The Gage
thegagechicago.com is ready for agents.
60 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
- Structured data is incomplete
Missing: telephone. How to fix it
- No llms.txt
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 Chicago. 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) address, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without a marketplace in the loop.
Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare
101 of 1,647 in Chicago
Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Tanuki A, The Dawson A. Just below: The Green Door Tavern A, The VIG Chicago A.
| What the top tenth 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 | 97% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 95% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 51% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 19% | no |
The top tenth is the 166 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remington’s steak_house, american | 162 m | B | yes |
| The Marq burger, sandwich, american, salad | 473 m | B | yes |
| The Dearborn american | 503 m | A | yes |
| Steadfast at the Gray american, new_american | 575 m | C | no |
| Delmonico Restaurant sandwich, burger, chinese, american, asian, chicken, breakfast, fish, salad, barbecue, pancake, fries, buffet, coffee, fruit, soup | 600 m | D | no |
| Chicago Brewhouse american | 701 m | D | no |
| Luke's Lobster City Hall seafood, american | 732 m | B | yes |
| 312 Chicago american | 748 m | C | yes |
| Travelle Kitchen + Bar american | 851 m | C | no |
| House of Blues american | 853 m | B | no |
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.
| 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/thegagechicago.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/thegagechicago.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score A" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.