The Direct Index
Report · Melbourne · scanned 2026-10-18

Shinobi Sushi

shinobisushi.com.au is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Shinobi Sushi directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-18. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

Showgrounds Village, Shinobi Sushi, Shop 23, 320/380 Epsom Rd, 3032, Melbourne · +61399729851

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Shinobi Sushi's website. It can read what Shinobi Sushi offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Square.

66.2%

43 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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 Melbourne and named 56 places. Shinobi Sushi wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Shinobi Sushi compares

Where it stands

1,026 of 2,454 in Melbourne

Top 42% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Samos Kitchen & Bar C, Sampson's Bar & Grill C. Just below: Superhiro C, TARRA Queenscliff C.

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 HTML91%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours53%no
Have an llms.txt29%no

The top 10% are the 248 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%66.2%
Sites using Square 1,644 sites65%41%66.2%

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Businesses like yours

Businesses like Shinobi Sushi in Melbourne

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne2,45456%34%66.2%
Sites built with WordPress in Melbourne67166%47%66.2%
Sites using Square in Melbourne7272%58%66.2%
Sites built with WordPress and using Square in Melbourne2471%50%66.2%

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After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 226th of 2,454 in Melbourne, up from 1026th.

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

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us/: nothing new; menu page /our-menu/: 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 wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

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": "Shinobi Sushi",
  "url": "http://www.shinobisushi.com.au/",
  "telephone": "+61399729851",
  "address": "Showgrounds Village, Shinobi Sushi, Shop 23, 320/380 Epsom Rd, 3032, Melbourne",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -37.78181568,
    "longitude": 144.915498
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://shinobisushi.square.site/?location=11edf3e26efdc51cb800ac1f6bbbcc9c",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Shinobi Sushi

> local business (sushi) in Showgrounds Village, Shinobi Sushi, Shop 23, 320/380 Epsom Rd, 3032, Melbourne, Melbourne. Phone +61399729851.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://shinobisushi.square.site/?location=11edf3e26efdc51cb800ac1f6bbbcc9c (through square acting for the business)
- Menu: https://shinobisushi.com.au/our-menu/

## About

- Website: http://www.shinobisushi.com.au/
- 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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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 Shinobi Sushi

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/shinobisushi.com.au, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/melbourne/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordershinobisushi.square.site/?location=11edf3e26efdc51cb800ac1f6 vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-18, not yet tested
Menushinobisushi.com.au/our-menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+61399729851

Stable links that count: /go/shinobisushi.com.au/order, /go/shinobisushi.com.au/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 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 businessno