# Default — let everyone in. AI crawlers explicitly welcomed: surfacing
# ClutchBrief in answer-engine citations is a feature, not a leak.
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/

# Explicit AI-crawler allow-list (some bots only obey their own UA name).
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Blocked — hammered the site for hundreds of 503s/day with no traffic return.
User-agent: MJ12bot
Disallow: /

Sitemap: https://clutchbrief.com/sitemap-index.xml
Sitemap: https://clutchbrief.com/sitemap-content.xml
Sitemap: https://clutchbrief.com/sitemap-news.xml
Sitemap: https://clutchbrief.com/sitemap-googlenews.xml