The Agent-Ready Booking Score
The open standard for one question the whole market is about to care about: can a local business be found, read and booked, by customers, by search, and by the AI assistants people now ask first. Here is exactly how it works.
A real report, scored
One number out of 100, four dimensions underneath it. This is what a typical local business looks like today: findable, but nearly invisible to AI.
Overall presence
out of 100
Online Presence
Customer Actions
AI Readiness
Agent-Ready Booking
Why this matters
Discovery already moved to AI. Booking is next
A year ago, 6% of consumers used AI to find a local business. This year it’s 45%.AI is now the third way people find local places, past Yelp and TripAdvisor. More and more, people just ask an assistant “find me a good place tonight” and go with what it hands back.
A year ago
This year
Share of consumers who used AI to find a local business, 2025 vs 2026. Source: BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026.
83%
of restaurants are invisible in AI search
Uberall, 2026
94%
of independent hotels aren't named when someone asks AI for a recommendation
Hospitality Net, 2026
89%
of Americans are open to an AI agent handling a restaurant booking
PureSpectrum, 2025
They’re invisible not because they block AI, but because their sites can’t be read by it. And booking is becoming action too: Google switched on AI restaurant booking in 2026. The businesses that get ready first get chosen. The rest get quietly skipped.
Being early is the whole advantage. When an independent place is visible, most AI recommendations go to it, direct and commission-free. The score is how you get there before it’s a problem.
The four dimensions
Each is scored on its own, then combined. What each one checks, why it decides whether you get chosen, and where a typical business lands today.
Online Presence
What it checks. Whether a real person, and Google, can find you at all: a reachable website, a complete Google/Maps profile, and social profiles that actually resolve.
Why it matters. If you can't be found, nothing downstream matters. This is the floor everything else stands on.
Customer Actions
What it checks. Whether a visitor can act without hitting a dead end: a clear way to book, call, open the menu or get directions, on a phone, in seconds.
Why it matters. Most local business is lost between interest and action. Friction here is revenue walking away.
AI Readiness
What it checks. Whether your business facts are structured so a machine can read them: clear, consistent hours, location, services and offer, in a form assistants and search AI can parse.
Why it matters. AI answers are now the first screen. An assistant recommends what it can read and verify, and quietly skips the rest.
Agent-Ready Booking
What it checks. Whether an AI assistant, acting for a customer, could actually complete a booking on your site: a findable booking path, readable date and time fields, and no wall that stops an agent cold.
Why it matters. People are starting to let AI book for them. This is the one score almost nobody else measures, and the one that will decide who gets chosen.
The diagnostic, in numbers
scores in your report — presence, actions, AI readiness, agent-ready booking
seconds to your first score. Six fields, nothing else to fill in
for the full report — free, with a concrete action plan by email
What we deliberately don't do
A score is only worth something if you can trust it. So the rules are strict, on purpose.
We never invent data.
If something can't be verified from what's publicly there, we mark it unknown. We do not guess a number to fill a box.
We don't scrape private or paid data.
The score reads what is openly published. No back doors, no data a business didn't choose to make public.
We publish what and why, not the exact how.
The four dimensions and their reasoning are open, so you can trust and check them. The precise weighting and the live agent test are our engine. What matters to you is the result, and the fix.
We never sell you a fix you don't need.
The diagnostic is free and stays free. If the score says you're fine, we say so. We only quote work the number actually calls for.
How to read it
Your number, in plain terms
The only way to know your number is to run it.
Sources
- BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (AI as a local-discovery channel; 45% of consumers, up from 6% a year earlier).
- Uberall, 2026 (share of restaurants invisible in AI search).
- Hospitality Net, 2026 (independent hotels not named in AI recommendations).
- PureSpectrum for Popmenu, 2025 (consumer openness to AI agents for restaurant tasks).
- Structured-data and AI-citation research, 2026 (schema markup and likelihood of being cited by AI).
- G-Lab aggregate diagnostic data (per-dimension distributions across businesses scanned, updated continuously).
We publish only figures we can stand behind. Sample report values are illustrative of a typical result and are not a specific business.
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