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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":"2026-09-18 10:05:32.114579+00","research_date":"2026-09-18","source_snapshot_sha256":"ed6bdfc23968b74e90f3cea0e52a048f1cf4c35dff9e444a1ef828184a25b5e2","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":50,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Audit company, audit service, or advisory provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Ahrefs is a mixed fit for companies seeking GEO Audit Companies. Two of the seven platforms in this study named Ahrefs during the ranking stage — OpenAI (rank 2) and DeepSeek (rank 5) — giving it an average listed rank of 3.5 and a 28.6% share of included platform responses. The strongest reason to consider it is Brand Radar, which tracks AI mentions, citations, cited pages, competitor share of voice, and custom prompts across major AI surfaces . 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