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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. 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Two of the seven platforms in this study named it during the ranking stage — Kimi and Perplexity — and it finished with an average listed rank of 2.5 and a best rank of 1. The strongest reason to consider it is that its Everyday Solar Loan publishes fixed 12-, 15-, and 20-year terms with APRs as low as 7.50%, 8.00%, and 8.25%, and the credit union separately documents a no-money-down Solar PV Combo Loan (, anthropic:source-9, ). 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