The Direct Index
Report · scanned 2026-10-23

What an AI agent reads on Mai

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from mai.boston, taken from the copy the scanner kept.

3,277

characters of text without JavaScript

Restaurant

structured data for the business

2

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)

Text

The words an agent gets

Title: mai — french-inspired japanese izakaya | boston seaport · language en. First 1,800 of 3,277 characters:

mai — french-inspired japanese izakaya | boston seaport 居酒屋 — INNOVATION MEETS TRADITION VISIT HANDROLL STORY MENUS GALLERY OPEN NOW SEAPORT RESERVE — OPENTABLE ↗ DELIVERY UBER EATS ↗ GIFT CARDS SQUARE ↗ 居酒屋 — 舞 mai FRENCH-INSPIRED JAPANESE IZAKAYA — BOSTON SEAPORT Innovation meets tradition. One counter, Seaport WALK-INS & RESERVATIONS — LUNCH, DINNER, DRINKS SEAPORT DISTRICT — BOSTON 31 Northern Ave BOSTON, MA 02210 ★★★★★★★★★★4.8 (316) — DIRECTIONS → RESERVE — OPENTABLE ↗ MENU ↓ HOURS — SEVEN DAYS Noon to late LUNCH MON – SUN · 12 – 3 PM DINNER SUN – THU · 5 – 10:30 PMFRI – SAT · 5 PM – 12 AM UBER EATS ↗ · GIFT CARDS ↗ · WALK-INS WELCOME THE ANATOMY OF A HANDROLL 01 / 03 手巻き 01 — THE FILL 02 — THE FOLD 03 — THE HANDOFF 01 — FILL 02 — FOLD 03 — HANDOFF The fill — more fish than rice, every roll.A GENEROUS FISH-TO-RICE RATIO — NEVER FILLER. The fold — rolled to order, never ahead.NORI STAYS CRISP — EAT IT ON DELIVERY. Served one at a time. Eaten by hand.SKIP THE CHOPSTICKS. THE STORY — 01 Right at the entrance to Boston’s Seaport, Mai brings a new perspective to the modern izakaya — the Japanese tradition of simplicity, met with the complexity of French culinary technique. THE STORY — 02 As a group of Asian American restaurateurs, we wanted a restaurant that pushes the boundaries of what Asian food can be — while respecting its roots. THE STORY — 03 The menu, the curated craft sake list, the Japanese-inspired sake cocktails — each tells the story of our team’s dozens of trips to Japan, brought back to Boston’s hottest neighborhood. 舞 THE MENUS Noon to last call. LUNCHNOON TO 3, EVERY DAYVIEW MENU DINNERHANDROLLS · SPECIALTIES · A5 WAGYUVIEW MENU DRINKSCRAFT SAKE · SAKE COCKTAILSVIEW MENU Miso butter cod marinated 72 hours. A5 Miyazaki wagyu with yakiniku sauce. Duck con
Facts

What it can say about the business

A business type in JSON-LDRestaurant
NameMai — French-Inspired Japanese Izakaya
Telephone+1-617-609-1444
Addressyes
Opening hoursyes
Menu or price lista PDF cdn.mai.boston/notoro/mai-seaport/lunch.pdf
Cuisine in structured dataJapanese, French, Izakaya, Sushi
JSON-LD blocks3 (OpeningHoursSpecification, Organization, PostalAddress, Restaurant, WebSite)
Actions

The links it would act on

LinkRoleWhere it goes
www.opentable.com/restref/client/?rid=1402168&restref=1402168&bookingopentable, a marketplace
www.ubereats.com/store/mai/PuRad3C1UFO2WWG45it_6gorderingubereats, a marketplace

Everything here comes from fetching the homepage once as a crawler. The report turns it into a score and a list of fixes, with code to paste.