# Bateau Bus: Agent-Direct Score C (64.6%)

Site: https://www.batobus.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/batobus.com
Scanned: 2026-10-20 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Bateau Bus is partly visible to agents.
An AI assistant can open Bateau Bus's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Phone: +33 (0)1 76 64 79 12
- Address: Square Federico García Lorca, Voie Georges Pompidou, 75004, Paris
- Prices: 9 prices on the site, the middle one €27.00
- Languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Bateau Bus that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Mémorial de la Shoah (220 m): https://directindex.org/r/memorialdelashoah.org
- Bike About Tours (220 m): https://directindex.org/r/bikeabouttours.com
- Memories France (260 m): https://directindex.org/r/memories-france.travel
- Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris (310 m): https://directindex.org/r/notredamedeparis.fr
- Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (340 m): https://directindex.org/r/wikipedia.org

## What to fix first
- **No ticket link on the website.** (+13 points) There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a ticket or booking page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No tickets and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what does it cost and when?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with tickets, times and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, but worth doing) Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **9 prices on the landing page, the middle one €27.00.** In Paris, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is €348.

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# Bateau Bus

> local business in Square Federico García Lorca, Voie Georges Pompidou, 75004, Paris, Paris tours, attractions and museums. Phone +33 (0)1 76 64 79 12.

## About

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

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
- **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** address, phone, opening hours

## Where it stands
194 of 932 in Paris tours, attractions and museums. Top 21% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 51% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 5% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 29% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Champagne Tasting on a Seine River Cruise (C, 214 m, https://directindex.org/r/marina-de-paris.com); Mémorial de la Shoah (C, 216 m, https://directindex.org/r/memorialdelashoah.org); Bike About Tours (B, 224 m, https://directindex.org/r/bikeabouttours.com); Memories France (B, 263 m, https://directindex.org/r/memories-france.travel); Shanti Travel (D, 291 m, https://directindex.org/r/shantitravel.com); Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris (D, 313 m, https://directindex.org/r/notredamedeparis.fr); Fondation Azzedine Alaïa (D, 337 m, https://directindex.org/r/fondationazzedinealaia.org); Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (B, 342 m, https://directindex.org/r/wikipedia.org); Quai Montebello (C, 405 m, https://directindex.org/r/haut-pave.org); Tselana Travel (D, 409 m, https://directindex.org/r/tselana.com).

## What assistants answer
The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included.


See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/batobus.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Bateau Bus in Paris tours, attractions and museums

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Paris tours, attractions and museums | 932 | 49% | 17% | 64.6% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Paris tours, attractions and museums: Musée du Vin (A 92.5%, https://directindex.org/r/lemparis.com); Boutique des Catacombes de Paris (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/arteum.com); Elizabeth Arden France (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/elizabetharden.fr); Les Maisons du Voyage (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/maisonsduvoyage.com); Pont Neuf (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/vedettesdupontneuf.com).

With the two fixes above (No ticket link on the website; No tickets and prices found), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 932 in Paris tours, attractions and museums.

## The direct record
What agents get for Bateau Bus, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/batobus.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +33 (0)1 76 64 79 12

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /fr/contactez-nous: address, telephone, phone.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 2 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/batobus.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/batobus.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/batobus.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=batobus.com&force=1