Waterloo: which businesses can AI agents use?

Ranked by Agent-Direct Score

If one of these is yours, open its page to rescan or claim it. 71 places you can book or order from directly →

What the index found in Waterloo

The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 144 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 149 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned. Another 19 have an address that no longer answers (dead domain, bad certificate or server down). They're counted with the businesses that have no website and left out of the ranking.

Where assistants send people in Waterloo

Of 44 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, 95% link a business's own site or its booking software and 16% link a marketplace, most often DoorDash. The five destinations linked most:

The full league table, assistant by assistant → · The places named, question by question

What assistants recommend in Waterloo

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order directly with each. For the places it recommended, the table shows how many came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, and how many came with no link at all.

Asked on 2026-10-22. A place in this index links to its report, and one with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. When a cell says "no link", the assistant named the place but didn't link to its site. Across the 22 questions, the assistants named 91 different places. This index has 347 businesses. Question by question →

Waterloo, month by month

Each month gets its own dated page, and its numbers are final once the month is over. The table shows the share of sites that turn AI crawlers away, the share that take bookings or orders on their own domain, and how many score A or B.

Waterloo, by kind

Each kind of business has its own index, and every index gets the same scan. This page is the restaurants and fast food index.

28 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.

Can an agent transact in Waterloo?

17 of 144 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through: UCP profile 15, Toast 3. Measured, not scored.

A rail is a UCP profile, an ACP discovery document, an MCP server card, or an ordering vendor that takes orders placed by assistants (Square and Toast, and any vendor whose terms allow agents). Counted from the latest scan of each site; older scans were not measured. Methodology · vendor terms for agents.