# Vermilion: Agent-Direct Score F (33.8%)

Site: https://vermilionrestaurant.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/vermilionrestaurant.com
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.)
Vermilion is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants cannot open the website of Vermilion, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.vermilionrestaurant.com/_files/ugd/ea7e5d_11eef686f8514aa4b379fbb50e2b4c71.pdf
- Phone: +1 703-684-9669

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **Booking only through eventbrite.** (+9 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+3 points) Missing: opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Vermilion",
  "url": "https://vermilionrestaurant.com/",
  "telephone": "+1 703-684-9669",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "King Street 1120",
    "postalCode": "22314",
    "addressLocality": "Alexandria"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 38.8055357,
    "longitude": -77.0522826
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Fr 11:30-02:00; Sa-Su 11:00-02:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:30",
      "closes": "02:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "11:00",
      "closes": "02:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "american"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://www.vermilionrestaurant.com/_files/ugd/ea7e5d_11eef686f8514aa4b379fbb50e2b4c71.pdf"
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address, phone

## Where it stands
1059 of 1294 in Washington. Top 82% 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% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 93% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 65% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 19% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: The Majestic Cafe (F, 236 m, https://directindex.org/r/atom.com); Milk & Honey (B, 352 m, https://directindex.org/r/themilkandhoney.com); HomeGrown (F, 385 m, https://directindex.org/r/homegrownkitchen.com); AKB, a hotel bar (B, 405 m, https://directindex.org/r/archerhotel.com); Table Talk (A, 630 m, https://directindex.org/r/tabletalkdiner.co); Joe Theismann's (B, 662 m, https://directindex.org/r/theismanns.com); King & Rye (A, 706 m, https://directindex.org/r/kingandrye.com); Two Nineteen Restaurant (B, 891 m, https://directindex.org/r/219restaurant.com); Mason Social (A, 906 m, https://directindex.org/r/mason-social.com); Overwood (C, 966 m, https://directindex.org/r/theoverwood.com).

## 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.

Against its peers: Sites built with Wix 49% (23% A or B, 7935 sites); Sites using Eventbrite 53% (22% A or B, 94 sites); This site 33.8%.

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

## Businesses like Vermilion in Washington

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Washington | 1294 | 59% | 47% | 33.8% |
| Sites built with Wix in Washington | 96 | 60% | 40% | 33.8% |
| Sites using Eventbrite in Washington | 4 | 68% | 50% | 33.8% |
| Sites built with Wix and using Eventbrite in Washington | 1 | 34% | 0% | 33.8% |

The best of the sites using Eventbrite in Washington: Pow Pow (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/eatpowpow.com); Takoda (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/takodadc.com); Bronson Bierhall (C 68.8%, https://directindex.org/r/bronsonbierhall.com).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; Booking only through eventbrite; Ordering through an unrecognised third party) the score would be about 100%: first of 1,294 in Washington.

## The direct record
What agents get for Vermilion, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/vermilionrestaurant.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.vermilionrestaurant.com/_files/ugd/ea7e5d_11eef686f8514aa4b379fbb50e2b4c71.pdf (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Fr 11:30-02:00; Sa-Su 11:00-02:00 (open now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +1 703-684-9669
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/vermilionrestaurant.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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 16 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/vermilionrestaurant.com/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/vermilionrestaurant.com/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=vermilionrestaurant.com&force=1