---
title: The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/
---

[The Direct Index](https://directindex.org/)
[Scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[Cities](https://directindex.org/cities)[Why](https://directindex.org/why)[Method](https://directindex.org/methodology)[About](https://directindex.org/about)

 For any business, anywhere

# Can AI agents reach you directly?

Assistants are becoming how people find and book things. When one books a table or orders dinner, it takes whatever path works, and today that usually means a marketplace: not because you chose it, but because most business websites are invisible to agents. See where yours stands in under a minute.

 Scan my site

Free, no sign-up. Nine requests to your site, once. We never submit forms or place orders.

 Independent, no marketplace money Open methodology and data No pay-to-rank, ever Agent-Native: Level 5 on Cloudflare's checker

 Why direct

## Direct is better for everyone

### Owners keep the customer

And the margin. A booking or order on your own site carries no commission and the relationship stays yours.

### Customers reach the real place

Real availability, the real menu, the real price. Not a copy on someone else's page.

### Agents get a straight answer

A site an agent can read and act on is the shortest path. Agents prefer the shortest path.

Marketplaces are fine when you choose them. This is about making sure you can also be found without one. [Why we built this](https://directindex.org/why).

 What we measure

## The Agent-Direct Score, 0 to 100

25

### Reachable

Do robots.txt and the server let AI crawlers in? Is there text without JavaScript?

25

### Readable

Structured data for the business, hours, address and phone, and a menu or price list an agent can parse.

30

### Actionable

Can an agent reach the booking or ordering step on your own site, not a marketplace?

20

### Cited

When people ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity about you, do they get your site or a marketplace?

Plus a readiness level on Cloudflare's agent standards, and plain-language fixes for whatever is missing. [The full method](https://directindex.org/methodology).

 How it works

## City by city, any city, open data

### 1. Every business, the same scan

Every business of a kind in a city with its own website, from OpenStreetMap, gets the same nine-request scan.

### 2. Ask the assistants

Four assistants are asked for the website, how to order and how to book, and we record where they send people.

### 3. Try it, carefully

A browser agent attempts to book and to order on a sample of sites and stops before anything is submitted.

### 4. Publish, with a right of reply

A leaderboard, the dataset and the method, with a free rescan and a dispute form on every business page.

Cities [Lisbon](https://directindex.org/city/lisbon) · [Request your city](https://directindex.org/cities)

 Who is behind it

## Built in Lisbon, independent by design

The Direct Index is built by Antonio Curado, an engineer in Lisbon. It takes no money from marketplaces, never sells placement, and publishes its methodology and its data. Our own site passes every agent standard it checks for.

[About and principles](https://directindex.org/about) [Why direct](https://directindex.org/why)

 Stay in the loop

## Get the index for your city when it is published

 Email Your business's website (optional, we scan it first)
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One email when your city's index is out, one when the scanner adds assistant citations. Nothing else.

#### The Direct Index

[Why direct](https://directindex.org/why)[About and principles](https://directindex.org/about)[Methodology](https://directindex.org/methodology)[Privacy](https://directindex.org/privacy)

#### Use it

[Free scanner](https://directindex.org/scan)[City indexes](https://directindex.org/cities)[Common fixes](https://directindex.org/fix)[What agent-direct means](https://directindex.org/agent-direct)

#### For agents

[llms.txt](https://directindex.org/llms.txt)[llms-full.txt](https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt)[OpenAPI](https://directindex.org/openapi.json)[MCP server](https://directindex.org/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)[A2A agent](https://directindex.org/.well-known/agent-card.json)

#### Data

[Sitemap](https://directindex.org/sitemap.xml)[City data, JSON](https://directindex.org/api/city/lisbon)

Business data from OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Built in Lisbon.

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