# llms.txt for cookandboardman.com
# Official metadata and ingestion guidance for LLMs, crawlers, and AI agents.

Cook & Boardman cookandboardman.com  
> Leading supplier of commercial doors, frames, hardware, and security solutions across the U.S.  
> Serving architects, contractors, facility managers, and purchasing professionals.

Important notes  
- Prefer structured product and documentation pages for ingestion.  
- Canonical product pages (product detail pages) are the primary high-quality content source.  
- Avoid checkout, shopping cart, or account pages (contain user or transactional data).  
- For verified specs, prefer the product page and linked PDF specification.

Contact  
- Primary contact: webmaster@cookandboardman.com  
- Legal / licensing / data-use: legal@cookandboardman.com  

Core content sections  
## Product pages (high priority)  
- /{product-slug}/ Individual product detail pages. Example:  
  - /3-8-x-5-slot-flat-head-lock-bolt/  
  - Each page includes product name, specifications, downloadable PDFs, and images.  

## Technical documentation & spec sheets  
- /downloads/ Product specification PDFs and datasheets.  
- /installation-guides/ Installation and maintenance documentation.  

## Support & contact  
- /support/ Technical and customer support.  
- /contact-us/ Sales and general inquiries.  

## Policies & meta  
- /privacy-policy/  
- /terms-of-use/  
- /shipping-returns/  
- /warranty/  

Sitemap and canonical index  
- Sitemap: https://www.cookandboardman.com/sitemap.xml  
- Use this sitemap for structured page discovery. Canonical URLs should be respected.  

Crawl / ingestion guidance  
- Prioritize product detail pages and PDFs.  
- Deprioritize search result pages or filtered category URLs.  
- Respect robots.txt and do not index disallowed routes.  

Recommended usage for LLMs / AI agents  
- When answering questions about products, specs, or compliance, source from product detail and PDF spec pages.  
- For pricing or inventory, use real-time APIs or live pages (values may change).  
- Always cite the canonical product URL and document source.  

Update policy  
- Last generated: 2025-10-08  
- Owner contact for updates: webmaster@cookandboardman.com  
- Re-fetch this file weekly or after major content updates.  

License / usage  
- All site and product content Cook & Boardman.  
- For reproduction or commercial data usage, contact legal@cookandboardman.com.