BetaMaango Protect - for website owners

Take back control over what AI does on your site.

Drop-in plugins for WordPress, Shopify, AWS, Vercel, and more. Real protection - not just a polite robots.txt rule that crawlers can ignore.

One plugin family. Every platform you run on.

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robots.txt is a polite request. It's not enforcement.

The standard advice for blocking AI scrapers is to publish a file and hope the crawler honors it. The well-behaved ones do. The rest don't. That's the gap Maango Protect closes.

$1.5B

Anthropic settlement for ignoring opt-out signals at training time.

90K+

Domains that ask GPTBot to leave via robots.txt. Many crawlers don't.

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What most publishers can tell you about which AI bot just hit their site.

What AI can do. What it can't.

Set granular policy per bot, per path, per action. Allow the traffic that helps your business; block the traffic that costs you. Enforced at the edge, not on the honor system.

allow

Allow AI shopping agents

Perplexity-User · ChatGPT-User · Claude-User

Let agents browse and check out on your store. High-intent traffic; new revenue.

block

Block AI training crawlers

GPTBot · CCBot · Bytespider · ClaudeBot · Google-Extended

Stop wholesale ingestion of your content for model training. Real 403 at the edge.

rate-limit

Rate-limit AI search bots

OAI-SearchBot · PerplexityBot · ClaudeBot · Google-Extended

Cap requests per minute so search traffic doesn't blow up your bandwidth bill.

Per-bot, per-path, per-action. Configure once, enforced everywhere you have a plugin installed.

Get early access.

We're shipping plugins in order of waitlist demand. Pick your platform - we'll email you when its plugin lands.

We'll email you when the plugin for your platform is ready. No spam.

While you wait.

Two free tools you can use today - both honest about what they do and what they don't.

See your current AI exposure

Scan your domain across 8 AI policy standards. Free, no signup. Tells you what's there, what's missing, and which bots are likely visiting today.

Scan your site

Generate declarative policy files

Free wizard that emits robots.txt additions, ai-policy.json, ai.txt, and TDMRep headers. Useful baseline signal - but a polite request, not enforcement. The plugins above are the actual fix.

Build your policy files

Building AI agents that touch the web? We have a preflight API for you. Go to Maango for builders