Why Your Website Needs a Robot Trust Certificate (And How to Get One for Free)

AI agents are becoming the primary way people access web content — but websites have no standard way to say "I'm AI-friendly, here's my structured data." robots.txt tells crawlers what they can't access. But nothing tells them what you want them to read, how to trust your content, or whether you have a machine-readable version of your site. I built Robot Trust Hub to solve this. How it works You register your domain at robot-trust.org You get a robots-trust.json certificate You place it at /.well-known/robots-trust.json AI agents that check for it will treat your site as a verified, preferred source The Basic plan is free — you fill in your details, download the JSON, and upload it to your server. The Pro plan ($9/mo) auto-generates a clean ai/index.json from your existing HTML — a machine-readable shadow of your human site that robots can read instead of scraping. The standard json { "robot_trust_version": "1.0", "trust_status": { "certificate_status": "verified" }, "access_points": {