How the top 6 GLG competitors deliver on market intelligence

Find out if there’s a more efficient or cost effective alternative to your current due diligence process – without spending your time on it.  

Maybe you’re using GLG, AlphaSense, or Tegus, but who else is there? And are they offering anything better? 

There are 7 key components you need from your expert intelligence platform for in-depth competitive insights. This table shows you how 7 different investment research platforms compare. Below is a brief summary of each platform’s point of difference, strengths, and weaknesses – so you can quickly see your best option. 

How NewtonX Prime’s survey capabilities change the expert insights game

NewtonX Prime

Of all the GLG alternatives, NewtonX Prime is the best expert intelligence platform, as the only one with strong survey capabilities. 

You get:

Depth of an interview + confidence of a survey + speed of a search engine

With NewtonX Prime, you get instant access to our full database of expert surveys and interviews. 

This brand new access to previously inaccessible survey data gives you competitive intel at scale – a substantial knowledge edge. 

You don’t have to choose between speed and certainty. Instead of plowing through 5-10 expert calls, you can instantly 10x those insights with results of one expert survey. How’s that for confidence in your investment thesis?

NewtonX Prime survey data complements traditional qualitative research and expert interviews. You get a fuller due diligence picture by uncovering statistically significant answers around key factors like pricing competitiveness, or customer sentiment. 

Our proprietary data is collected from a worldwide pool of 1.1B verified professionals, working in over 1,000 companies in 125+ industries. All interviews and surveys are reviewed by our compliance team for MNPI and other potential compliance issues, so you only see fully vetted data.

What’s more—you don’t just receive the raw survey data. AI-powered aggregation and automatic data visualization gives you the power to filter and sort thousands of data points in a couple of clicks – not a few tedious hours.

Make investment decisions with conviction and speed with NewtonX Prime.

Strengths

• Survey capabilities
• Call capabilities
• Transcript library: All 100% verified experts
• Survey library: 300+ topics, regularly refreshed
• Strategic consulting

Weaknesses

• Secondary data that you collect during your desk research

Tegus

Tegus is an investment research platform with. With access to 60,000+ searchable expert call transcripts across both private and public companies, built-in compliance tools, and BamSEC, it’s fast and easy to access, search, and surface both qualitative and quantitative insights. 

Strengths

• Secondary data
• Transcript library: 60,000 call transcripts, private and public companies, can add own notes
• Call capabilities

Weaknesses

• Survey capabilities
• Survey library
• Strategic consulting

Stream by AlphaSense

Stream by AlphaSense is an expert transcript library that synthesizes millions of data points from credible business sources. Its proprietary AI technology understands natural language, which makes it easier for you to find what you need. As Stream gets to know you through your usage of the platform, it delivers increasingly personalized insights to you. In this way, Stream aims to reduce the amount of time you spend looking for data so you can spend it on analysis instead.

Strengths

• Secondary data
• Transcript library: 30,000 expert call transcripts, 2,000+ added every month
• Call capabilities

Weaknesses

• Survey capabilities
• Strategic consulting

GLG

Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) is a professional insights company that connects people to experts in different industries. GLG’s primary focus is connecting you with the right expert for 1:1 consultations, in a variety of contexts. They have an ongoing network of 1 million experts worldwide, adding 500 new transcripts every month. 

Strengths

• Transcript library
• Call capabilities
• Strategic consulting

Weaknesses

• Secondary data
• Survey capabilities
• Survey library

Third Bridge

Third Bridge is a global research organization that has two key features to interest investors.  Third Bridge Forum is a huge library with 40,000 interview transcripts; they add over 10,000 every year. The interviews are with experts belonging to 14,000+ private and public companies in 7 key sectors. Third Bridges’ proprietary Maps feature tracks and ranks company value chains, speeding up your early stage research. 

Strengths

• Secondary data
• Call capabilities
• Transcript library

Weaknesses

• Survey capabilities
• Survey library
• Strategic consulting

Alphasights

Alphasights has an expert content library called AlphaNow as part of its research platform. Hundreds of call transcripts are added each week. This is driven by a proprietary search algorithm that makes it easy to find what you’re looking for. 

Strengths

• Secondary data
• Call capabilities
• Transcript library
• Survey library
• Strategic consulting

Weaknesses

• Survey capabilities

Arbolus

In 2022, Arbolus launched a new product on its platform called ArbolusCanopy. This proprietary technology enables an asynchronous collection and synthesis of expert video calls. You get reports from all these video calls and then you choose who to follow up with. This is a great time-saver for initial expert opinion without making one call yourself.  

Strengths

• Survey capabilities
• Call capabilities

Weaknesses

• Secondary data
• Transcript library
• Survey library
• Strategic consulting

Whichever expert intelligence platform you’re currently subscribed to, try a free trial of NewtonX Prime. This is intelligence you can bank on.