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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":"2026-09-18 18:39:19.5687+00","research_date":"2026-09-18","source_snapshot_sha256":"baae26a5608f7c89c714e80981fb50912abd7f47ead70226a829fcabccd77f0b","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":52,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Strategic partner, agency, platform, or service provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Scrunch is a good fit for the measurement half of this use case and a mixed fit for the strategy-and-execution half. Two of seven platforms named Scrunch during ranking discovery — OpenAI (rank 4) and DeepSeek (rank 8) — giving it a 28.6% share of included platform responses and an average listed rank of 6.0. Its strongest reason to consider it is audit-grade AI visibility infrastructure: prompt monitoring, citation and source intelligence, competitor benchmarking across up to nine AI platforms, and SOC 2 Type II certification. 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