# Northern Line Bar & Social: Agent-Direct Score D (40%)

Site: http://northernline.co.nz/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/northernline.co.nz
Scanned: 2026-10-17 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Northern Line Bar & Social is hard for agents to use.
An AI assistant can open the website of Northern Line Bar & Social. What Northern Line Bar & Social offers is in a PDF or an image, which assistants read poorly. It finds no link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Menu: http://northernline.co.nz/resources/NL%20Drinks%20Menu%202024a.pdf

## 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; 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) Agents find no link to follow on the site. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Agents and browsers downrank or refuse it.
- **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Northern Line Bar & Social",
  "url": "http://northernline.co.nz/",
  "email": "contact@northernline.co.nz",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -36.8572023,
    "longitude": 174.7585315
  },
  "openingHours": "Tu,We 16:00-21:00; Th 15:00-24:00; Fr 12:00-02:00; Sa 14:00-02:00; Su,Mo off",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday"
      ],
      "opens": "16:00",
      "closes": "21:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "15:00",
      "closes": "24:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "12:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "14:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    }
  ],
  "hasMenu": "http://northernline.co.nz/resources/NL%20Drinks%20Menu%202024a.pdf"
}
</script>
```

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

```
# Northern Line Bar & Social

> bar or pub in Auckland cafes and bars.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: http://northernline.co.nz/resources/NL%20Drinks%20Menu%202024a.pdf

## Opening hours

Tu,We 16:00-21:00; Th 15:00-24:00; Fr 12:00-02:00; Sa 14:00-02:00; Su,Mo off

## About

- Website: http://northernline.co.nz/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.

## Where it stands
128 of 168 in Auckland cafes and bars. Top 76% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth 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 | 100% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 6% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 18% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Lone Star (B, 323 m, https://directindex.org/r/lonestar.co.nz); Caluzzi Bar and Cabaret (D, 324 m, https://directindex.org/r/caluzzi.co.nz); The Churchill (D, 588 m, https://directindex.org/r/thechurchillauckland.co.nz); Citizen Q (B, 594 m, https://directindex.org/r/qtheatre.co.nz); Cakes n Ladders (C, 653 m, https://directindex.org/r/cakesnladders.co.nz); Container in the Square Café (D, 682 m, https://directindex.org/r/aucklandunlimited.com); Chur Bae (B, 854 m, https://directindex.org/r/churbae.com); Ponsonby Pool Hall (F, 908 m, https://directindex.org/r/ponsonbypoolhall.co.nz); Vodka Room (F, 917 m, https://directindex.org/r/vodkaroom.co.nz); Goodness Gracious Cafe (D, 924 m, https://directindex.org/r/goodnessgracious.co.nz).

## What assistants answer
Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/northernline.co.nz/agent-view

## Businesses like Northern Line Bar & Social in Auckland cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Auckland cafes and bars | 168 | 58% | 39% | 40% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Auckland cafes and bars: Bodega Eatery (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/bodegaeatery.co.nz); 21 Days Bar & Brasserie (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/21days.co.nz); Hare and the Turtle (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/hareandtheturtle.com); Post Office Public House (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/postofficepublichouse.co.nz); Stafford Rd Wine Bar (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/staffordroadwinebar.co.nz).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; No working HTTPS) the score would be about 90.8%: 10th of 168 in Auckland cafes and bars, up from 128th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Northern Line Bar & Social, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/northernline.co.nz
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: http://northernline.co.nz/resources/NL%20Drinks%20Menu%202024a.pdf (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: Tu,We 16:00-21:00; Th 15:00-24:00; Fr 12:00-02:00; Sa 14:00-02:00; Su,Mo off (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: none on record
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/northernline.co.nz/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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 22 | 25 |
| Readable | 4 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/northernline.co.nz
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md)
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md)
- 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/northernline.co.nz/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/northernline.co.nz/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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=northernline.co.nz&force=1