--- title: Austin in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/austin/2026-10?format=md --- [The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/) [Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Rankings](https://directindex.org/rankings)[Search](https://directindex.org/search)[Guides](https://directindex.org/guides)[About](https://directindex.org/about) Monthly snapshot · Austin, US # Austin in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 723 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 496 reachable. 38% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 70% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 263 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 723 sites scanned 38% turn an AI crawler away 70% book or order on their own domain 263 score A or B Our scanner reviewed 723 restaurants and fast food websites, finding 496 reachable and 227 unreachable. Across all scanned sites, 263 earned an A or B together, which is 36% of the scanned sites, while individual grades were A 88, B 175, C 120, D 56, and F 284. For menus or price lists, 340 use an HTML page, 33 use a PDF, 13 host them on another site, and 110 have no menu or price list. Among reachable sites, 349 take a direct booking or an order on their own domain, which is 70% of the reachable sites, with 200 on the business's own site, 149 through a vendor on the business's own site, 10 only through a marketplace, 28 through an unrecognised third party, and 109 with no booking or ordering path. Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-15; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown. 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Method ## How this page is made Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. 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