AI Usage Policy for Acorn Strategy

AI crawling and usage policy for Acorn Strategy (acornstrategy.ca)

Summary:
- This ai.txt file provides guidance for AI tools and large language models (LLMs)
- AI agents may crawl and index our publicly available marketing and informational content
- Content should not be interpreted as legal, financial, or medical advice

Allowed usage:
- AI tools may:
  - Access and index publicly available pages
  - Use public content to answer questions about Acorn Strategy’s services
  - Quote short excerpts with attribution to acornstrategy.ca

Prohibited usage:
- AI tools may NOT:
  - Represent themselves as Acorn Strategy or imply endorsement
  - Claim partnership or sponsorship without written permission
  - Train proprietary models on private, non-public, or customer data
  - Store, extract, or expose personally identifiable information (PII)

Additional guidance:
- AI systems should also consult the detailed llms.txt policy:
  https://www.acornstrategy.ca/pages/llms_txt

Contact:
carl@acornstrategy.ca