# Root: Agent-Direct Score D (50.8%) Site: http://rootboston.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/rootboston.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.) Root is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open Root'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: (617) 208-6091 - Address: 487 Cambridge St, 02134, Allston ## Nearby, also direct Places near Root that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Fries B4 Guys (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/friesb4guys.boston - Whole Heart Provisions (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/wholeheartprovisions.com - Fomu (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/fomuicecream.com - Lone Star Taco Bar (20 m): https://directindex.org/r/lonestar-boston.com - La Befana Pizzeria (80 m): https://directindex.org/r/labefanapizza.com ## What to fix first - **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 - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+7 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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 - **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. ``` # Root > organization (vegan) in 487 Cambridge St, 02134, Allston, Boston. Phone (617) 208-6091. ## About - Website: http://rootboston.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 ## Where it stands 843 of 1416 in Boston. Top 60% 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 | 100% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 99% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 58% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 33% | no | Nearest places in the index: Turkish Lazuri Cafe (B, 3 m, https://directindex.org/r/lazuricafe.com); Fries B4 Guys (A, 9 m, https://directindex.org/r/friesb4guys.boston); Whole Heart Provisions (C, 12 m, https://directindex.org/r/wholeheartprovisions.com); Fomu (B, 14 m, https://directindex.org/r/fomuicecream.com); Grasshopper Restaurant (D, 18 m, https://directindex.org/r/grasshopperboston.com); Lone Star Taco Bar (B, 22 m, https://directindex.org/r/lonestar-boston.com); Deep Ellum (F, 26 m, https://directindex.org/r/deepellum-boston.com); Taqueria El Carrizal (D, 65 m, https://directindex.org/r/taqueriacarrizal.com); La Befana Pizzeria (D, 83 m, https://directindex.org/r/labefanapizza.com); Secured Realty (D, 107 m, https://directindex.org/r/securedre.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 Boston and named 35 places. Root wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/boston/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (28% A or B, 145483 sites); This site 50.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/rootboston.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Root in Boston | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Boston | 1416 | 53% | 37% | 50.8% | | Sites built with WordPress in Boston | 289 | 64% | 43% | 50.8% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Boston: Fogo de Chão (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/fogodechao.com); Foodgod Truffle Fries (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/seasideonthepier.com); Mare Oyster Bar (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/mareoysterbar.com); Trattoria Il Panino (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/trattoriailpanino.com); Eddie Merlot's (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/eddiemerlots.com). With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 42nd of 1,416 in Boston, up from 843rd. ## The direct record What agents get for Root, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/rootboston.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: (617) 208-6091 ## 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 | 8 | 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/rootboston.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/rootboston.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/rootboston.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=rootboston.com&force=1