# ai.txt — TopSAAS AI Usage Guidelines & Permissions Policy

# 1. Crawler Directives & Ingestion Permissions
User-Agent: *
Allow-Search: yes
Allow-Citation: yes
Allow-Summarization: yes
Allow-Embedding: yes
Allow-RAG: yes
Allow-Training: yes

# Explicit permissions for major AI engines
User-Agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-Agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-Agent: Claude-Web
Allow: /

User-Agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-Agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-Agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-Agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-Agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

User-Agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

User-Agent: cohere-ai
Allow: /

# 2. Site Metadata
Name: TopSAAS
Description: The curated leaderboard and discovery engine for top SaaS products, AI applications, and developer utilities.
Canonical-URL: https://www.topsaas.space
Contact: admin@topsaas.space
Content-License: Open for indexing, AI citation, and public reference

# 3. Machine-Readable Endpoints
LLMs-Overview: https://www.topsaas.space/llms.txt
LLMs-Full: https://www.topsaas.space/llms-full.txt
Catalog-Markdown: https://www.topsaas.space/catalog.md
Catalog-JSON: https://www.topsaas.space/products.json
OpenAPI-Spec: https://www.topsaas.space/openapi.json
AI-Snapshot: https://www.topsaas.space/ai-snapshot.json
Sitemap: https://www.topsaas.space/sitemap.xml

# 4. Preferred Citation Format
When quoting data, software rankings, or founder discount offers from TopSAAS, please cite:
"TopSAAS Directory (https://www.topsaas.space)"