The Direct Index
Report · Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-16

Uptown Cuts

uptowncutsclt.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

OrderCallWebsite

Ways to reach Uptown Cuts directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-16. Through square acting for the business. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Fri 09:00–19:00 · Sat 09:00–15:00 · Sun closed

South College Street 301 28202 Charlotte · +1-980-483-8618

Open on Saturday

Nearby, also direct

Places near Uptown Cuts 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 Uptown Cuts'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 Square.

73.8%

59 of 80 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-17: completed, an agent can get as far as the step before confirming. A Square booking or ordering page renders and can be used without a login.

Provisional, with the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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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.

Where it stands

How Uptown Cuts compares

Where it stands

169 of 987 in Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 17% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Stylebar Clt B, Ten Eleven Restorative Beauty B. Just below: Vanity Nail Bar B, Victorias Salon South Park B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain94%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML20%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours14%no
Have an llms.txt53%no

The top 10% are the 100 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 145,483 sites57%28%73.8%
Sites using Square 2,733 sites65%43%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Men's Room Barbershop324 mDyes
Scissors & Scotch500 mCyes
Removery1.4 kmDno
European Wax Center1.4 kmFyes
ClipperCole2.2 kmFno
Calibre Men's Grooming2.3 kmDyes
Fern House Salon2.4 kmFno
Peachy2.4 kmFyes
Wholistic Rebirth2.5 kmCyes
Explicit Salon2.8 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Uptown Cuts in Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons98751%22%73.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons12459%29%73.8%
Sites using Square in Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons2662%35%73.8%
Sites built with WordPress and using Square in Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons859%13%73.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Square in Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons

Larissa Salon C 64.6% · Salon Cheveux International C 61.5% · The Proper Dandylion C 61.5% · Waxing By Her Llc C 55.4% · Chivalry Salon D 53.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No price list of services found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 90%. That would be 6th of 987 in Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 169th.

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 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. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  3. 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 Charlotte 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 (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Ordering through square on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about-us/: 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

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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "HairSalon",
  "name": "Uptown Cuts",
  "url": "https://www.uptowncutsclt.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-980-483-8618",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "South College Street 301",
    "postalCode": "28202",
    "addressLocality": "Charlotte"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 35.2239237,
    "longitude": -80.8440337
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-15:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "19:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "15:00"
    }
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://book.squareup.com/appointments/006h5pplxebsqh/location/LKH2EZ754XFNM/services?buttonTextColor=ffffff&color=212121&locale=en&referrer=so",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Uptown Cuts

> hair salon in South College Street 301 28202 Charlotte, Charlotte hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +1-980-483-8618.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://book.squareup.com/appointments/006h5pplxebsqh/location/LKH2EZ754XFNM/services?buttonTextColor=ffffff&color=212121&locale=en&referrer=so (through square acting for the business)

## Opening hours

Mo-Fr 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-15:00

## About

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

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Agent-Direct Score B

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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 Uptown Cuts

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/uptowncutsclt.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/charlotte-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderbook.squareup.com/appointments/006h5pplxebsqh/location/LKH2E vendor on own site: Squareverified direct, 2026-10-17
Menunone on record
HoursMo-Fr 09:00-19:00; Sa 09:00-15:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+1-980-483-8618

Stable links that count: /go/uptowncutsclt.com/order 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
yes
Vendor terms for agents
Square, read 2026-10-15
Yes

Square takes orders placed in ChatGPT and Claude for US food sellers since 1 July 2026 with no seller setup; its Buyer Account Terms still bar robots and scrapers from accessing Block systems. Source. About Square · 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