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

Grey Crane

greycranecafe.com is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

BookMenuCallWebsite

Ways to reach Grey Crane directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

316 St John St, EC1V 4NT, London · +442046366410

Nearby, also direct

Places near Grey Crane 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 Grey Crane's website. It can read what Grey Crane offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

78.9%

51.3 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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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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 Grey Crane compares

Where it stands

838 of 5,710 in London cafes and bars

Top 15% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Waters Edge B, Elephant Hackney B. Just below: Angel & Crown B, Aqua Spirit B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML94%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours50%no
Have an llms.txt22%no

The top 10% are the 572 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%78.9%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Dame Alice Owen67 mFyes
Queen Boadicea69 mFno
CHASH The Fine Tea Co.110 mCno
Stage Door Bar & Garden Court Cafe137 mCyes
The Harlequin172 mCno
Old Red Lion309 mDno
Angel Inn breakfast315 mDno
Duncan Terrace Cafe325 mCno
The 411 London345 mDno
Coin Laundry358 mAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Grey Crane in London cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in London cafes and bars5,71050%30%78.9%
Sites built with Squarespace in London cafes and bars58068%49%78.9%

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

Humble Grape A 100% · Nightjar A 100% · Friends of Ours A 95.4% · 45 Jermyn St. A 93.8% · Balls A 93.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 49th of 5,710 in London cafes and bars, up from 838th.

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. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

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

  2. 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

  3. 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 London cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • 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
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · menu page /menu: nothing new; booking page /make-a-reservation: 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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Grey Crane",
  "url": "https://www.greycranecafe.com/",
  "telephone": "+442046366410",
  "address": "316 St John St, EC1V 4NT, London",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.52879838,
    "longitude": -0.10442858
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.greycranecafe.com/make-a-reservation",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</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.

# Grey Crane

> local business in 316 St John St, EC1V 4NT, London, London cafes and bars. Phone +442046366410.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.greycranecafe.com/make-a-reservation (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.greycranecafe.com/menu

## About

- Website: https://www.greycranecafe.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 B

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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 Grey Crane

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/greycranecafe.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.greycranecafe.com/make-a-reservation own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.greycranecafe.com/menu html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+442046366410

Stable links that count: /go/greycranecafe.com/book, /go/greycranecafe.com/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
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