Suede AIRecover the denominator before quoting the percentage
On September 20, 2026, Suede AI requested robots.txt and llms.txt from a pinned list of 1,000 domains. The team could evaluate root policy for 497 robots.txt responses. Among those, 138 disallowed the root for one or more of five selected AI-related tokens. The reported 27.8 percent uses 497 as the denominator.
Ask which behavior the test observed
A rule in robots.txt describes a site’s declared policy for a particular user agent and path. The study measured those published rules from a single collection context. Actual requests belong in server logs. Whether a business appeared in a buyer’s AI answer belongs in dated answer captures. Each question calls for a different source.
Apply the same discipline to your business
If your company makes a product claim, link to the specification or test behind it. For a third-party ranking, name the directory, category, geography and date. For a customer result, identify who reported it and what period they measured. Put the source close enough to the claim that a prospective customer can check it.