The Direct Index
Report · Houston · scanned 2026-10-16

Kanau Sushi & Izakaya

kanausushiizakaya.com is partly visible to agents.

An AI assistant can open the website of Kanau Sushi & Izakaya. It can read what Kanau Sushi & Izakaya offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through SpotOn.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Book directly: tmt.spotapps.co/reservations?spot_id=84459&source=pop_up&des through spoton acting for the business · Menu: www.kanausushiizakaya.com/houston-midtown-kanau-sushi-food-m

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66.2%

43 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.

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.

Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

Where it stands

How Kanau Sushi & Izakaya compares

Where it stands

256 of 607 in Houston

Top 42% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Hunt Brothers Pizza C, Just Falafel C. Just below: Mario's Flying Pizza C, Morningside Thai Restaurant C.

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)85%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours61%no
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top tenth is the 61 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using SpotOn 225 sites71%34%66.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Gypsy Poet pizza404 mAyes
Piola italian518 mDno
JINYA Ramen Bar ramen523 mCno
Kura Sushi sushi610 mDno
Brennan's creole676 mAyes
Wanna Bao chinese715 mByes
Harry's723 mByes
Winnie's724 mBno
Gyu-Kaku japanese, barbecue783 mDno
Luigi's Pizzeria pizza915 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Kanau Sushi & Izakaya in Houston

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston60753%39%66.2%
Sites using SpotOn in Houston1069%20%66.2%

The best of the sites using SpotOn in Houston

Oma Sushi A 87.7% · Angelo'z B 75.4% · Goodson's Cafe C 66.2% · Mario's Flying Pizza C 66.2% · Morningside Thai Restaurant C 66.2%

The climb

With the fix above (No structured data for the business) the score would be about 87.7%: 75th of 607 in Houston, up from 256th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

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

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · menu page /houston-midtown-kanau-sushi-food-menu: nothing new

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.

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Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Kanau Sushi & Izakaya",
  "url": "https://www.kanausushiizakaya.com/",
  "telephone": "+18338424036",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Fannin Street 2850",
    "postalCode": "77002",
    "addressLocality": "Houston"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 29.7436251,
    "longitude": -95.374487
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 12:00-21:30; Fr-Sa 11:00-22:30; Su 11:00-21:30",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "21:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday",
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "22:30"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "21:30"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "sushi"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://tmt.spotapps.co/reservations?spot_id=84459&source=pop_up&destination=reservations&promotion=reservations",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.kanausushiizakaya.com/houston-midtown-kanau-sushi-food-menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://tmt.spotapps.co/reservations?spot_id=84459&source=pop_up&destination=reservations&promotion=reservations",
        "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.

# Kanau Sushi & Izakaya

> restaurant (sushi) in Fannin Street 2850 77002 Houston, Houston. Phone +18338424036.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://tmt.spotapps.co/reservations?spot_id=84459&source=pop_up&destination=reservations&promotion=reservations (through spoton acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.kanausushiizakaya.com/houston-midtown-kanau-sushi-food-menu

## Opening hours

Mo-Th 12:00-21:30; Fr-Sa 11:00-22:30; Su 11:00-21:30

## About

- Website: https://www.kanausushiizakaya.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

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Kanau Sushi & Izakaya

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/kanausushiizakaya.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/houston/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booktmt.spotapps.co/reservations?spot_id=84459&source=pop_up&des vendor on own site: SpotOnfound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.kanausushiizakaya.com/houston-midtown-kanau-sushi-food-m html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Th 12:00-21:30; Fr-Sa 11:00-22:30; Su 11:00-21:30 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+18338424036

Stable links that count: /go/kanausushiizakaya.com/book, /go/kanausushiizakaya.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
SpotOn, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About SpotOn · all vendors.

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. 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