Cardinal Rule
cardinalrule.co.uk is hard for agents to use.
Menu: www.cardinalrule.co.uk/menu
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32 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- No booking or ordering path at all +15 points
Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it
- 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 Manchester. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the key AI user agents.
- AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare
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": "Restaurant",
"name": "Cardinal Rule",
"url": "https://www.cardinalrule.co.uk/",
"email": "howdy@cardinalrule.co.uk",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Tariff Street 10",
"postalCode": "M1 2FF"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 53.4812025,
"longitude": -2.2322828
},
"openingHours": "Mo-Sa 12:00-21:00; Su 12:00-19:00",
"openingHoursSpecification": [
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday",
"Friday",
"Saturday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "21:00"
},
{
"@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
"dayOfWeek": [
"Sunday"
],
"opens": "12:00",
"closes": "19:00"
}
],
"servesCuisine": [
"american"
],
"hasMenu": "https://www.cardinalrule.co.uk/menu"
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# Cardinal Rule > restaurant (american) in Tariff Street 10 M1 2FF, Manchester. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.cardinalrule.co.uk/menu ## Opening hours Mo-Sa 12:00-21:00; Su 12:00-19:00 ## About - Website: https://www.cardinalrule.co.uk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
167 of 309 in Manchester
Top 54% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: 1903 Lounge D, Almost Famous D. Just below: China Red D, Cosmo D.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 88% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 97% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 56% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 31% | no |
The top tenth is the 32 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 6,916 sites | 64% | 46% | 49.2% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Green Lab | 99 m | C | no |
| Bundobust indian | 156 m | B | yes |
| Popeyes chicken | 250 m | F | no |
| ASK Italian italian | 259 m | A | yes |
| Zizzi italian | 264 m | A | yes |
| Shoryu japanese, ramen | 272 m | B | yes |
| Viet Shack vietnamese | 292 m | B | yes |
| Barburrito mexican | 298 m | C | yes |
| Pieminister pie | 304 m | B | yes |
| Store Street Exchange bar_and_grill, burger, steak_house, fish | 310 m | B | yes |
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | no |
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.
Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/cardinalrule.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/cardinalrule.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.