Guide
What is BotConsent?
A practical introduction to AI bot consent and how BotConsent helps websites publish machine-readable preferences.
Overview
BotConsent is permission infrastructure for AI-era websites. It gives site owners a clear place to express how search engines, AI assistants, training crawlers, scrapers, archive bots, and research agents may use their content.
The product creates human-readable policy pages and machine-readable files that crawlers can discover, while giving site teams a dashboard for changes, verification, and activity logs.
Who uses it
- Publishers that want search visibility while limiting training-data collection.
- SaaS teams that need consistent bot preferences across marketing, docs, and app subdomains.
- Creators and agencies that want a simple policy generator for client websites.
- Developers that need policy hosting, API access, and exportable consent history.
What BotConsent is not
BotConsent is not a firewall by itself. It publishes and helps enforce preferences, then integrates with edge logic, server logs, and crawler detection so teams can move from policy to action.