Highland Lounge
highlandlounge.com is partly visible to agents.
Menu: www.highlandlounge.com/menus
Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 69% → 69%
See what an AI agent reads on this site →
45 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
Since the scan of 2026-10-14: no change in the findings.
What to fix first
- No booking or ordering path at all +15 points
Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it
- Structured data is incomplete +2 points
Missing: telephone. How to fix it
- No llms.txt no points, still worth doing
Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Austin cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Structured data present (LocalBusiness) address, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on squarespace is in the guides.
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "BarOrPub",
"name": "Highland Lounge",
"url": "https://highlandlounge.com/",
"telephone": "+1-512-649-1212",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Colorado Street 404",
"postalCode": "78701",
"addressLocality": "Austin"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 30.2669654,
"longitude": -97.7448469
},
"hasMenu": "https://www.highlandlounge.com/menus"
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Highland Lounge > bar or pub in Colorado Street 404 78701 Austin, Austin cafes and bars. Phone +1-512-649-1212. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.highlandlounge.com/menus ## About - Website: https://highlandlounge.com/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
61 of 224 in Austin cafes and bars
Top 27% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Texas Expresso B, Café at the Loren C. Just below: Lucky Lab Coffee C, One Twenty 5 Café C.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 91% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 43% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 35% | no |
The top tenth is the 23 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 7,027 sites | 65% | 47% | 69.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estelle's Social Lounge | 22 m | F | no |
| Lavaca Street Bar | 76 m | D | no |
| Halcyon coffee_shop | 78 m | F | no |
| Garage | 109 m | F | no |
| Powder Room | 122 m | F | no |
| Shiner's Saloon | 131 m | F | no |
| The Cabana Bar at Hotel ZaZa | 162 m | D | no |
| My Name Is Joe Coffee breakfast, coffee_shop | 214 m | F | no |
| Black Fox Coffee | 226 m | D | yes |
| Starbucks coffee_shop | 231 m | C | yes |
Businesses like Highland Lounge in Austin cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Austin cafes and bars | 224 | 48% | 26% | 69.2% |
| Built with Squarespace in Austin cafes and bars | 42 | 67% | 50% | 69.2% |
The best of Built with Squarespace in Austin cafes and bars
Dhaba Cafe A 93.8% · Kerbey Lane Cafe A 93.8% · Wright Bros. Brew & Brew A 88.8% · OPA! Greek Cafe B 83.8% · Purr-Fecto Cat Lounge B 81.5%
The climb
With the two fixes above (No booking or ordering path at all; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: 4th of 224 in Austin cafes and bars, up from 61st.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What agents get for Highland Lounge
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/highlandlounge.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/austin-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | www.highlandlounge.com/menus html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +1-512-649-1212 |
Stable links that count: /go/highlandlounge.com/menu 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.
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 | not measured |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| 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 | not measured |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.
Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/highlandlounge.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/highlandlounge.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.