# Epiphany Hair Care Studio: Agent-Direct Score C (69.2%) Site: http://www.epiphanyhaircarestudio.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/epiphany-hcs.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.) Epiphany Hair Care Studio is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Epiphany Hair Care Studio'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: http://www.epiphany-hcs.com/appointments (on the business's own site) - Phone: +16174778248 - Address: 1725 Centre St, 02132-1550, West Roxbury - Prices: 3 prices on the site, the middle one $149 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Epiphany Hair Care Studio that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Nail Maxx Co (230 m): https://directindex.org/r/nailsmaxx.space - Park Place Medical Aesthetics (600 m): https://directindex.org/r/parkplacemedicalaesthetics.com - Inspiration Salon and Spa (1 km): https://directindex.org/r/inspirationsalonandspa.com ## What to fix first - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. 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) - **3 prices on the landing page, the middle one $149.** In Boston, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $89.50. ## 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. ``` # Epiphany Hair Care Studio > local business in 1725 Centre St, 02132-1550, West Roxbury, Boston hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +16174778248. ## Book or order directly - Book: http://www.epiphany-hcs.com/appointments (on the business's own site) ## About - Website: http://www.epiphanyhaircarestudio.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. - **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** 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 134 of 661 in Boston hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 20% 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 | 15% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 18% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 45% | no | Nearest places in the index: Feitheog Massage Therapy (F, 145 m, https://directindex.org/r/feitheog.com); The Cutting Edge (D, 199 m, https://directindex.org/r/auburncuttingedge.com); Nail Maxx Co (C, 225 m, https://directindex.org/r/nailsmaxx.space); Deluxe Laser Boston (D, 488 m, https://directindex.org/r/deluxelaserspa.com); Lady Lane Designs LLC (F, 587 m, https://directindex.org/r/ladylanedesigns.com); Perfect 10 Unisex Salon (F, 587 m, https://directindex.org/r/perfect10hairsalon.com); Park Place Medical Aesthetics (B, 603 m, https://directindex.org/r/parkplacemedicalaesthetics.com); locs concept (F, 756 m, https://directindex.org/r/locsconcept.com); Inspiration Salon and Spa (B, 1032 m, https://directindex.org/r/inspirationsalonandspa.com); Hairdressing By Ron Hodges (F, 1076 m, https://directindex.org/r/square.site). ## 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 Boston hairdressers and beauty salons and named 52 places. Epiphany Hair Care Studio wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/boston-salons/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 61% (42% A or B, 29454 sites); This site 69.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/epiphany-hcs.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Epiphany Hair Care Studio in Boston hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Boston hairdressers and beauty salons | 661 | 49% | 20% | 69.2% | | Sites built with Squarespace in Boston hairdressers and beauty salons | 91 | 67% | 45% | 69.2% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Boston hairdressers and beauty salons: ZENAROSE SALON (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/zenarose.com); Vixx Salon & Barbershop (A 89.2%, https://directindex.org/r/vixxboston.com); Curlsarefun (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/curlsarefun.com); Japanese Hair Salon Defi (A 86.2%, https://directindex.org/r/salondefi.com); Cut-Splice Seaport (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/cut-splice.com). With the three fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No price list of services found; No working HTTPS), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 661 in Boston hairdressers and beauty salons. ## The direct record What agents get for Epiphany Hair Care Studio, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/epiphany-hcs.com - Book: http://www.epiphany-hcs.com/appointments (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +16174778248 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/epiphany-hcs.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 Found one hop past the home page: booking page /appointments: booking via acuity. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 22 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 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/epiphany-hcs.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: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/epiphany-hcs.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/epiphany-hcs.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=epiphany-hcs.com&force=1