query_stats August 2026 · 50 businesses · 10 industries

50 out of 50 failed at least one check

We audited 50 real, well-reviewed Vancouver businesses across 10 industries. Every single one failed at least one AI readiness check.

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100%

failed at least one check

98%

have no AI-readable summary of what they do

100%

offer no AI-actionable booking beyond a phone number

bar_chart By industry

Some industries arefurther behind than others

The near-universal failures (AI-readable summary, AI-bookable action) don't vary much by industry — almost nobody has them yet. But machine-findable contact info shows real spread. Here's the share of businesses in each industry whose phone number, hours, or address a machine can actually parse — not just see.

Machine-findable contact info, by industry

Share of 5 audited businesses per industry with a real tel: link or structured contact data

rule By check

Where the failuresactually concentrate

Across all 50 businesses and all 10 industries, regardless of trade.

Failure rate per check

Out of all 50 businesses audited

Methodology

We identified 5 real, independent, well-reviewed businesses in each of 10 Vancouver industries — restaurants/cafes, dentists, plumbers/HVAC, lawyers, salons/spas, auto repair, real estate agents, fitness studios, accountants/bookkeepers, and contractors/renovators — 50 businesses total. No chains or national franchises.

Each business's actual homepage (and /llms.txt, where present) was checked against the same 4-check framework used throughout this site: an AI-readable business summary (llms.txt or schema.org structured data), machine-findable contact info (a real tel: link or structured contact data, not just visible text), page layout stability, and an AI-actionable booking action (structured booking markup, not just a phone number).

The layout-stability check is not included in this report's published numbers. It requires a real browser (Lighthouse) to measure honestly. The automated, at-scale method used here produced contradictory results across two independent batches of this study — passing 100% of sites in one batch and failing 100% in another — which is the signature of a tooling artifact, not a real finding. Rather than publish a number we don't trust, we're publishing the methodology limitation instead.

No individual business is named as failing. Results are reported in aggregate and by industry only, consistent with the rest of this project.

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Questionsyou might be asking

How were the 50 businesses chosen?

5 real, independent, well-reviewed businesses in each of 10 Vancouver industries: restaurants/cafes, dentists, plumbers/HVAC, lawyers, salons/spas, auto repair, real estate agents, fitness studios, accountants, and contractors. No chains or franchises.

Why does this report only cover 3 checks, not the site's usual 4?

The 4th check, layout stability, needs a real browser to measure honestly. The automated method used for this study produced contradictory results across two independent batches, which pointed to a tooling artifact rather than a real signal, so it was excluded from the published numbers rather than reported inaccurately.

Are any specific businesses named as failing?

No. Consistent with the rest of this project, results are reported in aggregate and by industry only, never by naming individual businesses as failing.

Can I get my own business checked?

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