The Direct Index
Report · San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-24

The Knot Stop

theknotstop.com is ready for agents.

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Ways to reach The Knot Stop directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Through meevo acting for the business. Report a mistake

1080 University Ave, 92103-3363, San Diego · +16192965668

Prices: 6 prices on the site, the middle one $107

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open The Knot Stop's website. It can read what The Knot Stop offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Meevo.

87.7%

57 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

thing 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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

6 prices on the landing page, the middle one $107.

In San Diego, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $72.50.

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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "A 60-minute massage this evening, book it for me" in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
A 60-minute massage this evening, book it for me.Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-22

Every place named in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index

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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.

Recommended when people ask:
“A 60-minute massage this evening, book it for me.” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How The Knot Stop compares

Where it stands

15 of 1,505 in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 1% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Salon Radiance A, Royal Hummingbird Sacred Healing Arts A. Just below: Sugared + Bronzed A, Asap Ivs - Iv Clinic And Mobile Iv Therapy For San Diego A.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain97%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML27%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours11%yes
Have an llms.txt51%no

The top 10% are the 153 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites55%24%87.7%
Sites using Meevo 272 sites64%39%87.7%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Ageless & Beautiful Medical Spa13 mDno
The Secret Barbershop105 mFyes
Chiltonic121 mCyes
Wax Bare Assets L.l.c.236 mFyes
Dancing Hands Bodywork270 mByes
Men's Wellness Spot336 mCyes
Paul Jesus The Barber348 mFno
Sweet Jane Salon358 mBno
Carly Massage363 mDno
Balance Point Massage369 mCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Knot Stop in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons1,50549%21%87.7%
Sites built with WordPress in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons38158%22%87.7%
Sites using Meevo in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons965%33%87.7%
Sites built with WordPress and using Meevo in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons569%40%87.7%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Meevo in San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons

Bespoke Hair B 75.4% · Dermacare Laser & Skin Care Clinics C 63.8% · Dermacare San Diego C 63.8% · HS Salon D 53.8%

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 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 San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons. 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.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (LocalBusiness) address, phone, opening hours
  • Price list of services is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Appointments through meevo on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /contact/: nothing new; menu page /menu/: 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 wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

Show the code to paste

llms.txt

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

# The Knot Stop

> local business in 1080 University Ave, 92103-3363, San Diego, San Diego hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +16192965668.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://login.meevo.com/theknotstop/ob?locationId=201041 (through meevo acting for the business)
- Menu: https://theknotstop.com/menu/

## About

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

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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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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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score A

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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 Knot Stop

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/theknotstop.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/san-diego-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booklogin.meevo.com/theknotstop/ob?locationId=201041 vendor on own site: Meevofound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menutheknotstop.com/menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+16192965668

Stable links that count: /go/theknotstop.com/book, /go/theknotstop.com/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, Toast, or a vendor whose terms allow agents
no
Vendor terms for agents
Meevo, read
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. About Meevo · all vendors.

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 discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
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 businessyes