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SBIntuitionsBot

SBIntuitionsBot is a crawler operated by SB Intuitions Corp. that collects web data for AI development and information analysis.
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What is SBIntuitionsBot?

SBIntuitionsBot is a web crawler operated by SB Intuitions Corp. The company's crawler page says it uses this bot for AI development and information analysis.

This directory also categorizes SBIntuitionsBot under AI Training. That makes a crawl relevant to decisions about data supplied to AI development, but the operator does not name a model, dataset, retention period, or training stage. A request cannot show how a particular page is ultimately used.

SBIntuitionsBot is distinct from SBIntuitions-SearchBot. The latter visits relevant websites when a user asks a question in the Sarashina service, may include links in its response, and is documented as not using the browsed information for AI development. SBIntuitionsBot has the development and analysis role, not that user-triggered search workflow.

SB Intuitions says its crawlers comply with the Robots Exclusion Protocol in RFC 9309. Site owners can disallow a path and its descendants with a bot-specific rule. The operator warns that there can be a delay between publishing a setting and seeing it reflected in crawler behavior.

The stable token is SBIntuitionsBot. This entry contains no full user-agent example, published IP validation, Cloudflare bot record, or Web Bot Auth key directory. Its verification status is unverifiable, so the header identifies claimed SB Intuitions traffic but does not authenticate the sender.

Allowing the crawler permits possible collection for AI development and analysis. It does not carry a documented benefit for public AI search or citations. A site can set a different policy for SBIntuitions-SearchBot if it wants Sarashina's live retrieval to reach public pages while restricting development-oriented collection.

Relevant for AI search

Is SBIntuitionsBot relevant for AI search?

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

SBIntuitionsBot gathers public web content that can end up in the training data for large language models. Once your pages are in that set, they influence how the operator's models talk about you for that model generation. Allowing it lets your own writing carry weight in those answers; blocking it means the models learn about you from third parties instead.

How to handle SBIntuitionsBot

To exclude the whole site from SBIntuitionsBot's development and analysis crawl, add:

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

The operator documents RFC 9309 compliance, and the bot record marks robots.txt support as true. Use narrower paths when public material can remain available, then allow time for the crawler to pick up the change before reviewing logs.

Rules for SBIntuitionsBot do not automatically control SBIntuitions-SearchBot. Configure that user agent separately. Since neither verified addresses nor signing keys are supplied here, retain normal rate limits and access controls even when a request carries the expected token.

Examples

  • A Japanese publisher blocks SBIntuitionsBot on licensed articles while leaving its freely available company information crawlable.
  • A site allows SBIntuitions-SearchBot for Sarashina retrieval but disallows SBIntuitionsBot because it does not want the same pages collected for AI development.
  • An administrator waits for the operator's stated policy delay, then checks whether requests have stopped on the disallowed path.

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SB Intuitions Corp operates the crawler for AI development and information analysis.

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