# Emmett Rode Salon: Agent-Direct Score D (49.2%) Site: http://www.emmettrodesalon.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/emmettrode.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Emmett Rode Salon is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open Emmett Rode Salon'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 Vagaro. ## Direct links - Book directly: http://www.vagaro.com/lindseymarinohair (through vagaro acting for the business) - Phone: +13124400009 - Address: Street level, 1940 N Lincoln Ave, 60614, Chicago ## Nearby, also direct Places near Emmett Rode Salon that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - 707 Hair Studios (300 m): https://directindex.org/r/707hairstudios.com - Sun Center (330 m): https://directindex.org/r/wholisticlifecenter.com - Lincoln Park Waxing Studio (340 m): https://directindex.org/r/lincolnparkwaxing.com - The Fitz Aesthetic Club (570 m): https://directindex.org/r/thefitzmed.com - Trianon (680 m): https://directindex.org/r/trianonsalon.com ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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 - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it. - **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) - **The footer says © 2017.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Chicago, 67% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later. ## 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. ``` # Emmett Rode Salon > local business in Street level, 1940 N Lincoln Ave, 60614, Chicago, Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +13124400009. ## Book or order directly - Book: http://www.vagaro.com/lindseymarinohair (through vagaro acting for the business) ## About - Website: http://www.emmettrodesalon.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.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Appointments through vagaro on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. - **Vagaro works with agents through its partners.** Vagaro's user agreement (September 2025), section 3, bars robots, data mining and any software that interacts with the services without prior written consent; Google names Vagaro as an AI Mode agentic booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.vagaro.com/pro/user-agreement. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 1124 of 1978 in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 57% 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 | 97% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 19% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 13% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 54% | no | Nearest places in the index: Salon Rouge (F, 15 m, https://directindex.org/r/salonrougechicago.com); 707 Hair Studios (B, 299 m, https://directindex.org/r/707hairstudios.com); Sun Center (C, 328 m, https://directindex.org/r/wholisticlifecenter.com); Lincoln Park Waxing Studio (B, 336 m, https://directindex.org/r/lincolnparkwaxing.com); Lincoln Park Hair Salon and Spa (C, 447 m, https://directindex.org/r/lpsalonandspa.com); Truefitt & Hill Chicago (C, 563 m, https://directindex.org/r/truefittandhill.com); The Fitz Aesthetic Club (C, 567 m, https://directindex.org/r/thefitzmed.com); Body Work Day & Massage Spa (F, 652 m, https://directindex.org/r/grouppayless.com); Trianon (C, 677 m, https://directindex.org/r/trianonsalon.com); Avanti Skin Center (B, 704 m, https://directindex.org/r/vitalskinderm.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 12 everyday questions about Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons and named 55 places. Emmett Rode Salon wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/chicago-salons/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites using Vagaro 63% (40% A or B, 1518 sites); This site 49.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/emmettrode.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Emmett Rode Salon in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons | 1978 | 50% | 21% | 49.2% | | Sites using Vagaro in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons | 129 | 64% | 45% | 49.2% | The best of the sites using Vagaro in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons: Ruby Room (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/rubyroom.com); Mas Beauty Restoration (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/masbeautyrestoration.com); The K Beauty Skin Spa (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/kodamkbeautyskinspa.com); Verde Wellness & Massage (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/verdehws.com); XEX Salon (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/xexchicago.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No price list of services found; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 14th of 1,978 in Chicago hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 1124th. ## The direct record What agents get for Emmett Rode Salon, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/emmettrode.com - Book: http://www.vagaro.com/lindseymarinohair (vendor on own site: Vagaro; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +13124400009 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/emmettrode.com/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 - Vendor terms for agents, Vagaro: Through partners. Vagaro's user agreement (September 2025), section 3, bars robots, data mining and any software that interacts with the services without prior written consent; Google names Vagaro as an AI Mode agentic booking partner. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.vagaro.com/pro/user-agreement ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 22 | 25 | | Readable | 0 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/emmettrode.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - 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: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/emmettrode.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/emmettrode.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=emmettrode.com&force=1