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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."],"methodology":{"fit_rating_contract":["strong","good","mixed","weak","uncertain"],"included_valid_platform_count":7,"maximum_finalists":10,"minimum_mentions":2,"name":"Credit 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":"2026-09-04 06:11:29.964931+00","research_date":"2026-09-04","source_snapshot_sha256":"968da1818d31e83a149f32fdb3bd3cd1ef491eedc18c14746f07b4670f94d867","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":20,"qualified_finalists":10,"ranking_unit":"Credit monitoring service and subscription plan"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Identity Guard is a good but not fully verified fit for Three-Bureau Credit Monitoring across Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. Four of seven AI platforms named Identity Guard during the ranking stage, and five of seven platforms rated it \"good\" or \"strong\" for this use case. The strongest reason to consider Identity Guard is that its Total and Ultra plans explicitly include three-bureau monitoring bundled with broader identity-theft protection features. 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