For site owners
VerdyBot is Verdy's crawler. It runs the website audits people ask for, and it reads newly launched products for the software directory.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; VerdyBot/0.1; +https://verdy.site/bot)
When VerdyBot finds a product on its own, it only ever asks as VerdyBot. It never retries disguised as a browser, and it does not read a site whose robots.txt blocks it.
Public pages only: the homepage, and up to a dozen pages from your sitemap or links, such as pricing and docs. It also fetches robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt. Nothing behind a login, no forms, and nothing personal. From those pages it records what the product does, who it is for, pricing and similar facts, each kept with a short quote and a link back to the page it came from.
Add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: VerdyBot Disallow: /
VerdyBot stops reading your site, and if your site is in the directory it is removed the next time VerdyBot checks, normally within a day. This works on its own, with no need to contact anyone, because only the site's owner can change that file.
If you can't edit robots.txt, send a request. A person reviews it and replies by email; a request can't remove a listing on its own, so nobody can delist a site that isn't theirs.
Every fact in a listing is quoted from your own site. Say it clearly there and the next read picks it up. The score is explained on the methodology page.