# Carbon Hair Design: Agent-Direct Score C (65.1%) Site: http://carbonhairdesign.ie/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/carbonhairdesign.ie Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Carbon Hair Design is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Carbon Hair Design's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://carbonhairdesign.ie/book-online/ (on the business's own site) - Phone: +353214222898 - Prices: 6 prices on the site, the middle one €90.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Carbon Hair Design that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - CHAIR Hair Salon (100 m): https://directindex.org/r/chair.ie - 5th Avenue (130 m): https://directindex.org/r/fifthavenuecork.ie - Beauty Regain (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/beautyregain.net - Embody Harmony - Holistic Therapies, Tai Chi & Meditation (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/embodyharmony.com - Sugar Dolls Nail Bar & Beauty (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/sugardolls.ie ## What to fix first - **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **6 prices on the landing page, the middle one €90.00.** ## 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Carbon Hair Design > hair salon in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +353214222898. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://carbonhairdesign.ie/book-online/ (on the business's own site) ## About - Website: http://carbonhairdesign.ie/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## 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 - **Appointments on your own site.** Agents can book an appointment without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 48 of 154 in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 31% 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 | 94% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 44% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 13% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 31% | no | Nearest places in the index: Unicut Hair Salon (F, 36 m, https://directindex.org/r/page.uk); CHAIR Hair Salon (B, 101 m, https://directindex.org/r/chair.ie); 5th Avenue (C, 134 m, https://directindex.org/r/fifthavenuecork.ie); Beauty Regain (B, 149 m, https://directindex.org/r/beautyregain.net); MetroMan (C, 154 m, https://directindex.org/r/metroman.ie); Ines Olivia Milo Studio Salon (D, 156 m, https://directindex.org/r/inesoliviamilo.com); Embody Harmony - Holistic Therapies, Tai Chi & Meditation (B, 166 m, https://directindex.org/r/embodyharmony.com); Sugar Dolls Nail Bar & Beauty (C, 174 m, https://directindex.org/r/sugardolls.ie); Ms. Diva (F, 181 m, https://directindex.org/r/msdivashop.com); Escape Spa (C, 196 m, https://directindex.org/r/imperialhotelcork.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 haircut this Saturday afternoon, book it." (ChatGPT, Gemini); "Hair colour and highlights next week, I want to book a slot online." (ChatGPT, Gemini); "Balayage with a good colourist, book me for next week." (ChatGPT, Gemini) Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 251601 sites); This site 65.1%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/carbonhairdesign.ie/agent-view Read by AI agents 2 times this month (OAI-SearchBot 2). ## Named by ChatGPT and Gemini for 3 questions, including "A haircut this Saturday afternoon, book it" in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons, October 2026 - "A haircut this Saturday afternoon, book it." (2026-10-20): ChatGPT with a link to this site; Gemini with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/cork-salons/recommended/haircut-saturday - "Hair colour and highlights next week, I want to book a slot online." (2026-10-20): ChatGPT with a link to this site; Gemini with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/cork-salons/recommended/colour - "Balayage with a good colourist, book me for next week." (2026-10-20): ChatGPT with a link to this site; Gemini with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/cork-salons/recommended/balayage Named by 2 of 2 assistants asked. Badge: https://directindex.org/badge/named/carbonhairdesign.ie.svg ## Businesses like Carbon Hair Design in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons | 154 | 51% | 24% | 65.1% | | Sites built with WordPress in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons | 71 | 57% | 27% | 65.1% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons: Blood and Bandages (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/bloodandbandagescork.com); Edilma Therapy (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/edilmatherapy.com); Celeste Medical Clinic (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/celeste-medical.ie); Wax Central (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/waxcentral.ie); Devereaux Beauty Clinic (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/devereauxbeautyclinic.com). With the three fixes above (No price list of services found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 154 in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons. ## The direct record What agents get for Carbon Hair Design, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/carbonhairdesign.ie - Book: https://carbonhairdesign.ie/book-online/ (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +353214222898 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/carbonhairdesign.ie/book ## 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, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents): no Found one hop past the home page: booking page /book-online/: booking via phorest. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 18.3 | 25 | | Readable | 9 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/carbonhairdesign.ie - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md) - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/carbonhairdesign.ie/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/carbonhairdesign.ie/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=carbonhairdesign.ie&force=1