# Hair By Claire: Agent-Direct Score F (21.5%)

Site: https://www.hairbyclaire-cheshire.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/hairbyclaire-cheshire.com
Scanned: 2026-10-15 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Hair By Claire is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants cannot open the website of Hair By Claire, so they rely on what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Phone: +44 161 486 6006

## What to fix first
- **The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **No online booking link on the website.** (+13 points) Only a phone number or WhatsApp, which agents cannot use yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so an agent can find it. Add an online appointment page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page with services and prices as text and link it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **Structured data is incomplete.** (+3 points) Missing: opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant

## Fix kit: What to paste

Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "HairSalon",
  "name": "Hair By Claire",
  "url": "https://www.hairbyclaire-cheshire.com/",
  "telephone": "+44 161 486 6006",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Gillbent Road 42a",
    "postalCode": "SK8 6NB",
    "addressLocality": "Cheadle"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.3646897,
    "longitude": -2.1913203
  }
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address, phone

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (C then)
- Fixed: nothing
- New: The site turned every visitor without a browser away

## Where it stands
25 of 30 in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 83% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 60% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 0% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 20% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 40% | no |

Nearest places in the index: The Bohemian Barbers (B, 1333 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebohemianbarbers.co.uk); Jordan Lea (D, 2753 m, https://directindex.org/r/jordanlea.co.uk); Etre Belle (C, 3237 m, https://directindex.org/r/etrebellebeauty.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
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.

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 2026-10-14 60%, 2026-10-15 22%.

Against its peers: Sites built with Wix 58% (35% A or B, 3255 sites); This site 21.5%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/hairbyclaire-cheshire.com/agent-view

## Businesses like Hair By Claire in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons | 30 | 43% | 13% | 21.5% |
| Sites built with Wix in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons | 5 | 56% | 40% | 21.5% |

The best of the sites built with Wix in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons: Nam Tip Thai Massage (B 77.5%, https://directindex.org/r/namtipthaimassage.co.uk); The Bohemian Barbers (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/thebohemianbarbers.co.uk); Amanda James Hairdressing (C 60%, https://directindex.org/r/amandajameshairdressing.co.uk); The Beauty Lab (D 47.7%, https://directindex.org/r/thebeautylabmcr.com).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No online booking link on the website; No price list of services found) the score would be about 90.8%: first of 30 in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons.

## The direct record
What agents get for Hair By Claire, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/hairbyclaire-cheshire.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +44 161 486 6006

## Can an agent transact?
Measured, not scored (the score stays at spec v1.0).
- 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

Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 12 | 25 |
| Actionable | 2 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Not measured for this scan.
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/hairbyclaire-cheshire.com/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/hairbyclaire-cheshire.com/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. Reading and scanning stay free; these few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.
Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=hairbyclaire-cheshire.com&force=1