# The Understory: Agent-Direct Score D (53.8%) Site: https://www.seattlespheres.com/visit-understory Report: https://directindex.org/r/seattlespheres.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Understory is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open The Understory's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through FareHarbor. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/api/v1/?autolightframe=yes (through fareharbor acting for the business) - Address: 2101 7th Ave, 98121-5114, Seattle ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Understory that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Budget Car Rental (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/budget.com - Seattle Holiday Tours Llc (260 m): https://directindex.org/r/seattleholidays.com - Seattle Glassblowing Studio (290 m): https://directindex.org/r/seattleglassblowing.com - Windstar Cruises (310 m): https://directindex.org/r/windstarcruises.com - Iace Travel (380 m): https://directindex.org/r/iace-usa.com ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (TouristAttraction, Museum, TravelAgency or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No tickets and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what does it cost and when?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with tickets, times and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **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. ``` # The Understory > local business in 2101 7th Ave, 98121-5114, Seattle, Seattle tours, attractions and museums. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/api/v1/?autolightframe=yes (through fareharbor acting for the business) ## About - Website: https://www.seattlespheres.com/visit-understory - 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. - **Tickets through fareharbor on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. ## Where it stands 94 of 198 in Seattle tours, attractions and museums. Top 47% 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% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 10% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 30% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 60% | no | Nearest places in the index: Budget Car Rental (C, 141 m, https://directindex.org/r/budget.com); High Speed Rail USA (D, 254 m, https://directindex.org/r/highspeedrailusa.com); Seattle Holiday Tours Llc (C, 255 m, https://directindex.org/r/seattleholidays.com); Seattle Glassblowing Studio (C, 287 m, https://directindex.org/r/seattleglassblowing.com); Windstar Cruises (D, 308 m, https://directindex.org/r/windstarcruises.com); Ken Americana (F, 314 m, https://directindex.org/r/kenskeens.com); Amcan Travel Agency (F, 384 m, https://directindex.org/r/goamcan.com); Iace Travel (C, 384 m, https://directindex.org/r/iace-usa.com); Holocaust Center for Humanity (C, 487 m, https://directindex.org/r/holocaustcenterseattle.org); Seattle NFT Museum (D, 583 m, https://directindex.org/r/seattlenftmuseum.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. Compared with its peers: Sites using FareHarbor 67% (48% A or B, 914 sites); This site 53.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/seattlespheres.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Understory in Seattle tours, attractions and museums | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Seattle tours, attractions and museums | 198 | 49% | 16% | 53.8% | | Sites using FareHarbor in Seattle tours, attractions and museums | 11 | 69% | 45% | 53.8% | The best of the sites using FareHarbor in Seattle tours, attractions and museums: Seattle's Tall Ship (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/seattlesailingship.com); Waterways Cruises and Events (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/waterwayscruises.com); Seattle Mountain Bike Tours (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/seattlemountainbiketours.com); Shutter Tours (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/shuttertours.com); Totally Seattle (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/totallyseattle.com). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No tickets and prices found), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 3rd of 198 in Seattle tours, attractions and museums, up from 94th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Understory, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/seattlespheres.com - Book: https://fareharbor.com/embeds/api/v1/?autolightframe=yes (vendor on own site: FareHarbor; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: none on record - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/seattlespheres.com/book ## 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, FareHarbor: Not stated. FareHarbor's customer terms (1 September 2025), section 5.1, bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the service for a commercial purpose without written permission; whether an assistant booking for a traveller counts as commercial is not stated; the external API is for affiliates and software partners. Read 2026-10-15: https://marketing.fareharbor.com/legal/tos-customers/ ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 0 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 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/seattlespheres.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: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - 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: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/seattlespheres.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/seattlespheres.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=seattlespheres.com&force=1