The Direct Index
Report · Charlotte cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-23

Crane Coffee

cranecoffeeco.com is hard for agents to use.

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Ways to reach Crane Coffee directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-23. Report a mistake

201 N Tryon St, 28202-2146, Charlotte · 17046512933

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Crane Coffee'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, through cash.app.

52.8%

34.3 of 65 points available

2/5

agent-readiness level, Bot-Aware

5

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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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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Charlotte cafes and bars and named 57 places. Crane Coffee wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Crane Coffee compares

Where it stands

237 of 399 in Charlotte cafes and bars

Top 59% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Undercurrent Coffee D, Backyard Brew D. Just below: City Lights Rooftop D, SipCha D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML95%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours51%no
Have an llms.txt34%yes

The top 10% are the 41 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Java Joe's53 mDno
Cowbell Burger & Whiskey Bar burger70 mDyes
Ri Ra97 mCyes
Prohibition104 mAyes
Retro Bar108 mDno
The Local128 mDyes
Connollys Charlotte136 mByes
Havana Smoke and Reserve146 mCyes
Dahlia’s Charlotte146 mByes
Lanai Terrace Bar173 mDyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Crane Coffee in Charlotte cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Charlotte cafes and bars39955%33%52.8%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Charlotte cafes and bars

CRAZY LEGS Sports Cafe' A 100% · Carolina Ale House A 100% · Fox & Hound Charlotte A 100% · The Craic A 100% · OMB Biergarten A 96.9%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (Ordering through an unrecognised third party; No menu or price list found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 35th of 399 in Charlotte cafes and bars, up from 237th.

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. Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points

    Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. How to fix it

  2. 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. How to fix it

  3. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) 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. How to fix it

  4. No working HTTPS +3 points

    The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.

  5. Structured data is incomplete +2 points

    Missing: telephone. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

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

No one is listed yet to fix this in Charlotte 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.
  • Structured data found (CafeOrCoffeeShop) address, opening hours

Builder: unknown

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 your builder.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Crane Coffee",
  "url": "http://www.cranecoffeeco.com",
  "telephone": "17046512933",
  "address": "201 N Tryon St, 28202-2146, Charlotte",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 35.2289232,
    "longitude": -80.8417691
  }
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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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 Crane Coffee

No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-23 found no booking or ordering link on cranecoffeeco.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/cranecoffeeco.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/charlotte-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone17046512933

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 2 of 5, Bot-Aware

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.txtyes
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
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