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It reads a website the way an AI assistant does when a customer asks it to book, and scores how far it can go: 15/100 (E), counted as a place to stay, or transport (an airline, a ferry, a coach or a taxi).\nFull result: https://surfingdog.ai/b/houstonian.com\n\nAgents can already: send it a message.\n\nWhat's missing, biggest gain at the top:\n1. Let agents book (+59 points, including letting agents change and cancel a booking and check availability)\n   What counts: create_booking, book_table, create_reservation, reserve, POST /bookings. An inbox that takes bookings, or a booking platform's agent door you declare when you claim your listing and link from your site. A booking page, a form, email or phone don't count.\n   Add create_booking next to check_availability, reschedule_booking and cancel_booking, on an MCP server or in an OpenAPI document on your domain: the whole step in one job.\n2. Let agents pay (+15 points)\n   What counts: UCP payment handlers, ACP delegated payment, AP2 or x402 on a door, or a pay or checkout tool. paymentAccepted in your markup, payment terms in words or a checkout link count partly.\n   Ask your payment provider whether it takes agent payments (a token the person approves, which the agent passes on without seeing a card), and declare it on your own door: in UCP, as a payment handler.\n   A quick partial step: add paymentAccepted to your business markup, and say in words on your booking or order page how payment happens.\n3. Publish your terms for machines (+11 points)\n   What counts: get_policies. MerchantReturnPolicy markup, or a policy page linked from your pages that states its terms in words, such as \"free cancellation up to 24 hours before\".\n   Write your cancellation, deposit and no-show terms in one plain sentence next to the booking or order button, and on the policy page your footer links to.\n\nSurfing Dog Inbox would let agents see free times, book, change and cancel: +59 points once it's live at inbox.houstonian.com.\nThe owner starts it here, with their own email: https://app.surfingdog.ai/start?domain=houstonian.com. At the end it takes one DNS record at the domain, for inbox.houstonian.com. How it works: https://surfingdog.ai/inbox/\n\nAlready fine: your A2A door counts; nothing to change there.\n\nOnce a change is live, open https://surfingdog.ai/b/houstonian.com and choose \"Check again\": a fresh read can be asked for a few minutes after the last one.\nHow the score works: https://surfingdog.ai/v1/score-rules. It's not a certification; it's what the site and its doors said on 2026-10-21.\n\nThanks\n","rank":{"text":"#1 among places to stay in Houston, US","scope":{"group":"stay","country":"US","place":"Houston"},"position":1,"of":5,"overall":{"position":75563,"of":1181698}},"indexable":true,"not_certification":"This is not a certification: it is what our crawler read on houstonian.com's own site and doors on 2026-10-21, scored by the published rules. 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