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

Sono

sonoraleigh.com is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

OrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Sono directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through doordash_storefront acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Thu 11:00–14:00, 17:00–22:00 · Fri 11:00–14:00, 17:00–23:00 · Sat 17:00–23:00 · Sun 17:00–22:00

Fayetteville Street 319 27601 Raleigh · +1-919-521-5328

Its menu mentions: vegetarian dishes

Prices: 15 prices on the site, the middle one $4.00

Nearby, also direct

Places near Sono that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Sono's website. It can read what Sono offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace.

61.1%

39.7 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

15 prices on the landing page, the middle one $4.00.

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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "I want sushi delivered this evening" in Raleigh, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Raleigh and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
I want sushi delivered this evening.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-22

Every place named in Raleigh, question by question.

Show it

The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/sonoraleigh.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/sonoraleigh.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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.

Recommended when people ask:
“I want sushi delivered this evening.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Sono compares

Where it stands

167 of 243 in Raleigh

Top 69% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Tepuy Donuts C, The Remedy Diner C. Just below: LaGana Burgers C, City Market Sushi 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 HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours56%no
Have an llms.txt48%yes

The top 10% are the 25 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Resy 2,728 sites67%44%61.1%
Sites using DoorDash Storefront 2,547 sites70%58%61.1%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Manhattan Cafe sandwich, salad63 mByes
Mustang House nepalese105 mAyes
ORO Restaurant & Lounge american108 mCyes
Mecca Restaurant american131 mCyes
Jimmy V's Osteria + Bar italian134 mByes
Carroll's Kitchen138 mByes
Daijobu japanese171 mDno
Element Gastropub173 mAyes
The Big Easy regional193 mAyes
Veloce Italian Market italian194 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Sono in Raleigh

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Raleigh24364%53%61.1%
Sites using Resy in Raleigh869%38%61.1%

The best of the sites using Resy in Raleigh

Dos Taquitos A 87.7% · J. Alexander's A 86.2% · Carajillo's Mexican Kitchen B 73.8% · Standard Beer + Food C 67.7% · Ajja C 66.2%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through resy; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 9th of 243 in Raleigh, up from 167th.

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. Booking only through resy +5 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Requests as GPTBot (http_429) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. 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 Raleigh. 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.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through doordash_storefront on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · contact page /contact.html: nothing new; menu page /menu.html: 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 your builder.

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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Sono",
  "url": "https://www.sonoraleigh.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-919-521-5328",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Fayetteville Street 319",
    "postalCode": "27601",
    "addressLocality": "Raleigh"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 35.7759268,
    "longitude": -78.6391293
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Th 11:00-14:00,17:00-22:00;Fr 11:00-14:00,17:00-23:00;Sa 17:00-23:00;Su 17:00-22:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "14:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "14:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "japanese"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://sonoraleigh.com/menu.html#food-menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.online/business/sono-sushi-restaurant-bar-110528",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/sonoraleigh.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/sonoraleigh.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Sono

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/sonoraleigh.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/raleigh/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderorder.online/business/sono-sushi-restaurant-bar-110528 vendor on own site: DoorDash Storefrontfound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menusonoraleigh.com/menu.html#food-menu html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Th 11:00-14:00,17:00-22:00;Fr 11:00-14:00,17:00-23:00;Sa 17:00-23:00;Su 17:00-22:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-919-521-5328

Stable links that count: /go/sonoraleigh.com/order, /go/sonoraleigh.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
Vendor terms for agents
DoorDash Storefront, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About DoorDash Storefront · 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.txtyes
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