Why Brave Leo Matters for Developer Relations
Developers ask Brave Leo how to do things before they open your docs, and it answers from Brave Search's own independent index of over 30 billion pages. If your documentation is not reachable or not quotable, Brave Leo explains a competitor's API instead. For DevRel, that makes docs access and structure part of adoption, not just support.
The Brave Leo Mistake to Avoid
Looking for a Brave user agent in your logs, or blocking Googlebot for unrelated reasons. Brave's crawler has no separate user agent and follows your Googlebot rules, so a Googlebot block also keeps you out of Brave Search and Leo.
Action Items for Developer Relations
Apply the same rule to your docs subdomain: Don't block Googlebot in robots.txt (Brave's crawler follows your Googlebot rules)
Ask Brave Leo how to do your top five tasks and check the code it returns
Give each task page a short, correct code example near the top
Keep versioned docs clear about which version is current
Report recurring wrong answers from Brave Leo to the docs team
What Developer Relations Should Track in Brave Leo
Accuracy of Brave Leo's answers for your top tasks
Docs pages Brave Leo cites or quotes
Outdated API versions Brave Leo still suggests
Developer sign-ups referred from Brave Leo
Frequently Asked Questions
How can DevRel get Brave Leo to reference our docs?
Make the docs reachable, then make each task page answer one task with a correct example near the top. Brave Leo can only quote what reaches it through Brave Search's own independent index of over 30 billion pages.
Why does Brave Leo suggest an old version of our API?
Older docs, blog posts or forum answers are still public and compete with current pages. Label the current version clearly, redirect or mark retired pages, and put the current example first.
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