The Direct Index
Report · Auckland · scanned 2026-10-22

The Alderman

aldermanhenderson.co.nz is mostly ready for agents.

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MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach The Alderman directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-22. Report a mistake

095535366

Its menu mentions: vegan options, a children's menu

Nearby, also direct

Places near The Alderman 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 The Alderman's website. It can read what The Alderman offers. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.

74.1%

63 of 85 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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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.

AssistantOfficial website?Where to book?Where to order?
ChatGPTown siteown siteown site
Geminiown siteown siteown site

Asked on 2026-10-27 with web search on. 100% of the answers pointed to the business's own site or to a vendor working for it. That share is the Cited part of the score.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Auckland and named 65 places. The Alderman wasn't one of them. See who was named →

What ChatGPT said 2026-10-27, three questions

Official website?
https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/ (aldermanhenderson.co.nz (https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/?utmsource=openai))

Where to book?
For groups of 6 or more, The Alderman asks you to book by email: info@aldermanhenderson.co.nz. Their website doesn’t appear to offer an online booking form: The Alderman contact page (https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/contact-us). (aldermanhenderson.co.nz (https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/contact-us?utmsource=openai))

Where to order?
I couldn’t find an online food-ordering link for The Alderman. Their official website has their menu and contact details: aldermanhenderson.co.nz (https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/). (aldermanhenderson.co.nz (https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/?utmsource=openai))

What Gemini said 2026-10-27, three questions

Official website?
The official website of The Alderman, a restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand, is https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz.

Where to book?
To book a table at The Alderman in Henderson, Auckland, New Zealand, you should use their contact page to make a reservation or inquiry. While there isn't a direct "book a table" online link, they encourage groups of 6 or more to book by contacting them directly. You can find their contact information on their official website: The Alderman Henderson Contact Page: On this page, you can find their phone number (09…

Where to order?
You can order food online from The Alderman in Auckland, New Zealand, by visiting their official website: https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/. The Alderman, located at 22 Alderman Drive in Henderson, Auckland, offers both takeaway and delivery options. Their website features their menu, including all-day breakfast, lunch, and a selection of drinks.

Where it stands

How The Alderman compares

Where it stands

245 of 1,155 in Auckland

Top 21% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Nu Kiin Thai B, Meharbaan Indian Cuisine | Indian Restaurant B. Just below: 1981 Noodle House B, 507 Bar and Eatery B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML96%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)97%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours43%no
Have an llms.txt38%no

The top 10% are the 117 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 33,756 sites61%41%74.1%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Daaku Kebab kebab308 mDno
Adriatico317 mCyes
Yaruki Japanese Restaurant japanese321 mDno
Mantra restaurant indian328 mCyes
Sa-On thai330 mByes
Smokeland BBQ barbecue355 mByes
Ko & Ki Sushi bar sushi408 mDno
Kanes Burger Club burger437 mFno
Gloria Jean's Cafe - Waitakere fish_and_chips619 mCno
Reburger burger640 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Alderman in Auckland

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Auckland1,15559%38%74.1%
Sites built with Squarespace in Auckland13577%70%74.1%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Auckland

Bali Nights A 100% · Bar Magda A 100% · Cocoro A 100% · Tiger Restaurant Bar A 100% · 21 Days Bar and Brasserie A 93.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 96.5%. That would be 20th of 1,155 in Auckland, up from 245th.

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No booking or ordering link on the website +13 points

    There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  3. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

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

No one is listed yet to fix this in Auckland. 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 (LocalBusiness) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: squarespace · contact page /contact-us: nothing new; menu page /menu: nothing new

Fix kit

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 squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. 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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "The Alderman",
  "url": "http://aldermanhenderson.co.nz/",
  "telephone": "095535366",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -36.8773967,
    "longitude": 174.6347598
  },
  "hasMenu": "https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/menu"
}
</script>

llms.txt

Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.

# The Alderman

> restaurant in Auckland. Phone 095535366.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/menu

## About

- Website: http://aldermanhenderson.co.nz/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

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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The direct record

What agents get for The Alderman

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/aldermanhenderson.co.nz, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/auckland/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.aldermanhenderson.co.nz/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone095535366

Stable links that count: /go/aldermanhenderson.co.nz/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.

Transactable

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
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
Agent readiness

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes