--- title: Helsinki in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? · The Direct Index url: https://directindex.org/city/helsinki/2026-10 --- [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 · Helsinki, FI # Helsinki in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents? 943 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 746 reachable. 21% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 29% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 163 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly. 943 sites scanned 21% turn an AI crawler away 29% book or order on their own domain 163 score A or B For October 2026 so far, 943 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned, with 746 reachable and 197 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at the overall grades, 51 sites received an A, 112 received a B, 218 received a C, 222 received a D, and 340 received an F, meaning A or B together totaled 163, which is 17% of the scanned sites. Among the reachable sites, 155, which is 21% of the reachable sites, turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, while 17 sites block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Regarding direct options, 219 sites, which is 29% of the reachable sites, take a booking or an order on their own domain, while 41 offer booking or ordering only through a marketplace and 462 have 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. [The live index](https://directindex.org/city/helsinki) · [what changed](https://directindex.org/city/helsinki/changes) · [JSON](https://directindex.org/city/helsinki/2026-10?format=json) · [Markdown](https://directindex.org/city/helsinki/2026-10?format=md) Findings ## The state of the sites at the end of October 2026 Grades | F | 340 | | D | 222 | | C | 218 | | B | 112 | | A | 51 | Menu or price list | HTML page | 359 | | none | 282 | | on the page | 40 | | elsewhere | 35 | | PDF | 29 | | image | 1 | Direct booking or ordering | none | 462 | | own site | 118 | | vendor on own site | 101 | | marketplace | 41 | | third party | 24 | AI crawlers | Turn at least one away at the edge | 155 | | Block one in robots.txt | 17 | | Unreachable from our scanner | 197 | Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 746 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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