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

Kitakar

kitakar.ca is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookOrderMenuCallWebsite

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

1701 West 4th Ave, V6J 1M2, Vancouver · 7789876777

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Kitakar's website. It can read what Kitakar offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Acuity Scheduling.

78.5%

51 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.

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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 Kitakar compares

Where it stands

92 of 917 in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 10% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Serf to Surf B, Form Body Lab B. Just below: Milo Salon B, Salon and Spa Haven Boutique B.

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 HTML19%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)98%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours14%no
Have an llms.txt47%no

The top 10% are the 94 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 11,547 sites65%49%78.5%
Sites using Acuity Scheduling 85 sites57%19%78.5%
Sites using Square 1,644 sites65%41%78.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Bare Wax Sugaring Bar348 mDno
Glamstar Beauty & Nails361 mDno
Miraj Hammam Spa428 mByes
Hälsa Float Spas567 mCyes
Nova Skin and Wellness774 mCyes
Project Skin MD783 mByes
Aveda806 mCyes
Zennkai906 mCno
1% Skin Lab931 mByes
Alliance Wellness1.0 kmFyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Kitakar in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons91752%24%78.5%
Sites built with Squarespace in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons3172%68%78.5%
Sites using Acuity Scheduling in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons1563%33%78.5%
Sites built with Squarespace and using Acuity Scheduling in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons468%50%78.5%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using Acuity Scheduling in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons

Nara Vasco Skin & Beauty B 73.8% · Bartnik's Barbershop C 66.2% · Casa Hair Studio C 55.4%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 11th of 917 in Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 92nd.

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. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. 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. 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 Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

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
  • Price list of services is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Appointments through acuity on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about: nothing new; menu page /menu: booking via acuity

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 squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. 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": "Kitakar",
  "url": "http://kitakar.ca/",
  "telephone": "7789876777",
  "address": "1701 West 4th Ave, V6J 1M2, Vancouver",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 49.2679897,
    "longitude": -123.1434106
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/f9b87923",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://app.squareup.com/gift/5KJ1VMBQTXDMK/order",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# Kitakar

> local business in 1701 West 4th Ave, V6J 1M2, Vancouver, Vancouver hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone 7789876777.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/f9b87923 (through acuity acting for the business)
- Order: https://app.squareup.com/gift/5KJ1VMBQTXDMK/order (through square acting for the business)
- Menu: https://kitakar.ca/menu

## About

- Website: http://kitakar.ca/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score B

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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 Kitakar

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/kitakar.ca, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/vancouver-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookapp.acuityscheduling.com/schedule/f9b87923 vendor on own site: Acuity Schedulingfound by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested
Orderapp.squareup.com/gift/5KJ1VMBQTXDMK/order vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-19, not yet tested
Menukitakar.ca/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone7789876777

Stable links that count: /go/kitakar.ca/book, /go/kitakar.ca/order, /go/kitakar.ca/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.

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
Acuity Scheduling, read
Not stated

The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. About Acuity Scheduling · all vendors.

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu: booking via acuity.

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.txtno how
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 businessyes