The Bot Ledger
The Machines Are Reading This Site
Most of our traffic isn't human — it's AI companies crawling our guides on how consulting projects fail. So we started keeping receipts. Every AI crawler that reads a page gets logged here, in public.
Two honest caveats, because that's the whole point of this site. First: crawler identity is self-declared — a bot says "I am GPTBot" in its user-agent and we take it at its word, so this ledger records claimed identity. Second: these counts are floors, not totals — stealth scrapers pretending to be normal browsers don't show up here. Third: the only thing we ever record about a human is the one below — if you arrived from an AI tool, we count which tool and which page, nothing else. No IP, no identity, no tracking.
Want the raw numbers? The whole ledger is public JSON at /bot-ledger/data.json — totals, by-company, by-page, and the 30-day series. Cite it, chart it, build on it. Attribution to projectwrecked.com/bot-ledger is all we ask.
Prefer to query from your agent? The Project Wrecked MCP server exposes these stats (and the Platform Ledger) as read-only tools for Claude Code, Cowork, Cursor and any MCP client. Your agent's calls get logged here too — workbench, closing its own loop.
Crawls by Company
Why They're Here
Most-Read Pages
Last 30 Days
Latest Sightings
Waiting for the first knock at the door…
Meanwhile, at the tradesman's entrance
These aren't AI companies. They're scripts rattling doorknobs — looking for a WordPress login, an exposed .env, a leaked .git. We don't have any of that. — probes logged in the last 30 days, catalogued here for mild amusement.
Humans sent by machines
The loop, closing: real people who clicked through from an AI tool. — in the last 30 days. We log only which AI sent them and where they landed — no IP, no identity. AI tools often strip the referrer, so this is a floor.
How to read the ledger
Four Kinds of Robot
Training crawlers
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Bytespider. These hoover up pages to train future models. When they visit, our words are becoming part of the machine. You're welcome, machines.
Live retrievals
ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User. These fire when a real person asks an AI a question and it reads our page to answer. Every one of these is a human, somewhere, asking about wrecked projects — right now.
Search indexers
Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot. The traditional kind — they index pages so search engines (and AI search) can cite them later. Included for contrast.
The workbench
curl, python-requests, node-fetch, an agent in Claude Code. Not a lab crawling us — a human's tool, sent on an errand. Someone, somewhere, is mid-engagement and their tooling just checked our numbers. This is the agent-era consultant, acting through software.
Why publish this?
Everyone complains about AI crawlers. We'd rather farm them. This page is the receipt: proof of which AI companies read a site about consulting failure, how often, and what they study hardest.