# ReadySetLaunch robots policy.
# Real search engines and citation-preserving AI agents are welcome.
# Bulk scrapers and data resellers are not.

# ── Search engines (allowed everywhere) ─────────────────────────
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot
Allow: /

# ── AI answer engines that cite sources (allowed) ──────────────
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# ── AI scrapers that refuse attribution (disallowed) ───────────
User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Disallow: /

User-agent: ImagesiftBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Omgili
Disallow: /

User-agent: DataForSeoBot
Disallow: /

# ── Commercial SEO/scraper tools (disallowed) ──────────────────
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: rogerbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: BLEXBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SerpstatBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PetalBot
Disallow: /

# ── Everything else: conservative defaults ──────────────────────
User-agent: *
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /validation/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /ingest/
Disallow: /api/
Crawl-delay: 10

Sitemap: https://readysetlaunch.ai/sitemap.xml