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

Watami Sushi

watami-sushi.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

MenuWebsite

Ways to reach Watami Sushi directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon closed · Tue–Thu 12:00–21:30 · Fri–Sat 12:00–22:00 · Sun 12:00–21:00

King Street North 14 N2J 2W7

Its menu mentions: a lunch or set menu · Step-free access (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Watami Sushi's website. It can read what Watami Sushi offers. It can't find a link to book or order online.

49.2%

32 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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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "I want sushi delivered this evening" in Waterloo, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Waterloo and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

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

Every place named in Waterloo, question by question.

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

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/watami-sushi.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/watami-sushi.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 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.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Watami Sushi compares

Where it stands

105 of 146 in Waterloo

Top 72% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Kin Gyu Japanese Grill D, Twin City Pizza D. Just below: The Jane Bond D, Burger King D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours60%no
Have an llms.txt33%yes

The top 10% are the 15 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 48,660 sites52%28%49.2%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Kin Gyu Japanese Grill japanese, barbecue102 mDno
Jinzakaya japanese253 mDno
Gyubee Japanese Grill japanese1.3 kmCno
Poke Box hawaiian, japanese, poke1.3 kmAyes
Ken Sushi japanese, sushi1.5 kmDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Watami Sushi in Waterloo

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Waterloo14661%38%49.2%
Sites built with Wix in Waterloo1266%42%49.2%

The best of the sites built with Wix in Waterloo

Exclamation A 95.4% · Aunty's Kitchen A 90.8% · Don Pablo Taco and Tequila B 72.3% · Sweet & Savory Pie Company B 72.3% · XPress Pizza House B 72.3%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 8th of 146 in Waterloo, up from 105th.

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 +15 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 booking or ordering link on the website +15 points

    There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. 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 Waterloo. 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.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: wix · menu page /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 wix.

Where to paste it on Wix: Settings, then Custom Code under Development & integrations, then Add Custom Code; choose All pages and Head. The site must be published with a connected domain. the official help page.

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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": "Watami Sushi",
  "url": "https://www.watami-sushi.com/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "King Street North 14",
    "postalCode": "N2J 2W7"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 43.4655596,
    "longitude": -80.5222787
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Th 12:00-21:30; Fr, Sa 12:00-22:00; Su 12:00-21:00",
  "servesCuisine": [
    "japanese"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.watami-sushi.com/menu"
}
</script>
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 D

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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 Watami 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/watami-sushi.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/waterloo/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.watami-sushi.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
HoursTu-Th 12:00-21:30; Fr, Sa 12:00-22:00; Su 12:00-21:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/watami-sushi.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
yes
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
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