The Direct Index
Report · Birmingham cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

The Distillery

distillerysuttoncoldfield.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

An AI assistant can open the website of The Distillery. What The Distillery offers is in a PDF or an image, which assistants read poorly. It finds a way to book or order directly, through ResDiary.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

Book directly: booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheDistillerySutton/676 through resdiary acting for the business · Menu: www.inapub.co.uk/uploads/dbfiles/36164e88862f437b99d45525ff8

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60%

39 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

Assistants

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.

Where it stands

How The Distillery compares

Where it stands

93 of 189 in Birmingham cafes and bars

Top 49% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: The Railway C, Felson's - Birmingham C. Just below: Starbucks C, Pup and Duckling C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML84%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)84%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours53%no
Have an llms.txt5%no

The top tenth is the 19 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites using ResDiary 80 sites61%30%60%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Quinto Lounge20 mCyes
Folklore Coffee & Bagels coffee_shop, bagel566 mCno
Royal Hotel784 mByes
Cask & Craft Bar & Bottle Shop1.6 kmDno
New Hall Mill Tea Room1.8 kmDno
The Green House2.6 kmBno
The Fox2.7 kmCyes
Soho Tavern3.1 kmCyes
The Four Oaks3.1 kmAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Distillery in Birmingham cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars18951%23%60%
Sites using ResDiary in Birmingham cafes and bars160%0%60%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars

Vagabond Wines A 96.3% · Centenary Coffee & Co A 91.3% · Be at One A 90% · Dirty Martini A 90% · Nortons A 90%

The climb

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF) the score would be about 87.7%: 6th of 189 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 93rd.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  3. 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

Send the fixes to your web person

One email, the fixes and the link; nothing stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Birmingham cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.

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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": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "The Distillery",
  "url": "https://www.distillerysuttoncoldfield.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 121 321 2704",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Birmingham Road 11-19",
    "postalCode": "B72 1QA",
    "addressLocality": "Sutton Coldfield"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 52.5595223,
    "longitude": -1.8256504
  },
  "acceptsReservations": "https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheDistillerySutton/67650",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.inapub.co.uk/uploads/dbfiles/36164e88862f437b99d45525ff810fa2.pdf",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheDistillerySutton/67650",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# The Distillery

> bar or pub in Birmingham Road 11-19 B72 1QA Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham cafes and bars. Phone +44 121 321 2704.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheDistillerySutton/67650 (through resdiary acting for the business)
- Menu: https://www.inapub.co.uk/uploads/dbfiles/36164e88862f437b99d45525ff810fa2.pdf

## About

- Website: https://www.distillerysuttoncoldfield.co.uk/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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.

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/distillerysuttoncoldfield.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/distillerysuttoncoldfield.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for The Distillery

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/distillerysuttoncoldfield.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/birmingham-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookbooking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/TheDistillerySutton/676 vendor on own site: ResDiaryfound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.inapub.co.uk/uploads/dbfiles/36164e88862f437b99d45525ff8 pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+44 121 321 2704

Stable links that count: /go/distillerysuttoncoldfield.co.uk/book, /go/distillerysuttoncoldfield.co.uk/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

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
not measured
ACP discovery document
/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol
not measured
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
not measured
Vendor terms for agents
ResDiary, read 2026-10-15
Through partners

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

ResDiary's consumer terms bar any robot, spider, scraper or other automatic means of access except as expressly authorised by ResDiary; Google names ResDiary as an AI Mode booking partner. Source. About ResDiary · all vendors.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

Agent readiness

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 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