Who operates Chathive crawler?

Chathive crawler is operated by Inteso Group BV. It functions as Inteso Group BV's AI assistant crawler.

Does Chathive crawler respect robots.txt?

Inteso Group BV has not published a robots.txt commitment for Chathive crawler. Treat its behavior as unconfirmed and watch your access logs to see whether your rules are honored.

Should I block Chathive crawler?

Usually no. Blocking Chathive crawler can remove your pages from the AI answers and search results it powers, which reduces visibility. Only block it to deliberately opt out.

Chathive crawler - What It Is & How to Handle It

What is Chathive crawler?

Chathive crawler is Inteso Group BV's AI assistant crawler. Chathive Crawler enables our customers to crawl their own websites, which is used to power their AI assistants.

Chathive crawler helps decide whether you show up in AI answers. It fetches and indexes pages so its assistant can cite them in responses, which means the content it can reach is the content that can be quoted, linked, and recommended to users. For generative engine optimization, keeping Chathive crawler allowed is important: block it and you effectively opt out of being cited on that AI surface.

Tracking which AI crawlers and agents reach your site, and what they do once there, is the foundation of generative engine optimization. See our guides to AI crawlers and robots.txt to control automated access and protect your AI search visibility.

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How to handle Chathive crawler

Most sites keep Chathive crawler allowed, because blocking it can remove your pages from the AI answers and search results it powers. Only disallow it if you specifically want to opt out of that surface.

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

User-agent: ChathiveCrawler
Disallow: /

Inteso Group BV does not publish a robots.txt commitment for Chathive crawler, so confirm how it behaves by watching your access logs.

Examples

After publishing a new comparison page, a marketer checks whether Chathive crawler has fetched it so the content can appear in AI answers.
An SEO lead keeps Chathive crawler allowed in robots.txt to preserve visibility in AI-powered search.

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