# Latitude 44°: Agent-Direct Score C (66.2%)

Site: https://www.lat44hfx.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/lat44hfx.com
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.)
Latitude 44° is partly visible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by Latitude 44°'s website. It can read what Latitude 44° offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.lat44hfx.com/our-menus
- Phone: +1 902-444-0716
- Address: Hollis Street 1496 B3J 3Z1 Halifax
- Its menu mentions: vegan options, vegetarian dishes
- Prices: 8 prices on the site, the middle one CA$5.50

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Latitude 44° that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Cut Contemporary Steak House & Urban Grill (90 m): https://directindex.org/r/rcr.ca
- India Paradise (100 m): https://directindex.org/r/indiaparadise.ca
- The Middle Spoon Desserterie & Bar (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/themiddlespoon.com
- Barrios Kitchen & Bar (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/barrioshfx.ca
- Mirchi Tandoor (180 m): https://directindex.org/r/mirchitandoor.com

## What to fix first
- **Booking only through opentable.** (+12 points) 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
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+10 points) Requests as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied), PerplexityBot (challenge:access denied) 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
- **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)
- **8 prices on the landing page, the middle one CA$5.50.** 

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# Latitude 44°

> restaurant in Hollis Street 1496 B3J 3Z1 Halifax, Halifax. Phone +1 902-444-0716.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.lat44hfx.com/our-menus

## About

- Website: https://www.lat44hfx.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.
- **Structured data found (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **OpenTable works with agents through its partners.** OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms. 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
54 of 118 in Halifax. Top 46% 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 | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 92% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 25% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 33% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Cut Contemporary Steak House & Urban Grill (B, 90 m, https://directindex.org/r/rcr.ca); India Paradise (B, 104 m, https://directindex.org/r/indiaparadise.ca); The Black Sheep (F, 114 m, https://directindex.org/r/blacksheephalifax.com); The Middle Spoon Desserterie & Bar (A, 153 m, https://directindex.org/r/themiddlespoon.com); The Mercantile Social (C, 160 m, https://directindex.org/r/themercantilesocial.com); Barrios Kitchen & Bar (B, 165 m, https://directindex.org/r/barrioshfx.ca); Classic Pizza (F, 179 m, https://directindex.org/r/order-online.ai); Mirchi Tandoor (B, 183 m, https://directindex.org/r/mirchitandoor.com); Ristorante Amano (C, 208 m, https://directindex.org/r/ristoranteamano.ca); aFrite (A, 209 m, https://directindex.org/r/afrite.ca).

## 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 22 everyday questions about Halifax and named 99 places. Latitude 44° wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/halifax/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with Webflow 56% (22% A or B, 9629 sites); Sites using OpenTable 69% (51% A or B, 6523 sites); This site 66.2%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/lat44hfx.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Latitude 44° in Halifax

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Halifax | 118 | 56% | 40% | 66.2% |
| Sites built with Webflow in Halifax | 4 | 70% | 50% | 66.2% |
| Sites using OpenTable in Halifax | 10 | 69% | 50% | 66.2% |
| Sites built with Webflow and using OpenTable in Halifax | 2 | 66% | 0% | 66.2% |

The best of the sites using OpenTable in Halifax: Lion's Head Tavern (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/lionshead.ca); Cut Contemporary Steak House & Urban Grill (B 81.5%, https://directindex.org/r/rcr.ca); Pazzo Ristorante & Enoteca (B 81.5%, https://directindex.org/r/rcr.ca); The Keg (B 81.5%, https://directindex.org/r/thekeg.com); Sea Smoke (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/seasmokehalifax.com).

With the two fixes above (Booking only through opentable; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 118 in Halifax.

## The direct record
What agents get for Latitude 44°, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/lat44hfx.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.lat44hfx.com/our-menus (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +1 902-444-0716
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/lat44hfx.com/menu

## 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, OpenTable: Through partners. OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms

Found one hop past the home page: contact page /contact-location: booking via opentable; menu page /our-menus: menu schema.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 15 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 3 | 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/lat44hfx.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/lat44hfx.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/lat44hfx.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=lat44hfx.com&force=1