What is Navu?
Navu is HivePoint, Inc.'s crawler for websites selected by Navu customers and prospects. Navu indexes a site's content so its website AI can answer visitors' questions and provide links or citations from that site's own material.
The index can contain webpages, images, PDFs, videos, and forms. Navu says it discovers resources through sources such as sitemaps and site tracking, with crawling available as part of that work. A customer can add or remove URLs in the Navu portal instead of treating every discovered page as permanent.
Navu publishes desktop and mobile user agents that both end in NavuBot/1.0 (https://navu.co). Cloudflare's bot directory records those same two signatures. They resemble ordinary Chrome or mobile Safari traffic until the NavuBot suffix near the end of the string, so matching only the beginning would miss the identifier.
This is customer-specific AI training, not a documented crawl for a general foundation model or public AI search engine. Pages in a customer's Navu index can be used by that site's Navu AI and may appear in its answers as sources. Navu also lets the customer remove a page from training, mark it noindex to keep it out of search results and citations, or place it on a do-not-cite list while retaining it for training.
Robots behavior requires care. The bot metadata leaves compliance unknown, and Cloudflare's bot directory marks followsRobotsTxt as false. Navu's product manual mentions robots.txt as one source for discovering URLs, but that is not a promise to obey exclusion rules. A NavuBot group can state a preference without guaranteeing enforcement.
Navu's access guide publishes server addresses for customer allowlisting, but this facts record does not mark Navu as IP verified. Cloudflare also lists no HTTP-signature directory. An expected customer should use Navu's current access documentation and its own account configuration before opening a CDN rule; an unrelated site should not trust the user-agent suffix by itself.
