The Direct Index
Report · Chicago tours, attractions and museums · scanned 2026-10-23

Madlener House

grahamfoundation.org is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Madlener House directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

4 W Burton Pl, 60610-1416, Chicago · +13129150105

Nearby, also direct

Places near Madlener House 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 Madlener House's website. It can read what Madlener House offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

67.7%

44 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

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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 12 everyday questions about Chicago tours, attractions and museums and named 45 places. Madlener House wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Madlener House compares

Where it stands

63 of 398 in Chicago tours, attractions and museums

Top 16% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Blackhawk Boat Tours C, Half Acre Beer Company C. Just below: McCormick Bridgehouse & Chicago River Museum C, Museum of Broadcast Communications C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain93%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML12%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours15%no
Have an llms.txt41%no

The top 10% are the 41 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
International Museum of Surgical Science210 mDyes
Charnley-Persky House Museum257 mFno
Chicago History Museum324 mCyes
Belo Usa Travel469 mDno
Foremost Travel & Tours499 mCno
Traveloni499 mCno
Windy City Travel499 mCno
Eastern Royal Medical Transport, LLC651 mFno
Iflyfirstclass Llc1.1 kmCyes
Q Cruise + Travel Chicago1.1 kmAno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Madlener House in Chicago tours, attractions and museums

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Chicago tours, attractions and museums39847%14%67.7%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Chicago tours, attractions and museums

Free Chicago Walking Tours A 90.3% · Chicago Travel & Tours A 86.2% · Q Cruise + Travel Chicago A 86.2% · Offshore312 A 85% · Azteca Travel & Tour B 84.6%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 398 in Chicago tours, attractions and museums.

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. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (TouristAttraction, Museum, TravelAgency or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No working HTTPS +3 points

    The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.

  3. 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. How to fix it

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 Chicago tours, attractions and museums. 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.
  • Tickets and prices is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Tickets on your own site Agents can buy tickets without going through a marketplace.

Builder: unknown · contact page /mission/: nothing new; menu page /grant_programs/?mode=award: booking link (own domain)

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on your builder.

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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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Madlener House",
  "url": "http://www.grahamfoundation.org/foundation/madlener.asp",
  "telephone": "+13129150105",
  "address": "4 W Burton Pl, 60610-1416, Chicago",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 41.909666,
    "longitude": -87.629165
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/6763-a-watery-grave-in-the-desert-termination-survivance-and-the-chemehuevi-indian-tribe",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Madlener House

> local business in 4 W Burton Pl, 60610-1416, Chicago, Chicago tours, attractions and museums. Phone +13129150105.

## Book or order directly

- Book: http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/6763-a-watery-grave-in-the-desert-termination-survivance-and-the-chemehuevi-indian-tribe (on the business's own site)
- Menu: http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs/?mode=award

## About

- Website: http://www.grahamfoundation.org/foundation/madlener.asp
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/grahamfoundation.org"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/grahamfoundation.org.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" 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 Madlener House

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/grahamfoundation.org, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/chicago-tours/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/6763-a-watery-grave-in-the own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs/?mode=award html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+13129150105

Stable links that count: /go/grahamfoundation.org/book, /go/grahamfoundation.org/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
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

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /grant_programs/: booking link (own domain).

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.txtno how
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 businessno