AlphaSights

AlphaSights is a London-based professional services firm that helps investment firms, consultancies and companies access industry and functional expertise through an expert network. Its services generally involve matching research requests with relevant professionals and facilitating expert consultations and related knowledge-access work. Founded in 2008, the company serves an international institutional client base and is known primarily within investment, consulting and corporate strategy circles rather than the consumer market.

AlphaSights was established in the United Kingdom in 2008 and built its business around the expert network model. It connects client research questions concerning industries, companies or functional topics with external professionals who have relevant experience, while supporting the consultation process. As investment, management consulting and corporate strategy teams increasingly sought rapid access to primary industry knowledge, the company expanded its services internationally. Unlike a traditional publisher or a standardized data provider, its core activity is matching research needs with expert resources and organizing expert consultations. Publicly available information indicates that AlphaSights primarily serves institutional clients and is best known within professional research and decision-support contexts. Reliable public information on the company’s detailed expansion history, management changes and operating scale is limited, so those areas are not expanded here.

• 2008
  [1]AlphaSights official websitealphasights.com

• professional services

  Expert network services

  AlphaSights’ core service matches institutional research needs with external industry and functional experts, helping clients access knowledge about specific markets, companies or professional topics and supporting subsequent consultations.

• research support

  Expert consultations

  Consultations arrange discussions between clients and professionals relevant to a defined research question. They are used in investment research, consulting projects, corporate strategy and market analysis, and form a key delivery format of the expert network business.

1. 1AlphaSights official websitealphasights.com