The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · San Francisco, US

San Francisco in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

1,224 restaurant and fast food websites scanned, 825 reachable. 40% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 67% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 445 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

1,224

sites scanned

40%

turn an AI crawler away

67%

book or order on their own domain

445

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F520
B264
A181
C170
D89
Menu or price list
HTML page525
none231
elsewhere37
PDF27
image5
Direct booking or ordering
own site340
vendor on own site209
none202
third party54
marketplace20
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge332
Block one in robots.txt19
Unreachable from our scanner399

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 825 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. Methodology · the live index · all cities.