What is QualifiedBot?
QualifiedBot is Qualified's web crawler that analyzes customer websites to provide contextual information for their AI-powered chatbots and conversational marketing platform. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when QualifiedBot visits your website.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 QualifiedBot/1.0 +https://www.qualified.com/legal/qualified-crawler-user-agent |
| Operated By | Qualified |
| 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 QualifiedBot Visiting My Website?
A user asked Qualified's assistant a question your page could help answer. QualifiedBot retrieved the page to support its response, often with a citation linking back to your site.
Should I Block QualifiedBot?
Usually not. Blocking QualifiedBot can keep your pages out of AI-generated answers and eliminate potential citation traffic. It does not improve traditional search rankings. For context, 10% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for QualifiedBot.
How Do I Block QualifiedBot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block QualifiedBot 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: QualifiedBot # https://knownagents.com/agents/qualifiedbot
Disallow: /Insights for QualifiedBot
As of October 29, 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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Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From QualifiedBot?
QualifiedBot 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 QualifiedBot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
QualifiedBot 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 QualifiedBot respects it.
Is QualifiedBot Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. QualifiedBot is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking QualifiedBot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Yes, for requests handled by QualifiedBot. 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 QualifiedBot Access Private Content?
Not ordinarily. QualifiedBot 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 QualifiedBot?
Agent Analytics tracks QualifiedBot visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "QualifiedBot". Look for a single-page request with no follow-up navigation. Because QualifiedBot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.