Blackwall Hitch
blackwallhitchalexandria.com is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Blackwall Hitch. It can read what Blackwall Hitch offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
Menu: www.blackwallhitchalexandria.com/menu/
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46 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
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.
How Blackwall Hitch compares
599 of 1,294 in Washington
Top 46% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Manna B, BGR The Burger Joint B. Just below: Causa B, City Lights of China B.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 100% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 93% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 65% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 19% | yes |
The top tenth is the 130 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with WordPress 54,721 sites | 59% | 32% | 70.8% |
| Sites using OpenTable 2,156 sites | 65% | 40% | 70.8% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chart House seafood | 38 m | B | yes |
| Vola's Dockside Grill seafood | 140 m | C | yes |
| Bugsy's Pizza Restaurant and Sports Bar pizza | 178 m | C | yes |
| Mai Thai thai | 180 m | B | yes |
| Landini Brothers italian | 190 m | B | yes |
| Overwood american | 194 m | C | yes |
| Mia's Italian Kitchen italian | 194 m | F | no |
| Jack's Place sandwich, breakfast | 196 m | C | no |
| The Wharf seafood | 204 m | C | yes |
| Urbano 116 mexican | 208 m | A | yes |
Businesses like Blackwall Hitch in Washington
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Washington | 1,294 | 59% | 47% | 70.8% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Washington | 295 | 67% | 50% | 70.8% |
| Sites using OpenTable in Washington | 80 | 71% | 58% | 70.8% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Washington | 25 | 66% | 48% | 70.8% |
The best of the sites built with WordPress and using OpenTable in Washington
Filomena Ristorante A 85.7% · Estuary B 82.6% · Cane B 81.5% · Isla B 81.5% · STK Steakhouse B 81.3%
The climb
With the three fixes above (Booking only through opentable; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 100%: first of 1,294 in Washington.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What to fix first
- Booking only through opentable +9 points
Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. How to fix it About this vendor
- Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points
Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +7 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (Organization) but without address, phone or hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · menu page /menu/: nothing new
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on wordpress is in the guides.
Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.
Show the code to paste
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": "Restaurant",
"name": "Blackwall Hitch",
"url": "https://blackwallhitchalexandria.com/",
"telephone": "+1 571-982-3577",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Cameron Street 5",
"postalCode": "22314",
"addressLocality": "Alexandria"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 38.8055409,
"longitude": -77.0392188
},
"servesCuisine": [
"seafood"
],
"hasMenu": "https://www.blackwallhitchalexandria.com/menu/"
}
</script>
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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Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/blackwallhitchalexandria.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/blackwallhitchalexandria.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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.
Show the details
What agents get for Blackwall Hitch
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/blackwallhitchalexandria.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.blackwallhitchalexandria.com/menu/ html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +1 571-982-3577 |
Stable links that count: /go/blackwallhitchalexandria.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.
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 | 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 |
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |