# Boomtown Coffee: Agent-Direct Score F (27.7%)

Site: http://www.boomtowncoffee.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/boomtowncoffee.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.)
Boomtown Coffee is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants can't open Boomtown Coffee's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Order directly: https://boomtowncoffeeordering.square.site/?location=L0RG2PVS7MBZR (through square acting for the business)
- Address: West 19th Street 242 Houston
- Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Sun 07:00–19:00
- Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)
- Prices: 9 prices on the site, the middle one $22.00

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Boomtown Coffee that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Tenfold Coffee (820 m): https://directindex.org/r/tenfoldcoffee.com
- Common Bond (1.8 km): https://directindex.org/r/commonbondcafe.com
- Rivas Coffee (2.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/rivascoffee.com
- Active Passion (3.1 km): https://directindex.org/r/myactivepassion.com

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **9 prices on the landing page, the middle one $22.00.** In Houston, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $14.45.

## 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Boomtown Coffee",
  "url": "http://www.boomtowncoffee.com/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "West 19th Street 242",
    "addressLocality": "Houston"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 29.8026862,
    "longitude": -95.4006728
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 07:00-19:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "07:00",
      "closes": "19:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "coffee shop"
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://boomtowncoffeeordering.square.site/?location=L0RG2PVS7MBZR",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it
- **Ordering through square on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

## Where it stands
671 of 829 in Houston cafes and bars. Top 81% 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 | 98% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 98% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 37% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 37% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Tenfold Coffee (B, 817 m, https://directindex.org/r/tenfoldcoffee.com); Caffvino (B, 1437 m, https://directindex.org/r/caffvino.com); Roast & Brew (D, 1467 m, https://directindex.org/r/roastandbrewcafetx.com); Common Bond (B, 1847 m, https://directindex.org/r/commonbondcafe.com); Rivas Coffee (C, 2086 m, https://directindex.org/r/rivascoffee.com); New Heights Coffee Roasters (F, 2171 m, https://directindex.org/r/newheightscoffee.com); Active Passion (B, 3059 m, https://directindex.org/r/myactivepassion.com); Toros Htx Coffee (F, 3786 m, https://directindex.org/r/toroshtx.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.

Recommended when people ask: "A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning." (ChatGPT)


Compared with its peers: Sites built with Shopify 47% (23% A or B, 13001 sites); Sites using Square 65% (41% A or B, 5073 sites); This site 27.7%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/boomtowncoffee.com/agent-view

## Named by ChatGPT for "A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning" in Houston cafes and bars, October 2026
- "A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning." (2026-10-24): ChatGPT with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/houston-cafes-bars/recommended/laptop-cafe
Named by 1 of 2 assistants asked. Badge: https://directindex.org/badge/named/boomtowncoffee.com.svg

## Businesses like Boomtown Coffee in Houston cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Houston cafes and bars | 829 | 49% | 25% | 27.7% |
| Sites built with Shopify in Houston cafes and bars | 40 | 52% | 23% | 27.7% |
| Sites using Square in Houston cafes and bars | 20 | 69% | 60% | 27.7% |
| Sites built with Shopify and using Square in Houston cafes and bars | 4 | 55% | 25% | 27.7% |

The best of the sites built with Shopify and using Square in Houston cafes and bars: Tenfold Coffee (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/tenfoldcoffee.com); BlendIn Coffee Club (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/blendincoffeeclub.com); Eikon Coffee LLC (D 53.8%, https://directindex.org/r/eikoncoffee.com).

With the three fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 48th of 829 in Houston cafes and bars, up from 671st.

## The direct record
What agents get for Boomtown Coffee, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/boomtowncoffee.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: https://boomtowncoffeeordering.square.site/?location=L0RG2PVS7MBZR (vendor on own site: Square; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested)
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Mo-Su 07:00-19:00 (open now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: none on record
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/boomtowncoffee.com/order

## 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): yes
- Vendor terms for agents, Square: Yes. Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Read 2026-10-15: https://squareup.com/us/en/press/claude-chatgpt-integrations

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 8 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/boomtowncoffee.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/boomtowncoffee.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=boomtowncoffee.com&force=1