# Ascend GTM — AI crawlers welcomed for search, citation, training, and
# agent input. Models cite what they have ingested, so training access
# helps Ascend surface in LLM answers about GTM for PE-backed companies.
# Bytespider explicitly blocked (known-abusive crawler).

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /cv/

User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-agent: anthropic-ai
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

# Content-Signal — declares AI content-use preferences per
# https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-romm-aipref-contentsignals/
# Also emitted as an HTTP header via vercel.json for direct HTTP consumers.
Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=yes, ai-input=yes

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Host: https://www.ascendgtm.net