# Merle & Co: Agent-Direct Score B (70.8%) Site: https://merleandco.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/merleandco.com Scanned: 2026-10-22 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Merle & Co is mostly ready for agents. An AI assistant can open Merle & Co's website. It can read what Merle & Co offers. To book or order, it is sent to TableAgent, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Menu: https://merleandco.com/menu/ - Address: Lentor Central, #01-36 Lentor Modern 1 788887 Singapore - WhatsApp: a link on the site ## Nearby, also direct Places near Merle & Co that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Cold One Beverages (1000 m): https://directindex.org/r/cold-one.com - Thus Coffee (1.5 km): https://directindex.org/r/thuscoffee.com - Broadway Claypot Rice (1.8 km): https://directindex.org/r/hungrygowhere.com - Monday Coffee Bar (2.9 km): https://directindex.org/r/mondaycoffeebar.com ## What to fix first - **Booking only through tableagent.** (+9 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 - **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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 ## 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. ``` # Merle & Co > cafe or coffee shop (western, brunch) in Lentor Central, #01-36 Lentor Modern 1 788887 Singapore, Singapore cafes and bars. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://merleandco.com/menu/ ## About - Website: https://merleandco.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 (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. ## Where it stands 304 of 1034 in Singapore cafes and bars. Top 29% 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 | 98% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 84% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 36% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 52% | no | Nearest places in the index: Yahava KoffeeWorks (D, 814 m, https://directindex.org/r/yahava.sg); Cold One Beverages (F, 997 m, https://directindex.org/r/cold-one.com); JCU Cafeteria (F, 1269 m, https://directindex.org/r/publictransport.sg); Thus Coffee (B, 1515 m, https://directindex.org/r/thuscoffee.com); Broadway Claypot Rice (B, 1801 m, https://directindex.org/r/hungrygowhere.com); Shi Fang Xiang (F, 1859 m, https://directindex.org/r/shifangxiangtea.com); Kung Fu Tea Singapore (D, 2190 m, https://directindex.org/r/kung-futea.com); Block 532 Ang Mo Kio Ave 10 (F, 2491 m, https://directindex.org/r/7-eleven.com.sg); Monday Coffee Bar (B, 2916 m, https://directindex.org/r/mondaycoffeebar.com); Par Lounge (D, 3039 m, https://directindex.org/r/orchidclub.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. Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 224455 sites); Sites using TableAgent 64% (35% A or B, 113 sites); This site 70.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/merleandco.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Merle & Co in Singapore cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Singapore cafes and bars | 1034 | 51% | 30% | 70.8% | | Sites built with WordPress in Singapore cafes and bars | 254 | 58% | 34% | 70.8% | | Sites using TableAgent in Singapore cafes and bars | 2 | 79% | 100% | 70.8% | | Sites built with WordPress and using TableAgent in Singapore cafes and bars | 1 | 71% | 100% | 70.8% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Singapore cafes and bars: Seng Coffee Bar (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/sengcoffeebar.sg); HighHouse (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/highhouse.sg); NOVA (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/novabar.sg); Sofnade (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/sofnade.com); Kopiteori Singapore (A 89.2%, https://directindex.org/r/kopiteori.id). With the three fixes above (Booking only through tableagent; Ordering through an unrecognised third party; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 1,034 in Singapore cafes and bars. ## The direct record What agents get for Merle & Co, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/merleandco.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://merleandco.com/menu/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: none on record - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/merleandco.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 Found one hop past the home page: menu page /menu/: almost no text without JavaScript. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 15 | 25 | | Actionable | 6 | 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/merleandco.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/merleandco.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/merleandco.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=merleandco.com&force=1