# The Direct Index

> Measures whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website. Any business, anywhere. Independent, open data, no pay-to-rank.

## For agents
- Full description, score specification and how to call the service: https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt
- Scan any site: POST https://directindex.org/api/scan {"url": "..."} then GET https://directindex.org/api/scan/{jobId}; OpenAPI at https://directindex.org/openapi.json
- MCP server (Streamable HTTP): https://directindex.org/mcp with tools scan_website, get_site_report, city_leaderboard, list_cities, find_direct_places, direct_record, vendor_report, what_assistants_say, assistant_recommendations, assistant_destinations, compare_cities, country_summary, rankings, search_places, city_changes, vendor_terms, order_deep_report, get_deep_report
- What assistants recommend and where they send people, per city and across the index: https://directindex.org/assistants and https://directindex.org/city/{slug}/assistants (JSON: add .json); the places named per question: https://directindex.org/city/{slug}/recommended
- Cities ranked by kind: https://directindex.org/rankings (JSON: /api/rankings?kind=); two cities side by side: https://directindex.org/compare/{a}/{b} (JSON: /api/compare/{a}/{b}); countries: https://directindex.org/countries and /country/{code}
- Search the index by name, domain, city, kind, grade, builder, vendor or finding: https://directindex.org/search (JSON: /api/search?q=)
- What changed, week by week: https://directindex.org/changes and /city/{slug}/changes (Atom: /city/{slug}/changes.xml; JSON: /api/city/{slug}/changes?days=30)
- Open data, monthly CSV and JSON per index under ODbL: https://directindex.org/data; the quarterly edition with a PDF and press releases per city: https://directindex.org/editions
- Ask the index a question in words (ten a day without a key): https://directindex.org/ask or POST https://directindex.org/api/ask {"question": "..."}
- API keys raise the scan limits only; reads stay free: https://directindex.org/auth.md
- Buy the deep report for a person (5 EUR): POST https://directindex.org/api/deep {"domain": "...", "email": "..."} returns a checkout link to hand over and an order token; the finished report at https://directindex.org/deep/{token}.md
- Recommend places a person can book or order from directly: https://directindex.org/api/city/{slug}/places?q=pizza&want=order (also lat, lon, radius_m, open_now, verified_only, vendor)
- The direct record of one business, the links agents should use instead of a marketplace with the vendor, the verified date, hours and phone: https://directindex.org/api/direct/{domain}; daily feeds per city: https://directindex.org/city/{slug}/direct.json, listed at https://directindex.org/direct.json; stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/{domain}/book, /order, /menu
- Vendors and builders, as agents find them: https://directindex.org/vendors (per vendor: /vendors/{slug}) and https://directindex.org/builders (per builder: /builders/{slug})
- The same as pages: https://directindex.org/city/{slug}/direct (all), /direct/book (tables), /direct/order (food), /direct/{want} (pizza, sushi, vegan, ...), each with a Markdown twin (.md)
- Any page in Markdown: add .md to its path, or ?format=md, or send Accept: text/markdown
- City indexes (restaurants, cafes and bars, salons, clinics, tours), with a page per month and local-language twins: https://directindex.org/cities

## For people
- Free scanner: https://directindex.org/scan
- Guides, one owner question each, with the fix per site builder: https://directindex.org/guides
- What agent-direct means: https://directindex.org/agent-direct
- Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology
- Common fixes: https://directindex.org/fix