The Direct Index
Report · Leeds cafes and bars · scanned 2026-11-15

Below Stairs

belowstairsbar.com is partly visible to agents.

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Ways to reach Below Stairs directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-15. Through designmynight acting for the business. Report a mistake

12 S Parade, LS1 5QS, Leeds · +447810177836

Nearby, also direct

Places near Below Stairs 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 Below Stairs's website. What Below Stairs offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through DesignMyNight.

61.5%

40 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things 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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Named by assistants

Named by Gemini for "A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?" in Leeds cafes and bars, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Leeds 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
A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?Gemini with a link to this site2026-10-21

Every place named in Leeds cafes and bars, question by question.

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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:
“A quiet bar for a first date on Thursday evening. Can I book?” (Gemini, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Below Stairs compares

Where it stands

Not ranked yet in Leeds cafes and bars

The ranking updates every hour. This site joins it at the next update.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML100%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours56%no
Have an llms.txt11%no

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Wix 58,197 sites53%31%61.5%
Sites using DesignMyNight 844 sites77%71%61.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Fat Cat Cafe Bars43 mCyes
Neighbourhood54 mByes
Bar Soba Leeds56 mCno
Flight Club66 mByes
All Bar One72 mCno
Electric Shuffle76 mByes
Strada Restaurants76 mByes
SALT Leeds City76 mCno
Sports Cafe86 mFno
And Company90 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Below Stairs in Leeds cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Leeds cafes and bars17860%36%61.5%
Sites built with Wix in Leeds cafes and bars4464%39%61.5%
Sites using DesignMyNight in Leeds cafes and bars4376%67%61.5%
Sites built with Wix and using DesignMyNight in Leeds cafes and bars265%0%61.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 19th of 178 in Leeds cafes and bars, up from not ranked today.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business +14 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. 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 Leeds 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.
  • Booking through designmynight on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: wix · What to paste

Owners

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Claiming is free and takes one email to confirm. Then you can correct what assistants are told, and you get a message only when the score changes.

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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. Show the details