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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.","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":"2026-09-19 04:18:23.613814+00","research_date":"2026-09-19","source_snapshot_sha256":"3238f2aeed60b64ebbb88c5ac9a8020ccb191fff17bb58a7a162ca1d31f1ac0f","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":40,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Software platform or research platform"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Authority is a good, but not fully validated, fit for companies seeking AI content optimization with citation intelligence. Two of the seven platforms in this study named Authority during the ranking stage, and those two placed it at an average rank of 2.0 (best rank 1). Its strongest reason to consider it is a published capability set that directly addresses citation tracking, source and competitor analysis, AEO scoring, citation-gap discovery, and answer-oriented optimization recommendations. 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