Real-Time Expert Channel Intelligence
Channel Checks are AI-led expert interviews conducted with real market participants, such as distributors, suppliers, and retailers.
These conversations provide timely insights into demand trends, pricing changes, competitive developments, and supply chain dynamics. Powered by AlphaSense’s AI Interviewer and incorporated into the Tegus Expert Transcript Library—the largest and fastest-growing collection of investor-led expert calls—Channel Checks offer continuous coverage across subsectors, including Technology, Media and telecom (TMT), Energy and industrials, Healthcare, and Consumer.
- What are Channel Checks?
- What Do Channel Checks Contain?
- How to Use Channel Check Transcripts for Deeper Insights
- How to Get the Most Out of Channel Checks Transcripts
- How to Find and Use Channel Check Grids
What Are Channel Checks?
Channel Checks delivers timely, proprietary insights directly from frontline market participants, such as distributors, suppliers, and channel partners. These experts operate within a company’s ecosystem but outside its core, offering objective, ground-level perspectives on market momentum.
Each Channel Check captures real-time feedback on demand, supply, pricing, and competitive dynamics across key sectors, including Technology, Healthcare, and Energy & Industrials.
Every interview is conducted one-on-one with a real human expert and led by AlphaSense’s AI Interviewer. Powered by AlphaSense’s proprietary content ecosystem, the AI Interviewer grounds each conversation in sector-specific context and up-to-date market data.
AlphaSense makes this capability accessible within your existing workflow, delivering it at a scale, consistency, and real-time transparency that even elite funds have never achieved. Channel Checks are no longer a luxury. They're table stakes.
What Do Channel Checks Contain?
In Channel Check Transcripts, you will find detailed, structured discussions on:
- Current Demand Environment: Insights into recent (past 3 months), current, and anticipated future market demand trends.
- Pricing and Margin Dynamics: Information on pricing strategies, margins, and competitive pricing actions.
- Supply and Lead-Time Conditions: Updates on product availability, supply chain health, and fulfillment timelines.
- Competitive Landscape and Market Share Shifts: Expert observations on competitor strategies, market positioning, share movements, and identification of new or surprising entrants in the space.
- Demand Drivers and Customer Sentiment: Identification of factors influencing customer behavior and market sentiment.
- Forward-Looking Expectations: Insights into future market developments, anticipated regulatory changes, and potential technological advancements.
In Channel Check Generative Grids, you will be able to:
Launch directly from the AlphaSense homepage via an easy-to-navigate workflow agent that takes you straight to the Channel Check GenGrid library selector.
Access 200+ pre-built Channel Check Generative Grids, populated with real-time expert insights.
Quickly distinguish AlphaSense-built vs. client-built grids using the dedicated Channel Check Grids section in the GenGrid left-hand navigation.
Stay continuously up to date as grids automatically refresh when new expert calls are transcribed and added to the platform.
Share insights effortlessly with a unique, shareable link for each grid.
Compare trends across periods using built-in period comparisons to see how expert sentiment evolves quarter over quarter.
Instantly synthesize expert perspectives with AI-powered summaries—turning raw insights into actionable intelligence in seconds, not weeks.
With continuous updates from a living research system, Channel Check Generative Grids help investors build conviction earlier—often weeks ahead of filings or consensus expectations.
How to Use Channel Check Transcripts for Deeper Insights
- Pulse Checks: Build comprehensive views of company performance and market trends, ideal for anticipating moves before official earnings reports.
- Strategic Investment Decisions: Combine qualitative and quantitative insights to develop robust investment theses, all in one place.
- Risk Management: Detect early warning signals and market shifts quickly, enabling proactive portfolio management.
- Sector Analysis: Rapidly compare sub-sectors and identify growth opportunities or challenges across the industry.
Pro Tip: All Channel Check transcripts are fully searchable and integrated into AlphaSense’s Gen Search and Gen Grid workflows, enabling you to analyze, compare, and report on key trends across markets or peer groups in seconds.
Pro Tip: Use Channel Checks Generative Grids to simultaneously interrogate dozens of Channel Check interviews across peer sets, extracting demand, inventory, and pricing insights in seconds.
How to Get the Most Out of Channel Checks Transcripts
Channel Check transcripts are seamlessly integrated into the Tegus Expert Insights Library, making it easy to surface, analyze, and act on real-time market intelligence.
You can access and explore Channel Check content in several ways:
1. Search Integration:
- Channel Check transcripts appear naturally within AlphaSense search results, including Deep Research* and Gen Search (including GenGrid).
Tip: Try the following prompts
- Can you please build me a Channel Check report outlining evolving demand, supply, pricing and market share conditions for oilfield services over the last 90 days, as well as the forward outlook based on the perspective of on-the-ground channel participants?
- Can you please build me a Channel Check report outlining demand, pricing, and supply trends for memory semiconductors over the last 90 days, as well as the forward outlook based on the perspective of on-the-ground channel participants?
Note: We recommend using the “Think Longer” mode to get the most comprehensive report.
2. Dedicated Filters:
Under Expert Insights, quickly narrow your results using:
- Transcript Type: Channel Check
- Analyst Perspective: AI Interviewer
3. Company Profiles:
- Find Channel Check transcripts directly from a company’s profile page. These appear alongside other Expert Insights, enabling a full 360° view of the company and its surrounding market ecosystem.
4. Generative Grids:
- Use the Channel Check Generative Grid as a hub to explore and access all related transcripts.
Explore Pre Built Channel Check GenGrids
Channel Check insights are available through a library of pre-built GenGrids, each continuously updated in real time as new interviews are published and kept up to date quarterly.
These purpose-built templates enable you to:
- Compare demand, pricing, and supply dynamics across hundreds of tickers and multiple channel check projects
- Interrogate dozens of transcripts using Ask-in-Grid to run live queries across the transcripts
- Spot early signals such as inventory buildups, pricing shifts, or demand slowdowns in seconds
To access the Pre-Built Generative Grids:
- Go to the Generative Search homepage.
- In the Workflow Agents section, select Channel Check.
Note: If you do not see Channel Check as an option, select See All. This will open the pre-populated Workflow Agent library where you will have the option to select Channel Check Grid.
- Use the sector and sub-sector selectors or search by ticker or company name.
- Select a Channel Check Grid from the list, and click View this Grid.
- View and interact with each Grid, which displays the most recent quarterly data and a latest-period comparison row.
- Scroll to explore all aligned transcript documents and open any Channel Check Transcript directly from the Grid
Pro Tip: Use the Ask in Grid feature to quickly surface insights by asking a specific question.
Generative Grids update automatically as new transcripts are added. A blue dot indicates new content, appearing both on the saved grid in your Channel Check Grid library and next to each new transcript within the grid.
All previously viewed Channel Check Generative Grids are stored in the Channel Check Grid section, found in the left navigation panel under Generative Grid. To return here at any time, select the Generative Grid icon from your main navigation.