The Direct Index
Report · Chicago · scanned 2026-10-14

Mako

makochicago.com is ready for agents.

Book directly: www.makochicago.com/reservations on the business's own site · Order directly: www.toasttab.com/makochicago/giftcards through toast acting for the business · Menu: www.makochicago.com/menu

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 91% → 91%

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

A
90.8%

59 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

Since the scan of 2026-10-14: no change in the findings.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points

    Crawlers that do not run scripts see an empty page. Render the menu, hours and address as plain HTML. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +1 points

    Missing: telephone. How to fix it

  3. 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

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

Already right

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare

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 squarespace is in the guides.

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": "Mako",
  "url": "https://www.makochicago.com",
  "telephone": "+1-312-988-0687",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West Lake Street 731",
    "postalCode": "60661",
    "addressLocality": "Chicago"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 41.8854996,
    "longitude": -87.6468806
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "sushi",
    "japanese"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.makochicago.com/reservations",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.makochicago.com/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.makochicago.com/reservations",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.toasttab.com/makochicago/giftcards",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Mako

> restaurant (sushi, japanese) in West Lake Street 731 60661 Chicago, Chicago. Phone +1-312-988-0687.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.makochicago.com/reservations (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://www.toasttab.com/makochicago/giftcards (through toast acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.makochicago.com/menu

## About

- Website: https://www.makochicago.com
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

115 of 1,561 in Chicago

Top 7% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Fat Rosie's Taco & Tequila Bar A, Healthy Substance A. Just below: Mastro's Steakhouse A, Mi Tocaya Antojería A.

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)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours52%no
Have an llms.txt19%no

The top tenth is the 157 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 7,027 sites65%47%90.8%
Sites using Toast 1,823 sites74%62%90.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Izakaya at Momotaro japanese, sushi135 mByes
Yokocho japanese136 mCyes
Ramen-San japanese162 mCyes
sushiDOKKU japanese, sushi, asian199 mByes
Nobu sushi244 mByes
Tamu sushi255 mByes
High Five Ramen japanese, ramen262 mByes
Gaijin japanese389 mByes
Jinsei Motto sushi405 mAyes
Sushi by Bou sushi469 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Mako in Chicago

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in Chicago1,56150%38%90.8%
Built with Squarespace in Chicago19577%75%90.8%
Using Toast in Chicago20076%63%90.8%
Built with Squarespace and using Toast in Chicago7080%81%90.8%

The best of Built with Squarespace and using Toast in Chicago

Galit A 100% · Sepia A 100% · Bites A 93.8% · Kie-Gol-Lanee Logan Square A 93.8% · Munno Pizzeria & Bistro A 93.8%

The climb

With the two fixes above (Almost no text without JavaScript; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 38th of 1,561 in Chicago, up from 115th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

The direct record

What agents get for Mako

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/makochicago.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/chicago/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.makochicago.com/reservations own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Orderwww.toasttab.com/makochicago/giftcards vendor on own site: Toastfound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Menuwww.makochicago.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1-312-988-0687

Stable links that count: /go/makochicago.com/book, /go/makochicago.com/order, /go/makochicago.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
not measured
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
not measured
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
not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

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.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 businessyes
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.

Badge

Show the score

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

Agent-Direct Score A

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

Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.

Send the fixes to your web person
One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.