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Flowpane is a site governance platform built for agencies managing multiple client websites. It observes governance artefacts on the public web, applies explicit scoring models, and surfaces findings, recommendations and reports from a single dashboard. Scores are Flowpane's product models, not legal-compliance certificates.

Quick start

New to Flowpane? Start here:

  1. Create your account — sign up and complete onboarding
  2. Add your first site — add and verify a client site
  3. Run your first check — see governance results
  4. Read your governance score — understand what the numbers mean

What Flowpane monitors

Flowpane assesses eight governance artefact types:

Artefact Purpose Specification
robots.txt Expresses crawler access preferences robotstxt.org
ads.txt Declares authorised digital ad sellers IAB Tech Lab
security.txt Security contact and disclosure policy RFC 9116
llms.txt Curates site context and resources for language models llmstxt.org
ai.txt Declares optional AI-use preferences in Flowpane's supported dialect Community convention; not an RFC or enforcement mechanism
humans.txt Credits the people behind the site humanstxt.org
Cookies & Consent Records bounded tracker and CMP discovery evidence Observation only; not legal-compliance proof
XML Sitemaps URL inventory for search engines sitemaps.org

Core concepts

Sites are the websites you monitor. Add them individually or in bulk, verify that you control them, and Flowpane starts checking.

Workspaces group Sites, typically one per client. Members and roles are set per Workspace. Workspaces belong to your Organisation, which holds the plan.

Governance checks fetch public evidence, run each artefact's assessor and store immutable Results under a Run. A score can be unavailable when usable evidence cannot be established.

The Site score is a weighted composite across the eight artefacts, shown everywhere a Site appears.

Workbenches are the detailed views. The six fixed text Workbenches separate observed Current content from Proposed drafts; Cookies & Consent is evidence-only; Sitemaps has its own scan, crawl, editor and deployment lifecycle.

Reports turn a Site's state into a PDF you can download or send to confirmed recipients.

Browse by topic

  • Getting Started

    Set up your account, add sites, and run your first governance checks.

    Getting started

  • Sites

    Adding, verifying, scheduling, reporting and settings for each Site.

    Sites

  • Governance Checks

    Detailed reference for every artefact type Flowpane monitors.

    Governance checks

  • Sitemaps & Crawl

    Scan sitemaps, crawl your sites, compare, and generate corrected XML.

    Sitemaps & Crawl

  • Workspaces & Team

    Organise clients into Workspaces, invite members, assign roles.

    Workspaces

  • Plans & Billing

    Compare plans, understand limits, and manage your subscription.

    Plans & Billing

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