AccompanyBot User Agent: What It Is & How to Block It

01 · Operator

Who operates AccompanyBot

Company: Accompani, Inc.
Type: Other bot

02 · Behavior

What AccompanyBot does

Accompany provided people and company intelligence for executives. Its crawler likely gathered public company information for that service. Accompany's website states the company is now part of Cisco.

03 · Impact

Why AccompanyBot matters for your site

If you allow it

Low impact if it crawls rarely

If you block it

Service no longer operates independently
No direct benefit to site owners

04 · Allow

How to allow AccompanyBot

robots.txt

User-agent: AccompanyBot
Allow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "AccompanyBot")
Action:     Skip › All Super Bot Fight Mode rules

# Also check Security › Bots: "Block AI bots" can block it regardless of robots.txt.

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: AccompanyBot
Allow: /

nginx

# nginx serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure no rule like this blocks it:
# if ($http_user_agent ~* "AccompanyBot") { return 403; }

Apache

# Apache serves every user agent by default.
# Make sure .htaccess has no rule like this:
# RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AccompanyBot [NC]
# RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

05 · Block

How to block AccompanyBot

Start with robots.txt. If AccompanyBot keeps showing up in your logs, block it at your CDN or web server.

robots.txt

User-agent: AccompanyBot
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

# Security › WAF › Custom rules › Create rule
Expression: (http.user_agent contains "AccompanyBot")
Action:     Block

WordPress

# WordPress serves a virtual robots.txt. Edit it with your SEO plugin:
# Yoast: SEO › Tools › File editor · Rank Math: General Settings › Edit robots.txt
User-agent: AccompanyBot
Disallow: /

nginx

# In your server { } block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "AccompanyBot") {
    return 403;
}

Apache

# .htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AccompanyBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
</IfModule>

06 · User agents

User agents we see for AccompanyBot

The user agent published by the operator:

AccompanyBot

07 · Verification

Is it really AccompanyBot?

AccompanyBot’s operator publishes no IP ranges or hostnames, so requests cannot be verified. Treat the user agent as a claim, and watch your logs for unusual request rates.

FAQ

Questions about AccompanyBot

Is AccompanyBot still active?

Accompany is now part of Cisco, according to its website. Whether the crawler still runs is not documented.

Should I block AccompanyBot?

It brings no direct traffic. Block it with "User-agent: AccompanyBot" and "Disallow: /" if you see unwanted hits.

AccompanyBot was Accompani, Inc.’s other bot