The Direct Index
Monthly snapshot · Birmingham cafes and bars, GB

Birmingham cafes and bars in October 2026: how usable are its businesses for AI agents?

229 cafe and bar and pub websites scanned, 157 reachable. 43% of the reachable ones turn an AI crawler away at the edge, 47% take a booking or an order on their own domain, 43 score A or B. The month is still running; the page updates hourly.

229

sites scanned

43%

turn an AI crawler away

47%

book or order on their own domain

43

score A or B

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Findings

The state of the sites at the end of October 2026

Grades
F95
C62
D29
B26
A17
Menu or price list
HTML page71
none68
PDF16
on the page1
image1
Direct booking or ordering
none73
own site68
third party7
vendor on own site6
marketplace3
AI crawlers
Turn at least one away at the edge67
Block one in robots.txt3
Unreachable from our scanner72

Each site counted once, by its latest full scan before the month ended. Menu and channel counts are over the 157 reachable sites.

Method

How this page is made

Every business of the index's kind with a website of its own is scanned the same way, about once a month, and every scan is kept. This page takes the latest scan of each site before October 2026 ended, so a site fixed in the following month shows up in the following month's page, not here. A past month does not change. The assistant tables use the latest answer per business and question before the month ended. Methodology · the live index · all cities.