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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.","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":6,"maximum_finalists":10,"minimum_mentions":2,"name":"AI Marketing Consensus Index cross-platform AI consensus analysis","platforms_included":["anthropic","deepseek","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 15:19:36.350763+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"556c45a673c666c07e5ca8c59d4f61107d64c3704dddbe087474ad78dbfaeccf","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":26,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Software, service, or advisory solution provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Profound is a strong-to-good fit for competitive citation analysis, but only at the Growth or Enterprise tiers. Five of six included platforms named Profound during the ranking stage, with an average listed rank of 1.8 and a best rank of 1. The strongest reason to consider it is source-level competitive intelligence: ranked cited domains and URLs, competitor citation-share comparisons, citation relationships, and citation decay across multiple answer engines . 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