicts, and our compliance team diligently reviews all calls to ensure that no material or non-public information is published. Internal compliance teams are also able to vet requested transcripts before use.

Expert Calls for Asset Management

Asset managers use expert calls to analyze market trends, assess investment risks, and validate portfolio strategies with industry expertise. These qualitative insights help them make data-driven decisions, optimize asset allocation, and identify new opportunities.

• Saving time and money – Our AI search technology enables you to find the information you need faster by searching across our expert transcript library of 250,000+ expert transcripts, all for less than the cost of a typical call bundle. Our Expert Call Services allow you to connect with our vast global network of pre-qualified experts and conduct your own 1:1 interviews, either live or using our AI-led interviewer — with 70% cost savings, compared to traditional expert networks. Our AI-led expert calls also allow you to 10x the amount of calls you conduct without adding time, cost, or headcount.
• Gaining early access to fresh perspectives – We add thousands of new investor-led transcripts to our library monthly, which means you always get updated, differentiated insights that empower better idea generation and portfolio monitoring. And when you conduct your own expert calls, you ensure the fastest, most relevant answers to each of your research questions.
• Industry-leading standards for compliance – Expert Insights prioritizes compliance throughout the content development process and has a team of trained compliance reviewers who ensure research safety for clients. Both our human-led and AI-led expert calls are compliance-first by design and create an added protective layer between experts and internal teams while still gaining high-value, safe, and fast insights.

Expert Calls for Private Equity

Private market investors leverage expert calls to gain a clearer understanding of niche markets or to evaluate unlisted companies. These insights are crucial for identifying undervalued opportunities or assessing potential investment risks, providing a competitive edge in a less transparent market segment.

• Discovering winning opportunities faster – Our patented AI-search technology helps you bypass any irrelevant expert calls and surfaces only the most pertinent insights. We make sure you never waste time scheduling interviews with mediocre experts again.
• Understanding industry trends and market-moving events – Because our calls are conducted by buy-side analysts, you can be sure they are going in deep on the topics that matter most. Learn about competitive moats, tech stacks, industry headwinds and tailwinds, and get answers to the questions that matter most. Schedule your own expert calls to get answers to highly specific questions and the most tailored advice.
• Increasing your value add in the boardroom – Expert calls — whether they are human-led or AI-led — equip you with differentiated competitive intelligence, industry best practices, and notable companies to consider for add-on acquisitions. Our investor-led calls surface the most critical insights and build a holistic picture of opportunities, empowering teams to inform stronger, more complete use cases.

Expert Calls for Venture Capital

Venture capitalists utilize expert calls to validate business models, assess market potential, and understand industry dynamics. These insights directly inform investment decisions, particularly in emerging sectors or startups where traditional data may be scarce.

• Market landscaping – Expert calls provide critical market insights at scale straight from the source. Unearth pain points and new opportunities for disruption, and discover the strengths and weaknesses of emerging companies.
• Understanding industry trends and market-moving events – Experts can help venture capitalists understand how certain trends will impact their portfolio companies, as well as how other companies in the space are being affected. This is especially valuable when evaluating new investment opportunities or benchmarking a potential portfolio company against the competitive landscape. An expert with direct experience in the sector can help you understand how a target company navigates evolving business environments.
• Increasing your value add in the boardroom – Expert calls — whether they are human-led or AI-led — equip you with differentiated competitive intelligence, industry best practices, and notable potential acquirers to help you rise above your competition. Our investor-led calls surface the most critical insights and build a holistic picture of opportunities, empowering teams to inform stronger, more complete use cases.

Expert Calls for Sell-Side Firms

Sell-side firms, including investment banks and equity research providers, use expert calls to differentiate their research products, validate complex market dynamics, and provide specialized advisory services to their clients.

Key sell-side use cases include:

• Differentiated research and proprietary insight – Expert calls surface proprietary insights that are not found in public filings or earnings calls. Uncover nuanced market dynamics and emerging trends to deliver unique, high-conviction analysis that sets your coverage apart from consensus.
• Understanding market sentiment and transaction dynamics – Experts can help sell-side professionals understand how deal structures, market conditions, or sector-specific dynamics are influencing transaction outcomes, as well as how key market participants are positioning themselves. This is particularly valuable when advising on M&A transactions, IPOs, or capital markets activity where nuanced market intelligence can meaningfully influence deal outcomes.
• Sector and technical depth – For sell-side teams covering complex or highly technical industries, experts with direct operating experience inside relevant companies or functions can provide deep insight into how products are built, how markets actually work beneath the surface, and where official narratives diverge from operational reality — giving analysts and bankers a critical edge in client conversations.

Expert Calls for Corporate Strategy

Corporate professionals utilize expert calls to validate market assumptions, assess competitive dynamics, and identify emerging trends for informed financial and strategic decisions. These insights enable corporate strategy teams to refine growth plans, mitigate risks, and stay ahead of industry shifts.

• Peer and competitive landscaping – An expert can provide valuable intel on a company’s operations, history, internal teams, competitors, and other relevant strategies. Knowing these details about one’s peers or competitors can empower more proactive strategy and help uncover specific competitive advantages and gaps of competitive interest.
• Understanding industry trends and market-moving events – Experts can help professionals understand how certain trends will impact their company, as well as how other companies in the industry are being affected. This is important whether you are looking into M&A opportunities or simply benchmarking with your competition. An expert on a target company can help you understand how that company navigates evolving business environments.
• Technical expertise – For companies looking to launch a new product, it is imperative to have a clear understanding of how other products are both built and operated. Experts who have worked in engineering and product development teams within a company are capable of providing deep insight into these areas.

Expert Calls for Competitive Intelligence

Competitive intelligence professionals utilize expert calls to monitor rival strategies, validate market signals, and build a comprehensive picture of the competitive landscape. These insights enable CI teams to deliver timely, actionable intelligence that informs product positioning, go-to-market strategy, and long-term planning.

• Competitor analysis – An expert can provide granular intel on a competitor's operations, organizational structure, internal priorities, and strategic direction. Knowing these details can empower more proactive positioning and help uncover specific competitive vulnerabilities and whitespace opportunities before they become apparent in public sources.
• Tracking competitive shifts and market-moving events – Experts can help CI professionals understand how industry disruptions, new entrants, or regulatory changes are reshaping the competitive dynamic, and how rivals are responding. This is especially critical when evaluating a competitor's reaction to market events or product launches, or when stress-testing your own strategic assumptions against real-world conditions.
• Product and technology intelligence – For CI teams tracking a competitor's product roadmap or technical capabilities, experts who have worked in engineering, product, or customer-facing roles can provide deep insight into how competing products are built, differentiated, and operationalized — well before that information surfaces publicly.

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Expert Calls for Corporate Development

Corporate development professionals utilize expert calls to evaluate acquisition targets, validate deal theses, and assess integration risks before committing to transactions. These insights enable teams to move with conviction through complex M&A processes, reduce due diligence blind spots, and identify the most strategic paths to inorganic growth.

• Target evaluation and deal thesis validation – An expert can provide valuable insight into a target company's operations, culture, leadership effectiveness, and competitive positioning. Knowing these details can empower more confident deal-making and help uncover specific risks or synergies that would otherwise only surface post-close.
• Understanding market dynamics and transaction timing – Experts can help corporate development professionals understand how industry trends, regulatory shifts, or competitive pressures may affect a target's future value, as well as how comparable transactions have played out across the sector. Whether evaluating a potential acquisition, divestiture, or strategic partnership, an expert with direct knowledge of the target or its market can provide critical context on timing and valuation.
• Operational and integration due diligence – For companies pursuing acquisitions, it is essential to understand how a target's products, technology, and teams actually function beneath the surface. Experts who have worked inside target organizations or comparable companies can provide deep insight into operational realities, integration complexity, and potential cultural or structural challenges.

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Expert Calls for Investor Relations

Investor relations professionals utilize expert calls to benchmark against peers, anticipate investor concerns, and develop a sharper understanding of how the market perceives their company. These insights enable IR teams to craft more compelling narratives, prepare executives for tough questions, and stay ahead of the themes driving buy-side sentiment.

• Peer benchmarking and perception analysis – An expert can provide candid perspective on how a company's strategy, financial performance, and management messaging compares to its peers. Knowing these details can empower more proactive investor engagement and help uncover specific gaps in how the market perceives your story relative to the competition.
• Understanding investor sentiment and market-moving themes – Experts can help IR professionals anticipate the questions and concerns that are top of mind for buy-side analysts and portfolio managers, as well as how broader industry narratives are shaping investor expectations. This is particularly valuable when preparing for earnings calls, investor days, or periods of heightened market scrutiny where the stakes of miscommunication are high.
• Messaging refinement and executive preparation – For IR teams looking to sharpen their equity story or prepare leadership for investor interactions, experts with buy-side or sell-side backgrounds can provide deep insight into how financial narratives are received, where messaging may fall short, and what institutional investors are really looking for beneath the surface.

Expert Calls for Corporate Finance

Corporate finance professionals utilize expert calls to pressure-test financial assumptions, benchmark performance metrics, and gain a ground-level understanding of the dynamics shaping their industry. These insights enable corporate finance teams to build more defensible models, sharpen capital allocation decisions, and anticipate the financial implications of market shifts before they materialize.

• Benchmarking and financial performance context – An expert can provide candid perspective on how a company's financial structure, cost base, and capital allocation approach compares to the industry baseline and best-in-class peers. Knowing these details can empower more informed planning and help uncover specific inefficiencies or opportunities that are difficult to identify from public financials alone.
• Understanding industry dynamics and macro-driven risk – Experts can help corporate finance professionals understand how pricing pressures, supply chain shifts, or interest rate environments are affecting their sector, and how peer companies are adjusting their financial strategies in response. This is especially valuable when stress-testing forecasts, evaluating capital structure decisions, or assessing the financial viability of major investments in uncertain environments.
• Operational and cost structure intelligence – For finance teams looking to drive efficiency or evaluate build-versus-buy decisions, experts with hands-on experience in finance, operations, or procurement functions can provide deep insight into how leading companies structure their costs, manage working capital, and operationalize financial discipline across the organization.

Expert Calls for Consulting

Consultants use expert calls to gather industry expertise, validate market assumptions, and assess competitive landscapes for client strategies. These insights enhance decision-making, support data-driven recommendations, and identify growth opportunities.

• Gaining deep insights for clients – Whether you consult an expert transcript in our library or utilize an AI-led expert call, you’ll get differentiated insights that fill in research gaps and go far beyond the industry knowledge that internal team members may have.
• Sourcing leading subject matter experts – The Expert Insights database can be used to find experts, including former or current executive leaders, to speak at internal workshops, or clients’ workshops.
• Conducting thorough due diligence on clients – Expert calls enable consultants to get smart on their clients quickly and thoroughly—by hearing from experts who have firsthand experience with those companies—which enables them to meet clients’ needs much more effectively and better than the competition.

The diverse applications of expert calls across different industries underscore their importance as a strategic resource in modern business and investment environments. By providing direct access to specialized knowledge and industry leaders, expert calls empower companies and investors to make informed, effective decisions with confidence.