The Direct Index
Report · Oxford cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-24

Art Café

artcafeoxford.co.uk is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

MenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Art Café directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Fri 07:00–19:00 · Sat 07:30–19:00 · Sun 08:00–19:00

Bonn Square 14 OX1 1LT Oxford · +441865242464

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Prices: 41 prices on the site, the middle one £25.00

Nearby, also direct

Places near Art Café 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 Art Café's website. It can read what Art Café offers. It can't find a link to book or order online.

72.3%

47 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

1

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.

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

41 prices on the landing page, the middle one £25.00.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?" in Oxford cafes and bars, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Oxford 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.

QuestionNamed byAsked
Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-22

Every place named in Oxford cafes and bars, 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:
“Coffee and a good cake this afternoon. Where should I go?” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Art Café compares

Where it stands

49 of 174 in Oxford cafes and bars

Top 28% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Varsity Club B, Yummy B. Just below: Big Society B, Cape of Good Hope 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 HTML89%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours72%yes
Have an llms.txt50%yes

The top 10% are the 18 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Shopify 13,001 sites47%23%72.3%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Story Museum Cafe british191 mByes
George Street Social british212 mDno
The Red Lion british283 mAyes
The Spires Cafe british, european307 mByes
Organic Deli Cafe & Wholefoods Store british312 mFno
Ashmolean Cafe british411 mCyes
The Grand Café british677 mCyes
Opera Cafe british742 mFyes
The Jericho Cafe british, french, european1.1 kmCyes
Hogacre Cafe local, british1.1 kmFyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Art Café in Oxford cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Oxford cafes and bars17458%34%72.3%
Sites built with Shopify in Oxford cafes and bars1470%43%72.3%

The best of the sites built with Shopify in Oxford cafes and bars

The Missing Bean Roastery Café A 95.4% · The Rickety Press A 95.4% · The Up In Arms A 95.4% · Thirsty Meeples A 90.8% · Gulp Fiction B 84.6%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No booking or ordering link on the website), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 174 in Oxford cafes and bars.

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 +15 points

    There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. 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 on your own domain. 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 Oxford 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 (CafeOrCoffeeShop) address, phone, opening hours
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.

Builder: shopify · contact page /pages/about-us: nothing new; menu page /pages/menu: nothing new

Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

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 Art Café

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/artcafeoxford.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/oxford-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menuartcafeoxford.co.uk/pages/menu html_pagefrom the scan
HoursMo-Fr 07:00-19:00; Sa 07:30-19:00; Su 08:00-19:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phone+441865242464

Stable links that count: /go/artcafeoxford.co.uk/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
yes
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/markdownyes
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageyes
JSON-LD for the businessyes