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

Common Ground

commongroundoxford.com is largely invisible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap.

Website

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

Hours, from OpenStreetMap: Mon–Sun 08:00–16:00

Little Clarendon Street 37-38 OX1 2HF Oxford

Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near Common Ground 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 Common Ground'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.

38.5%

25 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2024.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning" 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
A quiet cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning.ChatGPT by name, without a link2026-10-22

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

Show it

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

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/commongroundoxford.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/named/commongroundoxford.com.svg" alt="Named by 1 of 2 assistants, Direct Index" width="300" height="40"></a>
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 cafe near the centre where I can sit with my laptop this morning.” (ChatGPT, by name, without a link)

Where it stands

How Common Ground compares

Where it stands

134 of 174 in Oxford cafes and bars

Top 77% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Charm Cafe F, Clifftop Cafe F. Just below: Eatwells Community Cafe F, Green Routes F.

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%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)100%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours72%no
Have an llms.txt50%no

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 Squarespace 32,150 sites61%41%38.5%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Tree Artisan Cafe coffee_shop109 mByes
Thirsty Meeples coffee_shop421 mAyes
The Coffee Guild coffee_shop429 mAyes
Dark Horse Roastery coffee_shop456 mDno
Society Cafe coffee_shop560 mDno
Theo's coffee_shop564 mByes
New Ground Coffee coffee_shop593 mFno
Kelpie coffee_shop703 mFno
Starbucks coffee_shop723 mFno
Gulp Fiction coffee_shop727 mByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Common Ground in Oxford cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Oxford cafes and bars17458%34%38.5%
Sites built with Squarespace in Oxford cafes and bars1961%42%38.5%

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

Aromi A 90.8% · Love Jericho A 89.2% · The Porterhouse B 84.6% · The Oxford Retreat B 83.1% · Raoul's B 78.5%

After the top fixes

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%, 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 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. How to fix it

  2. 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

  3. 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. How to fix it

  4. 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 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.

Builder: squarespace · contact page /about-us: nothing new

Fix kit

What to paste

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

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Common Ground",
  "url": "https://www.commongroundoxford.com/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Little Clarendon Street 37-38",
    "postalCode": "OX1 2HF",
    "addressLocality": "Oxford"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.7581176,
    "longitude": -1.2626327
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 08:00-16:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "16:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "coffee shop"
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Common Ground

> cafe or coffee shop (coffee shop) in Little Clarendon Street 37-38 OX1 2HF Oxford, Oxford cafes and bars.

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 08:00-16:00

## About

- Website: https://www.commongroundoxford.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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 F

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/commongroundoxford.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/commongroundoxford.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Common Ground

No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-24 found no booking or ordering link on commongroundoxford.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/commongroundoxford.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/oxford-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
HoursMo-Su 08:00-16:00 (closed now)from OpenStreetMap
Phonenone on record

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
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
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/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 businessno