# ai.txt — AI crawler and usage policy for russellreynolds.com
# Purpose: Allow AI agents to crawl and index for assistive experiences, while restricting use for model training/fine-tuning.
# Reference: https://ai.txt (emerging best practices). This file complements robots.txt.

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# Ownership & Contact
Owner: Russell Reynolds Associates
Contact: https://www.russellreynolds.com/en/contact-us
Canonical: https://www.russellreynolds.com/en/

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# Site-wide AI Usage Policy
# We allow compliant AI agents to crawl/index for assistive and retrieval use cases.
# We do NOT grant permission to use content for training, fine-tuning, or improving foundation models.
AI-Usage: allow-crawl
AI-Usage: no-training
AI-Usage: no-finetuning
AI-Usage: allow-ephemeral-preview-with-robots-compliance
Attribution-Required: yes
Attribution-URL: https://www.russellreynolds.com/en/
Crawl-Delay: 5

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# Explicit directives for AI-related crawlers
# (Robots-style directives; honored at each agent’s discretion)

# OpenAI / ChatGPT
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

# Anthropic
User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

# Google AI extensions
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

# Apple
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

# Perplexity
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

# Meta
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
Allow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Allow: /


# Amazon
User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# Common Crawl
User-agent: CCBot
Allow: /

# You.com
User-agent: YouBot
Allow: /


Sitemap: https://www.russellreynolds.com/sitemap-index.xml