# Canto West Village: Agent-Direct Score C (67.7%) Site: http://www.cantonyc.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/cantonyc.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Canto West Village is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Canto West Village's website. It can read what Canto West Village offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.cantonyc.com/menus-1 - Phone: +13152575473 - Address: 117 Perry St, 10014, New York - Its menu mentions: vegetarian dishes, allergens ## Nearby, also direct Places near Canto West Village that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - L'Artusi (190 m): https://directindex.org/r/bartusinyc.com - I Sodi (240 m): https://directindex.org/r/isodinyc.com - Fiaschetteria Pistoia (240 m): https://directindex.org/r/fiaschetteriapistoia.com - Malatesta (300 m): https://directindex.org/r/malatestanyc.com - Via Carota (330 m): https://directindex.org/r/viacarota.com ## What to fix first - **Booking only through resy.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Ordering only through doordash.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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 ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Canto West Village > local business (italian) in 117 Perry St, 10014, New York, New York. Phone +13152575473. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.cantonyc.com/menus-1 ## About - Website: http://www.cantonyc.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).** no address, phone or hours in it - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Resy works with agents through its partners.** Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 3975 of 11000 in New York. Top 36% 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 | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 95% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 59% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 25% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Spasso (F, 29 m, https://directindex.org/r/spassonyc.com); L'Artusi (A, 190 m, https://directindex.org/r/bartusinyc.com); Ciccio Cincin (B, 195 m, https://directindex.org/r/ciccionyc.com); Malaparte (D, 238 m, https://directindex.org/r/malapartenyc.com); I Sodi (B, 240 m, https://directindex.org/r/isodinyc.com); Fiaschetteria Pistoia (B, 243 m, https://directindex.org/r/fiaschetteriapistoia.com); Il Cantuccio (D, 283 m, https://directindex.org/r/ilcantuccionyc.com); Extra Virgin (F, 287 m, https://directindex.org/r/extravirginrestaurant.com); Malatesta (C, 302 m, https://directindex.org/r/malatestanyc.com); Via Carota (B, 334 m, https://directindex.org/r/viacarota.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. The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about New York and named 69 places. Canto West Village wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/new-york/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 61% (42% A or B, 29454 sites); Sites using Resy 67% (44% A or B, 2525 sites); Sites using DoorDash 64% (41% A or B, 553 sites); This site 67.7%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/cantonyc.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Canto West Village in New York | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in New York | 11000 | 52% | 34% | 67.7% | | Sites built with Squarespace in New York | 1237 | 70% | 52% | 67.7% | | Sites using Resy in New York | 957 | 68% | 45% | 67.7% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in New York | 314 | 68% | 43% | 67.7% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in New York: Cross Road BK (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/crossroadbk.com); L'Antagoniste (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/lantagoniste.com); Barrio Chino (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/barriochinony.com); Concrete (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/concrete-brooklyn.com); Daddies (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/daddiesnyc.com). With the three fixes above (Booking only through resy; Ordering only through doordash; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 11,000 in New York. ## The direct record What agents get for Canto West Village, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/cantonyc.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.cantonyc.com/menus-1 (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +13152575473 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/cantonyc.com/menu ## 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 - Vendor terms for agents, Resy: Through partners. Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Read 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 16 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 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/cantonyc.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/cantonyc.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/cantonyc.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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=cantonyc.com&force=1