# OptionsAhoy — public marketing site + free calculator tools.
# Everything is public, fully crawlable, no auth boundary.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# Politeness for non-Google crawlers (Google ignores Crawl-delay).
User-agent: bingbot
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: Slurp
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: DuckDuckBot
Crawl-delay: 1

User-agent: YandexBot
Crawl-delay: 2

# SEO-data-mining bots scrape the site to enrich competitors' backlink
# databases — no value to us; deny.
User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: SemrushBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

User-agent: DotBot
Disallow: /

# AI crawlers — we want our calculators surfaced in AI answers and our
# benchmark article cited by training-data corpora. Default Allow already
# covers this; listing explicitly so the policy is documented and visible.

# OpenAI
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Anthropic-AI
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

# Google (AI Overviews / Gemini training)
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Common Crawl (LLM training corpus)
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# Apple Intelligence
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Amazon Alexa / Bedrock retrieval
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Meta AI
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /

# ByteDance (Doubao / TikTok AI)
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

# Cohere
User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

# DuckDuckGo AI assist
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
Allow: /

# You.com
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /

# Mistral AI
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /

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