September 17, 2025Artificial IntelligenceProduct
The AI Crawler Allowlist: Twelve Bots and Which Ones You Can't Afford to Block
Every AI company now runs separate bots for training, search indexing, and live user fetches. Block the wrong one and you vanish from AI answers with no error message. The full roster, a copy-paste robots.txt, a five-minute check, and the Cloudflare default that changed.