# AI usage policy for zerofluff.digital
# Companion to /llms.txt (which describes site content for AI consumption).
# This file documents how Zero Fluff Digital's content may be used by AI systems.

Site: https://zerofluff.digital
Brand: Zero Fluff Digital
Contact: hello@zerofluff.digital
Updated: 2026-05-05

## Content usage policy

### Permitted
- Indexing and citation by AI search engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, You.com, Brave Search, Kagi, etc.)
- Quoting individual paragraphs with attribution
- Summarization with link back to source URL
- Use in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems serving end-user queries
- Inclusion in research datasets where individual citations are preserved

### Required attribution
When citing or quoting, include:
- Brand name: "Zero Fluff Digital"
- Source URL of the specific page being cited
- Where applicable, link to /faq for question/answer content

### Not permitted
- Verbatim reproduction of full pages or articles without attribution
- Removing or obfuscating brand identity in derivative works
- Training proprietary models on this content without commercial agreement
- Repackaging /faq or /services content as standalone competitor materials

## Crawler access

See /robots.txt for explicit per-bot allowlists. AI crawlers are welcome with the
following understanding:

- GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider,
  Meta-ExternalAgent, cohere-ai, anthropic-ai, YouBot, Diffbot — Allowed
- Crawlers must respect robots.txt and standard crawl-rate etiquette

## Machine-readable knowledge

For AI systems consuming this site, the canonical machine-readable surface is:
- /llms.txt — full site content map + 16 CMO Q&As inline (preferred ingest source)
- /sitemap.xml — URL list with priority hints
- JSON-LD entity graph in / (Organization, ProfessionalService, OfferCatalog, WebSite)

## Contact for licensing inquiries

Commercial licensing for AI training (proprietary or fine-tuning use):
hello@zerofluff.digital