# Five Minute Business — AI crawler and citation policy
# https://www.fiveminutebusiness.com/ai.txt

policy: open
crawl: allow
cite: allow-with-attribution

site: https://www.fiveminutebusiness.com/
contact: contact@fiveminutebusiness.com
author: Dean Withey (https://www.deanwithey.com)
editorial: https://www.fiveminutebusiness.com/editorial-standards

llms-txt: https://www.fiveminutebusiness.com/llms.txt
sitemap: https://www.fiveminutebusiness.com/sitemap.xml
robots: https://www.fiveminutebusiness.com/robots.txt

# All crawlers — including AI training and retrieval bots — are welcome.
user-agent: *
allow: /

# Utility paths excluded from indexing (still crawlable; marked noindex in HTML).
disallow: /api/
disallow: /search/
disallow: /newsletter/
disallow: /tools/
disallow: /assets/design-system/

# Citation
preferred-attribution: Five Minute Business — Dean Withey
link-to-canonical: required
quote-with-attribution: required

# Named AI crawlers (explicit allow; same policy as *)
user-agent: GPTBot
allow: /

user-agent: ChatGPT-User
allow: /

user-agent: OAI-SearchBot
allow: /

user-agent: ClaudeBot
allow: /

user-agent: anthropic-ai
allow: /

user-agent: Claude-Web
allow: /

user-agent: PerplexityBot
allow: /

user-agent: Google-Extended
allow: /

user-agent: Googlebot
allow: /

user-agent: Bingbot
allow: /

user-agent: Applebot-Extended
allow: /

user-agent: cohere-ai
allow: /

user-agent: Bytespider
allow: /

user-agent: CCBot
allow: /

user-agent: FacebookBot
allow: /

user-agent: meta-externalagent
allow: /

user-agent: Amazonbot
allow: /

user-agent: YouBot
allow: /

user-agent: Diffbot
allow: /

user-agent: ImagesiftBot
allow: /

# Published answers: 2 articles — see https://www.fiveminutebusiness.com/llms.txt