The Direct Index
Report · Ottawa cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-16

À La Dérive

aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca is hard for agents to use.

AI assistants cannot open the website of À La Dérive, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Book directly: booking.libroreserve.com/23db9c4987ce2bb/QC016148941589/seat through libro acting for the business · Menu: aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/pages/menu-pub

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40%

26 of 65 points available

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agent-readiness level

2

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.

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.

Where it stands

How À La Dérive compares

Where it stands

96 of 152 in Ottawa cafes and bars

Top 63% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Hi T D, Sir John A. Pub D. Just below: Big Rig Brewery F, Brigid's Well F.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain94%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML94%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours13%no
Have an llms.txt13%no

The top tenth is the 16 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Shopify 2,586 sites48%26%40%
Sites using Libro 94 sites68%33%40%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Pop-O-Bar burger, chicken, pasta, pizza, regional, sandwich1.0 kmByes
Union Street Kitchen Cafe bakery1.6 kmDno
Tavern on the Falls coffee_shop, sandwich, drinks1.6 kmDno
The SconeWitch2.2 kmByes
Red Door2.2 kmCno
Brasserie du Bas-Canada2.6 kmBno
Brigid's Well2.8 kmFno
Anina's Cafe sandwich3.0 kmFno
The Rainbow Bistro3.0 kmFno
Picolo Grande ice_cream3.0 kmFyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like À La Dérive in Ottawa cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Ottawa cafes and bars15250%22%40%
Sites built with Shopify in Ottawa cafes and bars1837%11%40%
Sites using Libro in Ottawa cafes and bars140%0%40%
Sites built with Shopify and using Libro in Ottawa cafes and bars140%0%40%

The best of the sites built with Shopify in Ottawa cafes and bars

Bean Bag Play Cafe B 74.3% · The SconeWitch B 74.3% · Aseer Time C 61.1% · Dessert First D 46.2% · Overflow Brewing D 46.2%

The climb

With the two fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 87.7%: 10th of 152 in Ottawa cafes and bars, up from 96th.

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

Findings

What to fix first

  1. The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included +25 points

    A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

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

Already right

Builder: shopify · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.

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 shopify is in the guides.

Where to paste it on Shopify: Online Store, then the three-dot menu on the theme, then Edit code; paste it in the theme's layout file, inside the head. the official help page.

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": "À La Dérive",
  "url": "https://a-la-derive-st-joseph.myshopify.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-819-568-7666",
  "email": "pub@laderive.ca",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Rue Jacques-Cartier 1015",
    "postalCode": "J8T 2W3",
    "addressLocality": "Gatineau"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 45.4562701,
    "longitude": -75.6915956
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Tu 17:00-23:00; We-Fr 12:00-23:00; Sa 12:00-24:00; Su 12:00-19:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "23:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "19:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://booking.libroreserve.com/23db9c4987ce2bb/QC016148941589/seat",
  "hasMenu": "https://aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/pages/menu-pub",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://booking.libroreserve.com/23db9c4987ce2bb/QC016148941589/seat",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
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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Keep watching this business: the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant and the places nearby; 5 EUR once. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca.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 À La Dérive

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/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/ottawa-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookbooking.libroreserve.com/23db9c4987ce2bb/QC016148941589/seat vendor on own site: Librofound by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menualaderivebrasserieartisanale.ca/pages/menu-pub html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Tu 17:00-23:00; We-Fr 12:00-23:00; Sa 12:00-24:00; Su 12:00-19:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-819-568-7666

Stable links that count: /go/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/book, /go/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/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
Vendor terms for agents
Libro, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About Libro · all vendors.

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

Agent readiness

Not measured

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.

JSON-LD for the businessyes