michelle brophy (@michbrophy) header
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Director of Research | AlphaSense | AI | Technology | Former Buy Side | Opinions are my own.

new york, ny
Joined March 2011
With the help of @AlphaSenseInc's SuperAnalyst we curated recent expert call content on AI infrastructure. See our SuperAnalyst dashboard ⬇️ alpha-sense.com/data-center-… The common thread is that hyperscalers still borrow cheaply and are shifting more of their builds into JVs and leases, while lenders are pulling back from neoclouds. $NVDA $CRWV $META
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Forgot about how material Govt was -- coming up in checks with big consulting companies and integrators on a reason for Anthropic spend decel
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Good color from lots of ad agencies on what's happening with $GOOG search. Why CPCs rising? Likely tied to AI overviews. Bear case - reduced invy makes remaining invy more expensive Bull case - AI overviews not yet monetized (btw -- query growth highest in last 5 years -- is that including AI expansions of queries?)
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$ANT has a few key debates going into its IPO: whether Claude can keep its price premium, whether margins hold up against the compute commitments, and whether the Q3 slowdown was a blip. @AlphaSenseInc Expert Insights and Channel Checks address questions around pricing and how deeply Claude is getting into enterprise customers. Check out our primer, built by SuperAnalyst: alpha-sense.com/anthropic_da… And the Channel Check Breakdown Here: research.alpha-sense.com/com… solana:56DeqXiADWY2Y3iD8pdbpTi9jhXXneofTY5dp4Xjpump $GOOG $META
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The $ANT S-1 is public. SuperAnalyst built the primer, and it's now live on our site. This primer not only draws on the S-1, but our Tegus expert interviews, news coverage, and our proprietary Canalyst model for #Anthropic. Inside, you will find the full company snapshot, compute commitments, the competitive benchmark from enterprise buyers, registered risks and the bull and bear cases side-by-side. Explore the dashboard: alpha-sense.com/anthropic_da…
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Updated Token Consumption Tracker For Anthropic S-1 day, breaking out the surge in Ant tokens based on usage on AlphaSense Update your models accordingly
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$AMD channel checks, Q3 2026: demand is strong Digging into @AlphaSenseInc channel checks on $AMD, drawing on roughly two dozen expert calls with distributors, server OEMs, integrators, and AI cloud providers. The signal is another beat for AMD, but the story is demand-positive and supply-constrained, not pricing-led. Key debates around component availability and the Helios ramp remain top of mind going into the quarter. Full Breakdown ⬇️ research.alpha-sense.com/com… $NVDA $MU
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My Investment Memo builder in SuperAnalyst is now 🔥 – beats out what I was doing as a HF analyst. I’m looking for people that want to collaborate to draw smaller and smaller circles. It uses a Canalyst model on my behalf. It reasons to assumptions (depending on type of company, builds out TAM and penetration, models cyclicality, etc), researches what experts are saying about key debates, builds to a valuation framework taking into account Comps / multiple history, etc. Full companion model / backup in excel. Roll this forward a bit and it’s obvious HFs will be built trading on the back of something like this (much higher volume of getting to decisions faster, neutrally). I’d especially love to collaborate with some of you building AI HFs. DM if interested – must have AlphaSense account (the skill calls our tools)
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$IBM reports Oct 21. Can AI demand offset legacy software weakness? @AlphaSenseInc 3Q26 Channel Check shows IBM-related business growing 5.6% y/y among 11 experts. Pricing pressure limits conversion. Full Breakdown Below ⬇️ research.alpha-sense.com/com…
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We’ve officially launched Channel Check Intelligence The best new source of Idea Gen AlphaSense began structured channel checks a bit over a year ago, already scaled to 3k per month (compliance reviewed, no embargo). Already much more than anyone could read but high signal if you can make sense of it. Channel Check Intelligence makes sense of it —> what sectors, companies are inflecting, pricing / invy better or worse etc. Not only the numbers, but the why. CCI is another form of pre-compute where we use continually use LLMs to structure the data once, for everyone. Soon, when you build your Earnings Previews with SuperAnalyst, the system will know to bring in CCI - and even use as an input to the assumptions in your model - without needing to rebuild the analysis from scratch (accuracy, time, tokens) We are investing aggressively in scaling and development -- it's going to get pretty crazy in a year.
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@AlphaSenseInc channel checks on $NOW show a healthy demand backdrop: renewals are strong, expansion is robust, and AI driving pipeline. But experts see a push on pricing and packaging (new Foundation, Advanced, and Prime tiers, plus consumption models) just as budget scrutiny and data readiness are in focus. Full Breakdown ⬇️ research.alpha-sense.com/com… $MSFT $TEAM $CRM
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Learn more about AlphaSense Channel Checks: alpha-sense.com/solutions/ch…
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@AlphaSenseInc channel checks gathered expert perspectives on $RDDT Q3 performance, and the narrative is clear: Reddit is moving out of the experimental bucket and into more durable media strategies. Better AI discoverability and stronger ad performance tools. Growth in spend and engagement remains robust, but Reddit is still a secondary platform next to the scale and conversion efficiency of $META and $GOOGL. Full Breakdown ⬇️ research.alpha-sense.com/com… $PINS $SNAP
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$LITE is absolutely flying right now 👀
$LITE CEO Michael Hurlston declares “we can only supply 30% of what we are being asked to supply” as optical demand accelerates in 2027. The shift to CPO and NPO is driving laser demand far beyond capacity with supply unlikely to catch up until 2030.
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