The Publick House
publickhousebrookline.com is mostly ready for agents.
This listing was retired on 2026-10-21 because the source the index uses for its city no longer lists it. The report stays up, but the business is left out of the rankings and counts.
Listed by OpenStreetMap.
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Publick House's website. It can read what The Publick House offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Tock.
50 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
Named by Gemini for "The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?" in Boston cafes and bars, October 2026
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Boston cafes and bars and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.
| Question | Named by | Asked |
|---|---|---|
| The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve? | Gemini with a link to this site | 2026-10-19 |
Every place named in Boston cafes and bars, question by question.
Show it
The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/publickhousebrookline.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/publickhousebrookline.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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:
“The best craft beer place tonight. Do I need to reserve?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)
How The Publick House compares
Not ranked yet in Boston cafes and bars
The ranking updates every hour. This site joins it at the next update.
| 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 | 96% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 45% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 29% | yes |
The top 10% are the 49 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Shopify 13,925 sites | 48% | 24% | 76.9% |
| Sites using Tock 831 sites | 73% | 64% | 76.9% |
| Sites using Toast 6,735 sites | 73% | 62% | 76.9% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bag Ladies Tea | 449 m | F | no |
| Dolce Vita Cafè | 847 m | D | no |
| Hopewell Bar + Kitchen | 1.2 km | A | yes |
| Cafe Landwer | 1.2 km | C | no |
| The Avenue | 1.3 km | A | yes |
| Agoro's Pizza Bar and Grill | 1.3 km | C | yes |
| Habibi's Lounge hookah | 1.4 km | C | yes |
| Wonder Bar | 1.4 km | F | no |
| Union | 1.4 km | C | yes |
| Heytea bubble_tea | 1.4 km | F | no |
Businesses like The Publick House in Boston cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Boston cafes and bars | 484 | 52% | 32% | 76.9% |
| Sites built with Shopify in Boston cafes and bars | 22 | 46% | 23% | 76.9% |
| Sites using Tock in Boston cafes and bars | 4 | 71% | 50% | 76.9% |
The best of the sites using Tock in Boston cafes and bars
Barcelona Wine Bar A 92.5% · Extra Dirty Cocktail Club B 76.9% · Blue Bottle Coffee C 61.5% · Farmacia D 53.8%
After the top fixes
With the fix above (Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 33rd of 484 in Boston cafes and bars, up from not ranked today.
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.
What to fix first
- Structured data is incomplete +7 points
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
Send the fixes to your web person
No one is listed yet to fix this in Boston cafes and bars. 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
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
- Booking through tock on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- Tock works with agents through its partners Tock's terms (12 February 2026) prohibit robots, scripts, scrapers and automated systems except software expressly licensed by Tock; Google names Tock as an AI Mode booking partner. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.exploretock.com/terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.
Builder: shopify
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 shopify.
Where to paste it on Shopify: Online Store, then the three-dot menu on the theme, then Edit code; paste it in the theme's layout file, inside the head. 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": "BarOrPub",
"name": "The Publick House",
"url": "https://publickhousebrookline.com/",
"telephone": "+1-617-277-2880",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Beacon Street 1648",
"postalCode": "02445",
"addressLocality": "Brookline"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 42.3393008,
"longitude": -71.1366217
},
"openingHours": "Mo 17:00-23:00; Tu,We 17:00-00:00; Th 17:00-01:00; Fr 16:00-01:00; Sa 12:00-01:00; Su 12:00-22:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday"
],
"opens": "17:00",
"closes": "23:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday"
],
"opens": "17:00",
"closes": "00:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Thursday"
],
"opens": "17:00",
"closes": "01:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Friday"
],
"opens": "16:00",
"closes": "01:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Saturday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "01:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "22:00"
}
],
"acceptsReservations": "https://www.exploretock.com/the-publick-house",
"hasMenu": "https://publickhousebrookline.com/pages/drink-menu-landing-page",
"potentialAction": [
{
"@type": "ReserveAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://www.exploretock.com/the-publick-house",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
},
"result": {
"@type": "Reservation",
"name": "Reservation"
}
},
{
"@type": "OrderAction",
"target": {
"@type": "EntryPoint",
"urlTemplate": "https://www.toasttab.com/the-publick-house-1648-beacon-st",
"actionPlatform": [
"http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
"http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
]
}
}
]
}
</script>
Own this business?
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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.
Show the score
Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/publickhousebrookline.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/publickhousebrookline.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
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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What agents get for The Publick House
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/publickhousebrookline.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/boston-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | www.exploretock.com/the-publick-house vendor on own site: Tock | found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested |
| Order | www.toasttab.com/the-publick-house-1648-beacon-st vendor on own site: Toast | found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested |
| Menu | publickhousebrookline.com/pages/drink-menu-landing-page html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo 17:00-23:00; Tu,We 17:00-00:00; Th 17:00-01:00; Fr 16:00-01:00; Sa 12:00-01:00; Su 12:00-22:00 (closed now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +1-617-277-2880 |
Stable links that count: /go/publickhousebrookline.com/book, /go/publickhousebrookline.com/order, /go/publickhousebrookline.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.
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 | not measured |
| ACP discovery document /.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol | not measured |
| 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 | not measured |
| Vendor terms for agents Tock, read 2026-10-15 | Through partners |
Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.
Tock's terms (12 February 2026) prohibit robots, scripts, scrapers and automated systems except software expressly licensed by Tock; Google names Tock as an AI Mode booking partner. Source. About Tock · all vendors.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | yes |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | yes |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | yes |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | yes |
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |