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

Ray's BBQ Shack

raysbbqshack.com is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Ray's BBQ Shack directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

7137484227

Nearby, also direct

Places near Ray's BBQ Shack 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 Ray's BBQ Shack's website. It can read what Ray's BBQ Shack offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

100%

65 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing 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 61 places. Ray's BBQ Shack wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Ray's BBQ Shack compares

Where it stands

58 of 2,625 in Houston

Top 2% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Postino Montrose A, Quan Yin Vegan Restaurant A. Just below: Red Claws Crab Shack Seafood & Hot Chicken A, Red Crab Juicy Seafood and Bar A.

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 HTML97%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours73%yes
Have an llms.txt53%no

The top 10% are the 267 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Webflow 9,011 sites56%22%100%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Ultimate Kitchen american11 mDyes
China Star chinese620 mFno
Sunshine Health Food Store and Deli vegan847 mCno
Backyard Boil House seafood1.3 kmCno
McAlister's Deli sandwich1.4 kmByes
SnoGrill1.4 kmCno
Il Circolo Italiano italian1.5 kmFno
Asado Tacos & Bowls mexican1.6 kmFno
Juicy Crawfish cajun_and_creole1.7 kmDno
American Deli1.7 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Ray's BBQ Shack in Houston

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Houston2,62554%36%100%
Sites built with Webflow in Houston5964%46%100%

The best of the sites built with Webflow in Houston

Empire Pizza A 95.4% · Russo's New York Pizzeria & Italian Kitchen A 90.8% · Hopdoddy Burger Bar A 87.7% · Kingwood Taco Shop A 87.7% · Rincon Mexicano A 86.2%

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 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 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 (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: webflow · contact page /contact-us: nothing new; menu page /menu: nothing new; booking page /stores: 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 webflow.

Where to paste it on Webflow: the site's custom code settings, in the head code field. the official help page.

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llms.txt

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

# Ray's BBQ Shack

> restaurant in Houston. Phone 7137484227.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://www.raysbbqshack.com/stores (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.raysbbqshack.com/menu

## About

- Website: http://www.raysbbqshack.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 A

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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 Ray's BBQ Shack

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.raysbbqshack.com/stores own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menuwww.raysbbqshack.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone7137484227

Stable links that count: /go/raysbbqshack.com/order, /go/raysbbqshack.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
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 businessyes