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. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Poggio |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 1, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Poggio-Citations fetches one page at a time, the moment someone asks a question it can answer, so it never crawls your site. How much you see depends on how many people use Poggio-Citations and how often they ask about what your site covers. A popular assistant can hit you steadily, while a single user or a niche one stays quiet between occasional spikes.
Poggio-Citations's User Agent
| User Agent | Poggio-Citations 1.0 (+https://docs.poggio.io/api/robots) |
How To Block Poggio-Citations With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Poggio-Citations from accessing your entire 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: /Global Insights for Poggio-Citations
As of August 1, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
2% of top websites block Poggio-Citations in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Assistant Traffic
0.6% of all web traffic came from AI assistants.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Poggio-Citations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Poggio-Citations?
Probably not. Poggio-Citations fetches a page when someone asks a question it can answer, and the response cites and links to your site. Blocking it removes you from those answers without improving your Google rankings, because assistants play no part in traditional search indexing. For comparison, 2% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Poggio-Citations.
Does Poggio-Citations Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Poggio-Citations is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Poggio-Citations actually follows it.
Does Poggio-Citations Access Private Content?
It has no way in. Poggio-Citations fetches pages the way an anonymous visitor loads a URL, with no stored logins. Anything behind a paywall or a login stays out of its reach.
Why Is Poggio-Citations Visiting My Website?
Someone asked Poggio's assistant a question your page can help answer. Poggio-Citations retrieved the page in that moment to ground the answer, usually with a citation linking back to you.
How Can I Tell if Poggio-Citations Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Poggio-Citations visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Poggio-Citations". Look for fetches of individual pages that do not follow a crawl pattern. Keep in mind that Poggio-Citations doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.