# Back Bay Periodontics & Dental Implants: Agent-Direct Score C (67.2%) Site: https://backbayperio.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/backbayperio.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.) Back Bay Periodontics & Dental Implants is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Back Bay Periodontics & Dental Implants's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through CareStack. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://patientportal-cs5.carestack.com/?dn=paradigm&ln=1/#/authenticate (through carestack acting for the business) - Phone: 6174569714 - Address: 398 Commonwealth Ave, 02215, Boston ## Nearby, also direct Places near Back Bay Periodontics & Dental Implants that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Warshauer & Santamaria (20 m): https://directindex.org/r/backbaybostondentist.com - Commonwealth Dental Group (30 m): https://directindex.org/r/cdgboston.com - PURE Cosmetic Center (30 m): https://directindex.org/r/purecosmeticcenter.com - Boston Center for Oral Health (30 m): https://directindex.org/r/bcoh.com - The Face Dental Group Of Boston (30 m): https://directindex.org/r/facedentalgroup.com ## What to fix first - **No list of services and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they treat and what does it cost?' from directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+3.3 points) Requests as ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+3 points) Missing: opening hours. 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. ``` # Back Bay Periodontics & Dental Implants > local business in 398 Commonwealth Ave, 02215, Boston, Boston dentists, clinics and vets. Phone 6174569714. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://patientportal-cs5.carestack.com/?dn=paradigm&ln=1/#/authenticate (through carestack acting for the business) ## About - Website: https://backbayperio.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. - **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** address, phone - **Appointments through carestack on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. ## Where it stands 109 of 468 in Boston dentists, clinics and vets. Top 23% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 2% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 27% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 39% | no | Nearest places in the index: Boston Orthodontics (D, 19 m, https://directindex.org/r/orthodonticsbostonma.com); Warshauer & Santamaria (C, 21 m, https://directindex.org/r/backbaybostondentist.com); The Perico Group (C, 26 m, https://directindex.org/r/thepericogroup.com); Commonwealth Dental Group (B, 26 m, https://directindex.org/r/cdgboston.com); PURE Cosmetic Center (B, 27 m, https://directindex.org/r/purecosmeticcenter.com); Boston Center for Oral Health (B, 27 m, https://directindex.org/r/bcoh.com); Devitre & Shahinian Dmd (F, 31 m, https://directindex.org/r/dental-experts.com); The Face Dental Group Of Boston (B, 31 m, https://directindex.org/r/facedentalgroup.com); Robin R. Cox, Dds. (F, 36 m, https://directindex.org/r/drrobincox.com); O'Trafford Dental Specialists (B, 53 m, https://directindex.org/r/otrafforddental.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. Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (28% A or B, 145483 sites); This site 67.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/backbayperio.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Back Bay Periodontics & Dental Implants in Boston dentists, clinics and vets | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Boston dentists, clinics and vets | 468 | 50% | 22% | 67.2% | | Sites built with WordPress in Boston dentists, clinics and vets | 198 | 61% | 37% | 67.2% | | Sites using CareStack in Boston dentists, clinics and vets | 3 | 67% | 33% | 67.2% | | Sites built with WordPress and using CareStack in Boston dentists, clinics and vets | 1 | 67% | 0% | 67.2% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Boston dentists, clinics and vets: Boston Center For Pregnancy Choices (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/bostonpregnancycenter.org); Boston Center for Oral Health (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/bcoh.com); Commonwealth Dental Group (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/cdgboston.com); Pacer Physical Therapy (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/pacerphysicaltherapy.com); Pondside Dental Associates (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/pondsidedental.com). With the three fixes above (No list of services and prices found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 2nd of 468 in Boston dentists, clinics and vets, up from 109th. ## The direct record What agents get for Back Bay Periodontics & Dental Implants, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/backbayperio.com - Book: https://patientportal-cs5.carestack.com/?dn=paradigm&ln=1/#/authenticate (vendor on own site: CareStack; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: 6174569714 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/backbayperio.com/book ## 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, CareStack: 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. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 21.7 | 25 | | Readable | 12 | 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/backbayperio.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/backbayperio.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/backbayperio.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=backbayperio.com&force=1