The Direct Index
Report · Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-19

GEM Nail Boutique

gemnailboutique.ca is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach GEM Nail Boutique directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-19. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

2140 Baseline Rd Unit 1, K2C 3V9, Ottawa · +13432096886

Prices: 41 prices on the site, the middle one CA$50.00

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open GEM Nail Boutique'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 Square.

55.4%

36 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

41 prices on the landing page, the middle one CA$50.00.

In Ottawa, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is CA$55.00.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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.

Where it stands

How GEM Nail Boutique compares

Where it stands

354 of 761 in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 47% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Esthetics By Lucie C, European Flair Hair & Spa C. Just below: Hair By Design C, Hair Fellas Barbershop C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML13%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours24%no
Have an llms.txt42%yes

The top 10% are the 78 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 68,857 sites58%30%55.4%
Sites using Square 1,644 sites65%41%55.4%

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PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
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Hands On Health Massage Therapy473 mCyes
Hamza barbershop536 mCyes
StyLash Extensions631 mByes
Fox Electrolysis697 mFno
Luminesse Laser & Skin Clinic778 mByes
HairRenos.ca899 mCno
Woodroffe Health & Beauty Spa977 mCyes
Julep Salon & Social Club1.5 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like GEM Nail Boutique in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons76150%23%55.4%
Sites built with WordPress in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons22659%31%55.4%
Sites using Square in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons3962%38%55.4%
Sites built with WordPress and using Square in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons1069%40%55.4%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Square in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons

Sandbox Barbershop & Tattoos Ottawa B 84.6% · Johnny Razor Barbershop B 75.4% · Meryann Spa B 75.4% · One Zero Six B 72.3% · Acqua Aesthetics C 69.2%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No price list of services found), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 3rd of 761 in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 354th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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. How to fix it

  2. 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Ottawa hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contact-us/: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "GEM Nail Boutique",
  "url": "http://gemnailboutique.ca/",
  "telephone": "+13432096886",
  "address": "2140 Baseline Rd Unit 1, K2C 3V9, Ottawa",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 45.3495458,
    "longitude": -75.76594033
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://book.squareup.com/appointments/k6670lunjsvbar/location/L0X2MF6RDQEMA/services",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score C

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for GEM Nail Boutique

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/gemnailboutique.ca, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/ottawa-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderbook.squareup.com/appointments/k6670lunjsvbar/location/L0X2M vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+13432096886

Stable links that count: /go/gemnailboutique.ca/order answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Source. About Square · all vendors.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno