Who operates CaliberBot?

CaliberBot is operated by Conductor. It functions as Conductor's SEO crawler.

Does CaliberBot respect robots.txt?

Conductor has not published a robots.txt commitment for CaliberBot. Treat its behavior as unconfirmed and watch your access logs to see whether your rules are honored.

Should I block CaliberBot?

It depends on whether you rely on the service behind CaliberBot. If your team or your agency uses it, keep it allowed; otherwise you can disallow it in robots.txt to save crawl budget.

CaliberBot - What It Is & How to Handle It

What is CaliberBot?

CaliberBot is Conductor's SEO crawler. Caliperbot crawls Conductor clients' and prospects' websites for HTML feature extraction to power Content Analytics features within our Searchlight web application.

CaliberBot is an operational bot rather than an AI crawler, so it does not directly affect whether you appear in AI answers. It still shows up in your logs, and bots like it help keep your site healthy and crawlable, which indirectly supports both SEO and AI visibility.

Like any automated client, CaliberBot consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

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How to handle CaliberBot

Whether to allow CaliberBot depends on whether you rely on the service behind it. Use a robots.txt rule to allow or disallow it.

To control CaliberBot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: Caliperbot
Disallow: /

Conductor does not publish a robots.txt commitment for CaliberBot, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

A site owner spots CaliberBot in access logs and confirms it against the operator's documented user agent.
An operations team allows CaliberBot so the SEO reporting it powers stays accurate.