AlphaSense Named the Only Leader in Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms by Independent Research Firm

Key Facts At-a-Glance: 

Launch: AlphaSense recognized as the only Leader in Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026. This independent research report evaluates and ranks companies that provide market and competitive intelligence platforms for financial institutions and other enterprises.

Why It Matters: AlphaSense delivers trusted, domain-specific AI that powers high-stakes business decisions at scale. As a vertically integrated platform, trusted content, proprietary expert insight, retrieval, governance, and workflow execution work together as one system. AlphaSense is trusted by more than 7,800 enterprises to transform trusted information into decision-ready conviction.

AlphaSense Capabilities: According to the report, AlphaSense achieved the highest scores possible in 14 evaluation criteria including LLMs/Generative AI, AI agents, AI chatbot, assistant, or copilot, accuracy and relevancy, security, and innovation. This recognition follows the introduction of significant agentic capabilities in AlphaSense, including SuperAnalyst, an always-on AI agent that executes high-value financial and strategic workflows on behalf of users, and new native AI assistants for work products like PowerPoint and Excel grounded in AlphaSense’s trusted market intelligence.

NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AlphaSense, the AI platform redefining market intelligence for the business and financial world, today announced it has been recognized as the only Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026¹, a new independent report by Forrester, Inc. AlphaSense received the highest scores possible in 14 of 29 total evaluation criteria.

The vendor profile of AlphaSense states:

• Strategy. AlphaSense has played a dominant role in the market with its vision of marrying premier and exclusive content with domain-specific AI for an end-to-end intelligence and decision-support platform. Its pace-setting innovation in AI and agents has propelled rapid customer adoption. The AI-based platform is designed to automate workflows at scale, so AlphaSense has not invested in managed or other supporting services. But [its] agentic-driven roadmap, customer community, ongoing investment in unique content and AI modeling capabilities will continue to fuel its growth.
• Capabilities. AlphaSense’s greatest differentiator is its vendor-owned content portfolio, including exclusive broker research and proprietary expert interviews. Its investment in LLM, AI assistant, and agent capabilities allows the platform to deliver highly accurate search and query results. User adoption has been focused on analysts and strategists but additional integrations with customers’ existing systems and workflows have expanded insight access to a broader set of users.
• Customer feedback. Customers provide high marks for AlphaSense’s quality of insights, ease of use for experienced analysts, and strong service and support. They describe the platform as mission critical, citing its superiority over general-purpose AI assistants.
  

AlphaSense achieved the highest scores possible in 14 of Forrester’s evaluation criteria including LLMs/Generative AI, AI agents, AI chatbot, assistant, or copilot, accuracy and relevancy, security, and innovation.

AlphaSense believes this recognition validates its AI platform strategy, which operates as a continuously learning intelligence layer that combines the industry’s largest content library of 500 million business documents, data synthesis via platform and user-built agents that leverage the leading LLM infrastructure providers, and AI workflow tools that automate presentation-ready outputs. As a full stack platform, AlphaSense acts on behalf of users as a team of analysts, automating the entire research workflow with auditable, verifiable results and AI cost efficiency built in.

“For us, this recognition validates our mission to deliver powerful, intuitive AI that automates traceable, verifiable, and auditable outputs, and carry that trust into the workflows where decisions actually get made,” said Chris Ackerson, Senior Vice President of Product at AlphaSense. “AlphaSense is continuing to build the industry’s most comprehensive market intelligence platform that is both frontier-model agnostic and token efficient. Within a singular intelligence platform, our trusted AI for market intelligence is founded on premium content, domain-specific retrieval, knowledge graph-driven context, model orchestration, synthesis, and auditable outputs.”

Decision-grade AI offers evidence alongside speed and cost efficiency

For financial services firms and other enterprises, AI-generated final outputs are not enough. As AI systems monitor markets, synthesize research, prepare deliverables, and support decisions, the risk of weak retrieval and flawed evidence compounds. In high-stakes workflows, teams need to know the source behind every claim, whether that source is trusted and current, who was entitled to access it, and whether the answer can be reconstructed and defended later.

AlphaSense applies purpose-built AI to continuously analyze trusted financial, market, and expert intelligence and transform it into fully cited, decision-ready insight and deliverables. Built for enterprises operating complex, global, and always-on markets, the platform meets the needs of finance and business professionals in the AI era with a personalized intelligence system without sacrificing speed, accuracy, or security. AI-powered research in AlphaSense connects every answer back to the evidence, so teams can verify, defend, and act on the output.

Critically, decision-grade AI is also efficient by design. It reduces wasted tokens by doing more of the work before content reaches the model: ingesting, indexing, ranking, permissioning, and selecting the highest-value context for the task. The result is not just more trustworthy output, but more scalable and predictable AI economics.

Decision-grade intelligence retrieves the right evidence, not just available evidence; manages context intelligently rather than brute-forcing it; produces outputs that are traceable, verifiable, and auditable; and carries that trust into the workflows where decisions actually get made.

New agentic platform enhancements

AlphaSense operates as the intelligence layer between information and decision, allowing users to understand market insights, competitive intelligence, and market signals before their competition.

SuperAnalyst helps investment professionals, corporate strategists, and operating executives move beyond research tasks toward continuous workflow execution. Rather than simply responding to questions, SuperAnalyst is an always-on agent that agentically codes and executes multi-step research and monitoring work on the user’s behalf – from building custom dashboards, executing research projects, tracking developments and synthesizing new information to updating outputs and surfacing actionable insights as situations evolve.

Accelerating growth at global scale

Recent business growth highlights that trusted, AI-powered market intelligence is becoming core enterprise infrastructure. The company surpassed more than $700 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in Q2 2026, with 7,800 customers worldwide using insights from the platform for their most critical business decisions in areas like investments, corporate strategy and development, and competitive intelligence.

AlphaSense continues to achieve industry recognition as a trusted AI search and market intelligence leader. The recognition by Forrester follows AlphaSense positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Competitive & Market Intelligence Platforms,

AlphaSense serves both human professionals and AI agents, embedding deeper into every workflow. Today, over 90 percent of research projects on AlphaSense are being performed by agents, and the platform consumes 500 billion LLM tokens weekly.

Click here to access a complimentary copy of The Forrester Wave™: Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026.

Forrester Disclaimer
Forrester does not endorse any company, product, brand, or service included in its research publications and does not advise any person to select the products or services of any company or brand based on the ratings included in such publications. Information is based on the best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. This report is part of a broader collection of Forrester resources, including interactive models, frameworks, tools, data, and access to analyst guidance. For more information, read about Forrester’s objectivity here.

About AlphaSense
AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com.

Media Contact
Pete Daly
media@alphasense.com

¹ The Forrester Wave™: Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026, 8/27/2026, Beth Caplow