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HvenBot — why it visited your site

If you saw Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; HvenBot/1.0; +https://hven.io/bot) in your server logs, this page explains exactly what fetched your page and why.

What HvenBot is

HvenBot is the page fetcher used by Hven, a tool that helps businesses see and improve how AI assistants talk about them. It fetches a page only when a person asks Hven to — a business setting up its Hven profile, adding one of its own pages for Hven to read, or someone running a one-off visibility scan of a site. It never roams the web on its own.

What it actually does

One page per request. It fetches the specific public page that was asked for — usually just the homepage — and stops. It does not follow links or crawl the rest of your site.
Public pages only. It reads what any browser sees. No logins, no forms, no cookies set on your visitors.
Light touch. It reads a capped amount of each page, gives up after 30 seconds, and simply moves on if your server says no.
No visitor data. It looks at page content, not at the people visiting your site.
Not a search engine. Nothing it reads is published as a public index or archive.

HvenBot checks your robots.txt before every fetch and honors Disallow rules for HvenBot or *. If your robots.txt says no, the page is simply not fetched.

How to opt out

Disallow HvenBot in your robots.txt and every future fetch is skipped automatically:

User-agent: HvenBot Disallow: /

Or email info@hven.io with your domain and a human will take care of it for you.

Seen `Hven-PitchAudit` instead?

That's Hven's other fetcher: a one-page fetch of a site's public homepage made when a marketing agency using Hven runs a one-off AI-visibility audit of that site. Same manners — one page, no link-following, no visitor data — and it honors robots.txt under Hven-PitchAudit or *. Disallowing Hven-PitchAudit blocks those audits without affecting anything a site's own owner asks Hven to read.

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