The Direct Index
Report · Edinburgh cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-21

Cowan & Sons

cowanandsons.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Website

Ways to reach Cowan & Sons directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Sun 09:00–17:00

Raeburn Place 33 EH4 1HX Edinburgh

Prices: 30 prices on the site, the middle one £100

Nearby, also direct

Places near Cowan & Sons 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 Cowan & Sons'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.

50.8%

33 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.

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2021.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Edinburgh, 78% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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30 prices on the landing page, the middle one £100.

In Edinburgh, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £14.95.

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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.

Where it stands

How Cowan & Sons compares

Where it stands

367 of 716 in Edinburgh cafes and bars

Top 51% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Centraal D, Cloudberry D. Just below: Greenmantle D, Grow Urban D.

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 HTML86%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)90%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt30%no

The top 10% are the 73 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 18,903 sites63%46%50.8%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Cafe at Glenogle coffee_shop258 mFno
The Place coffee_shop281 mCno
Grow Urban coffee_shop, cake565 mDno
Cafen Speciality Brew Bar coffee_shop757 mDno
Croccante & Co breakfast, cake, coffee_shop, italian, sandwich799 mCno
Not Just Coffee coffee_shop, pastry841 mBno
Cairngorm breakfast, cake, coffee_shop858 mByes
fauna coffee_shop892 mCno
The Cobbled Roastery coffee_shop960 mFno
Hata breakfast, coffee_shop1.0 kmCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Cowan & Sons in Edinburgh cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh cafes and bars71650%27%50.8%
Sites built with Squarespace in Edinburgh cafes and bars7267%43%50.8%

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

CC Blooms A 100% · Tolbooth Tavern A 95% · The Ox A 93.8% · The Register Club A 93.8% · A Wee Taste A 92.3%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 6th of 716 in Edinburgh cafes and bars, up from 367th.

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. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. 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 Edinburgh 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.
  • Structured data found (LocalBusiness) no address, phone or hours in it

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare

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": "Cowan & Sons",
  "url": "http://cowanandsons.com/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Raeburn Place 33",
    "postalCode": "EH4 1HX",
    "addressLocality": "Edinburgh",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 55.9589078,
    "longitude": -3.2117046
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-Su 09:00-17:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday",
        "Saturday",
        "Sunday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "17:00"
    }
  ],
  "servesCuisine": [
    "sandwich",
    "coffee shop",
    "croissant"
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Cowan & Sons

> cafe or coffee shop (sandwich, coffee shop, croissant) in Raeburn Place 33 EH4 1HX Edinburgh, Edinburgh cafes and bars.

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 09:00-17:00

## About

- Website: http://cowanandsons.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score D

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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.

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The direct record

What agents get for Cowan & Sons

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
HoursMo-Su 09:00-17:00 (open 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 businessyes