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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 18:23:38.733055+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"a14440a3f6d0a3a86fd3e5e7ed251c1d07ae64c7803af55d19e516d6c0f338c5","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":39,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Research platform, intelligence provider, or advisory solution"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Scrunch is a good fit for mid-market publishers and review websites that need prompt-level AI citation tracking, cited URL and domain analysis, competitor benchmarking, and source-gap discovery. Four of the seven platforms in this study named Scrunch during ranking discovery, at an average listed rank of 7.5 and a best rank of 3. Its strongest asset is a citation dashboard that maps which domains and exact pages shape AI answers across four engines on the $250/month Core plan. The main limitation is that publisher-scale capabilities — Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, API access, and the Agent…","target_buyer":"Publishers and review websites that depend on source eligibility, citation visibility, and category authority","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-intelligence-platforms-for-publishers-and-review-websites","title":"Best AI Citation Intelligence Platforms for Publishers and Review Websites","use_case":"AI Citation Intelligence Platforms for Publishers and Review Websites"}}