Bristol hairdressers and beauty salons: which businesses can AI agents use?
Every hairdresser, beauty salon and massage business in Bristol that has its own website gets the same scan. So far 31 of 40 distinct websites have been scanned.
businesses in OpenStreetMap
distinct business websites (a chain's site counts once)
of scanned sites turn an AI crawler away at the edge
score A or B so far
A 0 · B 5 · C 12 · D 8 · F 6
A score stays provisional until its site has had the action test and the citation check. Methodology · Markdown · JSON.
Ranked by Agent-Direct Score
If one of these is yours, open its page to rescan or claim it. 11 places you can book or order from directly →
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grace Kingsley gracekingsley.co.uk | B 84.6% | HTML page | own site | open |
| 2 | Nata Beauty — Permanent Makeup Bristol natapmu.co.uk | B 84.6% | none | own site | open |
| 3 | Virtue Hair And Beauty virtuehairandbeauty.co.uk | B 84.6% | none | own site | open |
| 4 | Loop Massage loopmassage.com | B 81.5% | none | own site | open |
| 5 | Aldo's Barber Shop aldosbarber.co.uk | B 73.8% | none | vendor on own site | open |
| 6 | Bristol Hair Studios bristolhairstudios.co.uk | C 64.6% | none | marketplace | open |
| 7 | Neal's Yard Remedies nealsyardremedies.com | C 64.6% | none | none | open |
| 8 | Skin and Beauty Box skinandbeautyboxbristol.co.uk | C 63.1% | none | own site | open |
| 9 | Westbury Barbering Company westburybarbering.co.uk | C 63.1% | none | own site | open |
| 10 | A Touch of Beauty atouchofbeautybristol.co.uk | C 61.5% | none | own site | open |
| 11 | The Arch thearchbeauty.co.uk | C 61.5% | none | own site | open |
| 12 | Mane manehairdressing.co.uk | C 60% | none | third party | open |
| 13 | Nuhu nuhu.hair | C 56.9% | none | third party | open |
| 14 | Nuala Morey nualahairdressing.com | C 56.5% | none | own site | blocked |
| 15 | Tribeca tribecabarbers.com | C 56.5% | HTML page | none | blocked |
| 16 | Atkinsons atkinsonspabeauty.co.uk | C 55.4% | none | none | open |
| 17 | moda modahairdressing.co.uk | C 55.4% | none | vendor on own site | open |
| 18 | Casa Pelo casapelohairdressing.co.uk | D 49.2% | none | third party | open |
| 19 | Salvatore's Barber Shop salvatoresbarbershop.com | D 49.2% | none | third party | open |
| 20 | Skeleton barbers skeletonbarbers.com | D 49.2% | none | third party | open |
| 21 | The Conservatory theconservatoryunisexbarbers.co.uk | D 47.7% | none | third party | open |
| 22 | dooo Hub - Bedminster dooo.co.uk | D 47.7% | none | third party | open |
| 23 | Stoke Lane Barber nearcut.com | D 43.8% | none | none | open |
| 24 | Lextan lextan.co.uk | D 43.1% | none | none | open |
| 25 | Nails Deluxe galleriesbristol.co.uk | D 43.1% | none | none | open |
Show all 31
| # | Business | Score | Menu | Direct channel | AI crawlers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | Bristol Thai Spa bristolthaispa.co.uk | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 27 | Celly's cellys.co.uk | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 28 | Create createhairdressing.co.uk | F 38.5% | none | none | open |
| 29 | Supercuts supercuts.com | F 35.4% | none | none | open |
| 30 | Seventh Avenue seventhavenue.co.uk | F 30.8% | none | none | open |
| 31 | The Gel House thegelhouse.co.uk | F 0% | unreachable | none | open |
How Bristol hairdressers and beauty salons compares
Only a social profile: 0.5% here, against a median of 2.1% across 138 indexes of hairdressers and beauty salons. This is where the city stands out. It ranks 137 of 138.
Website facts come from 30 of the 31 scanned sites (97%). A row only shows once 300 pages and half of the scanned sites have been read, and four in five of the city's websites have been scanned. Every number, with its method and data →
Every count behind these rows
| none | 28 |
| HTML page | 2 |
| none | 11 |
| own site | 9 |
| third party | 7 |
| vendor on own site | 2 |
| marketplace | 1 |
| Unknown | 11 |
| Wordpress | 9 |
| Squarespace | 4 |
| Shopify | 2 |
| Wix | 2 |
| Godaddy | 1 |
| Turn at least one away at the edge | 2 |
| Block one in robots.txt | 0 |
| Turn away every visitor without a browser | 0 |
| Didn't answer in time | 1 |
| Unreachable from the scanner | 1 |
| No working site (dead address) | 9 |
The menu, channel and builder counts cover the 30 sites the scanner could read; the AI crawler counts cover all 31 scanned sites. Each uses the latest scan. The listings come from OpenStreetMap. Businesses without their own website are counted but not scanned. Another 9 have an address that no longer answers (dead domain, bad certificate or server down). They're counted with the businesses that have no website and left out of the ranking.
Where assistants send people in Bristol hairdressers and beauty salons
Of 24 answers from ChatGPT and Gemini, 100% link a business's own site or its booking software and 8% link a marketplace, most often Booksy. The five destinations linked most:
| Destination | Kind | Answers | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| The businesses' own sites | own site | 24 | 100% |
| Booksy | marketplace | 2 | 8% |
| Setmore | vendor, direct | 2 | 8% |
| bonominihair.co.uk | other site | 1 | 4% |
| book.app | other site | 1 | 4% |
The full league table, assistant by assistant → · The places named, question by question
What assistants recommend in Bristol hairdressers and beauty salons
Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places and a link to book or order directly with each. For the places it recommended, the table shows how many came with a link to the place's own site, to a marketplace or to a directory, and how many came with no link at all.
| Assistant | Own site or direct | Marketplace | Directory | No link | Places |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 35 |
| Gemini | 95% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 37 |
Asked on 2026-10-23. A place in this index links to its report, and one with its own site that isn't in the index yet links to a scan. When a cell says "no link", the assistant named the place but didn't link to its site. Across the 12 questions, the assistants named 51 different places. This index has 575 businesses. Question by question →
Bristol hairdressers and beauty salons, month by month
Each month gets its own dated page, and its numbers are final once the month is over. The table shows the share of sites that turn AI crawlers away, the share that take bookings or orders on their own domain, and how many score A or B.
| Month | Sites scanned | Turn a crawler away | Direct booking or ordering | A or B |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 so far | 31 | 6% | 37% | 5 |
Bristol, by kind
Each kind of business has its own index, and every index gets the same scan. This page is the hairdressers and beauty salons index.
| Kind | Businesses | Has a website | Sites scanned | Grades |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| restaurants and fast food | 942 | 283 | 169 | A 36 · B 46 · C 39 · D 11 · F 37 |
| cafes and bars | 857 | 240 | 145 | A 11 · B 38 · C 36 · D 25 · F 35 |
| hairdressers and beauty salons this page | 575 | 45 | 31 | A 0 · B 5 · C 12 · D 8 · F 6 |
5 of them are chain outlets. A chain's site is scanned once and counted once in the rankings.
Can an agent transact in Bristol hairdressers and beauty salons?
5 of 30 reachable sites expose a rail an agent could transact through: UCP profile 4, Square 1. Measured, not scored.
A rail is a UCP profile, an ACP discovery document, an MCP server card, or an ordering vendor that takes orders placed by assistants (Square and Toast, and any vendor whose terms allow agents). Counted from the latest scan of each site; older scans were not measured. Methodology · vendor terms for agents.