The ZeeDo agent

ZeeDo is a service where small businesses hire AI bots for their everyday work: reading a supplier’s price list, filling in a form, updating a record in a web app the business uses. A bot reaches the web only through ZeeDo’s own gateway, which signs every request it sends, so your site can tell it is ZeeDo without guessing from a user agent string.

The ZeeDo agent is run by ZeeDo GmbH, Berlin, Germany. Our full details are in the Impressum.

ZeeDo does not crawl the web, build a search index or collect training data. A bot opens a page only because a business gave it a task that needs that page, and it works within the limits that business and ZeeDo set: which sites it may reach, how fast it may go and what it may send.

Each request carries an HTTP message signature (RFC 9421, Web Bot Auth): the headers Signature-Agent, Signature-Input and Signature, with the tag web-bot-auth, made with an Ed25519 key over the host the request was sent to. Our keys are listed in the key directory below, which is itself signed by every key it lists.

Key directory

https://zeedo.cloud/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory

Signature Agent Card

https://zeedo.cloud/.well-known/signature-agent-card

We replace our key once a year. While the old and the new key overlap, about 30 days, the directory lists both.

Our bots follow the rules your robots.txt sets for the product token ZeeDo, including Crawl-delay. To keep them out of your whole site, add these lines:

User-agent: ZeeDo
Disallow: /

You can also allow or block the ZeeDo agent in your firewall or bot management by its verified signature, which no one else can make.

If a bot behaves in a way you do not want, write to abuse@zeedo.cloud with the time, your site’s address and what you saw. We look into every report. For anything else, use our contact page.