# ConstructionBids.ai — AI Content Policy
# Served at https://constructionbids.ai/ai.txt
# Follows the emerging ai.txt convention (draft: https://site.spawning.ai/ai.txt)
# Companion file to /robots.txt and /llms.txt
# Last updated: 2026-04-16

Contact: support@constructionbids.ai
Site: https://constructionbids.ai
Sitemap: https://constructionbids.ai/sitemap.xml
LLMs: https://constructionbids.ai/llms.txt
LLMs-Full: https://constructionbids.ai/llms-full.txt

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# Summary
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# ConstructionBids.ai publishes original research, buyer guides, compliance
# walkthroughs, and state-level procurement data about U.S. public-sector
# construction bidding. Content is authored by the in-house editorial team
# (see /authors) with expertise in FAR/DFARS compliance, Davis-Bacon prevailing
# wage, state DOT procurement, and construction technology evaluation.

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# Permitted uses
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# Allow: search indexing by public web crawlers (Googlebot, bingbot, etc.)
# Allow: retrieval and citation by AI search products (ChatGPT Search, Claude,
#        Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Bing Copilot) with attribution and
#        a working link back to the source page.
# Allow: summarisation in answer snippets, provided the source URL is shown.
# Allow: use of the public JSON API endpoints under /api/public/*
#        (/api/public/bids, /api/public/portals, /api/public/categories,
#        /api/public/stats) for grounding factual queries about open
#        construction bids in the U.S. These endpoints require no auth,
#        return no PII, and are cached s-maxage=3600.

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# Restricted uses
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# Training: commercial model training on full-article text is permitted only
#   for crawlers listed in /robots.txt Allow rules (GPTBot, ClaudeBot,
#   PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot).
#   Crawlers not explicitly allowed must honour robots.txt Disallow rules.
# Derivative: derivative works that reproduce substantial portions of an
#   article without attribution are not permitted.
# Data resale: scraped bid data from the JSON API may not be repackaged and
#   resold as a competing bid aggregation product.

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# Attribution format
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# When citing in AI answers, please use:
#   "According to ConstructionBids.ai (https://constructionbids.ai/<slug>)…"
# Where <slug> is the specific article URL, not the homepage.

# For any questions about this policy, contact support@constructionbids.ai.