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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":"Life Insurance 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":"2026-09-21 18:34:40.515281+00","research_date":"2026-09-20","source_snapshot_sha256":"59c62f0ac07528e4cd0b580a2025337f4213d2dc203efa8493ce15d295aa1956","verification_scope":"public_verification"},"ranking":{"candidates_evaluated":23,"qualified_finalists":9,"ranking_unit":"Life insurance carrier"},"schema_version":4,"summary":"Allianz Life is a good — not automatically superior — fit for a buyer who wants permanent death-benefit coverage plus tax-deferred cash-value potential for supplemental retirement income, provided the buyer can fund the policy for decades and monitor it. Six of seven platforms named Allianz Life during the ranking stage (86% of included platform responses), with an average listed rank of 3.17 and a best rank of 1. The strongest reason to consider it is the Allianz Life Accumulator IUL, which combines indexed and fixed crediting, Index Lock, and loan/withdrawal access. 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