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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":7,"maximum_finalists":10,"minimum_mentions":2,"name":"Mortgage 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":"2026-09-29 09:25:44.629449+00","research_date":"2026-09-29","source_snapshot_sha256":"795cb63c16ebbb14d9ec350cabff3e1dfa178f587dbad4b5bcc54c2b51dc341f","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":24,"qualified_finalists":8,"ranking_unit":"Mortgage lender"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Rocket Mortgage is a good, but not clearly strongest, fit for an FHA-insured Home Purchase loan. All seven platforms named it during the ranking stage, and it ranked first on five of them. Its strongest qualification is a published 580 minimum credit score with a 3.5% down payment, which matches the target buyer's 580–660 range and limited savings. The main limitation is cost and eligibility friction: independent reviews report a roughly 1% FHA origination fee and a $10,719 median FHA closing cost, and one source states manual underwriting may require a 640 score. 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