# EntrepreneurBible — AI usage policy
# https://entrepreneurbible.net/ai.txt
# Last updated: 2026-05-19
#
# This file declares how content on entrepreneurbible.net may be used by
# automated agents, AI training pipelines, and language models. It is a
# voluntary supplement to /robots.txt and the legal terms at /terms.

User-Agent: *

# Permitted: real-time retrieval to answer a user's question, with
# attribution to the source URL on entrepreneurbible.net. This includes
# AI search engines, chat assistants, and agentic browsing tools.
Allow: retrieval
Allow: search-indexing
Allow: snippet-generation
Allow: link-citation

# Not permitted without an explicit licence: bulk download for model
# training, fine-tuning, or building a derivative corpus. Same restriction
# applies to commercial redistribution and republication.
Disallow: model-training
Disallow: fine-tuning
Disallow: dataset-creation
Disallow: bulk-download
Disallow: redistribution
Disallow: commercial-republication

# Auth-gated content (forum threads, lesson notes, comments, profiles) is
# user-generated and additionally protected. It must not be crawled even
# if you find a way past the login wall.
Disallow: /forum
Disallow: /dashboard
Disallow: /settings
Disallow: /me
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /resources/bookmarks
Disallow: /resources/new
Disallow: /courses/create
Disallow: /courses/my-courses
Disallow: /courses/*/learn

# Public chapter content (resources, courses catalogue and detail) may be
# retrieved and cited with a link back. Please respect the published
# authorship in JSON-LD on those pages.
Allow: /
Allow: /resources
Allow: /resources/*
Allow: /courses
Allow: /courses/*
Allow: /about
Allow: /contact
Allow: /privacy
Allow: /terms

# When citing, please use the canonical URL exactly as published in the
# sitemap. Sitemap is at https://entrepreneurbible.net/sitemap.xml.

# To request a training-data licence (the answer can be yes, with terms),
# email feedback@entrepreneurbible.net with the subject "AI licence
# request" and tell us which model, what scale, and what attribution.

# This policy is offered in good faith. We reserve the right to update it
# (the date at the top is authoritative) and to add IP-level blocks for
# agents that ignore it.