The Direct Index
Report · Baltimore · scanned 2026-11-13

Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse

redemmas.org is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Through toast acting for the business. Report a mistake

30 W North Ave, Baltimore 21201 · (443) 602-7585

Its menu mentions: vegan options

Nearby, also direct

Places near Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse 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 Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse's website. It can read what Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Toast.

72.5%

58 of 80 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

3

things to fix

Action test, 2026-11-13: completed, an agent can get as far as the step before confirming. A Toast 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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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "A good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today" in Baltimore, November 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Baltimore 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 good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-11-13

Every place named in Baltimore, 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 good vegan or vegetarian lunch near the centre, today.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse compares

Where it stands

277 of 873 in Baltimore

Top 32% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Hamilton Sports Bar and Grill B, Peter Chang B. Just below: AJ's On Hanover B, Abbey Burger B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML90%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)92%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours65%no
Have an llms.txt34%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using Toast 7,521 sites73%62%72.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Ema's Corner pizza70 mCyes
IMOJANG Korean Restaurant korean108 mFno
Nancy By Snac american126 mCno
B1 BBQ BALTIMORE156 mDyes
Kink Cafe176 mDyes
Tayab's Kabab & Grill middle_eastern184 mCyes
Le Comptoir du Vin french214 mBno
Lost City Diner224 mDno
Mi Comalito Restaurant salvadoran247 mCno
Tapas Teatro spanish277 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse in Baltimore

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Baltimore87355%38%72.5%
Sites using Toast in Baltimore15372%59%72.5%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 90%. That would be 59th of 873 in Baltimore, up from 277th.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. 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

  3. The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data

    The site shows +14106013072, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists (443) 602-7585. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org.

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One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Baltimore. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Ordering through toast on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
  • Toast works with agents through its partners Toast's guest terms could not be read on 2026-10-15 (bot challenge); since August 2026 Google's Ask Maps completes orders at Toast restaurants through Toast Local under the UCP for Food standard. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.digitaltransactions.net/square-toast-jump-into-ai-boosted-google-maps/. 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: unknown · contact page /about: nothing new; menu page /cafe: nothing new · What to paste

Owners

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Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and 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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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

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