The Direct Index
Report · Birmingham cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

Aston Tavern

astontavern.co.uk is ready for agents.

Book directly: astontavern.co.uk/contact-us on the business's own site

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A
86.3%

69 of 80 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-14: completed, an agent can reach the step before confirming. Date, time and party-size controls are on the page, so an agent can get to the confirmation step.

Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +1 points

    Missing: telephone. How to fix it

  3. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Birmingham cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on squarespace is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "Aston Tavern",
  "url": "https://astontavern.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "01216990095",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Aston Hall Road",
    "postalCode": "B6 7FF",
    "addressLocality": "Birmingham"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 52.5068613,
    "longitude": -1.8782412
  },
  "acceptsReservations": "https://astontavern.co.uk/contact-us",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://astontavern.co.uk/contact-us",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Aston Tavern

> bar or pub in Aston Hall Road B6 7FF Birmingham, Birmingham cafes and bars. Phone 01216990095.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://astontavern.co.uk/contact-us (on the business's own site)

## About

- Website: https://astontavern.co.uk/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

9 of 194 in Birmingham cafes and bars

Top 5% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Four Oaks A, The Old House At Home A. Just below: Chai & Crumbs A, Medicine A.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain95%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML80%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)85%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours50%no
Have an llms.txt5%no

The top tenth is the 20 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 7,027 sites65%47%86.3%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Donuts N Chai coffee_shop, donut2.2 kmFno
The Bull2.5 kmFno
Eagle & Ball by BCUSU pizza2.6 kmCno
Starbucks coffee_shop2.7 kmCyes
Hen & Chickens curry, indian2.7 kmCyes
Boston Tea Party coffee_shop2.8 kmCyes
The Queen's Head sandwich, chicken, british, steak_house, burger2.8 kmByes
The Woodman2.9 kmDno
Montys Deli Sandwich Bar sandwich, breakfast2.9 kmCyes
The Rolling Mill2.9 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Aston Tavern in Birmingham cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars19449%22%86.3%
Built with Squarespace in Birmingham cafes and bars1070%40%86.3%

The best of Built with Squarespace in Birmingham cafes and bars

The Beech House A 85% · Wayland's Yard B 83.8% · Saint Kitchen B 77.5% · BRIG Café at The Warehouse C 67.7% · Fox & Chance Cocktail Bar C 67.5%

The climb

With the two fixes above (No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 96.3%: first of 194 in Birmingham cafes and bars.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

The direct record

What agents get for Aston Tavern

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

PathLinkStatus
Bookastontavern.co.uk/contact-us own siteverified direct, 2026-10-14
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone01216990095

Stable links that count: /go/astontavern.co.uk/book 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
not measured
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
not measured
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
not measured

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of 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
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included.

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Agent-Direct Score A

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