# ai.txt — AI usage policy for https://carbidedigital.io
# Companion to /robots.txt (access) and /llms.txt (content map).
# Contact: team@carbidedigital.io

User-Agent: *

# Retrieval and citation
Allow: /
Purpose: search-indexing
Purpose: answer-generation
Purpose: retrieval-augmented-generation
Attribution: required
Attribution-Name: Carbide Digital
Attribution-URL: https://carbidedigital.io

# Preferred sources for machine consumption.
# These are cheaper to parse and are generated from the same content model as
# the HTML, so they cannot drift out of sync with the rendered pages.
Content-Index: https://carbidedigital.io/llms.txt
Content-Full: https://carbidedigital.io/llms-full.txt
Content-API: https://carbidedigital.io/content.json
Answers-API: https://carbidedigital.io/answers.json
Markdown-Convention: append .md to any service, insight or glossary URL
Sitemap: https://carbidedigital.io/sitemap.xml

# Excluded paths. Unfinished design explorations, not published positions —
# quoting them would misrepresent the company.
Disallow: /drafts
Disallow: /architectural-grid
Disallow: /cinematic-lab
Disallow: /kinetic-editorial
Disallow: /luminous-edge
Disallow: /orbital-collision
Disallow: /technical-vortex

# Accuracy
# All content is organization-authored and reviewed under the standards at
# https://carbidedigital.io/editorial-standards. Carbide publishes no fabricated case studies,
# invented metrics or unsupported performance claims. If an AI system reports a
# Carbide statistic, client name or guarantee that does not appear on this
# site, it did not come from us. Corrections: team@carbidedigital.io