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title: What an AI agent reads on Craig Shanahan - Speaker · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/craigshanahan.com.au/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Craig Shanahan - Speaker

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [craigshanahan.com.au](https://craigshanahan.com.au/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

4,900

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

0

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Craig Shanahan — Motivational Speaker · language en. First 1,800 of 4,900 characters:

```
Craig Shanahan — Motivational Speaker Skip to main content Craig Shanahan Cancer took his eyes. He built an award-winning cafe anyway. Now he helps individuals, teams, and organisations turn adversity into their greatest advantage. Book Craig to Speak 0449 547 013 The Blind Chef Who Refused to Quit At age two, cancer took Craig's left eye. At 23, a brain tumour damaged the optic nerve in his right — leaving him with just 6% vision. Legally blind. Most people would stop there. Craig completed his Commercial Cookery qualification at TAFE NSW, spent 15 years in Sydney's top restaurant kitchens, and in 2021 opened The Blind Chef Cafe & Dessert Bar in Penrith — an award-winning, fully accessible cafe with menus in Braille, large print, and voice-output tablets. He won the inaugural Blind Australian of the Year — Employer of Choice Award in 2022. His story became a children's book — Cooking Up a Storm, published by Simon & Schuster as part of Vision Australia's Big Visions series. Now Craig brings that same energy to stages across Australia. No scripts. No fluff. Just a real bloke with a real story that changes how people think about barriers. Speaking Topics Breaking Barriers No barrier is a dead end. From losing his vision to building a business, Craig Shanahan shares what it really takes to back yourself when the odds are stacked against you. No theory — just lived experience. Accessibility Is Smart Business Craig built a café where everyone felt welcome — braille menus, voice tablets, accessible design. His work earned national recognition and proved that accessibility isn't charity, it's a competitive advantage. Resilience in the Face of Adversity From heart failure and a heart transplant to brain surgeries, fluid retention, and sudden weight gain, Craig shares how he fa
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | 0449547013 (a tel: link, not structured) |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found; only a phone number (0449547013). An agent has nothing to act on.

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```