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sourcedash

sourcedash is the crawler identity for Source Dashboard, a UK property search and management platform.
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What is sourcedash?

sourcedash is the crawler identity for Source Dashboard, a UK property search and management platform. Its search index is intended for property investors rather than general web discovery.

Source Dashboard advertises search that can match investment criteria and tools that analyze or summarize listings and documents. The crawler record indicates that sourcedash collects pages for the property search service, but it does not specify a crawl schedule or the exact listing fields retained.

The recorded user agent is sourcedash/1.0 (+https://www.sourcedashboard.co.uk/spiderbot/). Unlike a plain user-agent check, sourcedash also supports Web Bot Auth. Signed requests can be validated with the operator's published HTTP message-signature keys.

A crawl may make public property content available to Source Dashboard's AI-assisted search and analysis features. That is a product-specific AI effect, not evidence that the pages train a general-purpose model. There is no supported claim that allowing sourcedash improves visibility in unrelated AI answer engines.

Relevant for AI search

Is sourcedash relevant for AI search?

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

sourcedash feeds a search index that also powers that engine's AI answer features and overviews. One crawl can serve a classic results page and a generated summary, so blocking it costs you both the rankings you would expect and a growing share of AI answers built on the same index.

How to handle sourcedash

A property publisher can allow canonical public listings while excluding account pages, saved searches, and internal documents. If your site has no relationship with property search, review the requested URLs and decide whether Source Dashboard offers any useful distribution before allowing continued access.

To block the crawler across the domain, add:

User-agent: sourcedash
Disallow: /

this bot marks robots.txt compliance as supported. For an allowlist or bot-challenge bypass, also verify Web Bot Auth against https://www.sourcedashboard.co.uk/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory; do not grant access from the user agent alone.

Examples

  • A property portal allows sourcedash on public listing URLs but disallows customer watch lists and document-upload routes.
  • An edge worker verifies the HTTP signature before letting sourcedash bypass a challenge that blocks unsigned scrapers.
  • An analytics team reports Source Dashboard exposure as a property-search channel instead of grouping it with general AI training crawlers.

Frequently asked questions about sourcedash

Learn about AI visibility monitoring and how Promptwatch helps your brand succeed in AI search.

Source Dashboard uses it for a UK property search platform aimed at property investors.

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