What is Poggio-Citations?
Poggio-Citations is a web crawler operated by Poggio, a company that provides AI sales enablement tools for creating tailored narratives, business cases, and account plans. This bot collects information from websites to gather citations and supporting data that can be incorporated into AI responses. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Poggio-Citations visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Poggio-Citations 1.0 (+https://docs.poggio.io/api/robots) |
| Operated By | Poggio |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | User action |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Yes |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is Poggio-Citations Visiting My Website?
A user asked Poggio's assistant a question your page could help answer. Poggio-Citations retrieved the page to support its response, often with a citation linking back to your site.
Should I Block Poggio-Citations?
Usually not. Blocking Poggio-Citations can keep your pages out of AI-generated answers and eliminate potential citation traffic. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 9% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Poggio-Citations.
How Do I Block Poggio-Citations Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Poggio-Citations from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI assistants at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Poggio-Citations # https://knownagents.com/agents/poggio-citations
Disallow: /
Insights for Poggio-Citations
As of October 30, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Poggio-Citations Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Poggio-Citations?
Poggio-Citations makes isolated, on-demand requests rather than crawling your site. Traffic follows user demand, ranging from sporadic fetches to steady visits for a popular assistant.
Does Poggio-Citations Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Poggio-Citations is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Poggio-Citations respects it.
Is Poggio-Citations Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Poggio-Citations is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Poggio-Citations Affect AI Search or Citations?
Yes, for requests handled by Poggio-Citations. Blocking it can prevent the assistant from retrieving your pages for an answer or linking to them, but a separate crawler may control automatic AI search indexing.
Does Poggio-Citations Access Private Content?
Not ordinarily. Poggio-Citations fetches pages as an anonymous visitor without a stored login. Content protected by a paywall or login remains out of reach.
How Can I Verify a Request From Poggio-Citations?
Agent Analytics tracks Poggio-Citations visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Poggio-Citations". Look for a single-page request with no follow-up navigation. Because Poggio-Citations does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.