The Direct Index
Report · Boston cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Backbar

backbarunion.com is mostly ready for agents.

An AI assistant can open the website of Backbar. It can read what Backbar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Tock.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Book directly: www.exploretock.com/backbarsomerville through tock acting for the business · Menu: www.backbarunion.com/menu

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84.6%

55 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing 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 (C then): fixed No booking or ordering path at all.

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 Backbar compares

Where it stands

31 of 246 in Boston cafes and bars

Top 13% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Oda Bar and Bites A, Good Life A. Just below: 3 Little Figs B, Bleacher Bar 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 HTML92%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours28%no
Have an llms.txt8%yes

The top tenth is the 25 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 3,255 sites58%35%84.6%
Sites using Tock 129 sites73%60%84.6%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Bloc214 mByes
Sally O'Brien's Bar and Grill292 mByes
Komugi Bakery & Cafe371 mFno
An Sibin760 mBno
bōm dough breakfast783 mByes
New Republik irish784 mCyes
The Druid827 mCno
Remnant Brewing Satellite849 mCyes
Zuzu's Petals892 mDno
Broadsheet Coffee Roasters coffee_shop1.1 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Backbar in Boston cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Boston cafes and bars24655%37%84.6%
Sites built with Wix in Boston cafes and bars1259%33%84.6%
Sites using Tock in Boston cafes and bars473%75%84.6%
Sites built with Wix and using Tock in Boston cafes and bars185%100%84.6%

The best of the sites using Tock in Boston cafes and bars

Extra Dirty Cocktail Club B 76.9% · The Publick House B 76.9% · Farmacia D 53.8%

The climb

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 87.7%: 18th of 246 in Boston cafes and bars, up from 31st.

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 +2 points

    Missing: telephone. 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 Boston cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wix · 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 wix is in the guides.

Where to paste it on Wix: Settings, then Custom Code under Development & integrations, then Add Custom Code; choose All pages and Head. The site must be published with a connected domain. the official help page.

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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": "Backbar",
  "url": "https://backbarunion.com/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Sanborn Court 5"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 42.3799325,
    "longitude": -71.0945397
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu-Su 17:00-24:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "17:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.exploretock.com/backbarsomerville",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.backbarunion.com/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.exploretock.com/backbarsomerville",
        "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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Agent-Direct Score B

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/backbarunion.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/backbarunion.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" 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 Backbar

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/backbarunion.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/boston-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.exploretock.com/backbarsomerville vendor on own site: Tockfound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.backbarunion.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
HoursTu-Su 17:00-24:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/backbarunion.com/book, /go/backbarunion.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
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
Tock, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

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

Tock's terms (12 February 2026) prohibit robots, scripts, scrapers and automated systems except software expressly licensed by Tock; Google names Tock as an AI Mode booking partner. Source. About Tock · 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/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
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 businessyes