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title: Ask the index · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/ask
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 Ask the index · 10 questions a day per address

# Ask the index a question

An owner wants to know why an assistant sends people to a marketplace and not to the business; a journalist wants the Berlin vendors that pass the action test. Ask in plain words. The answer comes from the index's own data through the same tools agents use, and says which pages it read.

 Your question
Company

Ask Takes ten to thirty seconds.

Try: [Which Berlin restaurants on Wix still serve their menu as a PDF?](https://directindex.org/ask?q=Which%20Berlin%20restaurants%20on%20Wix%20still%20serve%20their%20menu%20as%20a%20PDF%3F) · [Where can I book a table directly in Porto tonight?](https://directindex.org/ask?q=Where%20can%20I%20book%20a%20table%20directly%20in%20Porto%20tonight%3F) · [Which booking vendors pass the action test most often?](https://directindex.org/ask?q=Which%20booking%20vendors%20pass%20the%20action%20test%20most%20often%3F) · [Why would an assistant send people to a marketplace instead of belcanto.pt?](https://directindex.org/ask?q=Why%20would%20an%20assistant%20send%20people%20to%20a%20marketplace%20instead%20of%20belcanto.pt%3F)

 How it works

## Our own tools, nothing else

The question goes to Claude with the index's MCP tools as its only source: the city leaderboards, the site reports, the places with a direct booking or ordering path, the vendors, the assistants' stored answers. At most four rounds of tool calls, no web search, and the answer must say when the data does not cover the question. The same tools are open to any agent at [/mcp](https://directindex.org/mcp); agents can ask here too: `POST /api/ask` with `{"question": "..."}`. 10 questions a day per address, 100 with an [API key](https://directindex.org/agency), and a daily cap for everyone. Identical questions are answered from a one-hour cache.

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#### Vendors and help

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#### For agents

[llms.txt](https://directindex.org/llms.txt)[llms-full.txt](https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt)[OpenAPI](https://directindex.org/openapi.json)[MCP server](https://directindex.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)[A2A agent](https://directindex.org/.well-known/agent-card.json)[Direct feeds](https://directindex.org/direct.json)

#### Data

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Business listings from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Scores under the same licence.

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