PatescoBot
If you found this page, you probably saw PatescoBot in your server logs and wanted to know who that is. Here is the whole answer.
What it is
Patesco is a tool that checks whether AI assistants mention a business when someone asks them a buying question. To answer that, we have to read the site first, the same way an assistant would. PatescoBot is what does the reading.
It runs for one of two reasons: a Wix site owner installed our app on their own site, or somebody ran the free scan on our website and gave us an address to check. It is never a background crawl of the web. Nothing is indexed, nothing is resold, and we do not build a database of sites we were not asked about.
What it reads
- Your public pages, up to a handful of them, chosen from your home page and your sitemap.
/robots.txt,/sitemap.xmland/llms.txtif you publish them.
It does not log in, does not submit forms, does not execute your JavaScript, does not click anything, and does not collect personal data from your pages. It requests each page once, reads it, and leaves.
How often
A free scan reads a site once. An installed customer’s own site is read once a week. There is no continuous crawl, and there is no reason for PatescoBot to appear in your logs more often than that.
How to block it
We obey robots.txt. Add this and we stop, on the next request, with no appeal and no need to contact us:
User-agent: PatescoBot
Disallow: /If a site disallows us, the free scan says so plainly to whoever ran it rather than working around it or pretending the site is empty. Worth knowing, though: the same file governs whether the AI assistants themselves can read you, so a rule broad enough to stop us may be stopping them too. That is one of the things our scan checks.
Verifying it is really us
Anyone can put a string in a User-Agent header, so treat the name as a claim rather than proof. If you see traffic claiming to be PatescoBot and it is behaving in a way nothing on this page describes, that is worth telling us about. Send the log lines to support@patesco.app and we will confirm whether it was us.
Removing your business from a result
A scan result may list the names of businesses the AI assistants mentioned, with the date we collected the answers. We never republish what an assistant said about anyone. If your business appears in a result and you want it gone, write to us and we will remove it.