# The Beer Spot Northcote: Agent-Direct Score B (70.2%)

Site: https://thebeerspot.co.nz/#northcote
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thebeerspot.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.)
The Beer Spot Northcote is mostly ready for agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by the website of The Beer Spot Northcote. It can read what The Beer Spot Northcote offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through eventbrite.co.nz.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://thebeerspot.co.nz/drinks-menu
- Phone: +64 9 480 2337

## What to fix first
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended.** (+3.7 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **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

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

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

```
# The Beer Spot Northcote

> bar or pub in Auckland cafes and bars. Phone +64 9 480 2337.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://thebeerspot.co.nz/drinks-menu

## Opening hours

Su-We 12:00-20:00; Th-Sa 12:00-22:00; easter -2 days: off; easter: off; Dec 25-Jan 02: off

## About

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

## Already right
- **Structured data present (Organization).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.

## Where it stands
65 of 168 in Auckland cafes and bars. Top 39% 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% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 6% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 18% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Fantail & Turtle (B, 1192 m, https://directindex.org/r/fantailandturtle.co.nz); Katsubi (A, 2324 m, https://directindex.org/r/katsubi.co.nz); street organics (B, 2344 m, https://directindex.org/r/streetorganics.co.nz); Centro Cafe (D, 2403 m, https://directindex.org/r/centrocafe.co.nz); Strand Wine Bar (C, 2445 m, https://directindex.org/r/strandwinebar.co.nz); Stafford Rd Wine Bar (A, 2447 m, https://directindex.org/r/staffordroadwinebar.co.nz); Seven Hills Turkish Eatery (D, 2461 m, https://directindex.org/r/sevenhills.co.nz); St Marée Bistro (B, 2469 m, https://directindex.org/r/stmaree.co.nz); The Good Home Birkenhead (B, 2589 m, https://directindex.org/r/thegoodhomebirkenhead.co.nz); Florrie McGreals Irish Pub (B, 2589 m, https://directindex.org/r/florriemcgreals.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/thebeerspot.co.nz/agent-view

## Businesses like The Beer Spot Northcote 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% | 70.2% |

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 (Booking through an unrecognised third party; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) the score would be about 100%: first of 168 in Auckland cafes and bars.

## The direct record
What agents get for The Beer Spot Northcote, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thebeerspot.co.nz
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://thebeerspot.co.nz/drinks-menu (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Su-We 12:00-20:00; Th-Sa 12:00-22:00; easter -2 days: off; easter: off; Dec 25-Jan 02: off (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +64 9 480 2337
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thebeerspot.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

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /drinks-menu: address, telephone, opening hours, menu schema.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 14.6 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/thebeerspot.co.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: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: yes
- 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/thebeerspot.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/thebeerspot.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=thebeerspot.co.nz&force=1