# Lobby on Hill Street: Agent-Direct Score F (21.5%)

Site: http://www.lobbyonhillstreet.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/hibirmingham.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.)
Lobby on Hill Street is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants can't open Lobby on Hill Street's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/HolidayInnBirminghamCity/64680 (through resdiary acting for the business)
- Menu: https://hibirmingham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/53/2026/05/holiday-inn-birmingham-all-day-dining-menu.pdf
- Phone: 01216346200
- Address: Hill Street, B5 4EW, Birmingham
- Prices: 3 prices on the site, the middle one £15.95

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Lobby on Hill Street that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- The Victoria (80 m): https://directindex.org/r/thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk
- Ovuello Bar Birmingham (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/ovuello.co.uk
- The London and North Western (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/jdwetherspoon.com
- Bonehead (160 m): https://directindex.org/r/boneheaduk.com

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **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). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **Menu or price list is a PDF.** (+3 points) Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **3 prices on the landing page, the middle one £15.95.** In Birmingham, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £13.13.

## Fix kit: What 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.

```html
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Lobby on Hill Street",
  "url": "http://www.lobbyonhillstreet.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "01216346200",
  "address": "Hill Street, B5 4EW, Birmingham",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 52.4759376,
    "longitude": -1.8995161
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/HolidayInnBirminghamCity/64680",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **Booking through resdiary on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.
- **ResDiary works with agents through its partners.** 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. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.resdiary.com/old/Terms. An assistant that isn't a partner may not be able to finish there. A direct path on your own domain works for all of them.

## Where it stands
406 of 488 in Birmingham cafes and bars. Top 83% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 98% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 88% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 46% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | no |

Nearest places in the index: The Victoria (C, 83 m, https://directindex.org/r/thevictoriabirmingham.co.uk); Ovuello Bar Birmingham (A, 109 m, https://directindex.org/r/ovuello.co.uk); The London and North Western (B, 110 m, https://directindex.org/r/jdwetherspoon.com); Burger King (F, 119 m, https://directindex.org/r/burgerking.co.uk); Station Bar (F, 135 m, https://directindex.org/r/superbubblestation.co.uk); Station Bar (D, 137 m, https://directindex.org/r/choicehotels.com); The Bright House (F, 155 m, https://directindex.org/r/brighthouse.co.uk); Glamorous Birmingham (D, 159 m, https://directindex.org/r/glamorous.bar); Bonehead (C, 162 m, https://directindex.org/r/boneheaduk.com); Happy Lemon (D, 168 m, https://directindex.org/r/happy-lemon.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
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.

The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Birmingham cafes and bars and named 51 places. Lobby on Hill Street wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/birmingham-cafes-bars/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236086 sites); Sites using ResDiary 72% (59% A or B, 788 sites); This site 21.5%.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/hibirmingham.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like Lobby on Hill Street in Birmingham cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars | 488 | 48% | 24% | 21.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress in Birmingham cafes and bars | 139 | 60% | 32% | 21.5% |
| Sites using ResDiary in Birmingham cafes and bars | 7 | 63% | 43% | 21.5% |
| Sites built with WordPress and using ResDiary in Birmingham cafes and bars | 3 | 56% | 33% | 21.5% |

The best of the sites using ResDiary in Birmingham cafes and bars: The Double Six (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/thedoublesix.co.uk); Game Guru (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/gameguru.co.uk); Society Birmingham (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/societybirmingham.com); Cosy Club (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/cosyclub.co.uk); The Bell (C 64.6%, https://directindex.org/r/bellharborne.co.uk).

With the three fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 87.7%. That would be 18th of 488 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 406th.

## The direct record
What agents get for Lobby on Hill Street, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/hibirmingham.co.uk
- Book: https://booking.resdiary.com/widget/Standard/HolidayInnBirminghamCity/64680 (vendor on own site: ResDiary; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://hibirmingham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/53/2026/05/holiday-inn-birmingham-all-day-dining-menu.pdf (pdf; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: 01216346200
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/hibirmingham.co.uk/book, https://directindex.org/go/hibirmingham.co.uk/menu

## 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
- Vendor terms for agents, ResDiary: Through partners. 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. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.resdiary.com/old/Terms

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 | 4 | 25 |
| Actionable | 10 | 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: no

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/hibirmingham.co.uk/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/hibirmingham.co.uk/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. 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=hibirmingham.co.uk&force=1