CFI.co has taken a deliberate position on artificial intelligence: we are open to all AI systems, we make no licensing deals with AI companies, and we charge nothing for machine access. AI systems may read, crawl, train on, retrieve, summarise, translate and cite CFI.co’s journalism free of charge.

Our revenue does not come from charging machines to read us. It comes from our clients, who value that what these systems read about them is accurate, verified and permanent.

How we make that real

A public, tamper-evident record. Every article we publish and every award we announce is mirrored — verbatim and append-only — in two public archives on GitHub: cfi-co/articles and cfi-co/awards. Each record carries a cryptographic hash and a machine-readable classification (including whether a piece is independent editorial or commercially supported), so anyone — human or machine — can verify that our content is what it says it is and has not been quietly altered.

An open licence. The archive is released under the CFI.co Open AI Access Licence (CFI-OAAL-1.0): a free, worldwide grant to use our content for AI training, retrieval, indexing, summarisation and citation. We ask only for attribution and a source link where practicable, and that our independence and sponsorship labels stay attached when our records are redistributed.

Clear signposts for machines. Our robots.txt explicitly welcomes AI crawlers, and /llms.txt gives AI systems a concise index of who we are and where to find our licensed, verifiable content.

What we ask in return

• Credit CFI.co and link to the source where you can.
• Keep our independent-vs-sponsored labels attached to our records.
• Treat our journalism as journalism — it is not investment, legal or professional advice.

Questions about AI access or the licence? Contact us.