The Direct Index
Report · Seattle · scanned 2026-10-14

Ray's Boathouse and Café

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Ways to reach Ray's Boathouse and Café directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-14. Report a mistake

Seaview Avenue Northwest 6049 98107 Seattle · 206.789.3770

Read by AI agents 5 times this month. The crawlers behind the assistants read this page when they answer questions about the business.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Ray's Boathouse and Café's website. It can read what Ray's Boathouse and Café offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace.

55.4%

36 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.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini for "Seafood dinner with a view, table for four this week" and "Lunch on a terrace in the sun tomorrow. Where can I reserve?" in Seattle, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Seattle and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 2 answers, by 3 of the 3 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Seafood dinner with a view, table for four this week.ChatGPT with a link to this site
Gemini with a link to this site
2026-10-18
Lunch on a terrace in the sun tomorrow. Where can I reserve?Claude with a link to this site2026-10-18

Every place named in Seattle, 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 3 of 3 assistants, Direct Index

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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:
“Seafood dinner with a view, table for four this week.” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)
“Lunch on a terrace in the sun tomorrow. Where can I reserve?” (Claude, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Ray's Boathouse and Café compares

Where it stands

508 of 874 in Seattle

Top 58% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Nduja Me Pasta Bar C, Pho 25 C. Just below: Relish Burger Bistro C, Ridge Pizza C.

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 HTML99%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours51%no
Have an llms.txt11%no

The top 10% are the 88 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%55.4%
Sites using Resy 801 sites67%46%55.4%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Happy Crab Boiling Seafood seafood78 mDno
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Eldr regional749 mCno
Taco Time mexican1.1 kmByes
El Taco Loco mexican1.1 kmCno
Lockspot Cafe seafood1.1 kmByes
Portage Bay Cafe and Catering american1.1 kmByes
Kiss Cafe american, sandwich1.2 kmDno
Ballard Beer Box pizza1.4 kmDyes
Kimchi House korean1.5 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Ray's Boathouse and Café in Seattle

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Seattle87454%38%55.4%
Sites built with WordPress in Seattle16568%45%55.4%
Sites using Resy in Seattle1264%17%55.4%
Sites built with WordPress and using Resy in Seattle665%17%55.4%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Resy in Seattle

L'Oursin B 81.5% · The Butcher's Table C 66.2% · Shiro's Sushi C 64.6% · Black Bottle C 63.1% · I Love Sushi C 60%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through resy), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 15th of 874 in Seattle, up from 508th.

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 +12 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. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. 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 Seattle. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare

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 wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

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": "Ray's Boathouse and Café",
  "url": "https://www.rays.com/",
  "telephone": "206.789.3770",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Seaview Avenue Northwest 6049",
    "postalCode": "98107",
    "addressLocality": "Seattle"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 47.6733773,
    "longitude": -122.4075723
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "seafood"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.rays.com/boathouse/boathouse-menu/"
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Ray's Boathouse and Café

> restaurant (seafood) in Seaview Avenue Northwest 6049 98107 Seattle, Seattle. Phone 206.789.3770.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.rays.com/boathouse/boathouse-menu/

## About

- Website: https://www.rays.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/rays.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/rays.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 Ray's Boathouse and Café

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/rays.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/seattle/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.rays.com/boathouse/boathouse-menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone206.789.3770

Stable links that count: /go/rays.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
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
Resy, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

Resy's terms (9 June 2025) bar automated software that crawls, harvests or scrapes the service and require written consent for other automated use; Resy opened bookings inside ChatGPT on 10 August 2026. Source. About Resy · all vendors.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

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.txtno how
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