The Direct Index
Report · Raleigh · scanned 2026-10-24

Mandolin

mandolinraleigh.com is hard for agents to use.

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Ways to reach Mandolin directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Report a mistake

Fairview Road 2519 · 984-200-8614

Prices: 8 prices on the site, the middle one $8.50

Nearby, also direct

Places near Mandolin 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 Mandolin's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.

43.1%

28 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

8 prices on the landing page, the middle one $8.50.

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Named by assistants

Named by Claude for "Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?" in Raleigh, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Raleigh 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
Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?Claude with a link to this site2026-10-22

Every place named in Raleigh, 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

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/mandolinraleigh.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/mandolinraleigh.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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:
“Brunch on Sunday for four. Where can I reserve?” (Claude, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Mandolin compares

Where it stands

192 of 243 in Raleigh

Top 79% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Creedmoor Cafe D, Daylight Donuts D. Just below: Blend Raleigh D, Milton's Pizza and Pasta F.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours56%no
Have an llms.txt48%no

The top 10% are the 25 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Ajja1.7 kmCyes
Bright Spot Donuts donut2.0 kmDyes
Ajisai sushi2.1 kmFno
LaGana Burgers burger2.2 kmCyes
Shake Shack burger2.2 kmByes
Tupelo Honey Cafe regional2.2 kmByes
Flying Biscuit2.2 kmCyes
CAVA mediterranean2.3 kmFno
Postine Village District2.3 kmAyes
My Way Tavern2.5 kmCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Mandolin in Raleigh

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Raleigh24364%53%43.1%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Raleigh

Bazil Indian Cuisine A 100% · Five Bros Pizza A 100% · Panda Wok A 100% · Vera Pizza & Grill A 100% · Woody's at City Market A 100%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 9th of 243 in Raleigh, up from 192nd.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from 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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No booking or ordering link on the website +13 points

    There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it

  3. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

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

No one is listed yet to fix this in Raleigh. 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.

Builder: unknown · contact page /contact/: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on your builder.

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Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Mandolin",
  "url": "https://www.mandolinraleigh.com/",
  "telephone": "984-200-8614",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Fairview Road 2519",
    "addressCountry": "US"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 35.8090607,
    "longitude": -78.6551202
  }
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Mandolin

> restaurant in Fairview Road 2519, Raleigh. Phone 984-200-8614.

## About

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

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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

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Agent-Direct Score D

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

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The direct record

What agents get for Mandolin

No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-24 found no booking or ordering link on mandolinraleigh.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/mandolinraleigh.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/raleigh/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone984-200-8614

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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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 businessno