# Websites evolve. Flowpane keeps them aligned.

Flowpane continuously monitors what the outside world sees, detects drift and inconsistencies, and keeps every site aligned, regardless of CMS.

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## Eight small files decide how the web treats your site.

Each one is read by someone who will not tell you when it is wrong. Every file gets its own score, and the site score weights them by what they cost you.

- **Sitemaps** (weight 35 of 100, read by search engines): The list of what you want found. When it names pages that are gone and misses the ones that exist, search engines learn to ignore it. [Method](https://flowpane.com/learn/sitemaps.md)
- **robots.txt** (weight 15 of 100, read by search and ai crawlers): One stray Disallow can hide a whole section overnight. It is also where you answer every named AI crawler, whether you meant to or not. [Method](https://flowpane.com/learn/robots-txt.md)
- **security.txt** (weight 12 of 100, read by security researchers): Tells a researcher where to report a vulnerability. The day its Expires date passes, the file stops counting under RFC 9116. [Method](https://flowpane.com/learn/security-txt.md)
- **Cookies and consent** (weight 12 of 100, read by regulators, browsers, visitors): Trackers that load before consent are visible to anyone who looks. You see the same outside evidence they would. [Method](https://flowpane.com/learn/cookies-and-consent.md)
- **ads.txt** (weight 8 of 100, read by ad exchanges and buyers): Declares who may sell your inventory. Seller lines drift as the ad stack changes, and buyers quietly stop bidding. [Method](https://flowpane.com/learn/ads-txt.md)
- **llms.txt** (weight 7 of 100, read by ai assistants): A curated map of your site for language models. Without one, assistants guess which of your pages matter. [Method](https://flowpane.com/learn/llms-txt.md)
- **ai.txt** (weight 6 of 100, read by ai training and scraping): States whether models may train on, quote, or scrape your content. When it disagrees with robots.txt, you have two policies. [Method](https://flowpane.com/learn/ai-txt.md)
- **humans.txt** (weight 5 of 100, read by people): Who builds and maintains the site. Small, and a visible sign that someone owns the origin. [Method](https://flowpane.com/learn/humans-txt.md)

## An audit is true on the day it runs.

Then a deploy overwrites robots.txt, security.txt passes its expiry date, and a campaign sitemap outlives the campaign. Nothing in your product breaks, so nobody notices.

- **Nobody owns them.** They sit between SEO, security, legal and engineering. Every team assumes another team checks.
- **They fail silently.** No error page, no failed build. The cost arrives weeks later as lost pages, lost bids, or an audit finding.
- **Scale multiplies it.** Ten sites times eight files is eighty things drifting on their own schedules. That is where a spreadsheet dies.

## The expensive mistakes live between files.

Each file can be valid on its own and still contradict another. Flowpane runs sixteen cross-file rules, so you find out that your policies disagree before a crawler does.

- `robots.txt` `Disallow: /products/` against `sitemap.xml` `<loc>/products/tents/</loc>`: You ask search engines to index pages you forbid them to crawl.
- `ai.txt` `AI-Training: no` against `robots.txt` `User-agent: GPTBot  Allow: /`: Your two AI policies say opposite things.
- `llms.txt` `- [Guides](/guides/)` against `robots.txt` `Disallow: /guides/`: You point AI assistants at pages they are not allowed to read.

## From a URL to a record you can defend.

1. **Add and verify.** Paste one URL, a list, or a CSV. Prove ownership with a file, a DNS record, or a meta tag. The first full check runs straight away.
2. **Check and score.** Every artefact is fetched, parsed, assessed and scored. Each run is immutable, so the history cannot be rewritten after the fact.
3. **Fix and prove.** Proposed files start from safe defaults and never invent a contact or a policy. You publish them. The next public check is the only thing that moves the score.

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