# Cafe Sushi: Agent-Direct Score F (38.5%)

Site: https://www.cafesushiwells.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/cafesushiwells.com
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Cafe Sushi is largely invisible to agents.

## Direct links
- Phone: +1-312-337-0700

## What to fix first
- **No booking or ordering path at all.** (+15 points) Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+10 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (challenge:attention required), ClaudeBot (challenge:attention required), PerplexityBot (challenge:attention required) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, Perplexity-User.** (+5 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

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

```
# Cafe Sushi

> restaurant (sushi, japanese) in North Wells Street 1342 60610 Chicago, Chicago. Phone +1-312-337-0700.

## Opening hours

Mo-Th 17:00-22:30; Fr-Sa 17:00-23:30; Su 16:00-21:30

## About

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

## Already right
- **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address, phone, opening hours

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (F then)
- Fixed: nothing
- New: nothing

## Where it stands
1004 of 1721 in Chicago. Top 58% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 97% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 51% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 18% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Benihana (A, 1251 m, https://directindex.org/r/benihana.com); Friends Sushi (F, 1474 m, https://directindex.org/r/friendssushi.com); Sushi-san (C, 1745 m, https://directindex.org/r/sushisanrestaurant.com); Roka Akor (A, 1818 m, https://directindex.org/r/rokaakor.com); Gyu-Kaku (B, 1881 m, https://directindex.org/r/gyu-kaku.com); Shine and Rise (A, 2026 m, https://directindex.org/r/shinerestaurant.com); Sushi X (A, 2146 m, https://directindex.org/r/rollingatsushix.com); Dee's (B, 2170 m, https://directindex.org/r/deesrestaurant.com); Jinsei Motto (A, 2546 m, https://directindex.org/r/jinseimotto.com); Ramen-San (C, 2549 m, https://directindex.org/r/ramensan.com).

## What assistants answer
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.

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 2026-10-14 39%, 2026-10-14 39%.

Against its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (26% A or B, 35830 sites); This site 38.5%.

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

Read by AI agents 2 times this month (ClaudeBot 2).

## Businesses like Cafe Sushi in Chicago

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Chicago | 1721 | 45% | 35% | 38.5% |
| Built with WordPress in Chicago | 324 | 70% | 51% | 38.5% |

The best of Built with WordPress in Chicago: Fogo de Chão (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.com); Lotus Cafe & Banh Mi Sandwiches (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/lotusbanhmi.com); Pizzeria Portofino (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/pizzeriaportofino.com); Sarpino's Pizzeria (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/gosarpinos.com); Tryzub Ukrainian Kitchen (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/tryzubchicago.com).

With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering path at all; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 87.7%: 148th of 1,721 in Chicago, up from 1004th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Cafe Sushi, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/cafesushiwells.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Mo-Th 17:00-22:30; Fr-Sa 17:00-23:30; Su 16:00-21:30 (open now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1-312-337-0700

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 10 | 25 |
| Readable | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 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/cafesushiwells.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

Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/cafesushiwells.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=cafesushiwells.com&force=1