User-agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /blog

# Trailing-slash form means "this exact path and descendants only" — a
# bare `/cards` would also match `/cards-examples` or `/cards-gallery`,
# which could be future marketing URLs.
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /save/
Disallow: /share/
Disallow: /insights/
Disallow: /cards/
Disallow: /network/
Disallow: /virtual-background/
Disallow: /email-signature/
Disallow: /profile/
Disallow: /mobile/
Disallow: /auth/
Disallow: /video/
Disallow: /app/
# B2B org routes are auth-gated — unauthenticated requests 307 to /sign-in.
# Letting Google crawl /org/* burns crawl budget on ~15 subroutes that all
# redirect to the same login screen.
Disallow: /org/
# Unauthenticated card/* routes also 307 to /sign-in. Same crawl-budget
# reason as /org/. Does NOT affect public card pages (those live at /{slug}).
Disallow: /card/
# Legacy /Inbox deeplink redirects to /cards. Block so Google stops crawling
# the old URL and attributing equity away from current pages. Google is
# case-sensitive on URL paths, so both the capital-I (original native deep
# link) and lowercase (web fallback) variants are listed explicitly — do not
# "deduplicate" them.
Disallow: /Inbox
Disallow: /inbox
# /sign-in /sign-up /forget-password /delete-account /beta /waitlist
# are NOT disallowed here — they emit `meta robots noindex,nofollow` so
# Google must be able to crawl them to see the directive (disallow + noindex
# would be contradictory and risk indexing if linked externally).

# AI Search Bots — allow citation/search bots
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: Amazonbot
Allow: /

# AI Training-only Bots
# Google-Extended is allowed: in 2026 Gemini is the #2 consumer AI assistant
# and blocking it removes Lynqu from Gemini's baked-in entity knowledge.
# Marketing content benefits more from training-time presence than from
# the theoretical IP-protection of opting out.
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /

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