The Direct Index
Report · Houston · scanned 2026-10-16

Otsuka Ramen & Bar

otsukaramen.com is ready for agents.

Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of Otsuka Ramen & Bar. It can read what Otsuka Ramen & Bar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Order directly: www.otsukaramen.com/order on the business's own site · Menu: www.otsukaramen.com/order

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98.2%

63.8 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

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.

Where it stands

How Otsuka Ramen & Bar compares

Where it stands

16 of 607 in Houston

Top 3% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Confucius Seafood Restaurant A, Hong Kong Chinese Restaurant A. Just below: Spicy Chen Asian Bistro A, WOK & ROLL Chinese and Sushi Restaurant 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)85%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours61%yes
Have an llms.txt25%no

The top tenth is the 61 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Pho Central vietnamese117 mCyes
Chicharrones "El Guero #2" mexican155 mDno
Mamma Mia's Pizza & Pasta pizza295 mAyes
Grand Buffet chinese298 mDno
Casa Olé mexican421 mByes
Spicy Chen Asian Bistro chinese568 mAyes
Fuji Sushi sushi1.2 kmCyes
Dunkin' Donuts donut, coffee_shop2.1 kmFno
Bibi's House of Kabob greek2.2 kmByes
Tortilla's Mexican Restaurant mexican2.6 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Otsuka Ramen & Bar in Houston

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston60753%39%98.2%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Houston

Aban Persian Restaurant A 100% · Aladdin Mediterranean cuisine A 100% · Azuma Sushi And Robata Bar A 100% · Brennan's A 100% · Chunk's Burger A 100%

The climb

With the fix above (robots.txt blocks GPTBot) the score would be about 100%: first of 607 in Houston.

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

Findings

What to fix first

  1. robots.txt blocks GPTBot +1.2 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  2. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

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

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact: nothing new; menu page /order: 68 menu items in JSON-LD

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 your builder is in the guides.

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robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

llms.txt

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

# Otsuka Ramen & Bar

> restaurant (ramen) in Spencer Highway 8035 77536 Deer Park, Houston. Phone +1-281-930-7665.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://www.otsukaramen.com/order (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.otsukaramen.com/order

## Opening hours

Su-Th 11:00-21:30; Fr-Sa 11:00-22:00

## About

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

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Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR 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 A

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

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Otsuka Ramen & Bar

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.otsukaramen.com/order own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Menuwww.otsukaramen.com/order html_pagefrom the scan
HoursSu-Th 11:00-21:30; Fr-Sa 11:00-22:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-281-930-7665

Stable links that count: /go/otsukaramen.com/order, /go/otsukaramen.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, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /order: 68 menu items in JSON-LD.

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