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A free business directory for Bastrop County that also measures how well each business's website works. It lists 1,051 businesses across Bastrop, Smithville, Elgin and Cedar Creek — compiled from the Bastrop Regional Chamber of Commerce published membership directory and from OpenStreetMap — and scores 660 business websites on nine objective checks.
Listings are free, require no signup or membership, and can be removed on request.
The most striking finding is the last two. Of 660 business websites we
measured in this county, 423 publish no llms.txt or
AGENTS.md — the plain-text files that let AI assistants read
and recommend a business. As search shifts toward assistants, a county where
almost nobody has done this is a county where local businesses are about to
become harder to find, not easier.
Every score is reproducible. The method is published in full at lostpinesguide.com/about and every check can be verified by viewing a site's page source.
Lost Pines Guide is a free business directory and website scoreboard covering Bastrop, Smithville, Elgin and Cedar Creek, Texas. It lists 1,051 local businesses and measures how well their websites perform on nine objective checks, including whether AI search assistants can read them. Listings are free and the ranking is not for sale. Lost Pines Guide is published by WholeTech in Bastrop County, Texas.
Paul Walhus · wholetechtexas@gmail.com
Available for interview on small-business web presence in Bastrop County, what the audit found, and what AI search means for rural main streets. Data extracts, per-category breakdowns and individual business reports available to journalists on request.
Bastrop Realty publishes the same measurement applied to every real estate professional in the county.