{"citations":{"source_mix":{"company_owned":23,"independent":17,"unclear":0},"sources_referenced_by_questions":0,"support_mix":{"direct":32,"partial":8},"total_sources":40,"unique_domain_count":18},"claims":[{"claim_id":"claim-001","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-18","platform_support":["anthropic","deepseek","google","grok","kimi","openai","perplexity"],"predicate":"platforms_analyzed","qualifier":"valid included platform responses","subject":"Best AI Search Audits Before Hiring a GEO Agency","unit":"platforms","value":7},{"claim_id":"claim-002","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-18","platform_support":["deepseek","openai"],"predicate":"final_consensus_rank","qualifier":"AI Search Audits Before Hiring a GEO Agency","subject":"Otterly.AI","unit":"rank","value":6},{"claim_id":"claim-003","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-18","platform_support":["deepseek","openai"],"predicate":"platform_mentions","qualifier":"out of 7","subject":"Otterly.AI","unit":"platforms","value":2},{"claim_id":"claim-004","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-18","platform_support":["grok","google"],"predicate":"fit_rating_count","qualifier":"strong","subject":"Otterly.AI","unit":"platforms","value":2},{"claim_id":"claim-005","confidence":"verified","observed_at":"2026-09-18","platform_support":["openai","anthropic","deepseek","perplexity","kimi"],"predicate":"fit_rating_count","qualifier":"good","subject":"Otterly.AI","unit":"platforms","value":5}],"content_scope":"aggregated facts, computed metrics, and retrieval summaries","entities":[{"average_rank":5,"best_rank":5,"entity_id":"entity-001","entity_type":"company","final_rank":6,"name":"Otterly.AI","platform_mentions":2,"platform_share":0.2857142857142857}],"identity":{"dataset_url":"https://aimarketingconsensusindex.com/datasets/ai-search-audits-market-intelligence/before-hiring-geo-agency/otterly-ai.json","page_url":"https://aimarketingconsensusindex.com/ai-search-audits-market-intelligence/before-hiring-geo-agency/otterly-ai","report_type":"fit_review","study_id":"AIMCI-STUDY-D5BD2DEB354E","title":"Otterly.AI for AI Search Audits Before Hiring a GEO Agency: AI Consensus Fit Review"},"limitations":["Use the run researchdate as the study date. 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":"2026-09-18 12:53:09.434384+00","research_date":"2026-09-18","source_snapshot_sha256":"71074a84191db2c94a847d8abb92864f71733f11f39f6a3701db57f4331243fd","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":52,"qualified_finalists":7,"ranking_unit":"Audit company, audit service, or advisory provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Otterly.AI is a good fit for establishing a documented AI search baseline before hiring a GEO agency. Two of seven platforms named it during the ranking stage (deepseek, openai), both at rank 5, giving it a 28.6% share of included platform responses and an average listed rank of 5.0. The strongest reason to consider it is that it measures prompt-level AI visibility, competitor presence, citations, sentiment, share of voice, and cited URLs across major AI engines, producing exportable before-and-after evidence for agency scorecards . The main limitation is that it is a monitoring and audit…","target_buyer":"Companies evaluating GEO agencies that want a baseline AI search audit before signing a contract","topic":{"base_category":"AI search audits and market intelligence","category_criteria":["Measure current AI recommendation visibility","citations","competitor performance","high-value prompts","citation architecture","and source gaps so it can evaluate future agency performance against a documented starting point"],"geography":"United States","slug":"best-ai-search-audits-before-hiring-a-geo-agency","title":"Best AI Search Audits Before Hiring a GEO Agency","use_case":"AI Search Audits Before Hiring a GEO Agency"}}