About the Clarus Bot
Clarus operates a single, narrowly-scoped web bot to support its onboarding experience. This page documents what it does, how it identifies itself, how often it visits, and how to control it.
What it does
When a new user enters their work email during sign-up, the bot gathers basic firmographic information about the user's company — company name, headquarters location, industry, headcount, and revenue range — from the company's public web presence. The information is shown back to the user during onboarding for confirmation or correction. It is never republished, sold, or shared with third parties.
How it identifies itself
Every outbound request from the Clarus bot carries the following User-Agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Clarus/v1.0; +https://askclarus.com/about-bot)Stable, reverse-DNS-verifiable IP range — range published once production research infrastructure is finalized.
How often it visits
Single-shot. At most a handful of requests against a given domain at sign-up. The Clarus bot does not crawl recursively. It does not return on a schedule.
How to control it
The Clarus bot respects robots.txt. To block it, add the following directive to your site's robots.txt:
User-agent: Clarus
Disallow: /Concerns
If you have questions or concerns about a request from the Clarus bot, email bot@askclarus.com with the timestamp and your domain. We respond within two business days.