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Platform-reported dates are provenance metadata and do not independently prove freshness.","All included platforms evaluated fit, but platformmentions counts only platforms that named the entity during ranking discovery.","Do not resolve conflicting product names, pricing, or capabilities by guessing; describe the conflict and tell buyers what to verify.","The supplied URLs were collected from platform responses and were not independently validated by the writer stage.","Platform-reported research dates differ from the authoritative run date; disclose this as a methodology limitation.","Citations are platform-reported evidence, not independently verified facts. No-search model claims require explicit verification before being described as current facts."],"methodology":{"fit_rating_contract":["strong","good","mixed","weak","uncertain"],"included_valid_platform_count":7,"maximum_finalists":10,"minimum_mentions":2,"name":"AI Marketing Consensus Index cross-platform AI consensus analysis","platforms_included":["anthropic","deepseek","google","grok","kimi","openai","perplexity"],"platforms_queried":["openai","anthropic","deepseek","grok","perplexity","kimi","google"],"stages":["ranking_discovery","fit_assessment","normalization","editorial_synthesis"],"version":"alias-table-1"},"provenance":{"generated_at":"2026-09-17 10:08:40.765853+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"f16abf9ce8e4a38fc59f7b03ec103050c1cacc13fb117d36598c96eb6b286550","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":30,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Software tool or content optimization platform"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Scrunch AI is a good fit for AI Citation Analysis Tools, with caveats. Four of the seven platforms in this study named Scrunch AI during the ranking stage — a 57% share of included platform responses — and it finished at an average listed rank of 7.5 (best rank 5). The strongest reason to consider it is direct domain- and URL-level citation capture with prompt, persona, competitor, and historical segmentation . 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