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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.","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 09:07:15.533107+00","research_date":"2026-09-18","source_snapshot_sha256":"56c4c1719d7a9e28cba73deeda1ca10f238991c471c53aa54ee4332ebac0763a","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":47,"qualified_finalists":9,"ranking_unit":"Audit company, audit service, or advisory provider"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Ahrefs is a qualified but contested fit for AI Visibility Audit Services. Two of seven platforms named it during the ranking stage — OpenAI ranked it #1, DeepSeek ranked it #5 — giving it an average listed rank of 3.0 and a 28.6% share of included platform responses. The strongest reason to consider it is Brand Radar's combination of a large search-backed prompt index, competitor benchmarking, prompt-level gap analysis, and citation-source reporting inside an existing SEO workflow . The main limitation is that fit ratings split sharply: OpenAI called it a strong fit, Google and Perplexity…","target_buyer":"Marketing team seeking AI Visibility Audit Services across AI search, generative-answer, and recommendation platforms","topic":{"base_category":"AI search audits and market intelligence","category_criteria":["Understand where the brand appears","which competitors outperform it","which prompts matter","where citations originate","how its citation architecture compares with competitors","and what should be prioritized next"],"geography":"United States","slug":"best-ai-visibility-audit-services","title":"Best AI Visibility Audit Services","use_case":"AI Visibility Audit Services"}}