# Essential Beauty: Agent-Direct Score C (58%) Site: http://www.essentialbeauty.co.za/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/essentialbeauty.co.za 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.) Essential Beauty is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Essential Beauty's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. To book or order, it is sent to Fresha, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://essentialbeauty.co.za/product-category/essential-care/original/ (on the business's own site) - Phone: +27774093523 - Address: 13 Corwen St, 7708, Cape Town - WhatsApp: a link on the site ## Nearby, also direct Places near Essential Beauty that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - MC Nail & Beauty Salon (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/mcbeauty.co.za ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 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 - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+3.3 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_429) 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **Appointments only through fresha.** (no points, but worth doing) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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. ``` # Essential Beauty > local business in 13 Corwen St, 7708, Cape Town, Cape Town hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +27774093523. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://essentialbeauty.co.za/product-category/essential-care/original/ (on the business's own site) ## About - Website: http://www.essentialbeauty.co.za/ - 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. - **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands Not ranked yet in Cape Town hairdressers and beauty salons. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 25% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 16% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 33% | no | Nearest places in the index: Savas Hair (F, 16 m, https://directindex.org/r/savashair.com); Glow Hair Design (F, 119 m, https://directindex.org/r/iplugstore.co.za); Dream Nails - Cavendish Square (D, 136 m, https://directindex.org/r/colcacchio.co.za); Snippets Hair Salon and Nails (D, 148 m, https://directindex.org/r/snippetshairsalon.co.za); MC Nail & Beauty Salon (B, 158 m, https://directindex.org/r/mcbeauty.co.za); Laserderm (D, 175 m, https://directindex.org/r/laserderm.co.za); Blink Laser Tattoo Removal (F, 203 m, https://directindex.org/r/blinkclaremont.co.za); The Worx Hair Studio (F, 252 m, https://directindex.org/r/theworxsalon.co.za); Bio MechaniX - Claremont (C, 269 m, https://directindex.org/r/biomechanix.co.za); Happy Feet (D, 269 m, https://directindex.org/r/happyfeetsa.co.za). ## 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. Recommended when people ask: "A waxing appointment tomorrow, book it." (ChatGPT) Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236086 sites); Sites using Fresha 50% (3% A or B, 2567 sites); This site 58%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/essentialbeauty.co.za/agent-view ## Named by ChatGPT for "A waxing appointment tomorrow, book it" in Cape Town hairdressers and beauty salons, October 2026 - "A waxing appointment tomorrow, book it." (2026-10-20): ChatGPT with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/cape-town-salons/recommended/waxing Named by 1 of 2 assistants asked. Badge: https://directindex.org/badge/named/essentialbeauty.co.za.svg ## Businesses like Essential Beauty in Cape Town hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Sites built with WordPress in Cape Town hairdressers and beauty salons | 315 | 53% | 19% | 58% | | Sites using Fresha in Cape Town hairdressers and beauty salons | 53 | 48% | 4% | 58% | | Sites built with WordPress and using Fresha in Cape Town hairdressers and beauty salons | 29 | 50% | 0% | 58% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Fresha in Cape Town hairdressers and beauty salons: Hermanos Barber Shop (C 67.7%, https://directindex.org/r/hermanos.co.za); Artisan Skin (C 62.6%, https://directindex.org/r/artisanskin.co.za); Skin Energy (C 62.6%, https://directindex.org/r/skinenergy.co.za); Bronze Me (C 60%, https://directindex.org/r/bronzeme.co.za); Chissy Beauty Studio (C 60%, https://directindex.org/r/chissy.co.za). ## The direct record What agents get for Essential Beauty, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/essentialbeauty.co.za - Book: none on record - Order: https://essentialbeauty.co.za/product-category/essential-care/original/ (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested) - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +27774093523 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/essentialbeauty.co.za/order ## 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 | 21.7 | 25 | | Readable | 1 | 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/essentialbeauty.co.za - 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: yes - 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/essentialbeauty.co.za/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/essentialbeauty.co.za/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=essentialbeauty.co.za&force=1