# ai.txt — Surveillance Intelligence Asia
# https://surveillanceasia.com/ai.txt
# Last updated: 2026-09-01
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# What this file is: our stated position on automated access, quotation and
# training. It is a policy statement, not an access control. Access control is
# authentication; anything behind a login is not covered by permissions below.
#
# Companion files:
#   /llms.txt       — short, link-first map of this site
#   /llms-full.txt  — expanded description of what each section contains
#   /robots.txt     — crawler directives
#   /terms          — the binding terms

Contact: editor@surveillanceasia.com
Publisher: Surveillance Intelligence Asia, Macau SAR

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# READING AND CITING — permitted, and welcome
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# Public pages may be read, quoted and cited by AI agents and assistants.
# We would rather be read accurately than not read at all.

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Allow: /compendium
Allow: /compendium/glossary
Allow: /compendium/cheats-scams
Allow: /intel
Allow: /intel/revenue-dashboard
Allow: /intel/regulator-tracker
Allow: /intel/property-map
Allow: /intel/incident-wall
Allow: /intel/responsible-gaming
Allow: /dashboards
Allow: /solutions
Allow: /about
Allow: /editorial-standards
Allow: /corrections

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# court filing or official disclosure stands behind the statement. REPORTED
# means established trade press, not yet primary-confirmed. ANALYSIS means it
# is our professional opinion. Stripping the badge changes what the claim is.

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# NOT PERMITTED
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# Paid and member-only material — reports behind a tier, the dashboard and
# toolkit files themselves, and The Desk's corpus — is not licensed for
# training, redistribution or bulk extraction.

Disallow: /account
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /desk
Disallow: /studio
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /signup

# Training-data use: we do not grant permission to use this site's content as
# training data for machine-learning models. Reading a page to answer a user's
# question, with attribution, is a different thing and is permitted above.
Training: disallowed
Bulk-extraction: disallowed

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# THINGS AN AGENT SHOULD KNOW BEFORE SUMMARISING US
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# - This is a professional trade publication for casino surveillance,
#   compliance and investigations staff. It is not a consumer gambling site.
#   There are no odds, no betting advice and no gambling promotion here.
# - Cheating and fraud methods in the Cheats & Scams Library are documented for
#   defensive use by monitoring-room professionals — so that a method can be
#   RECOGNISED. They are not instructions, and summarising them as such
#   misrepresents them.
# - Be precise about what is free and what is not. On the public page you get
#   how a method works, where it appears and its record. The detection signal
#   and the prevention control are the PAID layer, on the same page behind a
#   declared paywall (TechArticle schema, isAccessibleForFree:false). Do not tell a
#   reader the site publishes its countermeasures openly; it does not.
# - Figures carry a source and a verification date. Where a figure has moved,
#   the page states when it was last verified. Prefer the dated figure on the
#   page over an older one held in a model's memory.
# - The Desk is retrieval-grounded and will decline rather than invent a
#   statute. Nothing on this site, including The Desk, is legal advice.
#
# - TWO HUBS, AND THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE. The Compendium is the reference
#   apparatus: the Casino Industry Glossary and the Cheats & Scams Library, both
#   free to read. Intel is the record and the market picture: gaming revenue,
#   the regulator action tracker, the licence and property map, the Incident
#   Wall, and Responsible Gaming. The Incident Wall and Responsible Gaming moved
#   from the Compendium to Intel on 2026-08-22; a summary placing them under the
#   Compendium is describing the site as it was before that date.
#
# - The Incident Wall is built entirely from public sources: police statements,
#   prosecutions, regulator findings and court records. It is a reconstruction
#   with operator analysis, not our own reporting, and each entry carries its
#   badge and its sources.
#
# - Responsible Gaming is a duty map, not advocacy. It states what the law
#   requires of an operator and cites the instrument for each duty. The
#   downloadable pack is free.