About our scanner

Our scanner visits a website only when someone requests an AI visibility scan, or when the site's owner has turned on monitoring. It identifies itself honestly:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; CanAIReadMe/1.0; +https://canaireadme.netlify.app/bot)

A scan reads a small number of public pages (8 on free scans, up to 50 on paid plans), follows robots.txt rules for the “CanAIReadMe” user agent and “*”, never submits forms, never logs in and never runs your JavaScript.

If our honest request is blocked by bot protection, we make one request with a standard browser user agent to the homepage only, to tell the site owner whether AI crawlers are being blocked. We don't crawl further in that case.

To block the scanner, add this to robots.txt:

User-agent: CanAIReadMe
Disallow: /