# Second Story Bar: Agent-Direct Score F (13.5%) Site: http://events.nbcchicago.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/nbcchicago.com Scanned: 2026-10-23 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Second Story Bar is largely invisible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by Second Story Bar's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Phone: +1-312-923-9536 - Address: East Ohio Street 157 60611 Chicago - Prices: 3 prices on the site, the middle one $12.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Second Story Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Stan's Donuts & Coffee (50 m): https://directindex.org/r/stansdonuts.com - Labriola (50 m): https://directindex.org/r/labriolacafe.com - Grand Lux Cafe (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/grandluxcafe.com - 101 Patio . Bar . Rooftop (250 m): https://directindex.org/r/labellachicago.com ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+15 points) There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. 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 menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, ChatGPT-User.** (+6.2 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents - **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) - **3 prices on the landing page, the middle one $12.00.** In Chicago, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $14.00. ## 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 ``` robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. ``` # Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them. # Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file. User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: ChatGPT-User Allow: / User-agent: Claude-User Allow: / User-agent: Perplexity-User Allow: / ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Second Story Bar > bar or pub in East Ohio Street 157 60611 Chicago, Chicago cafes and bars. Phone +1-312-923-9536. ## About - Website: http://events.nbcchicago.com - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## Already right - Nothing. ## Where it stands 1301 of 1569 in Chicago cafes and bars. Top 83% 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 | 97% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 97% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 42% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 32% | no | Nearest places in the index: Stan's Donuts & Coffee (B, 51 m, https://directindex.org/r/stansdonuts.com); Labriola (B, 53 m, https://directindex.org/r/labriolacafe.com); Grand Lux Cafe (C, 144 m, https://directindex.org/r/grandluxcafe.com); Casa Chi (B, 146 m, https://directindex.org/r/casachichicago.com); Reviver Great Room Bar (F, 168 m, https://directindex.org/r/reviverchicago.com); Upstairs at Gwen (C, 208 m, https://directindex.org/r/thegwenchicago.com); Lavazza (D, 238 m, https://directindex.org/r/lavazza.com); E.Leaven Food Company (F, 248 m, https://directindex.org/r/eleavenfood.com); 101 Patio . Bar . Rooftop (A, 248 m, https://directindex.org/r/labellachicago.com); Nordstrom Ebar Artisan Coffee (F, 251 m, https://directindex.org/r/nordstrom.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. The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Chicago cafes and bars and named 60 places. Second Story Bar wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/chicago-cafes-bars/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (28% A or B, 145483 sites); This site 13.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/nbcchicago.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Second Story Bar in Chicago cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Chicago cafes and bars | 1569 | 48% | 26% | 13.5% | | Sites built with WordPress in Chicago cafes and bars | 352 | 60% | 32% | 13.5% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Chicago cafes and bars: Belli's Lincoln Park (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/bellischicago.com); Bottled Blonde Chicago (A 94.3%, https://directindex.org/r/bottledblondescottsdale.com); Old Irving Brewing (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/oldirvingbrewing.com); Shotay's (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/shortsbrewing.com); AceBounce (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/acebounce.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 75.1%. That would be 301st of 1,569 in Chicago cafes and bars, up from 1301st. ## The direct record What agents get for Second Story Bar, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/nbcchicago.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +1-312-923-9536 ## 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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 8.8 | 25 | | Readable | 0 | 25 | | Actionable | 0 | 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/nbcchicago.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: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/nbcchicago.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/nbcchicago.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=nbcchicago.com&force=1