# Brandywine Blinds LLC — https://www.brandywineblinds.com
#
# POSITION ON AI CRAWLERS: open, deliberately.
#
# Everything here is marketing copy whose whole value is being quoted with the
# company name and a phone number attached. Blocking an answer engine protects
# nothing — the answer still gets written, just about a competitor who left the
# door open. The cost is real and worth naming: some homeowners will get what
# they needed inside ChatGPT or an AI Overview and never load the page, so a
# session goes unmeasured. For a business whose conversion is a phone call,
# being the named company in that answer beats the click.
#
# The crawlers are listed below so this stays a decision on the record, rather
# than something a later edit to "*" reverses by accident.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

# The lead endpoint is a POST handler, not a page.
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

# Scratch/preview pages (underscore prefix). Useful while work is in progress,
# no business in search results.
Disallow: /_

# A named group REPLACES the wildcard group for that agent rather than adding to
# it, so both Disallow lines have to be repeated here. Dropping them would
# quietly open /api/ to every crawler named below.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Googlebot
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: Applebot
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: MistralAI-User
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Disallow: /_

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