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QualifiedBot

Bot crawls customer websites to provide information to customer hosted chatbots.
Qualified.com, Inc.QualifiedBot
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What is QualifiedBot?

QualifiedBot is the primary crawler for AI products operated by Qualified.com, Inc. The operator's crawler page says it crawls customer websites for features such as the Qualified AI SDR. The resulting site information can also support customer-hosted chatbots.

This is a customer implementation workflow, not an open web search index. Qualified says crawls occur during initial setup, after major feature releases, and on a cadence set by the customer's Qualified QSA. A visit should make sense in the context of a company using or configuring Qualified.

The supplied material does not say that QualifiedBot collects a general model-training dataset. It also does not give the crawler a public search or citation function. Blocking it may make a customer's Qualified chatbot or AI feature less current, but allowing it is not a documented route into general AI search results.

Cloudflare's bot directory records two user-agent forms: QualifiedBot/1.0 and Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; QualifiedBot/1.0; +https://www.qualified.com/legal/qualified-crawler-user-agent). Qualified says the crawler can also appear within a modified Chromium user agent. Match the stable QualifiedBot token rather than one complete browser string.

Qualified's control instructions focus on the customer relationship. Site owners are told to contact their Qualified QSA to set the crawl schedule and rate. The page does not publish a robots.txt commitment, and Cloudflare's bot directory marks QualifiedBot as not following robots.txt; this entry leaves the status unknown.

The user-agent token is not proof of origin. Qualified says customers can ask their QSA for an IP address list, but this bot is not IP verified and has no Web Bot Auth key directory. Verify the source before exempting requests from security controls.

Relevant for AI search

Is QualifiedBot relevant for AI search?

Yes. QualifiedBot collects pages for an AI product, so what it can crawl influences how AI systems describe your brand.

QualifiedBot fetches, indexes, or retrieves pages for an AI product, so the pages it can reach shape how that system describes your brand and products.

How to handle QualifiedBot

A site can publish its preference under the stable token:

User-agent: QualifiedBot
Disallow: /

Do not expect this file to set the Qualified crawl schedule. Cloudflare says the bot does not follow robots.txt, and Qualified directs customers to their QSA for timing and rate changes. Coordinate there when the crawl belongs to an active Qualified deployment.

If the crawler must not access the site, enforce the decision at the edge or origin and verify the result in logs. Customers that need an allow rule can request Qualified's current IP list from their QSA, but should not treat QualifiedBot in a browser header as authenticated identity. Keep account-only and internal material behind normal access controls.

Examples

  • A company launches a Qualified AI SDR and sees QualifiedBot crawl its public product and pricing pages during setup.
  • A marketing team asks its Qualified QSA to move a scheduled refresh outside a high-traffic release window.
  • A site that no longer uses Qualified blocks the token at its CDN after confirming that no current chatbot depends on the crawl.

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Qualified.com, Inc. operates QualifiedBot to crawl customer websites for its AI products and customer-hosted chatbot workflows.

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