# Formation Money — robots.txt
# https://formationmoney.com
#
# Allow general crawling of public marketing surfaces. The app routes
# (/app, /admin, /demo, /confirm-waitlist, /oauth-return, /recover-mfa,
# /getstarted) are interactive surfaces that don't add value to the
# search index — disallow them so crawlers focus on the pages we want
# ranked.
#
# NOTE: Disallow is a PREFIX match, not a path-segment match. The bare
# `Disallow: /app` we used to ship also blocked `/apple-touch-icon.*`
# (both start with "/app"), suppressing the touch icon in mobile
# results. The rules below anchor the dashboard root with `/app$` plus
# the `/app/` subtree, and explicitly Allow the icons as belt-and-
# suspenders for crawlers that don't honor `$`.

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /apple-touch-icon.png
Allow: /apple-touch-icon.svg
Disallow: /app$
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /demo
Disallow: /confirm-waitlist
Disallow: /oauth-return
Disallow: /recover-mfa
Disallow: /getstarted

# ─── AI answer engines & assistant crawlers ─────────────────────────────
# Formation WANTS to be read and cited by AI answer engines — being the
# sourced answer to "net worth tracker for a trust / LLC / equity comp" is
# a core distribution channel. These named agents are explicitly welcomed
# on the public marketing content (llms.txt, llms-full.txt, glossary,
# solutions, pricing, security, methodology) and blocked from the
# same interactive app surfaces as everyone else. Named groups do NOT
# inherit the `User-agent: *` rules, so the Disallow set is repeated here.
# Consecutive User-agent lines share the one ruleset that follows.
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: anthropic-ai
User-agent: PerplexityBot
User-agent: Perplexity-User
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
User-agent: Amazonbot
User-agent: Bytespider
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: cohere-ai
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: DuckAssistBot
User-agent: YouBot
User-agent: Diffbot
User-agent: Timpibot
Allow: /
Allow: /apple-touch-icon.png
Allow: /apple-touch-icon.svg
Disallow: /app$
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /demo
Disallow: /confirm-waitlist
Disallow: /oauth-return
Disallow: /recover-mfa
Disallow: /getstarted

# Structured content for AI ingestion (llmstxt.org convention):
#   https://formationmoney.com/llms.txt       (concise, linked index)
#   https://formationmoney.com/llms-full.txt  (full content, one file)
Sitemap: https://formationmoney.com/sitemap.xml