The Banks Seafood and Steak
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Menu: thebanksboston.com/menus
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44 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- Booking only through opentable +12 points
Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor
- Ordering only through doordash +12 points
Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor
- Structured data is incomplete +6 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Boston. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (LocalBusiness) but without address, phone or hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- OpenTable works with agents through its partners OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms. An assistant that is not a partner may not finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on squarespace is in the guides.
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Restaurant",
"name": "The Banks Seafood and Steak",
"url": "https://thebanksboston.com/",
"telephone": "+16173990015",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Stuart Street 406",
"postalCode": "02116",
"addressLocality": "Boston"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 42.3488696,
"longitude": -71.0740539
},
"servesCuisine": [
"seafood",
"steak house"
],
"hasMenu": "https://thebanksboston.com/menus"
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# The Banks Seafood and Steak > restaurant (seafood, steak house) in Stuart Street 406 02116 Boston, Boston. Phone +16173990015. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://thebanksboston.com/menus ## About - Website: https://thebanksboston.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
356 of 834 in Boston
Top 43% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Rebel's Guild C, Taqueria el Barrio C. Just below: The Village Manor C, Life Alive C.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 98% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 42% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 18% | no |
The top tenth is the 84 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 7,098 sites | 65% | 48% | 67.7% |
| Sites using OpenTable 1,462 sites | 67% | 43% | 67.7% |
| Sites using DoorDash 137 sites | 63% | 35% | 67.7% |
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fogo de Chão brazilian, steak_house | 249 m | A | yes |
| Samurai Express sushi, seafood | 327 m | D | no |
| Saltie Girl seafood | 390 m | A | yes |
| McCormick & Schmick's seafood, steak | 415 m | B | yes |
| Luke's Lobster Back Bay seafood | 433 m | B | yes |
| Bootleg Special seafood, cajun | 497 m | C | no |
| Atlantic Fish seafood | 588 m | C | yes |
| Ostra seafood | 613 m | A | yes |
| Abe & Louie's steak_house | 617 m | C | yes |
| Lobstah on a Roll seafood, lobster | 715 m | F | no |
Businesses like The Banks Seafood and Steak in Boston
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Boston | 834 | 53% | 41% | 67.7% |
| Built with Squarespace in Boston | 122 | 78% | 75% | 67.7% |
| Using OpenTable in Boston | 51 | 77% | 73% | 67.7% |
| Built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Boston | 18 | 80% | 83% | 67.7% |
The best of Built with Squarespace and using OpenTable in Boston
Bar Vlaha A 93.8% · Krasi A 92.3% · Steel & Rye A 92.3% · Fox & The Knife A 86.2% · Pearl&Lime A 86.2%
The climb
With the three fixes above (Booking only through opentable; Ordering only through doordash; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 100%: first of 834 in Boston.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What agents get for The Banks Seafood and Steak
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/thebanksboston.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/boston/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | thebanksboston.com/menus html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +16173990015 |
Stable links that count: /go/thebanksboston.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.
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 | not measured |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| 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 | not measured |
| Vendor terms for agents OpenTable, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Source. About OpenTable · all vendors.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.
Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/thebanksboston.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thebanksboston.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
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