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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.","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":"2026-09-17 23:55:26.955558+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"75129899c7f2b3b9875d9c6b49da888a9b59c6739fb7344023f5241a59db6c6d","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":38,"qualified_finalists":8,"ranking_unit":"Agency or consulting partner"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"AI Search Engineers is a qualified but unevenly proven fit for citation architecture work. Two of seven platforms named it during ranking discovery — DeepSeek (rank 7) and Grok (rank 6) — giving it a 28.6% share of included platform responses and an average listed rank of 6.5. The strongest reason to consider it is its five-signal authority engineering process, which maps directly to citation architecture factors: entity clarity, structured data, trusted-source citations, topical authority, and documented outcomes (, -4). 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