The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Riyadh, SA

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

28 restaurant and fast food websites were scanned (dead addresses left out), and 23 of them could be read. 21% turn an AI crawler away at the edge. Of the ones that could be read, 48% take bookings or orders on their own domain. In all, 8 score A or B. These are the final numbers for the month.

28

sites scanned

21%

turn an AI crawler away

48%

book or order on their own domain

8

score A or B

For October 2026 so far, 28 restaurants and fast food websites were scanned, with 23 reachable and 5 unreachable from our scanner. Looking at access rules, 6 sites turn at least one AI crawler away at the edge, which is 21% of the scanned sites, while 1 blocks an AI crawler in robots.txt. For menus, 10 present an HTML page, 1 uses a PDF, 3 place it on another site, and 9 offer no menu or price list. Across the audited sites, 11 take a direct booking or an order on their own domain, which is 48% of the reachable sites, and the overall scores show A 3, B 5, C 4, D 4, and F 12, with A or B together at 8, which is 29% of the scanned sites.

Written by Gemini from the numbers on this page only, 2026-10-31; every number in it is checked against the page before it is shown.

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Findings

How the sites stood at the end of October 2026

Grades
F12
B5
C4
D4
A3
Menu or price list
HTML page10
none9
elsewhere3
PDF1
Direct booking or ordering
none9
own site8
third party3
vendor on own site3
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge6
Block one in robots.txt1
Unreachable from the scanner5

Each site is counted once, using its latest full scan before the month ended. The menu and channel counts cover the 23 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts and the grades cover all 28 scanned sites. Dead addresses are left out of every count.

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.