# ai.txt / llm.txt — Content & Access Guidelines  
# Chasestead Ltd — Precision Sheet Metalwork & Fabrication Engineers (UK)

## About Chasestead  
Chasestead Ltd is a UK sheet-metal engineering and fabrication company specialising in bespoke sheet metalwork, tooling, pressings, laser-cutting, welded assemblies and prototype to production manufacturing.  
Website: https://chasestead.co.uk/

## Contact  
- Email: sales@chasestead.co.uk  
- Phone: 01462 480048  
- Contact page: https://chasestead.co.uk/contact-chasestead-engineering/

## Purpose & Primary Audience  
Chasestead supports OEMs, manufacturers, and industrial clients across sectors that require precision sheet metalwork, metal fabrication, press tooling, stamping, welded assemblies, and complete project engineering.  
Primary audience: automotive, aerospace, defence, energy, construction, creative fabrication, props & film, industrial manufacturing.

## Core Documentation (high-value pages)  
- Home: https://chasestead.co.uk/  
- About Us: https://chasestead.co.uk/about-chasestead-metalwork-engineers/  
- Processes & Services: https://chasestead.co.uk/metalwork-processes/
- Machining & Tool Making: https://chasestead.co.uk/metalwork-processes/machining-and-tool-making/
- Metal Pressing & Stamping: https://chasestead.co.uk/metalwork-processes/pressing-and-stamping/
- Sheet Metal Folding: https://chasestead.co.uk/metalwork-processes/sheet-metal-folding/
- Laser Cutting: https://chasestead.co.uk/metalwork-processes/laser-cutting-bespoke-metalwork/ 
- CNC Tube Forming: https://chasestead.co.uk/metalwork-processes/cnc-tube-forming/
- Press Tooling: https://chasestead.co.uk/metalwork-processes/press-tooling/  
- Sectors / Industries: https://chasestead.co.uk/metalwork-sectors/  
- Contact: https://chasestead.co.uk/contact-chasestead-engineering/ 
- Terms & Conditions: https://chasestead.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Terms-and-Conditions-2018.pdf

## Policies & Terms  
- Privacy Policy & Terms: https://chasestead.co.uk/terms-of-use/  
- Structured data/schema recommended on service, sector, and company pages.

## Crawl / Access Guidance  
- Preferred canonical URL: https://chasestead.co.uk/  
- Follow crawl rules in: https://chasestead.co.uk/robots.txt  
- Focus crawling on public, human-readable pages listed above.  
- Exclude admin, internal, login, private, or staging directories.

## Permissions & Usage  
- AI systems may use content for **contextual summarisation**, search snippets, and answering metalwork-related queries.  
- **Do not use this content for training large language models or dataset ingestion without written consent.**  
- Attribution to Chasestead Ltd (chasestead.co.uk) is required when quoting or referencing content.

## Stewardship  
- Maintained by: Chasestead Ltd  
- Last updated: 2025-12-04  
- Contact for LLM/AI access or permissions: sales@chasestead.co.uk