The Direct Index
Report · chicago · scanned 2026-10-14

Charly's Burgers

charlysburgers.com is ready for agents.

Order directly: charlysburgerschicago.square.site/s/order#most-popular through square acting for the business · Menu: charlysburgers.com/menu

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A
86.6%

56.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, Google-Extended, ChatGPT-User +3.7 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. How to fix it

  2. 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

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

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

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 your builder is in the guides.

robots.txt

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

# 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. Guide.

# Charly's Burgers

> restaurant (burger) in North Cicero Avenue 2320 60639, Chicago. Phone +1-773-887-5481.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://charlysburgerschicago.square.site/s/order#most-popular (through square acting for the business)
- Menu: https://charlysburgers.com/menu

## Opening hours

Tu-Sa 11:00-19:00

## About

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

174 of 1,720 in Chicago

Top 10% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Tzuco A, Ummo A. Just below: Domino's A, Gordon Ramsay Burger 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%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours51%yes
Have an llms.txt18%no

The top tenth is the 173 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Square 774 sites69%48%86.6%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Tacotlan989 mFno
Sol de Mexico mexican1.4 kmCyes
El Azteca mexican1.4 kmFno
Golden Nugget Pancake House american1.9 kmCyes
Omarcito's Latin Cafe2.0 kmBno
Central Gyros kebab, greek2.3 kmDno
Warlord2.6 kmFno
Outdoor Grill hot_dog, sandwich2.6 kmDno
Little Clown Pizza pizza2.6 kmBno
Park & Field2.7 kmByes
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.

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
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.

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Agent-Direct Score A

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