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title: What an AI agent reads on Gart Sports · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/gartcompanies.com/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on Gart Sports

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 [gartcompanies.com](http://www.gartcompanies.com/history), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

2,767

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: History. First 1,800 of 2,767 characters:

```
History WHO WE AREABOUT USMISSION & VALUESVISIONTEAMHISTORYGART PROPERTIESABOUT USOUR FOCUSOUR STRATEGYOUR PROPERTIESGART CAPITAL PARTNERSABOUT USINVESTMENT FOCUSPARTNERSHIPCOMPANIESOur HistoryOUR BEGINNINGSThe Gart story began in 1928 with Nathan Gart selling warm gear, fishing supplies, and hunting supplies in a pawn shop in Downtown Denver. Four generations, many partnerships and business ventures later, we continue to grow and evolve.The Early YearsGart Brothers Sporting Goods Company1928Larimer Street Store Opens1970The Sport Castle Opens - First big box specialty concept store in North America1986Gart Family Sells to Thrifty Corporation – Family continues to lead company’s growth through an accelerated acquisition strategy1992Gart Brothers Partnership Opens 120th Store1993Gart Family sells remaining interest Evolution of the Family Business1993Founding of The Gart Companies 1993Founding of Gart Properties1994/95Founding of Specialty Sports Ventures with Acquisition of Telluride Sports, Colorado Ski and Golf, Grand West Outfitters 1998SSV merges with Vail Resorts Rental and Retail Operations - Forms joint venture as Vail expands resort footprint1999Mark Sidell joins Gart Properties as strategic leader2001Gart Capital Partners founded to continue to invest in lower / middle market buisineses2010Gart sells interest in SSV Partnership to Vail ResortsDiversification Into Multiple Asset ClassesGart Capital Partners___2001First GCP Investment - GolfTEC Enterprises - 2018: GCP sells controlling of GT to GDO2009GCP acquires Colorado Baggage and Bag N Baggage - 2012: GCP merges CBNB with Magellans - 2014: GCP sells Magellans to Potpourri Group - 2014: GCP sells Bag N Baggage to Bergmans Luggage2010GCP Purchases Swoozies gift card shops - 2019: GCP sells Swoozies to Beyond B
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| 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. An agent has nothing to act on.

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```