The Direct Index
Report · Washington, DC · scanned 2026-10-24

The Fourth Estate Restaurant

press.org is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookOrderMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Fourth Estate Restaurant directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

529 14th St NW 13th floor, 20045, Washington · +12026627638

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Fourth Estate Restaurant that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by The Fourth Estate Restaurant's website. It can read what The Fourth Estate Restaurant offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

62%

40.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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 Washington, DC and named 140 places. The Fourth Estate Restaurant wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The Fourth Estate Restaurant compares

Where it stands

820 of 1,686 in Washington, DC

Top 49% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Mola C, Noodles and Company C. Just below: Z-Burger C, Any Day Now C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML99%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours53%no
Have an llms.txt19%no

The top 10% are the 171 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Square 5,073 sites65%41%62%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Shelly's Back Room43 mDyes
Finemondo italian65 mCno
Proper 21 american69 mCyes
Quiznos80 mAyes
A Slice of Italy Pizzeria pizza90 mFno
Kabuki asian90 mByes
Avenue Grill american92 mCyes
The Hamilton103 mAyes
MXDC Cocina Mexicana mexican104 mAyes
Omakase Room by Tadayoshi sushi111 mBno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Fourth Estate Restaurant in Washington, DC

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Washington, DC1,68656%40%62%
Sites using Square in Washington, DC2572%56%62%

The best of the sites using Square in Washington, DC

2Fifty A 100% · 2fifty’s A 100% · Soup Up A 93.8% · Izakaya Seki A 92.3% · RAMEN BY UZU A 92.3%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 45th of 1,686 in Washington, DC, up from 820th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Requests as GPTBot (challenge:attention required), ClaudeBot (challenge:attention required) 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. How to fix it

  3. 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Washington, DC. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: unknown · contact page /form/contact: nothing new; menu page /catering-menus: nothing new; booking page /events/tickets: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on your builder.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "The Fourth Estate Restaurant",
  "url": "http://www.press.org/restaurants/fourthestate.cfm",
  "telephone": "+12026627638",
  "address": "529 14th St NW 13th floor, 20045, Washington",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 38.8971669,
    "longitude": -77.03120209
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.press.org/events/tickets",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://pressclubdc.square.site/s/shop",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# The Fourth Estate Restaurant

> local business in 529 14th St NW 13th floor, 20045, Washington, Washington, DC. Phone +12026627638.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.press.org/events/tickets (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://pressclubdc.square.site/s/shop (through square acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.press.org/catering-menus

## About

- Website: http://www.press.org/restaurants/fourthestate.cfm
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/press.org"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/press.org.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Fourth Estate Restaurant

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/press.org, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/washington/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.press.org/events/tickets own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Orderpressclubdc.square.site/s/shop vendor on own site: Squarefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Menuwww.press.org/catering-menus html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+12026627638

Stable links that count: /go/press.org/book, /go/press.org/order, /go/press.org/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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
yes
Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward the score. Each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno