# Balayage By Loan: Agent-Direct Score B (78.5%) Site: http://balayagebyloan.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/balayagebyloan.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Balayage By Loan is mostly ready for agents. An AI assistant can open Balayage By Loan'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 on the site. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://www.balayagebyloan.com/book-an-appointment (on the business's own site) - Address: 216 7th St SE, 20003-4306, Washington ## Nearby, also direct Places near Balayage By Loan that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Michael Anthony Salon (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/michaelanthonysalondc.com - Brow Contour (120 m): https://directindex.org/r/browcontourdc.com - Randolph Cree (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/randolphcree.com - Ilera Health And Wellness Institute (190 m): https://directindex.org/r/ilerahwi.com - Skin Obsession Studio (190 m): https://directindex.org/r/skinobsessionstudio.com ## What to fix first - **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 that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+4 points) Missing: address, 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. ``` # Balayage By Loan > local business in 216 7th St SE, 20003-4306, Washington, Washington, DC hairdressers and beauty salons. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://www.balayagebyloan.com/book-an-appointment (on the business's own site) ## About - Website: http://balayagebyloan.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).** opening hours - **Appointments on your own site.** Agents can book an appointment without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 52 of 516 in Washington, DC hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 10% 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 | 94% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 17% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 13% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 49% | no | Nearest places in the index: Eastern Market Nails & Hair (C, 4 m, https://directindex.org/r/easternmarketmainstreet.org); Michael Anthony Salon (B, 109 m, https://directindex.org/r/michaelanthonysalondc.com); Brow Contour (C, 116 m, https://directindex.org/r/browcontourdc.com); Randolph Cree (C, 152 m, https://directindex.org/r/randolphcree.com); Radiance MedSpa (F, 178 m, https://directindex.org/r/newswire.com); Ilera Health And Wellness Institute (B, 186 m, https://directindex.org/r/ilerahwi.com); Custom Beauty Med Studio (C, 186 m, https://directindex.org/r/custombeautymedstudio.com); Skin Obsession Studio (A, 186 m, https://directindex.org/r/skinobsessionstudio.com); Change for Life Wellness and Aesthetics (F, 190 m, https://directindex.org/r/withcherry.com); Beaming Salon (F, 241 m, https://directindex.org/r/beamingsalon.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 Squarespace 61% (41% A or B, 33756 sites); This site 78.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/balayagebyloan.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Balayage By Loan in Washington, DC hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Washington, DC hairdressers and beauty salons | 516 | 51% | 22% | 78.5% | | Sites built with Squarespace in Washington, DC hairdressers and beauty salons | 68 | 69% | 50% | 78.5% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Washington, DC hairdressers and beauty salons: Studio Elan (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/studio-elan.com); Helios Laser Center (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/helioslasercenter.com); Skin Obsession Studio (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/skinobsessionstudio.com); Bespoke Aesthetics & Wellness (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/adrienneshostak.com); Faccia (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/faccia.co). With the two fixes above (No price list of services found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 516 in Washington, DC hairdressers and beauty salons. ## The direct record What agents get for Balayage By Loan, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/balayagebyloan.com - Book: https://www.balayagebyloan.com/book-an-appointment (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: none on record - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/balayagebyloan.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 Found one hop past the home page: booking page /book-an-appointment: booking via acuity. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 11 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 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/balayagebyloan.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/balayagebyloan.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/balayagebyloan.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=balayagebyloan.com&force=1