The Direct Index
Report · Manchester · scanned 2026-10-21

Cottage Catering

cottageselfcatering.co.uk is largely invisible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Cottage Catering directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake

211 Ashton Rd, SK14 4RN, East Hyde · 0161 368 8616

Prices: 44 prices on the site, the middle one £20.00

Nearby, also direct

Places near Cottage Catering that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Cottage Catering'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.

29.7%

19.3 of 65 points available

2/5

agent-readiness level, Bot-Aware

6

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.

44 prices on the landing page, the middle one £20.00.

In Manchester, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £9.95.

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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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about Manchester and named 90 places. Cottage Catering wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Cottage Catering compares

Where it stands

2,116 of 2,391 in Manchester

Top 88% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Y2 Cafe F, Rolled F. Just below: Croma Chorlton F, Remal Restaurant F.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML86%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours49%no
Have an llms.txt28%no

The top 10% are the 245 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

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Saffron indian1.3 kmDyes
Han Sik Korean Restaurant korean1.3 kmCno
The New Bosuns Fish & Chips Hyde fish_and_chips1.3 kmDyes
Heavenly Diner1.3 kmCno
Daawat restaurant indian1.3 kmCno
Delhi Spice indian1.5 kmCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cottage Catering in Manchester

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester2,39155%32%29.7%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Manchester

Abaseen Oldham A 100% · Beech Inn A 100% · Bread & Butties - Sale A 100% · Double Tree A 100% · Emilio's A 100%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 78.9%. That would be 418th of 2,391 in Manchester, up from 2116th.

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 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

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +10 points

    Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  3. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  4. 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

  5. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended +3.7 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  6. 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 Manchester. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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 your builder.

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": "Organization",
  "name": "Cottage Catering",
  "url": "http://www.cottageselfcatering.co.uk",
  "telephone": "0161 368 8616",
  "address": "211 Ashton Rd, SK14 4RN, East Hyde",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.46346276765428,
    "longitude": -2.076986308258887
  }
}
</script>

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

llms.txt

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

# Cottage Catering

> organization in 211 Ashton Rd, SK14 4RN, East Hyde, Manchester. Phone 0161 368 8616.

## About

- Website: http://www.cottageselfcatering.co.uk
- 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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Agent-Direct Score F

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/cottageselfcatering.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/cottageselfcatering.co.uk.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 Cottage Catering

No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-21 found no booking or ordering link on cottageselfcatering.co.uk or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/cottageselfcatering.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone0161 368 8616

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 2 of 5, Bot-Aware

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.txtyes
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