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Your business website is probably invisible to AI.
Cloudflare silently injects a managed robots.txt that blocks ClaudeBot, GPTBot, and Google-Extended. The "AI bot protection" toggle in the dashboard doesn't actually disable it. You also have to flip `is_robots_txt_managed` to false via the API.
Until you do:
• Buyers asking ChatGPT "who builds X" won't find you
• Your work doesn't show up in Google's AI Overviews
• Any agent (yours or a customer's) reading your site gets a 403
Curl tells you in 5 seconds:
`curl -A "ClaudeBot" https://yoursite.com/robots.txt`
If there are Disallow lines you didn't write, that's Cloudflare. Fix is one API call. Or have an agent do it.
I've checked roughly ten sites since I noticed this. Eight were quietly blocked.
Anyone here actually checked whether their site shows up in AI search yet? What did the curl tell you?
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