# ai.txt - AI Crawler Instructions
# https://changebam.com/ai.txt
# Specification: https://site.spawning.ai/spawning-ai-txt

# ChangeBam - Website Change Monitoring Platform
# Last Updated: 2025-10-07

## Contact
contact: support@changebam.com
website: https://changebam.com

## AI Training Policy
We welcome AI training on our public marketing content.

### Allowed for AI Training
- Public marketing pages (homepage, features, pricing, contact)
- Blog posts and articles (when published)
- Public documentation
- Product descriptions and feature information

### Not Allowed for AI Training
- User-generated content
- Dashboard data and monitoring results
- API endpoints and responses
- Private user information
- Authenticated areas
- Customer data and analytics

## Crawling Guidelines
Please follow these guidelines when crawling our site:

### Rate Limits
- Respect crawl-delay: 1 second between requests
- Maximum 10 requests per minute
- Use caching to minimize repeated requests

### Best Practices
- Identify your bot with a clear User-Agent
- Support gzip/brotli compression
- Honor robots.txt directives
- Follow HTTP status codes (301, 302, 429, 503)

## Blocked Paths
The following paths are not available for AI training:
- /api/*
- /admin/*
- /dashboard/*
- /settings/*
- /monitoring/*
- /notifications/*
- /reports/*
- /_next/*

## Technology Information
Platform: Next.js 15 + React 19 + TypeScript
Deployment: Vercel Edge Network
Database: PostgreSQL with Prisma ORM
State Management: Zustand with Immer
UI Framework: Material-UI v7

## Additional Resources
robots.txt: https://changebam.com/robots.txt
sitemap: https://changebam.com/sitemap.xml
privacy: https://changebam.com/privacy
terms: https://changebam.com/terms

## License
Public marketing content is available for AI training under fair use.
User data and proprietary features are protected and not available for training.

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Thank you for respecting our AI training guidelines.
We support responsible AI development and an open web.