The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Portland, US

Portland in October 2026: which businesses can AI agents use?

765 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 713 of them could be read. 19% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 60% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 329 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.

765

sites scanned

19%

turn an AI crawler away

60%

book or order on their own domain

329

score A or B

The live index · November 2026 → · what changed · JSON · Markdown

Findings

How the sites stood at the end of October 2026

Grades
B203
C163
F156
A126
D117
Menu or price list
HTML page454
none205
PDF30
elsewhere21
image3
Direct booking or ordering
own site260
none206
vendor on own site169
third party42
marketplace36
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge142
Block one in robots.txt24
Unreachable from the scanner52

Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 713 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 765 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.

Assistants

Where assistants sent people in October 2026

For the top-ranked businesses, each assistant was asked, with web search on, for the website, where to book and where to order. Each business and question counts once, with the latest answer before the month ended.

AssistantOwn site or direct vendorMarketplaceDirectoryNowhere usefulAnswers
ChatGPT73%12%0%15%60
Gemini82%12%3%3%60

Asked the way people ask

AssistantOwn site or directMarketplaceDirectoryNo linkPlaces
ChatGPT78%0%0%22%74
Claude78%5%2%15%59
Gemini97%0%0%3%64
Method

How this page is made

Every business of this kind that has its own website gets the same scan, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page uses each site's latest scan from before the end of October 2026. A site fixed the month after shows up on the next month's page. A past month doesn't change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question from before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.