# American Elm: Agent-Direct Score A (86.2%) Site: http://www.AmElm.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/amelm.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) American Elm is ready for agents. An AI assistant can open American Elm's website. It can read what American Elm offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://order.toasttab.com/online/american-elm (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.amelm.com/menu - Phone: (720) 749-3186 - Address: West 38th Avenue 4132 80212 Denver - Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes ## Nearby, also direct Places near American Elm that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Pablo's Yard Art (260 m): https://directindex.org/r/pablitoswildthings.com - Glo Noodle House (290 m): https://directindex.org/r/glonoodlehouse.com - Wild Taco Denver - Berkeley (300 m): https://directindex.org/r/wildtacodenver.com - Hops & Pie (310 m): https://directindex.org/r/hopsandpie.com - Vital Root (340 m): https://directindex.org/r/ediblebeats.com ## What to fix first - **Booking only through resy.** (+5 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+1 points) Missing: telephone. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No llms.txt.** (no points, but worth doing) Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # American Elm > restaurant in West 38th Avenue 4132 80212 Denver, Denver. Phone (720) 749-3186. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/american-elm (through toast acting for the business) - Menu: https://www.amelm.com/menu ## About - Website: http://www.AmElm.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** address, opening hours - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Ordering through toast on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. - **Toast works with agents through its partners.** Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands Not ranked yet in Denver. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 83% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 91% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 57% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 17% | no | Nearest places in the index: Revelry Kitchen (D, 14 m, https://directindex.org/r/revelrydenver.com); Tacos Jalisco Mexican Food (D, 161 m, https://directindex.org/r/tacosjaliscodenver.com); Pablo's Yard Art (C, 256 m, https://directindex.org/r/pablitoswildthings.com); Tres Chiles (F, 290 m, https://directindex.org/r/treschilesmexicangrill.com); Glo Noodle House (C, 293 m, https://directindex.org/r/glonoodlehouse.com); Wild Taco Denver - Berkeley (A, 303 m, https://directindex.org/r/wildtacodenver.com); Hops & Pie (A, 313 m, https://directindex.org/r/hopsandpie.com); Kazan Ramen Bistro (F, 333 m, https://directindex.org/r/kazanramen.com); Vital Root (B, 339 m, https://directindex.org/r/ediblebeats.com); Block & Larder (F, 343 m, https://directindex.org/r/blockandlarder.com). ## What assistants answer The assistants haven't been asked about this business yet. They're asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about any business as soon as it's claimed. Claim this page to be included. The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Denver and named 55 places. American Elm wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/denver/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 63% (46% A or B, 18903 sites); Sites using Resy 67% (45% A or B, 830 sites); Sites using Toast 72% (57% A or B, 3305 sites); This site 86.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/amelm.com/agent-view ## Businesses like American Elm in Denver | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Denver | 456 | 56% | 41% | 86.2% | | Sites built with Squarespace in Denver | 143 | 71% | 62% | 86.2% | | Sites using Resy in Denver | 17 | 73% | 65% | 86.2% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in Denver | 9 | 75% | 78% | 86.2% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in Denver: Safta (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/eatwithsafta.com); Pig and Tiger (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/pigandtiger.com); Work and Class (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/workandclassdenver.com); Carne RiNo (B 76.9%, https://directindex.org/r/carne-rino.com); Brasserie Brixton (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/brasseriebrixton.com). With the two fixes above (Booking only through resy; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 8th of 456 in Denver, up from not ranked today. ## The direct record What agents get for American Elm, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/amelm.com - Book: none on record - Order: https://order.toasttab.com/online/american-elm (vendor on own site: Toast; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Menu: https://www.amelm.com/menu (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: (720) 749-3186 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/amelm.com/order, https://directindex.org/go/amelm.com/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 (Toast): yes - Vendor terms for agents, Toast: Through partners. Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/ ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 21 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/amelm.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/amelm.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/amelm.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. 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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=amelm.com&force=1