The Direct Index
An independent index of business websites

Can AI agents see your website?

AI assistants are starting to do things for people, like booking a table or finding a clinic. They use whatever site they can read and act on. The scanner checks whether your own website is one of them, and tells you what to fix if it isn't.

It's free, there's no sign-up and it takes under a minute. The scanner visits your site once and never submits a form or places an order.

No marketplace money Public method and open data No paid rankings Level 5 on Cloudflare's agent checker
pokesunrisetorino.it · fetched as ClaudeBot2026-10-21 · 1,359 chars
Home - Pokesunrise Torinotitle · 1,359 chars readable
Pokesunrise Torino · FastFoodRestaurantstructured data · readable
0112079958phone on the page · address not structured
opening hoursstructured
Menu: menu-POKE-2026.pdfmenu · PDF, most agents skip it
Order: gloriafoodordering · vendor, direct
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot: let incrawlers · let in
llms.txtnot found

Today's example is Poké Sunrise in Turin, as the crawler read it.

Latest from the index

688,862 business websites scanned so far, counted in each index that lists them. New scans run every hour and appear here as they finish.

On the menu · measured 18 and 20 October 2026

What things cost on the menu in 13 cities

  • An espresso costs €2.00 in Lyon and €3.25 in Amsterdam, the middle price of 88 and 77 menus.
  • In Lyon a two-course lunch costs €19.50 on the middle menu of 54, and a lunch of one course €15.00.
  • The middle main course is highest in Antwerp, €25.88, and lowest in Berlin, €16.50.

All 13 cities

What the scan checks

One score, four parts

The Agent-Direct Score goes from 0 to 100. Each part is something an agent needs to know before it can send someone to you.

Reachable · 25

Can an agent get in?

Your robots.txt and hosting firewall let AI crawlers in, and the page shows real text without JavaScript.

Readable · 25

Does it understand you?

Structured data with your address, phone and hours, and a menu or price list written as text instead of a PDF or a photo.

Actionable · 30

Can it book or order?

A way to book or order on your own site, not only on a marketplace.

Cited · 20

Do assistants send people to you?

When people ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini about you, the answer points to your site and not to a marketplace.

Every report also gives a readiness level from 0 to 5, based on Cloudflare's agent standards, with a how-to for each missing item. How it's all measured.

City indexes

Every business in a city, scanned the same way

A city index takes every business of one kind that has its own website, from OpenStreetMap, and runs the same scan on each. The results are published as open data. Each kind of business has its own index: restaurants and fast food, cafes and bars, salons, clinics, and tours and museums.

183 cities in 57 countries, 912 indexes and 688,862 business websites scanned so far, counted in each index that lists them. Find yours below.

Every city, A to Z

All cities, with the numbers Request your city

Explore

More ways into the numbers

Rankings

Cities ranked for each kind of business by direct share, crawler access and A or B grades, with sample sizes and dates.

What assistants recommend

Where ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini send people in each city, question by question, and which marketplaces they favour.

Compare two cities

Two cities side by side: grades, menus, booking paths, builders, vendors and what the assistants say. You can also compare by country.

What changed

Sites that fixed something, started blocking crawlers or added a direct path, week by week for each city, also as a feed.

Search the index

Find any business by name or domain, and filter by city, kind, grade, builder, vendor or what's wrong.

Open data

Monthly CSV and JSON files for each index and for the whole index, under the ODbL, plus the quarterly edition.

Why direct

Direct is better for everyone

Owners keep the customer

A booking or order on your own site pays no commission, and the customer stays in touch with you.

Customers reach the real place

They see the actual availability, menu and prices from the business itself, instead of a copy on another site.

Agents get a straight answer

If an agent can read your site and book on it, that's the shortest route, and agents take the shortest route that works.

TODAY Customer's agent Marketplacekeeps the customer Business pays a commission DIRECT Customer's agent Your own site keeps the customer

Marketplaces are fine if you choose them. The point is that people can find you without one too. Why this exists.

Who is behind it

One engineer, no marketplace money

Who pays

Antonio Curado, an engineer, builds it and pays for it. No money comes from marketplaces, and no placement is for sale.

Public method

The methodology is public and versioned. Every index is published as open data, in JSON and Markdown.

Open to correction

Provisional scores say so. Every business page has a free rescan and a way to dispute a check.

It passes its own test

This site publishes the agent standards it checks for, and its crawler signs every request. Cloudflare's independent checker rates it Level 5.

About and principles Why direct

Email updates

Get an email when your city's index is out

You'll get one email when your city's index is out and one when the scanner adds assistant citations. That's all.