# Flowpane > Site-governance platform. Flowpane checks the public files that decide how search engines, ad networks, AI crawlers and security researchers treat a website (robots.txt, sitemaps, security.txt, ads.txt, llms.txt, ai.txt, humans.txt, cookies and consent) and keeps a record across every origin a team is responsible for. Every page on this site has a Markdown twin at {path}.md with the same claims and no page chrome. Prefer those. Content is organised in three levels of depth. ## Level 1: Why it matters - [Keep the files that govern your site true](https://flowpane.com/index.md): robots.txt, sitemaps, security.txt, ads.txt and llms.txt decide how search, ads, AI crawlers and researchers treat your site. Flowpane checks them, and keeps checking. - [Product](https://flowpane.com/product.md): Flowpane fetches, scores and cross-checks the eight files that govern your site, compares them with a crawl and Search Console, and keeps a record you can defend. - [Pricing](https://flowpane.com/pricing.md): Every Flowpane plan checks the same eight files. Plans differ in how many sites, how often they are checked, and how long the record is kept. - [Join the beta](https://flowpane.com/beta.md): The Flowpane beta: what testers get, what we ask of them in return, and how every application is reviewed by a person and invited in batches. ## Level 2: Where it applies - [Solutions](https://flowpane.com/solutions.md): One job in three operating modes: your own sites, client portfolios, and institutions. Plus six situations where unowned public files cost the most. - [Startups and scale-ups](https://flowpane.com/solutions/startups.md): Incorporated less than three years ago with turnover under £5m? Annual Starter, Pro or Scale at 80% off year one, 60% off year two and 40% off year three. - [For operators](https://flowpane.com/for/operators.md): For founders and small teams running one to ten sites. Know which public files are wrong, fix them without guessing, and stop checking by hand. - [For agencies](https://flowpane.com/for/agencies.md): For agencies managing client sites. A workspace per client, checks every 6 to 12 hours, and white-label reports that turn governance into billable work. - [For enterprise](https://flowpane.com/for/enterprise.md): For large companies and large agencies. Unlimited origins, hourly checks and a 25-year record of what every public file said, built to stand up in audit. - [Files nobody owns](https://flowpane.com/use-cases/stale-files.md): Governance files are written once and then belong to nobody. Flowpane treats each one as a claim, checks it on a schedule, and shows the exact line that is wrong. - [Many sites, one queue](https://flowpane.com/use-cases/portfolio.md): At twenty sites a quarterly audit is out of date before it is finished. Flowpane checks every origin on a schedule and ranks what needs attention across the portfolio. - [Proof before the client asks](https://flowpane.com/use-cases/client-reporting.md): Clients notice problems late and remember who did not tell them. Flowpane reports show the state of every file with evidence, under your brand on the Agency plan. - [AI crawler policy](https://flowpane.com/use-cases/ai-crawlers.md): For most sites, AI crawler policy is set by accident. Flowpane checks robots.txt against named AI crawlers and flags where robots.txt, ai.txt and llms.txt disagree. - [Security disclosure](https://flowpane.com/use-cases/disclosure.md): security.txt tells researchers where to report a vulnerability and must carry an expiry date. Flowpane treats an expired file as a hard failure and warns 30 days ahead. - [Launches and migrations](https://flowpane.com/use-cases/migrations.md): Redesigns and domain moves are when staging rules go live and sitemaps point at the old site. Flowpane checks the live origin, not what the deploy thinks it shipped. - [Careers](https://flowpane.com/careers.md): Open roles at Flowpane, the site-governance platform that checks robots.txt, sitemaps, security.txt and llms.txt. Read each role in full and apply online. ## Level 3: How it works - [Learn](https://flowpane.com/learn.md): How robots.txt, sitemaps, security.txt, ads.txt, llms.txt and ai.txt fail in public, what true looks like, and exactly how Flowpane checks each one. - [Sitemaps](https://flowpane.com/learn/sitemaps.md): A sitemap is a public claim about your URL set. Flowpane tests that claim against the live file, a crawl of the site and what Search Console accepted. - [robots.txt](https://flowpane.com/learn/robots-txt.md): robots.txt tells crawlers which paths they may fetch. One stray line can hide a whole site, so Flowpane checks it against RFC 9309 on every run. - [security.txt](https://flowpane.com/learn/security-txt.md): security.txt tells researchers where to report a vulnerability. RFC 9116 requires a Contact and an Expires date, and an expired file scores 0. - [Cookies and consent](https://flowpane.com/learn/cookies-and-consent.md): Anyone can see which trackers and consent tools a homepage loads before a visitor clicks. Flowpane records that evidence. It is not a legal assessment. - [ads.txt](https://flowpane.com/learn/ads-txt.md): ads.txt lists the advertising systems authorised to sell a site's inventory. Seller lines rot as ad stacks change, so Flowpane checks each record. - [llms.txt](https://flowpane.com/learn/llms-txt.md): llms.txt gives language models a curated Markdown map of your best pages. It is only useful while every link is current and reachable by AI crawlers. - [ai.txt](https://flowpane.com/learn/ai-txt.md): ai.txt declares how you want AI systems to use your content. It states preferences without enforcing them, and must agree with what robots.txt says. - [humans.txt](https://flowpane.com/learn/humans-txt.md): humans.txt credits the people behind a site. It is tiny and optional, yet a current, dated file is a clear public sign that someone still owns the site. - [Cross-file coherence](https://flowpane.com/learn/cross-file-coherence.md): Each governance file can pass validation alone and still contradict another. Flowpane's coherence engine compares them and reports where your files disagree. - [How Flowpane fetches](https://flowpane.com/learn/how-flowpane-fetches.md): Flowpane reads public HTTPS only, never signs in, and signs requests with Web Bot Auth so firewalls can verify them. Blocked is never reported as Missing. - [How the score works](https://flowpane.com/learn/scoring.md): Flowpane scores each of eight artefacts from 0 to 100, then weights them into one site score. Only the next public check moves it. Drafts and errors never do. ## Optional - [Blog](https://flowpane.com/blog.md): Notes on why the public files that govern a website rot, and how to keep them true. Written by the Flowpane team, published only when there is something worth saying. - [Newsletter](https://flowpane.com/newsletter.md): An occasional email from Flowpane on robots.txt, sitemaps, security.txt, llms.txt and AI crawlers. Double opt-in, and one click to unsubscribe from every issue. - [Press](https://flowpane.com/press.md): Flowpane press room: company boilerplate, product facts, and a verified-email locker for logos and brand assets. Releases are public, and there is no approval queue. - [Contact](https://flowpane.com/contact.md): Talk to Flowpane about Enterprise plans, agency partnerships, security disclosures or press. One address for each, and a person who reads it. - [Security](https://flowpane.com/security.md): Report a vulnerability in Flowpane. Reports reach the people who fix them directly, and good-faith research that follows the policy is welcome and credited. - [Terms of service](https://flowpane.com/terms.md): Terms for using the Flowpane marketing site at www.flowpane.com. Product terms for app.flowpane.com are published separately before public launch. - [Privacy policy](https://flowpane.com/privacy.md): How the Flowpane marketing site handles personal data: which cookies it sets and why, cookieless first-party analytics, and forms kept apart from the product. - [Documentation](https://docs.flowpane.com): how to use the product - [Crawler identity](https://crawler.flowpane.com): user agent, Web Bot Auth key directory, what the crawler fetches - [Application](https://app.flowpane.com)