The Direct Index
Report · Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-14

Alyssa Essential Beauty

alyssaessentialbeauty.com is mostly ready for agents.

An AI assistant can open the website of Alyssa Essential Beauty. It finds no menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Square.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Order directly: squareup.com/appointments/book/tu0480atycaj5r/KQM8CFX2KB6BS/ through square acting for the business

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72.5%

58 of 80 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-14: completed, an agent can reach the step before confirming. A Square booking or ordering page renders and can be used without a login.

Provisional: 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 Alyssa Essential Beauty compares

Where it stands

27 of 190 in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 14% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: English Bay Wellness B, La Pina Lash Studio B. Just below: is B, Regal Grooming Lounge B.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML26%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours16%no
Have an llms.txt11%yes

The top tenth is the 19 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Shopify 1,345 sites58%37%72.5%
Sites using Square 793 sites69%47%72.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Orchid Health & Beauty Spa92 mCyes
Locks & Co. Hair Salon Barbershop240 mDyes
Hair Idol Salon293 mFno
Salon Salon1.6 kmFno
Crypto Barbershop2.0 kmCyes
Tomo Tomo Hair Studio2.3 kmDno
La Lucia Hair Salon2.3 kmFno
Abantu Beauty Products Ltd2.3 kmFno
Big Bro's Barbershop2.4 kmCno
Sonu Haircut2.8 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Alyssa Essential Beauty in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons19046%19%72.5%
Sites built with Shopify in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons1056%30%72.5%
Sites using Square in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons973%67%72.5%
Sites built with Shopify and using Square in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons173%100%72.5%

The best of the sites using Square in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons

Onyx Aesthetics Studio A 95% · Contrast Lash Studio B 81.5% · Mod on Main B 78.8% · Big Joy B 73.8% · Happy Feet B 70%

The climb

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No price list of services found) the score would be about 90%: 3rd of 190 in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 27th.

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. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

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

  2. No price list of services found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page with services and prices as text and link it from the homepage. 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 Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: shopify · 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 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": "BeautySalon",
  "name": "Alyssa Essential Beauty",
  "url": "https://alyssaessentialbeauty.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-604-487-2258",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Kingsway 2419",
    "postalCode": "V5R 5G8",
    "addressLocality": "Vancouver"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 49.2410648,
    "longitude": -123.0558816
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://squareup.com/appointments/book/tu0480atycaj5r/KQM8CFX2KB6BS/start",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

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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 B

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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 Alyssa Essential Beauty

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/alyssaessentialbeauty.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/vancouver-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordersquareup.com/appointments/book/tu0480atycaj5r/KQM8CFX2KB6BS/ vendor on own site: Squareverified direct, 2026-10-14
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1-604-487-2258

Stable links that count: /go/alyssaessentialbeauty.com/order 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
not measured
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
not measured
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
not measured
Vendor terms for agents
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Source. About Square · all vendors.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

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.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownyes
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageyes
JSON-LD for the businessyes