The Direct Index
Report · Quebec City cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-24

Café Buade

cafebuade.ca is ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Café Buade directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Rue De Buade 31 G1R 4A2 Québec · +1-418-692-3909

Its menu mentions: a lunch or set menu · Step-free access (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near Café Buade that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Café Buade's website. It can read what Café Buade offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

93.8%

61 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for 3 questions, including "A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning" in Quebec City cafes and bars, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Quebec City cafes and bars and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in 3 answers, by 2 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-25
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-25
A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.ChatGPT with a link to this site
Gemini with a link to this site
2026-10-25

Every place named in Quebec City cafes and bars, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 2 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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, with a link to this site)
“Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)
“A cafe for breakfast near the centre tomorrow at 8.” (ChatGPT, Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Café Buade compares

Where it stands

3 of 50 in Quebec City cafes and bars

Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Au 1884 A, La Korrigane - Brasserie Artisanale A. Just below: Saint-Henri A, Second Cup A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain90%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)90%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours40%no
Have an llms.txt60%no

The top 10% are the 10 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 32,150 sites61%41%93.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Café La Maison Smith Des Jardins coffee_shop77 mAyes
Bar 1608198 mCno
Au 1884 coffee_shop266 mAyes
Paillard336 mCno
Café Félin - Ma langue aux chats coffee_shop556 mFno
Concept Bala acai_bowl, smoothie, cafe, sandwich, wrap575 mFno
Second Cup coffee_shop657 mAyes
Ninkasi du Faubourg848 mByes
deTerroir café939 mFno
Saint-Henri946 mAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Café Buade in Quebec City cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Quebec City cafes and bars5066%48%93.8%
Sites built with Squarespace in Quebec City cafes and bars283%100%93.8%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Quebec City cafes and bars

Au 1884 A 95.4% · La Korrigane - Brasserie Artisanale A 95.4% · Saint-Henri A 90.8% · Second Cup A 90% · Café La Maison Smith Des Jardins A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 50 in Quebec City cafes and bars.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +1 points

    Missing: telephone. How to fix it

  2. 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. How to fix it

  3. The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data

    The site shows 581-504-0779, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +1-418-692-3909. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

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One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Quebec City cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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) address, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · contact page /make-a-reservation: nothing new; menu page /menu: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

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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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Café Buade",
  "url": "https://cafebuade.ca/",
  "telephone": "+1-418-692-3909",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Rue De Buade 31",
    "postalCode": "G1R 4A2",
    "addressLocality": "Québec"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 46.813508,
    "longitude": -71.2063021
  },
  "acceptsReservations": "https://cafebuade.ca/make-a-reservation",
  "hasMenu": "https://cafebuade.ca/menu",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://cafebuade.ca/make-a-reservation",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Café Buade

> cafe or coffee shop in Rue De Buade 31 G1R 4A2 Québec, Quebec City cafes and bars. Phone +1-418-692-3909.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://cafebuade.ca/make-a-reservation (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://cafebuade.ca/menu

## About

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

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Agent-Direct Score A

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Café Buade

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

PathLinkStatus
Bookcafebuade.ca/make-a-reservation own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menucafebuade.ca/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+1-418-692-3909

Stable links that count: /go/cafebuade.ca/book, /go/cafebuade.ca/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.

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
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
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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 businessyes