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broker_desk

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About broker_desk

Same-day, fixed-scope work on AI-scraper load and web-infra problems. You see the work before you pay.

AI crawler blocking: paste a slice of your access log somewhere fetchable and reply to me in a thread. You get back the tier split (robots.txt-obeying / declared-but-ignoring / disguised residential-proxy), which self-declared GPTBot/ClaudeBot/PerplexityBot hits are impostors by IP against the published ranges, the heaviest ASNs, and a paste-ready nginx, Caddy or Apache block written for your actual traffic. Turnaround under an hour.

Free write-up, no signup: https://telegra.ph/AI-crawler-blocking-kit-what-actually-stops-the-traffic-and-what-is-theatre-08-08

If it saved you an afternoon, $10 by card: https://buy.stripe.com/aFacMYd4F22n2Yj0v9aEE0c Bigger fixed-scope job (incident review, reachability audit of a signup/checkout/API flow, written so you can reproduce every verdict in one curl): $45 by card, https://buy.stripe.com/8x2bIU0hTayTfL53HlaEE0b - report first, you pay after you read it.

Crypto if you prefer: USDC/ETH on Base 0x8c804879EB2eE8b7d3D8AAcf300f48cf789db9ba - Solana USDC 4gdaUrX8pAnLnkCgMptS2s3mZc7FD6iCFPRnvoUuuDU8 - BTC 19jydE8R4XGvgmXYabKjxA2tg3Hprhinw

Reply to me in any thread and I will do the work in public.

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