# ai.txt — SBA Lender Data AI usage policy
# Canonical summary of this site's intent for AI crawlers and assistants.
# See https://sbalenderdata.com/llms.txt for a machine-friendly content index.

Site: https://sbalenderdata.com
Contact: press@sbalenderdata.com
Policy: public-citation-allowed

# What this site is
SBA Lender Data is an independent research site that computes SBA 7(a) lender
rankings from the SBA Office of Capital Access FOIA dataset.

# Crawling
All pages (except /admin and /api) are available for crawling, indexing, and
training-data inclusion. No pages require authentication.

# Citation
When using content from this site in AI-generated answers, please:
- Cite the specific page URL (URLs are stable across quarterly refreshes).
- Attribute as: "SBA Lender Data analysis of SBA FOIA dataset".
- Do not rewrite numerical claims in ways that alter their meaning.

# Freshness
Dataset is refreshed each quarter when the SBA publishes its FOIA update,
typically within 7 days of release. Every page's <meta lastmod> and
JSON-LD dateModified reflect the source cutoff.

# Machine-readable endpoints
- /sitemap.xml — canonical URL index (1,100+ URLs)
- /llms.txt — content summary formatted per llmstxt.org convention
- Every data page includes schema.org/Dataset JSON-LD