Poggio-Citations
Few readable files block Poggio-Citations in October 2026, at 57 sites or 0.9%. The community reference lists its operator as Poggio, a company that provides AI sales enablement tools for creating tailored narratives, business cases, and account plan….
Who runs Poggio-Citations?
| Fact | Poggio-Citations reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Poggio, a company that provides AI sales enablement tools for creating tailored narratives, business cases, and account plan…” |
| Purpose | “AI Assistants” |
| Does Poggio-Citations obey robots.txt? | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Frequency | “Unclear at this time.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for Poggio-Citations | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
“Poggio-Citations is a web crawler operated by Poggio, a company that provides AI sales enablement tools for creating tailored narratives, business cases, and account plan…”
The stated role here is an AI assistant. Search referrals or a user’s question can give an owner a reason to allow access while declining collection of page text for training.
How many sites block it?
Within 6,171 readable robots.txt files, the name appears in 58, or 0.9%. Instructions blocking every path, Disallow: /, appear in 57, a 0.9% share. No whole-site ban is recorded for 6,114 files.
Tranco’s top 1,000 sites yielded 552 readable files, including 18 files with its name, or 3.3%, and 18 files blocking it. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 3.3%. Outside those ranks, 39 of 5,619 files block it, or 0.7%.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poggio-Citations, all ranks | 58 | 0.9% | 57 | 0.9% |
| Poggio-Citations, top 1,000 | 18 | 3.3% | 18 | 3.3% |
| Poggio-Citations, remaining ranks | 40 | 0.7% | 39 | 0.7% |
For this entry, we counted whole-site bans attached to its own name, leaving general rules for all crawlers out of the total. Of 57 blocks, 1 does not also appear in our count of files naming it. We found 56 files naming it and blocking the whole site, along with 2 files naming it without that ban. Another 6,113 files omit the name. We ignore capitalization and repeated names.
How to block or allow it
Edit the root robots.txt file on your site. The robots.txt standard gives a Poggio-Citations group precedence over User-agent: * for this crawler.
Block the whole site
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: Poggio-Citations
Allow: /It's the 108th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
How we counted
For Poggio-Citations, on 19 October 2026, we requested robots.txt from Tranco’s top 10,000 sites. A request timed out after 8 seconds, with files capped at 262,144 bytes. Shares exclude unreachable, unavailable and oversized files. Reading files again used scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff) as well. See the full survey method.
Common questions
What does naming this crawler tell me?
A name identifies the crawler addressed by a group. The survey found 2 files with that name and no recorded whole-site ban, out of 58.
Are leading sites different?
For naming rules, 3.3% of the leading sample mentions it, compared with 0.9% overall. Whole-site blocking is 3.3% at leading ranks and 0.9% across the full sample.
How does the nearby crawler compare?
For comparison, ZanistaBot has 58 files naming it and 57 blocks, or 0.9%. Our counts for this entry are 58 files with the name and 57 blocking the whole site, or 0.9%.