# Nic Grooming: Agent-Direct Score C (58.5%) Site: https://www.nicgrooming.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/nicgrooming.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.) Nic Grooming is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Nic Grooming'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: +1-267-951-2859 - Address: Chestnut Street 229 19106 Philadelphia - Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon 10:00–17:00; Tue–Fri 10:00–18:00; Sat–Sun 10:00–17:00 - Open on Saturday - Open on Sunday - Prices: 5 prices on the site, the middle one $50.00 ## Nearby, also direct Places near Nic Grooming that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Volume Hair Studio (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/volumehairstudio.net - Femmi (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/femmi.com - Abington Aesthetic and Laser Medical Center (250 m): https://directindex.org/r/abingtonaesthetic.com ## What to fix first - **No online booking 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 an online appointment page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+2 points) Missing: telephone. 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 ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **5 prices on the landing page, the middle one $50.00.** In Philadelphia, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $47.00. ## 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Nic Grooming > hair salon in Chestnut Street 229 19106 Philadelphia, Philadelphia hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +1-267-951-2859. ## Opening hours Tu-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa-Mo 10:00-17:00 ## About - Website: https://www.nicgrooming.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 (LocalBusiness).** address, opening hours ## Where it stands 332 of 960 in Philadelphia hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 35% 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 | 94% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 21% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 21% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 42% | no | Nearest places in the index: Volume Hair Studio (B, 59 m, https://directindex.org/r/volumehairstudio.net); Yofi Med Spa Philly (F, 162 m, https://directindex.org/r/yofiaesthetics.com); Femmi (B, 165 m, https://directindex.org/r/femmi.com); La Bella Vida Salon & Spa (F, 174 m, https://directindex.org/r/lbvspa.com); Dave's Barbershop (D, 181 m, https://directindex.org/r/davessalon.com); Barnet Fair (C, 202 m, https://directindex.org/r/barnetfairhair.com); Jeffrey James Salon (F, 235 m, https://directindex.org/r/paa.ge); Old City Nails (F, 236 m, https://directindex.org/r/oldcitylofts.net); Abington Aesthetic and Laser Medical Center (B, 253 m, https://directindex.org/r/abingtonaesthetic.com); Cass & Clare Hair Studio (C, 277 m, https://directindex.org/r/cassandclare.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. Recommended when people ask: "A men's haircut without an appointment this afternoon. Who takes walk-ins?" (ChatGPT, Gemini) Compared with its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 61% (41% A or B, 32150 sites); This site 58.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/nicgrooming.com/agent-view ## Named by ChatGPT for "A men's haircut without an appointment this afternoon. Who takes walk-ins?" in Philadelphia hairdressers and beauty salons, October 2026 - "A men's haircut without an appointment this afternoon. Who takes walk-ins?" (2026-10-22): ChatGPT with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/philadelphia-salons/recommended/walk-in-cut Named by 1 of 2 assistants asked. Badge: https://directindex.org/badge/named/nicgrooming.com.svg ## Businesses like Nic Grooming in Philadelphia hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Philadelphia hairdressers and beauty salons | 960 | 46% | 18% | 58.5% | | Sites built with Squarespace in Philadelphia hairdressers and beauty salons | 126 | 65% | 37% | 58.5% | The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Philadelphia hairdressers and beauty salons: Forever Valentine Beauty (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/forevervalentinebeauty.com); Rebel Nail Salon (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/rebelnailsalon.com); Stay Sharp Grooming Zone (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/staysharpgroomingzone.com); Naturale Salon (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/naturalesalon.com); The Color Room (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/thecoloroom.com). With the three fixes above (No online booking link on the website; No price list of services found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 960 in Philadelphia hairdressers and beauty salons. ## The direct record What agents get for Nic Grooming, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/nicgrooming.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: Tu-Fr 10:00-18:00; Sa-Mo 10:00-17:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap) - Phone: +1-267-951-2859 ## 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 | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 13 | 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/nicgrooming.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/nicgrooming.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/nicgrooming.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=nicgrooming.com&force=1