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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 14:46:01.358633+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"5a54227b6083da7f6dbd4fab7864fc268ce528c2f969c1da461445f8c043d95d","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":50,"qualified_finalists":7,"ranking_unit":"Software, service, or advisory solution provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Semrush is a good fit for identifying and prioritizing the third-party sources that AI systems cite, but it is not a complete authority-building service. Two of the seven platforms in this study named Semrush during the ranking stage, and both placed it at rank 2. Its strongest asset for this use case is the AI Visibility Toolkit's Competitor Research and Cited Sources reporting, which surfaces external domains cited in AI answers when competitors appear but the buyer does not . 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