{"citations":{"source_mix":{"company_owned":23,"independent":2,"unclear":0},"sources_referenced_by_questions":0,"support_mix":{"direct":20,"partial":5},"total_sources":25,"unique_domain_count":6},"claims":[{"claim_id":"claim-001","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-17","platform_support":["anthropic","deepseek","google","grok","kimi","openai","perplexity"],"predicate":"platforms_analyzed","qualifier":"valid included platform responses","subject":"Best AI Citation Audit Services","unit":"platforms","value":7},{"claim_id":"claim-002","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-17","platform_support":["grok","kimi"],"predicate":"final_consensus_rank","qualifier":"AI Citation Audit Services","subject":"AuditAE","unit":"rank","value":7},{"claim_id":"claim-003","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-17","platform_support":["grok","kimi"],"predicate":"platform_mentions","qualifier":"out of 7","subject":"AuditAE","unit":"platforms","value":2},{"claim_id":"claim-004","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-17","platform_support":["grok","google"],"predicate":"fit_rating_count","qualifier":"strong","subject":"AuditAE","unit":"platforms","value":2},{"claim_id":"claim-005","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-17","platform_support":["openai","anthropic","perplexity","kimi"],"predicate":"fit_rating_count","qualifier":"good","subject":"AuditAE","unit":"platforms","value":4},{"claim_id":"claim-006","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-17","platform_support":["deepseek"],"predicate":"fit_rating_count","qualifier":"uncertain","subject":"AuditAE","unit":"platforms","value":1}],"content_scope":"aggregated facts, computed metrics, and retrieval summaries","entities":[{"average_rank":2,"best_rank":2,"entity_id":"entity-001","entity_type":"company","final_rank":7,"name":"AuditAE","platform_mentions":2,"platform_share":0.2857142857142857}],"identity":{"dataset_url":"https://aimarketingconsensusindex.com/datasets/ai-citation-authority-building/audit-services/auditae.json","page_url":"https://aimarketingconsensusindex.com/ai-citation-authority-building/audit-services/auditae","report_type":"fit_review","study_id":"AIMCI-STUDY-A65DBE295905","title":"AuditAE for AI Citation Audit Services: AI Consensus Fit Review"},"limitations":["Use the run researchdate as the study date. 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.","Company-owned citations materially outnumber independent citations; do not describe company claims as independently verified.","Platform-reported research dates differ from the authoritative run date; disclose this as a methodology limitation.","The deterministic identity audit contains qualification notes that must be disclosed where relevant.","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 11:51:26.215081+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"d1607d51342759bb84ac05b06593de086b2fc28bb6b04d088c5f18d28e5c364b","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":45,"qualified_finalists":9,"ranking_unit":"Audit company, audit service, or advisory provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"AuditAE is a good fit for companies that need low-cost, self-serve, prompt-level AI citation auditing across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Two of seven platforms named AuditAE during the ranking stage, and both placed it at rank 2. Its strongest advantage is a pay-per-check model — $0.05 per prompt-by-engine check, $5 in free credits, no subscription — that makes one-time and periodic audits inexpensive. The main limitation is evidence quality: nearly all capability and pricing claims trace to AuditAE's own pages, no independent validation of citation accuracy was…","target_buyer":"Companies seeking AI Citation Audit Services across AI search, generative-answer, and recommendation platforms","topic":{"base_category":"AI citation and authority building","category_criteria":["Prompt-level citation data","cited URL and domain analysis","citation architecture mapping","source-gap analysis","competitor benchmarking","historical tracking","and recommendation impact"],"geography":"United States","slug":"best-ai-citation-audit-services","title":"Best AI Citation Audit Services","use_case":"AI Citation Audit Services"}}