The Direct Index
Report · Singapore · scanned 2026-10-22

Caruso

caruso.sg is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Caruso directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-22. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Sun 12:00–14:30, 18:00–22:30

Bukit Timah Road · +65 64697508

Its menu mentions: a lunch or set menu

Nearby, also direct

Places near Caruso that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Caruso's website. It can read what Caruso offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through book.bistrochat.com.

81.5%

53 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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 22 everyday questions about Singapore and named 160 places. Caruso wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Caruso compares

Where it stands

415 of 2,556 in Singapore

Top 16% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Bistro Gaston B, Bukhara Restaurant B. Just below: Cơm Tấm Ăn Là Ghiền - Authentic Vietnamese Cuisine at Bedok B, First Culinary Restaurant B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain97%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML89%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours54%yes
Have an llms.txt49%yes

The top 10% are the 261 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 24,646 sites53%30%81.5%
Sites using foodora 71 sites55%25%81.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Little Lazy Lizard7 mByes
The Living Cafe vegetarian39 mDno
Top Seafood seafood127 mFno
Omar Shariff Authentic Indian Cuisine indian140 mByes
Bar Bar Black Sheep bar_and_grill579 mCno
Baan Khun Nai thai581 mAyes
Forture606 mFno
Le Rida mediterranean, french, indian682 mByes
Amano italian, pizza762 mByes
Huats Kee Fish Head Steamboat chinese829 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Caruso in Singapore

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Singapore2,55654%34%81.5%
Sites built with Wix in Singapore28871%60%81.5%
Sites using foodora in Singapore764%43%81.5%
Sites built with Wix and using foodora in Singapore284%100%81.5%

The best of the sites using foodora in Singapore

Chingu Dining Rochester A 86.3% · Boulevard B 78.5% · Hong Kong Street Old Chun Kee C 66.2% · MOS CAFÉ Raffles City D 53.8% · Chicco Trattoria (Telok Ayer, Italian Restaurant) D 47.7%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; Ordering only through foodora), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 2,556 in Singapore.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Booking through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  2. Ordering only through foodora +9 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. How to fix it About this vendor

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Singapore. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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 (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: wix · contact page /about-us: nothing new; menu page /menu: nothing new

Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

· Markdown · Dispute a check

Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score B

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

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Caruso

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/caruso.sg, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/singapore/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.caruso.sg/menu html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Su 12:00-14:30,18:00-22:30 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+65 64697508

Stable links that count: /go/caruso.sg/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
yes
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

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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.txtyes
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