# À La Dérive: Agent-Direct Score D (40%)

Site: https://a-la-derive-st-joseph.myshopify.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca
Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
À La Dérive 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.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://booking.libroreserve.com/23db9c4987ce2bb/QC016148941589/seat (through libro acting for the business)
- Menu: https://aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/pages/menu-pub
- Phone: +1-819-568-7666

## What to fix first
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## Fix kit: What 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.

```html
<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>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (Organization).** but without address, phone or hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.
- **Booking through libro on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.

## Where it stands
96 of 152 in Ottawa cafes and bars. Top 63% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 94% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 94% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 13% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 13% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Pop-O-Bar (B, 1026 m, https://directindex.org/r/lepopbarurbain.com); Union Street Kitchen Cafe (D, 1605 m, https://directindex.org/r/onunionstreet.ca); Tavern on the Falls (D, 1620 m, https://directindex.org/r/tavernonthehillottawa.com); The SconeWitch (B, 2179 m, https://directindex.org/r/sconewitch.ca); Red Door (C, 2180 m, https://directindex.org/r/reddoorprovisions.com); Brasserie du Bas-Canada (B, 2598 m, https://directindex.org/r/brasseriebascanada.com); Brigid's Well (F, 2763 m, https://directindex.org/r/saintbrigidscentre.com); Anina's Cafe (F, 2980 m, https://directindex.org/r/aninascafe.ca); The Rainbow Bistro (F, 2986 m, https://directindex.org/r/therainbow.ca); Picolo Grande (F, 2988 m, https://directindex.org/r/piccolograndeonmurray.com).

## What assistants answer
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.

Against its peers: Sites built with Shopify 48% (26% A or B, 2586 sites); Sites using Libro 68% (33% A or B, 94 sites); This site 40%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/agent-view

## Businesses like À La Dérive in Ottawa cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Ottawa cafes and bars | 152 | 50% | 22% | 40% |
| Sites built with Shopify in Ottawa cafes and bars | 18 | 37% | 11% | 40% |
| Sites using Libro in Ottawa cafes and bars | 1 | 40% | 0% | 40% |
| Sites built with Shopify and using Libro in Ottawa cafes and bars | 1 | 40% | 0% | 40% |

The best of the sites built with Shopify in Ottawa cafes and bars: Bean Bag Play Cafe (B 74.3%, https://directindex.org/r/beanbagplaycafe.ca); The SconeWitch (B 74.3%, https://directindex.org/r/sconewitch.ca); Aseer Time (C 61.1%, https://directindex.org/r/bridgehead.ca); Dessert First (D 46.2%, https://directindex.org/r/dessertfirst-ottawa.com); Overflow Brewing (D 46.2%, https://directindex.org/r/overflowbeer.com).

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.

## The direct record
What agents get for À La Dérive, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca
- Book: https://booking.libroreserve.com/23db9c4987ce2bb/QC016148941589/seat (vendor on own site: Libro; found by the scan of 2026-10-16, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/pages/menu-pub (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-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: https://directindex.org/go/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/book, https://directindex.org/go/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/menu

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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: 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.

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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 16 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=aladerivebrasserieartisanale.ca&force=1