The Direct Index
Report · New York cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-15

Ace Bar

acebar.com is hard for agents to use.

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 46% → 46%

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D
46.2%

30 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

4

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Since the scan of 2026-10-14: no change in the findings.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No booking or ordering path at all +13 points

    Only a phone number or WhatsApp. Agents cannot act on those yet. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it

  3. Menu or price list lives on another site +5 points

    The link points to acebar.menu, so the credit and the traffic go there. How to fix it

  4. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in New York cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.

Show the code to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Ace Bar",
  "url": "https://acebar.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-212-979-8476",
  "email": "reservations@acebar.com",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "East 5th Street 531"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 40.7243649,
    "longitude": -73.9829025
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 15:00-04:00; Sa, Su 13:00-04:00",
  "hasMenu": "https://acebar.menu/"
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Ace Bar

> bar or pub in East 5th Street 531, New York cafes and bars. Phone +1-212-979-8476.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://acebar.menu/

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 15:00-04:00; Sa, Su 13:00-04:00

## About

- Website: https://acebar.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

How Ace Bar compares

Where it stands

920 of 1,612 in New York cafes and bars

Top 57% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Eagle Trading Company D, Self Service Coffee Pointe D. Just below: Auction House D, Bier Wax D.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)99%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours24%no
Have an llms.txt11%no

The top tenth is the 162 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Bibi Wine Bar82 mByes
Club Cumming118 mCno
C&B138 mDno
Corner Bistro East burger, brunch145 mBno
Lovers of Today165 mByes
Art Laboratory Wine Bar italian166 mCno
Niagara180 mAyes
Baker Falls snack180 mFno
Death & Company229 mByes
787 Coffee Co. coffee232 mBno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Ace Bar in New York cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in New York cafes and bars1,61246%30%46.2%

The best of Same kind in New York cafes and bars

Analogue A 100% · Sandwell A 100% · The Winslow A 100% · Nurse Bettie A 96.3% · Someday A 96.3%

The climb

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering path at all; Menu or price list lives on another site) the score would be about 95.4%: 8th of 1,612 in New York cafes and bars, up from 920th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

Owners

Own this business?

Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/acebar.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/acebar.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Ace Bar

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/acebar.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/new-york-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuacebar.menu/ externalfrom the scan
HoursMo-Fr 15:00-04:00; Sa, Su 13:00-04:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-212-979-8476

Stable links that count: /go/acebar.com/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

UCP profile
/.well-known/ucp, Google and Shopify's Universal Commerce Protocol
no
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
no
MCP server card
/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
no
Ordering vendor that takes agent orders
Square, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no
Agent readiness

Level 0 of 5, Not Ready

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlno how
AI bot rules in robots.txtno how
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno