# Rouse Craft Cooking: Agent-Direct Score B (76.9%)

Site: https://www.thechifleyhouston.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thechifleyhouston.com
Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Rouse Craft Cooking is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Rouse Craft Cooking's website. It can read what Rouse Craft Cooking offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through hilton.com.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.thechifleyhouston.com/restaurants-galleria-houston#rouse-craft-kitchen
- Phone: +17135862444
- Address: 2400 W Loop S, 77027, Houston
- Prices: 3 prices on the site, the middle one $32.00

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Rouse Craft Cooking that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/kennyandziggys.com
- The Honey Hole (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/thehoneyholehtx.com
- Valentino (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/valentino.com
- Morton's The Steakhouse (270 m): https://directindex.org/r/mortons.com
- King Steak (320 m): https://directindex.org/r/kingsteakhtx.com

## What to fix first
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+3 points) Missing: opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **3 prices on the landing page, the middle one $32.00.** In Houston, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $12.45.

## 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Rouse Craft Cooking",
  "url": "https://www.thechifleyhouston.com/",
  "telephone": "+17135862444",
  "address": "2400 W Loop S, 77027, Houston",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 29.74224375,
    "longitude": -95.45896989
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "asian fusion"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.thechifleyhouston.com/restaurants-galleria-houston#rouse-craft-kitchen"
}
</script>
```

## 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.
- **Structured data found (Restaurant).** address, phone
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.

## Where it stands
635 of 2664 in Houston. Top 24% 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% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 97% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 93% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 72% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 53% | yes |

Nearest places in the index: Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen (A, 159 m, https://directindex.org/r/kennyandziggys.com); The Honey Hole (A, 164 m, https://directindex.org/r/thehoneyholehtx.com); Valentino (B, 198 m, https://directindex.org/r/valentino.com); Morton's The Steakhouse (A, 271 m, https://directindex.org/r/mortons.com); Arcodoro (F, 300 m, https://directindex.org/r/arcodoro.com); King Steak (C, 322 m, https://directindex.org/r/kingsteakhtx.com); Sushi on Post Oak (B, 333 m, https://directindex.org/r/sopohouston.com); Maggiano's Little Italy (C, 358 m, https://directindex.org/r/maggianos.com); Caracol (A, 359 m, https://directindex.org/r/caracol.net); Grand Lux Cafe (C, 404 m, https://directindex.org/r/grandluxcafe.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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Houston and named 61 places. Rouse Craft Cooking wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/houston/recommended


See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thechifleyhouston.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Rouse Craft Cooking in Houston

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Houston | 2664 | 54% | 35% | 76.9% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Houston: 2 Phat Bastard Pies (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/2phatbastardpies.com); Aladdin Mediterranean cuisine (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/aladdinshouston.com); Annabelle Brasserie (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/annabellebrasserie.com); Annam Vietnamese Restaurant (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/annamhouston.com); Benihana (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/benihana.com).

With the two fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 121st of 2,664 in Houston, up from 635th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Rouse Craft Cooking, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thechifleyhouston.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.thechifleyhouston.com/restaurants-galleria-houston#rouse-craft-kitchen (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +17135862444
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thechifleyhouston.com/menu

## 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

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /restaurants-galleria-houston: business JSON-LD, address, telephone.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 19 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 3 of 5, Agent-Readable. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/thechifleyhouston.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: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: yes
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: yes
- llms.txt: yes
- 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: yes
- 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: yes
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/thechifleyhouston.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/thechifleyhouston.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=thechifleyhouston.com&force=1