AlphaSense launches its own Deep Research for the web AND your enterprise files — here’s why it matters

Major AI providers like OpenAI, Google, xAI and others have all launched various AI agents that conduct exhaustive or “deep” research across the web on behalf of users, spending minutes at a time to compile extensively cited white papers and reports that, in their best case versions, are ready to be circulated to colleagues, customers and business partners without any human editing or reworking.

But they all have a significant limitation out-of-the-box: they are only able to search the web and the many public facing websites on it — not any of the enterprise customer’s internal databases and knowledge graphs. Unless, of course, the enterprise or their consultants take the time to build a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipeline using something like OpenAI’s Responses API, but this would require a fair bit of time, expense, and developer expertise to set up.

But now ...