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SB Intuitions Crawler

Operated by SB Intuitions

Quick Facts

User-Agent:
SBIntuitionsBot
Category:
AI & LLM Bots
Operator:
SB Intuitions
Safety:
Safe
Blocking Impact:
Low - No SEO ranking impact
SEO Impact Score:
2/10
Official docs:
www.sbintuitions.co.jp

Confirmed by the operator

SB Intuitions names SBIntuitionsBot on its own documentation page, linked above. The token, purpose and robots.txt behaviour on this profile come from that page, re-checked on October 19, 2026.

What is SB Intuitions Crawler?

SB Intuitions Crawler is an AI data-collection crawler operated by SB Intuitions. It gathers public web content to build or refine training datasets for large language models. Like other AI training crawlers, SB Intuitions Crawler does not influence your search-engine rankings, so you can block it via robots.txt without any SEO penalty if you wish to opt out of AI training.

SB Intuitions Crawler is an AI data-collection crawler operated by SB Intuitions. It gathers public web content to build or refine training datasets for large language models. Like other AI training crawlers, SB Intuitions Crawler does not influence your search-engine rankings, so you can block it via robots.txt without any SEO penalty if you wish to opt out of AI training.
SB Intuitions Crawler uses the user-agent token SBIntuitionsBot. You can control it via robots.txt, meta tags (noai), or the emerging llms.txt standard. Robots.txt is voluntary; for hard enforcement, combine it with server-level IP blocking.

What happens if you block SB Intuitions Crawler?

✅ No SEO Impact - Blocking SB Intuitions Crawler does not affect your rankings in Google, Bing, or any other search engine. SB Intuitions Crawler is an AI crawler, not a traditional search indexer. You can freely block it via User-agent / Disallow: / without any SEO penalty.
Generally safe to allow; provides legitimate crawling value.

Want to see whether SB Intuitions Crawler actually visits you? Read how do I monitor AI bot traffic to my website?

How to block SB Intuitions Crawler with robots.txt

<code>User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot</code> - Matching is case-insensitive. Robots.txt is fetched from the root of each subdomain separately.

Block completely (robots.txt)
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot Disallow: /
Allow all (robots.txt)
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot Allow: /
Block private only (robots.txt)
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /admin/ Allow: /
Nginx server block
# Nginx: Hard-block SB Intuitions Crawler if ($http_user_agent ~* "SBIntuitionsBot") { return 403 "Bot blocked"; }
Apache .htaccess
# Apache: Hard-block SB Intuitions Crawler SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "SBIntuitionsBot" bad_bot Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=bad_bot
Meta robots tag
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
X-Robots-Tag header
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow

Is SB Intuitions Crawler safe to allow?

Yes, SB Intuitions Crawler is a safe and legitimate crawler operated by SB Intuitions. It follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309) and can be controlled with standard robots.txt rules.
Verify by reverse-DNS lookup: legitimate SB Intuitions Crawler requests resolve to SB Intuitions's domain.

What does SB Intuitions Crawler do?

Understanding SB Intuitions Crawler's purpose helps you decide whether to allow or block it.

  • Collects public web content to train large language models
  • Builds and refreshes AI training datasets
  • Harvests text, code, and structured data for model improvement
  • Does NOT affect search-engine rankings
  • Can be blocked to opt out of AI training without SEO loss

SB Intuitions Crawler in context

SB Intuitions Crawler is a training crawler operated by SB Intuitions. In plain terms, it collects pages to train AI models. Our database files it under AI and LLM crawlers and ranks it Tier 2, important crawlers from established AI and search operators. 74 of the 104 AI and LLM crawlers in our database share this tier.

Its safety rating is safe and its blocking impact is low. So the decision about SB Intuitions Crawler rests on what you want from SB Intuitions, not on its behaviour. How we rate safety and impact.

How site owners treat SB Intuitions Crawler

Our robots.txt study of the Tranco top 10,000 did not track SBIntuitionsBot as a named token, so we do not publish an adoption figure for it. If you run a large site, your own logs are the best evidence of how often it visits.

Does it follow robots.txt?

SB Intuitions Crawler's operator does not clearly document how it treats robots.txt. Write the SB Intuitions Crawler rule anyway, then confirm in your logs that its requests stop.

SB Intuitions crawlers and close alternatives

SB Intuitions Crawler is one of 2 SB Intuitions crawlers in our database. A User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot group controls SB Intuitions Crawler only; the other SB Intuitions tokens below need their own lines.

  • SBIntuitionsBot: this crawler (Tier 2)
  • SBIntuitions-SearchBot: Sarashina Search, fetches a page when a person asks an assistant or app to open it (Tier 2)

To give SB Intuitions Crawler the same answer as its siblings, stack User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot with their lines above one set of rules; to treat SB Intuitions Crawler differently, give it its own group.

Other AI and LLM crawlers that do the same job (collects pages to train AI models) include ClaudeBot from Anthropic, Google-Extended from Google, GPTBot from OpenAI, Meta-ExternalAgent from Meta, AI2Bot from Allen Institute for AI, aiHitBot from aiHit. Deciding about SB Intuitions Crawler is usually a decision about the whole group, so check how your file treats these too.

We first recorded SBIntuitionsBot on March 17, 2026. SB Intuitions documents it on sbintuitions.co.jp, and we recheck that page before each release.

Which rule SB Intuitions Crawler actually follows

SB Intuitions Crawler reads exactly one group in robots.txt, the most specific one that names SBIntuitionsBot, and never combines rules across groups. This short file shows the trap:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /private/

User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /drafts/
  1. Find the group. SB Intuitions Crawler looks for a group naming SBIntuitionsBot. One exists, so it ignores User-agent: * completely.
  2. Apply only that group. It is refused /drafts/ and nothing else.
  3. The surprise. /private/ is open to SB Intuitions Crawler, because that rule lives in the * group it no longer reads. To keep it out of both, repeat Disallow: /private/ inside its own group.
Test yourself: does a rule under User-agent: * apply to SB Intuitions Crawler if the file also has a User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot group?

No. Once a group names it, SB Intuitions Crawler reads only that group. Put every rule you want it to follow inside its own group.

Test yourself: will blocking SB Intuitions Crawler remove your pages from AI answers?

No. SB Intuitions Crawler collects training data. Blocking it changes what future models learn, not which pages AI answers cite today.

Test yourself: is User-agent: sbintuitionsbot the same as User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot?

Yes. RFC 9309 makes user-agent matching case-insensitive. Paths are a different story: Disallow: /Blog/ does not block /blog/.

Should you allow SB Intuitions Crawler? Decide by situation

Recommended setting for SB Intuitions Crawler by type of site
If you are...Recommended setting
You publish content and want AI answers to cite itYour call. SB Intuitions Crawler is a training crawler, so blocking it does not remove you from AI answers; retrieval crawlers do that job.
You license content and want to stop AI trainingBlock it by name with User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot and Disallow: /.
You run an online shopAllow it unless your logs show it is costly.
Your server is under load from botsRate-limit before blocking. It is rated safe in our database.

Check SB Intuitions Crawler on your own site

  1. Open /robots.txt on your domain and search for SBIntuitionsBot. If it is not named, it follows User-agent: *.
  2. List the Disallow lines in the group SB Intuitions Crawler follows and test your key URLs against them; the longest match wins, and Allow wins a tie.
  3. Look beyond the file. A firewall or bot manager can refuse SB Intuitions Crawler even when robots.txt allows it, and that never shows in the file.
  4. Run our AI crawler tester to see how SB Intuitions Crawler and every other crawler we track are treated in one pass, including firewall refusals.

Common mistakes with SB Intuitions Crawler

The errors we see most often with SB Intuitions Crawler in the files and firewalls we test:

  1. Assuming that blocking SB Intuitions Crawler removes you from AI answers. It is a training crawler; AI answers are fed by retrieval and user-triggered crawlers with different tokens.
  2. Blocking SB Intuitions Crawler with a broad User-agent: * rule that also catches search engines. Name SBIntuitionsBot in its own group instead.
  3. Expecting a SB Intuitions Crawler block to remove content already collected. robots.txt only affects future visits.

All three hide inside a file that looks correct, so check SB Intuitions Crawler from outside after every change.

Spotting SB Intuitions Crawler in your logs

robots.txt says what SB Intuitions Crawler may do; your access logs show what it actually did.

Count requests

On a server with standard Nginx or Apache logs, this counts matching requests per day (adjust the log path for your host):

grep -iE "SBIntuitionsBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log \
  | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c

And this shows which paths it requested most, which is the quickest way to see whether your Disallow lines are being respected:

grep -iE "SBIntuitionsBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log \
  | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20

Check the requests are genuine

Anyone can send the SB Intuitions Crawler user-agent, so confirm the source before acting on a match:

  • SBIntuitionsBot: we hold no published IP list, so use reverse DNS where the operator documents a hostname and treat an unverifiable SB Intuitions Crawler request with caution.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the official user-agent string for SB Intuitions Crawler?
The official user-agent string for SB Intuitions Crawler is: SBIntuitionsBot. Use this exact string in robots.txt, Nginx, Apache, or Cloudflare firewall rules to target this bot. Matching in robots.txt is case-insensitive. Verify a request genuinely comes from SB Intuitions Crawler by performing a reverse-DNS lookup on the source IP.
Is SB Intuitions Crawler safe?
Yes, SB Intuitions Crawler is a safe and legitimate crawler operated by SB Intuitions. It follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309) and can be controlled with standard robots.txt rules.
Will blocking SB Intuitions Crawler hurt my SEO?
✅ No SEO Impact - Blocking SB Intuitions Crawler does not affect your rankings in Google, Bing, or any other search engine. SB Intuitions Crawler is an AI crawler, not a traditional search indexer. You can freely block it via User-agent / Disallow: / without any SEO penalty.
How do I block SB Intuitions Crawler in robots.txt?
Add the following lines to your /robots.txt file:
User-agent: SBIntuitionsBot
Disallow: /

This instructs SB Intuitions Crawler not to crawl any path on your site. To block only specific sections, replace / with the path (e.g., Disallow: /blog/).
Does SB Intuitions Crawler respect robots.txt?
SB Intuitions Crawler is operated by SB Intuitions and is expected to fetch and parse /robots.txt before crawling, following RFC 9309. For hard enforcement, combine robots.txt with server-level IP or user-agent blocking.
How do I verify if SB Intuitions Crawler is crawling my site?
Search your web server access logs for the string SBIntuitionsBot (case-insensitive: grep -i "SBIntuitionsBot" /var/log/nginx/access.log). Filter by user-agent in your log analytics tool (GoAccess, AWStats, etc.).

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