Bot signals · AI crawler & agent

What is Cequence AI Gateway?

Cequence AI Gateway connects AI agents to enterprise applications. These requests come from the Cequence-hosted gateway when it connects to a customer’s systems.

risk.is_ai

Official documentation All AI crawlers & agents

01 · Profile

Cequence AI Gateway at a glance.

What to look for in your logs, and what the lookup API returns for its addresses.

Type: AI crawler & agent
API flag: risk.is_ai

A user agent alone never sets a flag. Anyone can claim to be Cequence AI Gateway; the flag follows the address the request comes from.

02 · In the response

What a match looks like.

A lookup of a Cequence AI Gateway address sets risk.is_ai. The flags come with geolocation and network data in the same response, for API keys on every paid plan.

The response says which kind of bot an address belongs to, not which operator. A request that claims to be Cequence AI Gateway while risk.is_ai is false should not be trusted as Cequence AI Gateway.

GET /api/lookup/{ip}?key=YOUR_API_KEY

{
  // … location and network fields …
  "risk": {
    "is_ai": true,
    "is_crawler": false,
    "is_scanner": false
  }
}

03 · Control

Allow or block Cequence AI Gateway.

Your options

robots.txt works only for crawlers that choose to follow it. Check the operator’s documentation for the token it reads.
Firewall, WAF or CDN. Many offer bot rules you can allow or deny by category. Use them to enforce what robots.txt only asks for.
In your app. Look up the client address and allow or deny on risk.is_ai, alongside the user agent.
Never on the user agent alone. Blocking the name stops only honest clients; allowing it lets anyone in who borrows it.