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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.","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 11:39:30.09323+00","research_date":"2026-09-18","source_snapshot_sha256":"87db9beb1934aa854a51f139e10021297c5a6af29cbf366601ab2d5f6a881ec0","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":49,"qualified_finalists":8,"ranking_unit":"Audit company, audit service, or advisory provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Scrunch AI is a good fit for ecommerce brands that need structured AI search audits and have a dedicated budget. Two of the seven platforms in this study named Scrunch AI during the ranking stage, at an average listed rank of 3.5 and a best rank of 2. The strongest reason to consider it is its alignment with the requested audit dimensions: recommendation visibility, competitor presence, citation and source analysis, prompt segmentation, and technical AI-bot diagnostics. 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