AI Shield

Block the AI bots stealing your content. Welcome the ones citing you.

AI Shield is a per-bot policy layer. Allow GPTBot if you want OpenAI to cite you. Block the no-name scrapers that pay you nothing. Enforced at the edge — before they hit your origin.

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The asymmetry

Not every AI bot is worth the bandwidth.

Right now, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot crawl your site — but so do 80+ other crawlers, most of which never cite you, never send a referer, and never honor your robots.txt. You're paying egress for scrapers that turn your content into someone else's product.

AI/LLM crawlers tracked in the wild: 80+
that consistently cite their sources: 12
policy file to control them all: 1

How it works

Policy at the edge. Enforced before your origin sees a packet.

Identify
We fingerprint every AI crawler hitting your domain — UA, ASN, behavioral signals.
Decide
Set a policy per bot: allow, throttle, watermark, or block. Sensible defaults ship out of the box.
Enforce
All decisions run at the edge. Bad bots see a 403 before they touch your origin.

What it does

A bouncer for the AI web. Built for the people who own the door.

Per-bot policies

Allow the bots that cite you. Block the ones that don't.

For CTOs: Granular rules by user-agent, ASN, and behavior. Audit log for every decision.
For CMOs: Decide which AI gets to talk about you — based on which ones bring traffic back.

Always-current bot list

We track new crawlers the day they show up. You don't have to.

For CTOs: Hosted threat feed, updated continuously. Override any rule in YAML or the dashboard.
For CMOs: Stop maintaining a robots.txt that's already three crawlers behind.

Bandwidth recovered

Cut egress costs by stopping scrapers at the door.

For CTOs: Edge-terminated 403s never reach origin. Detailed bandwidth-savings reports per policy.
For CMOs: Hand finance a number: 'this is what we used to spend on bots that paid us nothing.'

The math

Stop paying egress for scrapers that pay you nothing.

Most teams discover that 60–80% of their AI bot traffic comes from crawlers they wouldn't have allowed if they'd known. AI Shield gives you the per-bot economics so you can decide who's a partner and who's a freeloader.

of AI bot traffic typically blockable on day one: 60–80%
to roll a new policy globally: 12s
false positives on the major citation bots: 0

Ready to take back the door?

Three minutes from now, the bots that pay you back are welcome — and the ones that don't are turned away.

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