The Direct Index
Report · Chicago · scanned 2026-10-16

About Last Knife

arlohotels.com is ready for agents.

An AI assistant can open the website of About Last Knife. What About Last Knife offers is in a PDF or an image, which assistants read poorly. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Book directly: book.arlohotels.com/signin?_ga=2.236652993.1963422896.165151 on the business's own site · Menu: arlohotels.com/chicago-downtown-hotel/wp-content/uploads/sit

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95.4%

62 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then): fixed The site could not be read at all. new Menu was a PDF; Ordering only through a marketplace; No llms.txt.

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

Where it stands

How About Last Knife compares

Where it stands

38 of 1,514 in Chicago

Top 3% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Mama Delia A, NADC Burger A. Just below: Auntie Anne's A, Chick-fil-A A.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML97%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours51%yes
Have an llms.txt19%no

The top tenth is the 152 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 38,935 sites59%31%95.4%
Sites using Uber Eats 731 sites62%33%95.4%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Miss Ricky’s148 mFyes
Wildberry Pancakes and Cafe breakfast168 mByes
Perilla Steakhouse korean193 mAyes
Emerald Loop201 mByes
Blackwood BBQ - Illinois Center barbecue242 mAyes
Chick-fil-A chicken249 mAyes
Remington’s steak_house, american269 mByes
State and Lake Chicago Tavern american274 mByes
Egg Tuck sandwich, korean, breakfast277 mByes
Oasis Cafe mediterranean288 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like About Last Knife in Chicago

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Chicago1,51453%40%95.4%
Sites built with WordPress in Chicago32870%51%95.4%
Sites using Uber Eats in Chicago673%50%95.4%
Sites built with WordPress and using Uber Eats in Chicago282%50%95.4%

The best of the sites using Uber Eats in Chicago

Sabor A Café Niles - Steakhouse & Live Music Venue A 95.4% · Daebak Korean BBQ B 72.3% · Steak 'n Shake C 67.7% · Greek Corner Gyros D 53.8% · Charlie's Restaurant D 52.3%

The climb

With the fix above (Menu or price list is a PDF) the score would be about 100%: first of 1,514 in Chicago.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  2. Ordering only through ubereats no points, still worth doing

    Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Chicago. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · booking page /signin?_ga=2.236652993.1963422896.1651511753-665874319.1647365388&: answered 200

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

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llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# About Last Knife

> restaurant in North Michigan Avenue 168 60601 Chicago, Chicago. Phone +1-312-392-2440.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://book.arlohotels.com/signin?_ga=2.236652993.1963422896.1651511753-665874319.1647365388&_gac=1.228139631.1649866334.CjwKCAjw6dmSBhBkEiwA_W-EoB96Y6-4XfkKhe5hr09lPmDTcMU02RcCfDm39GGrvb9JRV56bbVZoBoCKWEQAvD_BwE&adult=1&arrive=2026-10-15&chain=19470&child=0&currency=USD&depart=2026-10-15&hotel=41351&level=hotel&locale=en-US&rooms=1 (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://arlohotels.com/chicago-downtown-hotel/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2026/04/ALK-Breakfast-Menu-4.24.26.pdf

## About

- Website: https://alkchicago.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score A

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/arlohotels.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/arlohotels.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score A" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for About Last Knife

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/arlohotels.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/chicago/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookbook.arlohotels.com/signin?_ga=2.236652993.1963422896.165151 own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuarlohotels.com/chicago-downtown-hotel/wp-content/uploads/sit pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1-312-392-2440

Stable links that count: /go/arlohotels.com/book, /go/arlohotels.com/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile
/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol
no
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
no
MCP server card
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
no
Ordering vendor that takes agent orders
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes