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

Tea rooms

edinburghcastle.scot is hard for agents to use.

D
43.1%

28 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

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.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. No structured data for the business

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type) with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations for a restaurant. It is the one block every assistant reads first. How to fix it

  2. No menu or price list found

    Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

  3. No booking or ordering path at all

    Only a phone number or WhatsApp. Agents cannot act on those yet. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it

  4. No llms.txt

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

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

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

Where it stands

260 of 424 in Edinburgh cafes and bars

Top 61% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Newbarns Taproom D, Roseleaf D. Just below: The Angel D, The Royal Oak D.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML74%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)88%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours35%no
Have an llms.txt23%no

The top tenth is the 43 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Knoops coffee_shop415 mDno
Blank Street Coffee coffee_shop427 mByes
The Elephant House coffee_shop516 mDno
Half-Cut Coffee coffee_shop, cafe534 mFno
Lowdown Coffee coffee_shop573 mFno
Ritual Coffee&Co coffee_shop600 mDno
Black Rabbit coffee_shop, cake603 mCno
The Cobbled Roastery coffee_shop639 mFno
Fruitmarket Cafe coffee_shop, cafe732 mByes
Mimi's Little Bakehouse coffee_shop, afternoon_tea760 mCyes
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.

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 discoveryyes
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
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.

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Agent-Direct Score D

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Owners

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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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