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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.","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 17:39:52.207066+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"f2f9119258a1dcddf32e2331ec77715bfa93038e85d027198873d1ab21db0880","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":40,"qualified_finalists":7,"ranking_unit":"Software platform or research platform"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Profound is a qualified but contested fit for historical AI citation tracking. Five of seven platforms named it during ranking discovery, with an average listed rank of 3.0 and a best rank of 1. The strongest reason to consider it is documented daily prompt execution with citation-share trends, cited-URL analysis, competitor movement, and Prompt Volumes history dating to January 2025 for US ChatGPT data . 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