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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.","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 21:02:22.155429+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"a8d7695796128b6530fefc56a23299d8ef34d76b5cbc292dedba18834e33a6d1","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":38,"qualified_finalists":9,"ranking_unit":"Software, service, or advisory solution provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Scrunch is a good fit for companies that need prompt-level AI visibility, recommendation monitoring, citation intelligence, competitor benchmarking, historical measurement, and source-gap discovery for AI citation and authority-building work. 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