# Up Close Beauty Max: Agent-Direct Score B (70.8%)

Site: http://www.upclosebeautymax.net
Report: https://directindex.org/r/upclosebeautymax.net
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.)
Up Close Beauty Max is mostly ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open Up Close Beauty Max's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through upclosebeautymax.mysalononline.com.

## Direct links
- Phone: +12814647260
- Address: 12804 Gulf Fwy #700B, 77034, Houston
- Prices: 7 prices on the site, the middle one $75.00

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Up Close Beauty Max that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- BEAUTY LAB (520 m): https://directindex.org/r/beautylabusa.net
- Almeda Postal Center (1.4 km): https://directindex.org/r/usps.com
- Pure Skin By Renee (1.5 km): https://directindex.org/r/pureskinbyrenee.com

## What to fix first
- **Appointments through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, 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

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **7 prices on the landing page, the middle one $75.00.** In Houston, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $65.00.

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# Up Close Beauty Max

> local business in 12804 Gulf Fwy #700B, 77034, Houston, Houston hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +12814647260.

## About

- Website: http://www.upclosebeautymax.net
- 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 (LocalBusiness).** address, phone, opening hours

## Where it stands
389 of 1956 in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 20% 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% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 15% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 97% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 21% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 61% | no |

Nearest places in the index: BEAUTY LAB (D, 521 m, https://directindex.org/r/beautylabusa.net); Utopia Beauty Bliss (F, 724 m, https://directindex.org/r/utopiabeauty.org); CliniSkin (D, 950 m, https://directindex.org/r/cliniskinlash.com); Baddie Bee Lashed (D, 1050 m, https://directindex.org/r/ueniweb.com); Nails 2000 (C, 1241 m, https://directindex.org/r/nailstan2000.com); Glitter-Beauty Salon-Houston (F, 1271 m, https://directindex.org/r/glitterbeautysalon.com); Almeda Postal Center (B, 1364 m, https://directindex.org/r/usps.com); Pure Skin By Renee (B, 1477 m, https://directindex.org/r/pureskinbyrenee.com); MedSpa Botox Body & Facial (F, 1501 m, https://directindex.org/r/medspabotoxbody.com); Perez Barber Shop (C, 1501 m, https://directindex.org/r/perezhilton.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.


See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/upclosebeautymax.net/agent-view

## Businesses like Up Close Beauty Max 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 | 1956 | 46% | 20% | 70.8% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons: Amy's Med Spa (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/amyshouston.com); Dr. Haresh Yalamanchili (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/belagecenter.com); Bare Necessities Spa + Medspa - Tanglewood (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/bnwax.com); Panacea Massage & Med Spa (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/panaceahouston.com); Caroline Cole Massage Therapy (A 90.8%, https://directindex.org/r/carolinecolemassage.com).

With the two fixes above (Appointments through an unrecognised third party; No price list of services found), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 1,956 in Houston hairdressers and beauty salons.

## The direct record
What agents get for Up Close Beauty Max, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/upclosebeautymax.net
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +12814647260

## 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 | 15 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 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/upclosebeautymax.net
- 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/upclosebeautymax.net/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/upclosebeautymax.net/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=upclosebeautymax.net&force=1