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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":6,"maximum_finalists":10,"minimum_mentions":2,"name":"AI Marketing Consensus Index cross-platform AI consensus analysis","platforms_included":["anthropic","deepseek","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 00:48:04.425672+00","research_date":"2026-09-18","source_snapshot_sha256":"dce64ce3b2bb092c9ba243a5da5ed32ab7af755a8f1e43314484d7869693baff","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":40,"qualified_finalists":7,"ranking_unit":"Agency or consulting partner"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Siege Media is a good fit for companies that want competitive citation findings turned into content, digital PR, and authority-building execution — not for buyers who need a standalone citation-intelligence dashboard. Two of six platforms named Siege Media during the ranking stage (anthropic, deepseek), a 33.3% share of included platform responses, at an average listed rank of 5.5 and a best rank of 3. The strongest reason to consider it is its publicly described GEO process, which includes prompt-level citation mapping, a baseline LLM share-of-voice benchmark, and a 12-month roadmap . 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