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title: What an AI agent reads on Rod Oskouian · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/rodoskouian.com/agent-view?format=md
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# What an AI agent reads on Rod Oskouian

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [rodoskouian.com](https://www.rodoskouian.com/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

7,904

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

2

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (GPTBot, ClaudeBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Rod J. Oskouian, MD, Neurosurgeon, Educator, Author, Seattle · language en. First 1,800 of 7,904 characters:

```
Rod J. Oskouian, MD, Neurosurgeon, Educator, Author, Seattle AXON is out. The newsletter I write from the operating room. Read the issues × Rod Oskouian MD · FAANS About Newsletter Brain Hacks Books Speaking Clinical ▾ Expert WitnessLegal consulting for brain & spine cases ScheduleComplex spine at Swedish Neuroscience Patient CasesSurgical outcomes & case library Publications500+ peer-reviewed papers Signature Research Robotic Spine Surgery Instagram LinkedIn X / Twitter YouTube TikTok Facebook Join Newsletter NEUROSURGEON × About Newsletter Brain Hacks Books Speaking Podcast Expert Witness Contact Publications Chief of Spine · Swedish Neuroscience Institute 10,000 surgeries. Here's what I know. Rod Oskouian is a neurosurgeon, Chief of Spine at Swedish Health Services Seattle, and the author of 7 medical textbooks. Now translating the science of the operating room into insights on sleep, recovery, and brain performance. Read the latest issue → Expert witness → TheWork Eight domains. Twenty years of practice. 10,000+10,000+ Surgeries performed · Still operating Surgery Complex spine. Deformity, tumors, trauma, revision. Pioneer of lateral lumbar corpectomy in the United States. Swedish Cherry Hill · Chief of Spine since 2008 Complex and revision spineAdult deformity and spinal tumors Trained at UCLA and VirginiaFellowship in Auckland, New Zealand Call (206) 320-2800 7 Surgical textbooks in print Books Thieme, Elsevier, Springer, Cambridge Scholars. Surgical Anatomy of the Lumbar PlexusThieme, 2018 Lateral Transpsoas ApproachElsevier, 2019 Occult Spinal DysraphismSpringer, 2019 See all the books → 500+500+ Publications · 7,400+ citations Research Robotic spine surgery. AI in surgery. Lateral spine outcomes. Pub
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | +12063202800 (a tel: link, not structured) |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 0 |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

| Link | Role | Where it goes |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [www.rodoskouian.com/speaking.html](https://www.rodoskouian.com/speaking.html) | booking | the business's own site |

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```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```