PYRAMYD vs AlphaSense
AlphaSense searches 500M+ documents. PYRAMYD maps the software market and models the next move.
AlphaSense is AI search and agents over a library of 500M+ business documents — broker research, filings, earnings calls, expert-call transcripts — named a Leader by Forrester and Gartner in 2026. PYRAMYD is a typed graph of the enterprise software market, pre-loaded with 250K+ products and 2,000+ signal sources, with a two-sided game-theory engine on top.
Side-by-side
Different substrates, different questions.
AlphaSense is built for research across a large licensed document library, for finance and strategy teams in every sector. PYRAMYD is built on a typed graph of the enterprise software market — CI lives in the Competitors hub, one of five hubs on that graph.
| Dimension | AlphaSense | PYRAMYD |
|---|---|---|
| What the substrate is | A library of 500M+ business documents: broker research, company filings, earnings calls, news, expert-call transcripts (expanded by its 2024 acquisition of Tegus) and your firm’s own content, with AI search and generative answers across it.Sources: alpha-sense.com · AlphaSense, 27 Aug 2026 · AlphaSense, 8 Jul 2024 | Pre-populated typed graph · 250K+ products, 2,546 categories, 2.4M+ reviews, 2,000+ signal sources before day one. |
| Coverage shape | Public and private companies across sectors, with solutions for investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, asset management, consulting, life sciences, energy, industrials, consumer goods and tech, media and telecom.Sources: alpha-sense.com · alpha-sense.com/solutions | Enterprise software: 250K+ products across 2,546 categories, with the 2.4M+ reviews behind them. |
| AI and agents | Generative Search, Generative Grid and Deep Research, plus SuperAnalyst (introduced June 2026), an always-on agent that monitors filings, earnings and expert transcripts and runs multi-step research for the user.Sources: AlphaSense, 3 Jun 2026 · AlphaSense, 27 Aug 2026 | APEX · 20 specialist agents and 150+ tools; MCP access to Claude / ChatGPT / Cursor coming soon. |
| Forecasting competitor moves | Watchlists, dashboards and real-time alerts on the companies you track, plus consensus estimates for tracking market expectations.Source: alpha-sense.com/solutions | Two-sided game-theory engine: a probability over each competitor move, an exploitability score amplified when their move rests on a belief their own reviews contradict, and counter-moves ranked by expected value — runnable live at /game-theory. |
| Citations | Generative answers and summaries cite the exact snippet of source text (sentence-level citations).Sources: alpha-sense.com · alpha-sense.com/solutions | Cited answers; AI-written fields record the model, prompt version, sources and confidence. |
| Scope and outputs | Market intelligence and research for finance and strategy teams, through to cited slide decks and reports in the platform, financial models in Excel and refreshed PowerPoint presentations.Sources: alpha-sense.com · AlphaSense, 27 Aug 2026 | Five hubs on one graph — Workspace (free), Markets, Products, Competitors (where CI lives) and Accounts (where RFPs run). |
| Pricing | Not published. Licensed per seat, with broker research and expert calls priced as add-ons or higher tiers; Vendr’s median buyer pays $18,375 a year (40 purchases).Source: Vendr | Public pricing: a free Workspace for every account, and paid plans priced per seat, with live prices on the pricing page. |
| Recognition and reach | A Leader in The Forrester Wave: Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026, and a Leader in Gartner’s 2026 Magic Quadrant for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms; more than $700M in annual recurring revenue and 7,800 customers (Q2 2026).Source: AlphaSense, 27 Aug 2026 | CI lives in the Competitors hub, one of five hubs on the platform, reading from 2,000+ signal sources. |
Facts about AlphaSense come from the public sources under each row, checked 7 Oct 2026. The PYRAMYD column and the “Wins on” column are ours.
When to pick each
Reading program vs forward model.
Pick AlphaSense when
- Your coverage runs well beyond software — banking, funds, life sciences, energy, industrials, consumer — and you need filings, broker research and expert calls in one place.
- The job is research synthesis across a large document library, with every answer cited to the source text.
- You want an agent that watches filings, earnings and expert transcripts and runs research for you.
- You want a vendor that both Forrester and Gartner rated a Leader in 2026.
Pick PYRAMYD when
- Your market is enterprise software and you want it mapped as a graph: 250K+ products across 2,546 categories, with 2.4M+ reviews.
- You want a forward model — what a competitor does next, what it is worth, and the counter — runnable at /game-theory.
- You want CI, market, product and RFP work on one platform: five hubs on one graph.
- Public, per-seat pricing matters to your procurement team.
Bottom line
AlphaSense is a Leader in market intelligence over documents. PYRAMYD maps the software market and models the next move.
AlphaSense's strength is its 500M+ document library — broker research, filings, earnings calls and expert-call transcripts — with cited AI answers and agents on top. PYRAMYD's strength is shipping with the software market already mapped, and a game-theory engine that puts a probability on each competitor move and ranks the counter-moves. Teams that run AlphaSense today can run PYRAMYD alongside it for the software market.
Bring a competitor. Watch the engine price their next move.
30 minutes. We'll run the two-sided synthesis on a competitor you actually face — the posterior, the exploitability, the ranked counter-moves — or try the public engine yourself first.