# Costa Coffee: Agent-Direct Score F (38.5%) Site: http://www.choicecoffee.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/choicecoffee.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-24 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Costa Coffee is largely invisible to agents. An AI assistant can open Costa Coffee's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Phone: +443330035883 - Address: 32 Frederick Street, B1 3HH, Birmingham ## Nearby, also direct Places near Costa Coffee that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - The Button Factory (90 m): https://directindex.org/r/thebuttonfactorybirmingham.co.uk - 24 Carat Bistro (140 m): https://directindex.org/r/thegoatking.com - Lucky7 (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/lucky7bhx.com - 1000 Trades (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/1000trades.org.uk - The Rolling Mill (300 m): https://directindex.org/r/therollingmill.co.uk ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+15 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Costa Coffee > local business in 32 Frederick Street, B1 3HH, Birmingham, Birmingham cafes and bars. Phone +443330035883. ## About - Website: http://www.choicecoffee.co.uk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models. ``` ## 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. ## Since the scan of 2026-10-21 (F then) - Fixed: The site turned away every visitor that wasn't a browser - New: No llms.txt ## Where it stands 318 of 488 in Birmingham cafes and bars. Top 65% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 98% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 88% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 46% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 20% | no | Nearest places in the index: The Button Factory (B, 89 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebuttonfactorybirmingham.co.uk); Urban Emporiums - Birmingham (C, 100 m, https://directindex.org/r/urbanemporiums.com); Urban Coffee Company (F, 116 m, https://directindex.org/r/gkrtmc.com); 24 Carat Bistro (F, 137 m, https://directindex.org/r/thegoatking.com); Lucky7 (B, 159 m, https://directindex.org/r/lucky7bhx.com); 1000 Trades (C, 165 m, https://directindex.org/r/1000trades.org.uk); Temper and Brown (B, 258 m, https://directindex.org/r/temperandbrown.com); The Rolling Mill (B, 297 m, https://directindex.org/r/therollingmill.co.uk); The Vaults (F, 316 m, https://directindex.org/r/vaultsbirmingham.com); The Jewellers Arms (D, 336 m, https://directindex.org/r/blackcountryales.co.uk). ## What assistants answer 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. Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-21: 2026-10-21 0%, 2026-10-24 39%. Compared with its peers: Sites built with Shopify 48% (24% A or B, 13925 sites); This site 38.5%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/choicecoffee.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like Costa Coffee in Birmingham cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars | 488 | 48% | 24% | 38.5% | | Sites built with Shopify in Birmingham cafes and bars | 21 | 49% | 24% | 38.5% | The best of the sites built with Shopify in Birmingham cafes and bars: Ngopi UK (B 84.6%, https://directindex.org/r/ngopi.co.uk); Game Guru (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/gameguru.co.uk); Homezone (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/homezonefurniture.com); Chocoberry (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/chocoberrycafe.com); EL&N (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/elnlondon.com). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 5th of 488 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 318th. ## The direct record What agents get for Costa Coffee, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/choicecoffee.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +443330035883 ## Can an agent transact? Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0). - 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 ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 0 | 25 | | Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/choicecoffee.co.uk - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: yes - OAuth protected resource metadata: yes - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/choicecoffee.co.uk/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/choicecoffee.co.uk/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=choicecoffee.co.uk&force=1