# The Bare Essentials: Agent-Direct Score D (46.2%) Site: http://www.thebareessentials.nz/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/thebareessentials.nz Scanned: 2026-11-13 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) The Bare Essentials is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open The Bare Essentials's website. What The Bare Essentials offers is on another site. To book or order, it is sent to Fresha, a marketplace. ## Direct links - Phone: +64272517433 - Address: Holland St, 8061, Christchurch ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Bare Essentials that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Beyouty by Awhi (500 m): https://directindex.org/r/beyoutybyawhi.com - Rouge Hair (1.3 km): https://directindex.org/r/rougehair.co.nz - Beauty Assets (1.7 km): https://directindex.org/r/beautyassets.co.nz ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Appointments only through fresha.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **Price list of services is on another site.** (+5 points) The link goes to fresha.com, so that site gets the credit and the visits. 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 ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **The footer says © 2024.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. ## 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. ``` # The Bare Essentials > local business in Holland St, 8061, Christchurch, Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage. Phone +64272517433. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.fresha.com/a/the-bare-essentials-christchurch-31-holland-street-ixan8yw2/booking?menu=true&pId=1131144 ## About - Website: http://www.thebareessentials.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's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Fresha works with agents through its partners.** Fresha's terms of use (August 2026) bar automated programs, bots and scraping; sanctioned assistant integrations exist (ChatGPT and Claude through Fresha's MCP server, Gemini, Alexa), and clients complete the booking on Fresha. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://terms.fresha.com/terms-use. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 246 of 337 in Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage. Top 73% 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 | 86% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 26% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 43% | no | Nearest places in the index: Beyouty by Awhi (B, 502 m, https://directindex.org/r/beyoutybyawhi.com); Fix Hair & Beauty Studio (F, 1265 m, https://directindex.org/r/fixhairandbeauty.co.nz); Rouge Hair (C, 1270 m, https://directindex.org/r/rougehair.co.nz); The Kings Barber (F, 1275 m, https://directindex.org/r/thekingsbarber.co.nz); Pamper You Beauty Therapy (D, 1515 m, https://directindex.org/r/pamperyou.co.nz); Philippine Cuts (C, 1676 m, https://directindex.org/r/philippinecuts.com); Beauty Assets (D, 1683 m, https://directindex.org/r/beautyassets.co.nz); Creative Salon (D, 1939 m, https://directindex.org/r/creativesalon.nz); Ruby Rose Beauty Therapy (F, 1998 m, https://directindex.org/r/rubyrosebeautytherapy.co.nz); EFX Hair & Beauty (F, 2074 m, https://directindex.org/r/efxhair.co.nz). ## 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 Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage and named 51 places. The Bare Essentials wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/christchurch-salons/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with Webflow 56% (22% A or B, 10557 sites); Sites using Fresha 50% (3% A or B, 2763 sites); This site 46.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thebareessentials.nz/agent-view ## Businesses like The Bare Essentials in Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage | 337 | 57% | 31% | 46.2% | | Sites built with Webflow in Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage | 6 | 55% | 33% | 46.2% | | Sites using Fresha in Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage | 33 | 58% | 12% | 46.2% | | Sites built with Webflow and using Fresha in Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage | 1 | 46% | 0% | 46.2% | The best of the sites using Fresha in Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage: House Of Barber (B 76.9%, https://directindex.org/r/houseofbarber.co.nz); Silk Clinical Aesthetics (B 76.9%, https://directindex.org/r/silkclinical.co.nz); J C Beauty (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/jcbeauty.co.nz); Refined Skin and Beauty (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/refinedskinbeauty.co.nz); Tesbelle Beauty Therapy (C 69.2%, https://directindex.org/r/tesbelle.co.nz). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Appointments only through fresha; Price list of services is on another site), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 337 in Christchurch hairdressers, beauty salons and massage. ## The direct record What agents get for The Bare Essentials, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thebareessentials.nz - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.fresha.com/a/the-bare-essentials-christchurch-31-holland-street-ixan8yw2/booking?menu=true&pId=1131144 (external; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +64272517433 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thebareessentials.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 - Vendor terms for agents, Fresha: Through partners. Fresha's terms of use (August 2026) bar automated programs, bots and scraping; sanctioned assistant integrations exist (ChatGPT and Claude through Fresha's MCP server, Gemini, Alexa), and clients complete the booking on Fresha. Read 2026-10-15: https://terms.fresha.com/terms-use ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 2 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 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/thebareessentials.nz - 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: 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/thebareessentials.nz/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/thebareessentials.nz/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=thebareessentials.nz&force=1