The Direct Index
Report · Houston · scanned 2026-10-23

The Monks Indian Bistro

monkshouston.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Monks Indian Bistro directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

6439 Westheimer Rd, 77057, Houston · +18324264017

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Monks Indian Bistro that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by The Monks Indian Bistro's website. It can read what The Monks Indian Bistro offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Square.

61.1%

39.7 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

3

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.

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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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Houston and named 62 places. The Monks Indian Bistro wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Monks Indian Bistro compares

Where it stands

Not ranked yet in Houston

The ranking updates every hour. This site joins it at the next update.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML89%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)89%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours70%no
Have an llms.txt30%no

The top 10% are the 37 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Square 2,733 sites65%43%61.1%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Biryani Pot Indian, Hyderabadi156 mDno
Bawarchi Biryani Point Indian Cuisine indian553 mDno
Saravanaa Bhavan indian1.4 kmByes
Kumar's indian1.5 kmByes
Raja Sweets indian1.8 kmFno
Kathmandu Curry and Bar indian1.9 kmAyes
Biryani Factory indian1.9 kmDno
India's Restaurant indian1.9 kmFno
Hashtag India indian1.9 kmByes
Bombay Sweets Inc. indian2.0 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Monks Indian Bistro in Houston

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston36553%38%61.1%
Sites using Square in Houston3566%46%61.1%

The best of the sites using Square in Houston

Mi Taquito (Food Truck) A 95.4% · Mezza Grille A 93.8% · Kingwood Taco Shop A 87.7% · Liberty Taco A 87.7% · Brookstreet Bar-B-Q A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 40th of 365 in Houston, up from not ranked today.

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. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Requests as GPTBot (http_429) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  3. 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 Houston. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · contact page /about-us.php: nothing new; menu page /menu.php: 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.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "The Monks Indian Bistro",
  "url": "https://monkshouston.com/",
  "telephone": "+18324264017",
  "address": "6439 Westheimer Rd, 77057, Houston",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 29.73730799,
    "longitude": -95.49796586
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "http://monks-houston.square.site/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# The Monks Indian Bistro

> local business (indian) in 6439 Westheimer Rd, 77057, Houston, Houston. Phone +18324264017.

## Book or order directly

- Order: http://monks-houston.square.site/ (through square acting for the business)
- Menu: https://monkshouston.com/menu.php

## About

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

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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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Agent-Direct Score C

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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 The Monks Indian Bistro

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/monkshouston.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/houston/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordermonks-houston.square.site/ vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested
Menumonkshouston.com/menu.php html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+18324264017

Stable links that count: /go/monkshouston.com/order, /go/monkshouston.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
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Source. About Square · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

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.xmlno how
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
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