The Direct Index
Report · Washington, DC · scanned 2026-10-24

Hilo Poke & Sushi

hilopokesushi.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Hilo Poke & Sushi directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through chownow acting for the business. Report a mistake

2439 18th St NW, 20009, Washington · (202) 588-5008

Its menu mentions: vegetarian dishes, allergens

Nearby, also direct

Places near Hilo Poke & Sushi 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 Hilo Poke & Sushi's website. It can read what Hilo Poke & Sushi offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ChowNow.

66.2%

43 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.

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 Washington, DC and named 140 places. Hilo Poke & Sushi wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Hilo Poke & Sushi compares

Where it stands

732 of 1,686 in Washington, DC

Top 43% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Elmina C, Han Palace C. Just below: Il Canale C, Jula's on the Potomac C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML99%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours53%no
Have an llms.txt19%no

The top 10% are the 171 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 32,150 sites61%41%66.2%
Sites using ChowNow 1,059 sites72%54%66.2%

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Pizza Mart pizza19 mBno
Toku japanese19 mFno
Tsehay Ethiopian Restaurant And Bar26 mCyes
LOS CUATES (ADAMS MORGAN) mexican29 mCyes
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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Hilo Poke & Sushi in Washington, DC

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Washington, DC1,68656%40%66.2%
Sites built with Squarespace in Washington, DC22774%64%66.2%
Sites using ChowNow in Washington, DC2775%67%66.2%
Sites built with Squarespace and using ChowNow in Washington, DC882%88%66.2%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using ChowNow in Washington, DC

Pantry Thai & Sushi A 92.3% · Primrose A 86.2% · Pitmasters Back Alley BBQ B 84.6% · Poki DC B 84.6% · Poki DC B 84.6%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 196th of 1,686 in Washington, DC, up from 732nd.

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 +14 points

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

  2. 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

  3. The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data

    The site shows +14436811910, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists (202) 588-5008. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

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 Washington, DC. 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.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through chownow on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: squarespace · menu page /menu: nothing new

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 squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

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": "Hilo Poke & Sushi",
  "url": "https://hilopokesushi.com",
  "telephone": "(202) 588-5008",
  "address": "2439 18th St NW, 20009, Washington",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 38.921465531858274,
    "longitude": -77.04210492775817
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://ordering.chownow.com/order/14406/locations",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Hilo Poke & Sushi

> local business (poke) in 2439 18th St NW, 20009, Washington, Washington, DC. Phone (202) 588-5008.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://ordering.chownow.com/order/14406/locations (through chownow acting for the business)
- Menu: https://hilopokesushi.com/menu

## About

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

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/hilopokesushi.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/hilopokesushi.com.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 Hilo Poke & Sushi

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/hilopokesushi.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderordering.chownow.com/order/14406/locations vendor on own site: ChowNowfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menuhilopokesushi.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone(202) 588-5008

Stable links that count: /go/hilopokesushi.com/order, /go/hilopokesushi.com/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
Vendor terms for agents
ChowNow, read 2026-10-15
Not stated

ChowNow's customer terms (8 September 2025) bar automated means such as spiders, robots and crawlers to download or scrape data, except search engines; they do not address an agent placing an order for a person, and no agent programme was found. Source. About ChowNow · all vendors.

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.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