# The Gentry Men's Salon & Upscale Barbershop - Memorial: Agent-Direct Score B (72.8%) Site: http://www.thegentry.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/thegentry.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.) The Gentry Men's Salon & Upscale Barbershop - Memorial is mostly ready for agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by The Gentry Men's Salon & Upscale Barbershop - Memorial's website. It can read what The Gentry Men's Salon & Upscale Barbershop - Memorial offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Booker. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://go.booker.com/location/TheGentryKaty/service-menu (through booker acting for the business) - Menu: https://thegentry.com/services - Phone: (832) 925-4368 - Address: 2405 S Gessner Rd Ste A, 77063, Houston ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Gentry Men's Salon & Upscale Barbershop - Memorial that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Orchid Salon Day Spa (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/orchidsalondayspa.com - Serene Wax Boutique Westheimer (320 m): https://directindex.org/r/serenewax.com ## What to fix first - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_429), ClaudeBot (http_429) 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+3 points) Missing: opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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. ``` # The Gentry Men's Salon & Upscale Barbershop - Memorial > local business in 2405 S Gessner Rd Ste A, 77063, Houston, Houston hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone (832) 925-4368. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://go.booker.com/location/TheGentryKaty/service-menu (through booker acting for the business) - Menu: https://thegentry.com/services ## About - Website: http://www.thegentry.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. - **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** address, phone - **Price list of services is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. - **Appointments through booker on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. ## Where it stands 332 of 1906 in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 17% 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 | 96% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 14% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 21% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 62% | no | Nearest places in the index: Royal Thai Day Spa & Salon (F, 10 m, https://directindex.org/r/royalthaidayspa.com); Orchid Salon Day Spa (B, 57 m, https://directindex.org/r/orchidsalondayspa.com); West Houston Massage Therapy (F, 81 m, https://directindex.org/r/westhoustonmassage.com); Blast Beauty Bar (F, 89 m, https://directindex.org/r/blastbeautybar.com); Sandra's Hair Studio (F, 106 m, https://directindex.org/r/sandrashairstudio.com); Amhana Skin Care (F, 213 m, https://directindex.org/r/amhana.com); Lux Nail Spa (D, 307 m, https://directindex.org/r/luxnailspaonline.com); Serene Wax Boutique Westheimer (B, 318 m, https://directindex.org/r/serenewax.com); Amy's Classic Nails (F, 561 m, https://directindex.org/r/movingwithamy.com); My Choice Hair (F, 631 m, https://directindex.org/r/mychoicehair.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. Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (24% A or B, 217120 sites); Sites using Booker 65% (39% A or B, 341 sites); This site 72.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thegentry.com/agent-view ## Businesses like The Gentry Men's Salon & Upscale Barbershop - Memorial in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons | 1906 | 46% | 20% | 72.8% | | Sites built with WordPress in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons | 438 | 57% | 26% | 72.8% | | Sites using Booker in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons | 15 | 63% | 40% | 72.8% | | Sites built with WordPress and using Booker in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons | 6 | 67% | 50% | 72.8% | The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Booker in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons: Radiant Waxing (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/radiantwaxing.com); Live Spa Life (B 70.8%, https://directindex.org/r/aliramedspa.com); Prime IV Hydration & Wellness (C 68.2%, https://directindex.org/r/primeivhydration.com); Fiori Spa (C 60%, https://directindex.org/r/fiorispa.com); Thai Massage and Day Spa (C 56.9%, https://directindex.org/r/thaimassageanddayspa.com). With the two fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 13th of 1,906 in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 332nd. ## The direct record What agents get for The Gentry Men's Salon & Upscale Barbershop - Memorial, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thegentry.com - Book: https://go.booker.com/location/TheGentryKaty/service-menu (vendor on own site: Booker; found by the scan of 2026-10-23, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: https://thegentry.com/services (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: (832) 925-4368 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thegentry.com/book, https://directindex.org/go/thegentry.com/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, Booker: Not stated. The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 18.3 | 25 | | Readable | 19 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 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/thegentry.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/thegentry.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/thegentry.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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=thegentry.com&force=1