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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":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 16:11:33.11268+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"cbdb4eb24b1112d561c0dd4e79ba936f5021d18b49b04d43355965ec0c4d7969","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":27,"qualified_finalists":9,"ranking_unit":"Software, service, or advisory solution provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Scrunch AI is a good fit for most buyers evaluating AI Citation Tools for Competitor Source-Gap Analysis, but the fit is conditional rather than clean. Two of the six platforms that evaluated fit named Scrunch AI during the ranking stage — OpenAI (rank 3) and DeepSeek (rank 6) — giving it an average listed rank of 4.5 and a best listed rank of 3. The strongest reason to consider it is that Scrunch directly addresses the core need: prompt-level citation data, competitor citation comparisons, source filtering, and gap-oriented recommendations (openai:scrunch-insights, -1). 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