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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 15:02:18.301092+00","research_date":"2026-09-18","source_snapshot_sha256":"637c4944d47f87096c01d6993700e95daf363088e8ae5313f9f43ed7de7236af","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":49,"qualified_finalists":7,"ranking_unit":"Software platform or research platform"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Ahrefs is a mixed fit for AI Recommendation Intelligence Platforms. Two of the seven platforms in this study named Ahrefs during the ranking stage — DeepSeek (rank 3) and Google (rank 8) — giving it a 28.6% share of included platform responses and an average listed rank of 5.5. The strongest reason to consider it is Ahrefs Brand Radar's broad, search-backed AI visibility monitoring: large modeled prompt coverage, competitor share-of-voice benchmarking, custom prompt tracking, citation and source-domain analysis, and historical reporting inside an existing SEO workflow. 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