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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":"2026-09-19 03:22:43.080699+00","research_date":"2026-09-19","source_snapshot_sha256":"8f9e5648cd9c87fc8a9bb494187967a3bac55229dfd111e713f33b4a23c574a6","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":36,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Software tool or content optimization platform"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Profound is a good — not unequivocally strong — fit for AI SEO Tools for Competitor Citation and Content Analysis. Six of seven platforms named Profound during ranking discovery, and it ranked first on five of them. Its strongest verified advantage is structured competitor citation intelligence: cited-URL tracking, citation-share benchmarking, and prompt-level gap identification across AI answer engines (-1, -14). 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