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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 22:50:01.455342+00","research_date":"2026-09-17","source_snapshot_sha256":"7db96a21867b031d91a62f02385627f7070bbbc67b8ad4c46c680f95366f0328","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":40,"qualified_finalists":6,"ranking_unit":"Agency or consulting partner"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Profound is a good fit for AI search agencies that need enterprise-grade measurement of AI citations, source ecosystems, and citation trends — but it is not a proven end-to-end citation-earning agency service. Two of seven platforms named Profound during the ranking stage (deepseek and perplexity), a 28.6% share of included platform responses, with an average listed rank of 2.5 and a best rank of 1. The strongest reason to consider it is its citation intelligence: cited domains, pages, categories, citation decay, and query fan-out analysis. 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