Report · Houston cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-16

Lost & Found

lostandfoundmidtown.com is mostly ready for agents.

Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of Lost & Found. It can read what Lost & Found offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Book directly: lostandfoundmidtown.com/reservations/ on the business's own site · Order directly: www.chownow.com/order/28488/locations/42172?is_mp_redirect=t through chownow acting for the business · Menu: lostandfoundmidtown.com/menu/

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

B54 of 65 · mostly ready for agentsThe Direct Index · 2026-10-16

83.5%

54.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

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 Lost & Found compares

Where it stands

23 of 181 in Houston cafes and bars

Top 13% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Bar Louie B, HTeaO B. Just below: Corner Bakery B, Dandelion Cafe B.

What the top tenth of the index does	Top 10%	This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain	100%	yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML	95%	yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)	100%	no
Structured data with address, phone and hours	26%	no
Have an llms.txt	16%	yes

The top tenth is the 19 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

	Average score	A or B	This site
Sites built with WordPress 38,935 sites	59%	31%	83.5%
Sites using ChowNow 313 sites	71%	51%	83.5%

Nearest places in the index

Place	Distance	Grade	Direct booking or ordering
Shot Bar	533 m	F	no
Ripcord	1.0 km	C	no
Canary Coffee House coffee_shop	1.1 km	F	no
JR's	1.1 km	F	no
AvantGarden	1.1 km	B	yes
Fix Coffeebar coffee, beer, wine	1.2 km	D	no
SouthSide Espresso coffee_shop	1.3 km	F	no
Pavón Coffee Den coffee_shop	1.4 km	C	yes
Mercantile	1.4 km	F	no
The Brass Tap	1.5 km	C	yes

Businesses like yours

Businesses like Lost & Found in Houston cafes and bars

Group	Sites	Avg score	A or B	This site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston cafes and bars	181	47%	23%	83.5%
Sites built with WordPress in Houston cafes and bars	48	64%	38%	83.5%
Sites using ChowNow in Houston cafes and bars	2	67%	50%	83.5%
Sites built with WordPress and using ChowNow in Houston cafes and bars	1	84%	100%	83.5%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Houston cafes and bars

McGonigel's Mucky Duck A 100% · Beans & Brews A 90.8% · The Toasted Yolk Cafe A 90.8% · Flying Saucer Draught Emporium A 87.7% · Kung Fu Tea A 87.5%

The climb

With the two fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 5th of 181 in Houston cafes and bars, up from 23rd.

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

The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points
Live fetches as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it
Structured data is incomplete +1 points
Missing: telephone. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

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

Already right

robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
Structured data present (LocalBusiness) address, opening hours
Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
Booking on your own site Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
Ordering through chownow on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact-us/: phone; menu page /menu/: nothing new; booking page /reservations/: booking via opentable; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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 wordpress is in the guides.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

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": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Lost & Found",
  "url": "https://www.lostandfoundmidtown.com/",
  "telephone": "+1 832 649 3050",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West Gray Street 160",
    "addressLocality": "Houston"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 29.7534872,
    "longitude": -95.3810737
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 12:00-24:00; Fr 12:00-02:00; Sa 11:00-02:00; Su 11:00-23:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://lostandfoundmidtown.com/reservations/",
  "hasMenu": "https://lostandfoundmidtown.com/menu/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://lostandfoundmidtown.com/reservations/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.chownow.com/order/28488/locations/42172?is_mp_redirect=true",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

Rescan now · Markdown · Dispute a check

Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR once. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

Show the score

Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/lostandfoundmidtown.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/lostandfoundmidtown.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>

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.

Show the details

The direct record

What agents get for Lost & Found

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/lostandfoundmidtown.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/houston-cafes-bars/direct.json.

Path	Link	Status
Book	lostandfoundmidtown.com/reservations/ own site	found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Order	www.chownow.com/order/28488/locations/42172?is_mp_redirect=t vendor on own site: ChowNow	found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Menu	lostandfoundmidtown.com/menu/ html_page	from the scan
Hours	Mo-Th 12:00-24:00; Fr 12:00-02:00; Sa 11:00-02:00; Su 11:00-23:00 (closed now)	from OpenStreetMap
Phone	+1 832 649 3050

Stable links that count: /go/lostandfoundmidtown.com/book, /go/lostandfoundmidtown.com/order, /go/lostandfoundmidtown.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

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /contact-us/: phone; booking page /reservations/: booking via opentable.

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 homepage	no how
sitemap.xml	yes
AI bot rules in robots.txt	yes
Content Signals in robots.txt	no how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdown	no how
llms.txt	yes
API catalog (RFC 9727)	no how
MCP server card	no how
A2A agent card	no how
Agent Skills index	no how
OAuth or OIDC discovery	no how
OAuth protected resource metadata	no how
auth.md	no how
Web Bot Auth key directory	no how
ARD capability manifest	no how
DNS-AID records	no how
WebMCP tools on the page	no how
JSON-LD for the business	yes