--- title: Boston in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/boston/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 · Boston, US # Boston in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 930 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 665 reachable. 35% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 66% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 341 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 930 sites scanned 35% turn an AI crawler away 66% book or order on their own domain 341 score A or B For October 2026 so far, 930 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 665 reachable and 265 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at site grades, 142 received an A, 199 earned a B, 145 got a C, 95 received a D, and 349 received an F, meaning A or B together account for 341 sites, which is 37% of the scanned sites. For menus and price lists, 417 are presented as an HTML page, 28 exist as a PDF, 2 appear as an image, 33 sit on another site, and 185 sites have no menu or price list. Among reachable sites, 438 sites take a booking or an order on their own domain, which is 66% of the reachable sites, while 233 turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, representing 35% of the reachable sites, and 18 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. 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. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/boston) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/boston/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/boston/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/boston/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 349 | | B | 199 | | C | 145 | | A | 142 | | D | 95 | Menu or price list | HTML page | 417 | | none | 185 | | elsewhere | 33 | | PDF | 28 | | image | 2 | Direct booking or ordering | own site | 285 | | none | 159 | | vendor on own site | 153 | | third party | 46 | | marketplace | 22 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 233 | | Block one in robots.txt | 18 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 265 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 665 reachable sites. 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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