# The Square: Agent-Direct Score D (47.7%) Site: https://www.dcthesquare.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/dcthesquare.com Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Square is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open The Square'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 teresadc.com. ## Direct links - Phone: +12028567000 - Address: 1850 K St NW, 20006, Washington ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Square that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Maggiano's (50 m): https://directindex.org/r/epa.gov - Casa Teresa (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/teresadc.com - Naf Naf Grill (80 m): https://directindex.org/r/nafnafgrill.com - LA Cafe (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/laprimacatering.com ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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 - **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 ## 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. ``` # The Square > local business in 1850 K St NW, 20006, Washington, Washington, DC. Phone +12028567000. ## About - Website: https://www.dcthesquare.com/ - 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. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. ## Where it stands 1123 of 1686 in Washington, DC. Top 67% 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 | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 99% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 53% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 19% | no | Nearest places in the index: Au Bon Pain (F, 42 m, https://directindex.org/r/yum.com); Maggiano's (C, 48 m, https://directindex.org/r/epa.gov); Ranch 1 (D, 60 m, https://directindex.org/r/ranchone.com); Casa Teresa (C, 62 m, https://directindex.org/r/teresadc.com); Naf Naf Grill (B, 81 m, https://directindex.org/r/nafnafgrill.com); Equinox on 19th (B, 90 m, https://directindex.org/r/equinoxrestaurant.com); Bonmi (F, 97 m, https://directindex.org/r/eatbonmi.com); LA Cafe (B, 113 m, https://directindex.org/r/laprimacatering.com); Veloce (F, 125 m, https://directindex.org/r/eatatveloce.com); Restaurant Kolumbia (F, 134 m, https://directindex.org/r/tarbouche.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. The assistants were asked 22 everyday questions about Washington, DC and named 140 places. The Square wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/washington/recommended See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/dcthesquare.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Square in Washington, DC | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Washington, DC | 1686 | 56% | 40% | 47.7% | The best of the businesses of the same kind in Washington, DC: 2Fifty (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/2fiftybbq.com); Astro Beer Hall (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/astrobeerhall.com); Balos Estiatorio (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/balosrestaurants.com); Chopt (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/choptsalad.com); Crab Boss (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/crabboss.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking through an unrecognised third party; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 45th of 1,686 in Washington, DC, up from 1123rd. ## The direct record What agents get for The Square, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/dcthesquare.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +12028567000 ## 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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 0 | 25 | | Actionable | 6 | 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/dcthesquare.com - 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: yes - 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: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/dcthesquare.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/dcthesquare.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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=dcthesquare.com&force=1