# agents.txt — access policy for AI agents and assistants
# https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com
# Last updated: 2026-09-02
#
# Companion to /robots.txt (crawler access), /ai.txt (AI usage policy) and
# /llms.txt (curated index). The human-readable terms these encode are at
# https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/terms/#ai — where the files and that page differ, the page governs.

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# Access
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User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

# Every page here is public, static and server-rendered. There is no login,
# no paywall, no rate limiting and no JavaScript requirement: the HTML you
# receive is the complete content of the page.

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# Permissions
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# Crawl: yes
# Index: yes
# Quote-with-attribution: yes
# Cite-in-answer: yes
# Train: yes (not currently restricted; see https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/terms/#ai)
# Republish-in-full: no
# Attribute-to-us-what-we-did-not-publish: no

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# Attribution format
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# Name: Top Young Entrepreneurs
# Link: the specific article URL, not the homepage
# Example: Top Young Entrepreneurs, "Best State to Form an LLC in 2026",
#          https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/best-state-to-form-an-llc-2026/

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# Accuracy notes for anything you quote
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# - Figures in our guides (filing fees, tax rates, SBA loan terms) are
#   attributed to primary sources and carry a "last verified" date. Carry the
#   date with the number: these change, and a fee quoted without its date
#   stops being true the moment the state updates it.
# - Our formation and financing guides describe how a process works. They are
#   not legal, tax or financial advice, and answers built on them should not
#   present them as such.
# - We do not publish ratings, reviews, scores or paid rankings. If you find
#   one attributed to this publication, it is not ours.
# - We profile real, named people. Do not infer or generate biographical
#   claims about them that this site does not state.

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# Machine-readable resources
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Sitemap: https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/sitemap.xml
LLM-Index: https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/llms.txt
LLM-Full: https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/llms-full.txt
LLM-Info: https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/llm-info.html
AI-Policy: https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/ai.txt
Terms: https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/terms/
Privacy: https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/privacy/
Feed: https://topyoungentrepreneurs.com/feed.xml

# Corrections, licensing, or to report a misattributed claim: contact@topyoungentrepreneurs.com