# Mao Chow: Agent-Direct Score C (67.7%) Site: https://www.mao-chow.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/mao-chow.com Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Mao Chow is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Mao Chow's website. It can read what Mao Chow offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.mao-chow.com/menu - Address: 159A Mare St, E8 3RH, London - Its menu mentions: vegan options ## Nearby, also direct Places near Mao Chow that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Rehab Hackney (910 m): https://directindex.org/r/rehabseekers.com - The Cheese Cellar (2.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/saporia.com ## What to fix first - **Booking only through resy.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+4 points) Missing: address, telephone. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that don't run scripts see an empty page. Put the menu, hours and address in plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Mao Chow > local business (vegan) in 159A Mare St, E8 3RH, London, London. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.mao-chow.com/menu ## About - Website: https://www.mao-chow.com - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## 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 (LocalBusiness).** opening hours - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Resy works with agents through its partners.** Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 3481 of 9090 in London. Top 38% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 87% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 63% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 36% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Rehab Hackney (B, 906 m, https://directindex.org/r/rehabseekers.com); The Cheese Cellar (B, 2064 m, https://directindex.org/r/saporia.com); 90 Degree MELT (F, 2102 m, https://directindex.org/r/90degreemelt.co.uk); Haunt (F, 2256 m, https://directindex.org/r/hauntlondon.com); Vegan Nights London (C, 2272 m, https://directindex.org/r/17hanburystreet.co.uk); WAVE - We Are Vegan Everything (D, 2293 m, https://directindex.org/r/weareveganeverything.com); Salt The Radish (D, 4171 m, https://directindex.org/r/salttheradish.com). ## What assistants answer 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. The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about London and named 66 places. Mao Chow wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/london/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 63% (46% A or B, 18903 sites); Sites using Resy 67% (45% A or B, 830 sites); This site 67.7%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/mao-chow.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Mao Chow in London | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in London | 9090 | 53% | 35% | 67.7% | | Sites built with Squarespace in London | 640 | 71% | 60% | 67.7% | | Sites using Resy in London | 2 | 64% | 0% | 67.7% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in London | 2 | 64% | 0% | 67.7% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace in London: Dnister Restaurant (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/dnister.co.uk); Humble Grape (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/humblegrape.co.uk); Korean BBQ House (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/kbbqhouse.co.uk); NURI Korean BBQ Canary Wharf (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/nurikbbq.co.uk); Panta Rei (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/pantarei.uk). With the three fixes above (Booking only through resy; Structured data is incomplete; Almost no text without JavaScript), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 183rd of 9,090 in London, up from 3481st. ## The direct record What agents get for Mao Chow, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/mao-chow.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.mao-chow.com/menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: none on record - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/mao-chow.com/menu ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - 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 - Vendor terms for agents, Resy: Through partners. Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Read 2026-10-15: https://resy.com/terms ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 23 | 25 | | Readable | 18 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/mao-chow.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/mao-chow.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/mao-chow.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=mao-chow.com&force=1