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

Balboa Cafe

balboacafesf.com is partly visible to agents.

Order directly: order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/balboa-3199-fillmore through toast acting for the business · Menu: www.balboacafesf.com/menu

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C
66.2%

43 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in San Francisco cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: squarespace · 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 squarespace is in the guides.

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": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Balboa Cafe",
  "url": "https://www.balboacafesf.com/",
  "telephone": "+14159213944",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Fillmore Street 3199",
    "postalCode": "94123"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 37.7987937,
    "longitude": -122.4360985
  },
  "hasMenu": "https://www.balboacafesf.com/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/balboa-3199-fillmore",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Balboa Cafe

> cafe or coffee shop in Fillmore Street 3199 94123, San Francisco cafes and bars. Phone +14159213944.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://order.toasttab.com/egiftcards/balboa-3199-fillmore (through toast acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.balboacafesf.com/menu

## About

- Website: https://www.balboacafesf.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

149 of 516 in San Francisco cafes and bars

Top 29% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Doyle Street Cafe C, Anina C. Just below: Bourbon and Branch C, CoffeeShop C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML81%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours23%no
Have an llms.txt13%no

The top tenth is the 52 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 6,916 sites64%46%66.2%
Sites using Toast 1,749 sites74%62%66.2%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Nectar Wine Lounge205 mFno
California Wine Merchant265 mCno
Müesi Cafe317 mFno
Twisted St. Café330 mAyes
Campus - San Francisco398 mFno
Left Door489 mAyes
Bus Stop492 mFno
The Brick Yard667 mFno
The Interval953 mCyes
Kopiku indonesian974 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Balboa Cafe in San Francisco cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in San Francisco cafes and bars51644%23%66.2%
Built with Squarespace in San Francisco cafes and bars12368%41%66.2%
Using Toast in San Francisco cafes and bars2474%58%66.2%
Built with Squarespace and using Toast in San Francisco cafes and bars1377%69%66.2%

The best of Built with Squarespace and using Toast in San Francisco cafes and bars

Peacekeeper A 88.8% · Arcana A 87.5% · Wooly Pig A 87.5% · ABV B 81.5% · Last Rites B 81.5%

The climb

With the fix above (No structured data for the business) the score would be about 87.7%: 14th of 516 in San Francisco cafes and bars, up from 149th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

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.txtno how
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 businessno
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.

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Agent-Direct Score C

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