AlphaSights
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AlphaSights is a British information-services company and expert network. It arranges access to industry practitioners and other specialists for clients conducting primary research, and provides expert calls, surveys, and a digital research platform.[1][2] Independent descriptions likewise classify the company as an expert network serving consulting, investment, private-equity, corporate, and professional-services users.[3][5].
AlphaSights Ltd was incorporated in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2008 under company number 06534480. Companies House lists its registered office in London.[4] The company says it has operated since 2008 and maintains offices in nine cities across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia.[1]
What It Does
Clients submit a research topic defined by a company, industry, geography, or business question. AlphaSights then identifies people whose professional experience is relevant and facilitates a time-bounded exchange, commonly a telephone or video consultation. This model supplies qualitative primary evidence rather than a standardized numerical dataset.[1][2]
The company also supports surveys, allowing a client to collect structured responses from multiple selected participants. AlphaSights markets these services to private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, investment banks and research teams, strategy consultancies, and corporations.[1]
Services and Platform
AlphaSights' service portfolio centers on one-to-one consultations and surveys, supported by research and project-management functions.[2] Its client platform is used to schedule calls, start surveys, communicate with experts, and browse available research material.[1]
The company calls its matching system AlphaGraph. It says the system applies machine learning to a curated graph of expert-to-company relationships to find potentially relevant specialists.[1] The underlying graph, ranking model, and matching accuracy are not independently documented in the reviewed sources, so company-published scale figures should be understood as self-reported.
Buyers and Use Cases
Investment firms may use expert consultations in commercial due diligence, market mapping, thesis development, or examination of an industry value chain. Consultancies may seek operational perspectives for strategy engagements, while corporations may use interviews or surveys for market entry, customer, competitor, or supply-chain research.[1][3]
An expert's statements are opinions or recollections based on individual experience, not audited facts. A consultation should therefore be assessed alongside documentary sources and other interviews. AlphaSights does not replace securities filings, transaction records, official statistics, or professional legal and accounting advice.
Compliance
Expert-network engagements can create confidentiality and market-abuse risks when a participant has access to non-public information. AlphaSights says its compliance program combines contractual policies, staff review, and risk-management technology to protect experts and clients.[1] The reviewed sources do not provide an independent audit of the effectiveness of those controls.
Clients remain responsible for defining prohibited topics, applying their own policies, and deciding whether information obtained may be used. Experts likewise must avoid disclosing confidential, privileged, or otherwise restricted information. These limitations are material to interpreting expert-derived research.
History
Independent summaries identify Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath as co-founders and London as the company's headquarters.[3] Companies House records AlphaSights Ltd as incorporated in March 2008 and separately lists AlphaSights Holdings Ltd, incorporated in 2018.[4] The official site identifies London, New York, Hamburg, Dubai, Tokyo, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Shanghai, and Seoul as operating locations.[1]
AlphaSights publishes totals for interactions, staff, language coverage, and its knowledge graph.[1] Those figures were not independently reconciled during this review and are not treated as externally audited measures. No funding, valuation, or revenue amount is stated here.