The Direct Index
Report · Pretoria · scanned 2026-11-14

Karoo Square

karoocafe.co.za is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Karoo Square directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-14. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

110 Lynnwood Rd, 0081, Tshwane · +27128076063

WhatsApp: a link on the site

Nearby, also direct

Places near Karoo Square 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 Karoo Square's website. What Karoo Square offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

81.5%

53 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

5

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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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "Dinner with two kids tonight, somewhere relaxed. Book a table for four" in Pretoria, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Pretoria and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Dinner with two kids tonight, somewhere relaxed. Book a table for four.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-22

Every place named in Pretoria, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“Dinner with two kids tonight, somewhere relaxed. Book a table for four.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Karoo Square compares

Where it stands

43 of 377 in Pretoria

Top 11% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Forti Too B, Fumo Village B. Just below: Kingfisher B, Pizzeria Nenna B.

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 HTML92%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours18%no
Have an llms.txt36%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 270,003 sites55%25%81.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Brooklyn Brothers Glenfair116 mCno
Debonairs Pizza pizza133 mAyes
Col Cacchio263 mDno
Lupa Osteria Lynnwood Bridge italian263 mByes
Forti Too bar_and_grill267 mByes
TriBeCa Standard272 mByes
Stephnies Restaurant467 mCyes
La Madeleine710 mDno
Platō Coffee - Lynburn greek852 mDno
Roman's Pizza pizza940 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Karoo Square in Pretoria

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Pretoria37753%27%81.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Pretoria18162%35%81.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 5th of 377 in Pretoria, up from 43rd.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  3. Ordering through an unrecognised third party no points, but worth doing

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  4. 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

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

    The site shows +27%2074%2083%2044414, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +27128076063. 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.

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One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Pretoria. 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.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about-karoo-cafe/: nothing new; booking page /book-a-table/: phone · What to paste

Owners

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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. Show the details