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

Botham's

bothams.ca is hard for agents to use.

Book directly: bothams.ca/reservations on the business's own site

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D
49.5%

32.2 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

6

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 +15 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 menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Live fetches as PerplexityBot (http_429) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  4. robots.txt blocks ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +2.5 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  5. Almost no text without JavaScript +2 points

    Crawlers that do not run scripts see an empty page. Render the menu, hours and address as plain HTML. How to fix it

  6. 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 Toronto cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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 wordpress 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": "Botham's",
  "url": "https://bothams.ca/",
  "telephone": "+1-647-883-7781",
  "email": "info@theholeinthewallto.ca",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Dundas Street West 2869",
    "postalCode": "M6P 1Y9"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 43.6653517,
    "longitude": -79.4652043
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 11:00-15:00, 16:00-22:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "15:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "22:00"
    }
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://bothams.ca/reservations",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://bothams.ca/reservations",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

llms.txt

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

# Botham's

> cafe or coffee shop in Dundas Street West 2869 M6P 1Y9, Toronto cafes and bars. Phone +1-647-883-7781.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://bothams.ca/reservations (on the business's own site)

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 11:00-15:00, 16:00-22:00

## About

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

211 of 403 in Toronto cafes and bars

Top 52% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Office Pub D, Zui Beer Bar D. Just below: Bryden's D, Chez Nous D.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain88%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML85%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)95%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours27%no
Have an llms.txt32%no

The top tenth is the 41 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 36,794 sites58%28%49.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Roi's Cream bagel, sandwich50 mFno
See-Scape118 mByes
UB Social364 mByes
Wallace Espresso763 mCno
The Sovereign Cafe1.0 kmByes
Gaspar Cafe1.1 kmCno
Phancy's Bodega sandwich1.1 kmFno
Vers1.1 kmFno
Hale Coffee coffee_shop1.2 kmFno
The Mugshot Tavern1.3 kmDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Botham's in Toronto cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in Toronto cafes and bars40346%23%49.5%
Built with WordPress in Toronto cafes and bars8558%28%49.5%

The best of Built with WordPress in Toronto cafes and bars

Kung Fu Tea A 87.5% · Cộng Cà Phê B 81.5% · The Rosemount Café B 80% · McVeigh's B 78.8% · Rustle & Still B 78.8%

The climb

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No menu or price list found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 88.5%: 10th of 403 in Toronto cafes and bars, up from 211th.

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

The direct record

What agents get for Botham's

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/bothams.ca, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/toronto-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookbothams.ca/reservations own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
HoursMo-Su 11:00-15:00, 16:00-22:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-647-883-7781

Stable links that count: /go/bothams.ca/book 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.

Transactable

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
not measured
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
not measured
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
not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

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.

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.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/bothams.ca"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/bothams.ca.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
Owners

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