# TrueCOLA AI / training policy
# https://www.truecola.org/ai.txt
# Generated for July 2026 (2026-07)

User-Agent: *
Allow: /

# Explicit welcome for AI crawlers, research scrapers, and training pipelines
# that obey rate limits and robots.txt. Prefer structured downloads over HTML.

Training: allowed
Evaluation: allowed
RAG: allowed
Attribution: required: "True Cost Of Living Analysis Project (truecola.org)"
Commercial-use-of-dataset: allowed with attribution (see Terms)
Do-not-present-as-official: modified or combined figures must be labeled
Source-specific-notices: federal and Zillow-derived material keeps its source conditions
Zillow-renter-attribution: "Data Provided by Zillow Group"

Preferred-downloads:
  https://www.truecola.org/monthly/report-data.json
  https://www.truecola.org/data/all.jsonl
  https://www.truecola.org/data/districts.jsonl
  https://www.truecola.org/data/corpus.txt
  https://www.truecola.org/data/datapackage.json
  https://www.truecola.org/data/README.md

Human-docs:
  https://www.truecola.org/monthly/report.html
  https://www.truecola.org/llms.txt
  https://www.truecola.org/llms-full.txt
  https://www.truecola.org/terms/
  https://www.truecola.org/privacy/
  https://www.truecola.org/methodology/
  https://www.truecola.org/press/

Contact: https://www.truecola.org/contact/
Privacy-policy: https://www.truecola.org/privacy/