# Fade&cut: Agent-Direct Score B (72.5%) Site: https://www.fadeandcut.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/fadeandcut.com Scanned: 2026-10-16 (Provisional, with the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Fade&cut is mostly ready for agents. An AI assistant can open Fade&cut'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: https://www.vagaro.com/fadeandcut1 (through vagaro acting for the business) - Phone: +1-619-536-6920 - Address: Ariva Way 8725 92123 - Prices: 3 prices on the site, the middle one $30.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Fade&cut that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Anisa Todd Curl Specialist (630 m): https://directindex.org/r/memycurlsandi.com - Royal Hummingbird Sacred Healing Arts (690 m): https://directindex.org/r/royalhummingbird.co - Safe Harbor Home Care (720 m): https://directindex.org/r/safeharborhc.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 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 $30.00.** In San Diego, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $72.50. ## 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. ``` # Fade&cut > hair salon in Ariva Way 8725 92123, San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +1-619-536-6920. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://www.vagaro.com/fadeandcut1 (through vagaro acting for the business) ## About - Website: https://www.fadeandcut.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 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 265 of 1505 in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 18% 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 | 27% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 11% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 51% | no | Nearest places in the index: Dina's Skin Care (F, 619 m, https://directindex.org/r/dinasskincare.com); Body Asylum (C, 622 m, https://directindex.org/r/bodyasylum.com); Anisa Todd Curl Specialist (B, 626 m, https://directindex.org/r/memycurlsandi.com); Essential Balance Massage & Healing (F, 631 m, https://directindex.org/r/essentialbalanceenergy.com); Contours Body Sculpting, San Diego, Ca (F, 685 m, https://directindex.org/r/contoursbodysculpt.com); Royal Hummingbird Sacred Healing Arts (A, 688 m, https://directindex.org/r/royalhummingbird.co); La Jolla Hair Clinic (F, 689 m, https://directindex.org/r/lajollahairclinicsd.com); Beauty Up Skin (F, 693 m, https://directindex.org/r/beautyupskin.com); Safe Harbor Home Care (B, 716 m, https://directindex.org/r/safeharborhc.com); Jenny for Nails (F, 723 m, https://directindex.org/r/lpscomputer.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 7 everyday questions about San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons and named 38 places. Fade&cut wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/san-diego-salons/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 61% (42% A or B, 29454 sites); Sites using Vagaro 63% (40% A or B, 1518 sites); This site 72.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/fadeandcut.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Fade&cut in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | 1505 | 49% | 21% | 72.5% | | Sites built with Squarespace in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | 198 | 66% | 46% | 72.5% | | Sites using Vagaro in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | 84 | 63% | 37% | 72.5% | | Sites built with Squarespace and using Vagaro in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons | 20 | 71% | 65% | 72.5% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Vagaro in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons: HDLASH (A 95%, https://directindex.org/r/squarespace.com); Studio V (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/mystudiovsalon.com); Wax'D by Michelle (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/waxdbymichelle.com); Bearded Lady Barbershop SD (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/beardedladysd.com); Kiwi Spa Organic Facial Innovation (B 78.5%, https://directindex.org/r/kiwi-spa.com). With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No price list of services found), the score would be about 90%. That would be 14th of 1,505 in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 265th. ## The direct record What agents get for Fade&cut, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/fadeandcut.com - Book: https://www.vagaro.com/fadeandcut1 (vendor on own site: Vagaro; verified direct, 2026-10-21) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +1-619-536-6920 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/fadeandcut.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 | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 25 | 30 | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/fadeandcut.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/fadeandcut.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/fadeandcut.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=fadeandcut.com&force=1