# Essence of Beauty: Agent-Direct Score C (66.2%) Site: http://www.essenceofbeauty.ie Report: https://directindex.org/r/essenceofbeauty.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.) Essence of Beauty is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Essence of Beauty's website. It can read what Essence of Beauty offers. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.essenceofbeauty.ie/ - Phone: 021 487 4974 - Prices: 86 prices on the site, the middle one €37.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Essence of Beauty that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - The Beauty Parlour (40 m): https://directindex.org/r/beautyparlourcork.com - Blood and Bandages (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/bloodandbandagescork.com - Elite Waxing (70 m): https://directindex.org/r/elitewaxing.ie - Visage Hair Studio (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/visagehairsalon.ie - Bodyraze Ballincollig (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/beautyunique.ie ## What to fix first - **No online booking link on the website.** (+13 points) There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add an online appointment page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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) - **The footer says © 2024.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. - **86 prices on the landing page, the middle one €37.00.** ## 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. ``` # Essence of Beauty > beauty salon in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone 021 487 4974. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.essenceofbeauty.ie/ ## About - Website: http://www.essenceofbeauty.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. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it - **Price list of services with prices on the page.** Agents can read the items and prices. ## Where it stands 45 of 154 in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 29% 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% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 44% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 13% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 31% | no | Nearest places in the index: Magnifica Body Sculpting Center (F, 24 m, https://directindex.org/r/magnifica.ie); The Beauty Parlour (C, 44 m, https://directindex.org/r/beautyparlourcork.com); Blood and Bandages (A, 61 m, https://directindex.org/r/bloodandbandagescork.com); Elite Waxing (B, 66 m, https://directindex.org/r/elitewaxing.ie); Subway (C, 94 m, https://directindex.org/r/subway.com); Visage Hair Studio (D, 135 m, https://directindex.org/r/visagehairsalon.ie); Bodyraze Ballincollig (D, 140 m, https://directindex.org/r/beautyunique.ie); Mark Vincent (D, 153 m, https://directindex.org/r/markvincenthair.com); Coco (B, 160 m, https://directindex.org/r/coco.ie); Honey Browns (C, 176 m, https://directindex.org/r/honeybrownshair.ie). ## 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 Cork hairdressers and beauty salons and named 43 places. Essence of Beauty wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/cork-salons/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 251601 sites); This site 66.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/essenceofbeauty.ie/agent-view ## Businesses like Essence of Beauty 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% | 66.2% | | Sites built with WordPress in Cork hairdressers and beauty salons | 71 | 57% | 27% | 66.2% | 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 two fixes above (No online booking link on the website; 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 Essence of Beauty, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/essenceofbeauty.ie - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.essenceofbeauty.ie/ (html_inline; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: 021 487 4974 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/essenceofbeauty.ie/menu ## 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 | 16 | 25 | | Actionable | 2 | 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/essenceofbeauty.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: 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/essenceofbeauty.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/essenceofbeauty.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=essenceofbeauty.ie&force=1