# Hithe + Seek: Agent-Direct Score C (66.2%)

Site: http://www.hitheandseek.com/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/hitheandseek.com
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.)
Hithe + Seek is partly visible to agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by Hithe + Seek's website. It can read what Hithe + Seek offers. To book or order, it is sent to OpenTable, a marketplace.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.hitheandseek.com/our-menus
- Phone: +442039880141
- Address: 2nd Floor, 60 Upper Thames St., EC4V 3AD, London

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Hithe + Seek that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- High Timber (100 m): https://directindex.org/r/hightimber.com
- The Bolter (200 m): https://directindex.org/r/thebolter.co.uk
- Planet of the Grapes (220 m): https://directindex.org/r/planetofthegrapes.co.uk
- The Pavilion End (250 m): https://directindex.org/r/pavilionendpub.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **Booking only through opentable.** (+12 points) Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+10 points) Requests as GPTBot (challenge:access denied), ClaudeBot (challenge:access denied), PerplexityBot (challenge:access denied) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# Hithe + Seek

> bar or pub in 2nd Floor, 60 Upper Thames St., EC4V 3AD, London, London cafes and bars. Phone +442039880141.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.hitheandseek.com/our-menus

## About

- Website: http://www.hitheandseek.com/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
- **Structured data found (BarOrPub).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.
- **OpenTable works with agents through its partners.** OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-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
1919 of 5692 in London cafes and bars. Top 34% 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 | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 93% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 93% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 48% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 22% | no |

Nearest places in the index: The Samuel Pepys (B, 86 m, https://directindex.org/r/samuelpepys.pub); High Timber (F, 103 m, https://directindex.org/r/hightimber.com); Do Not Disturb (F, 111 m, https://directindex.org/r/vintryandmercer.com); Locke coffee club (D, 118 m, https://directindex.org/r/lockeliving.com); The Wren Coffee (D, 175 m, https://directindex.org/r/thewrencoffee.com); The Bolter (C, 204 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebolter.co.uk); Planet of the Grapes (C, 221 m, https://directindex.org/r/planetofthegrapes.co.uk); Cafe 101 (F, 228 m, https://directindex.org/r/salvationarmy.org); The Pavilion End (B, 246 m, https://directindex.org/r/pavilionendpub.co.uk); The Japanese Canteen (F, 266 m, https://directindex.org/r/thejapanesecanteen.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.


Compared with its peers: Sites built with Webflow 56% (22% A or B, 9011 sites); Sites using OpenTable 69% (51% A or B, 6152 sites); This site 66.2%.

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

## Businesses like Hithe + Seek in London cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London cafes and bars | 5692 | 50% | 30% | 66.2% |
| Sites built with Webflow in London cafes and bars | 89 | 61% | 35% | 66.2% |
| Sites using OpenTable in London cafes and bars | 117 | 64% | 38% | 66.2% |
| Sites built with Webflow and using OpenTable in London cafes and bars | 3 | 66% | 33% | 66.2% |

The best of the sites using OpenTable in London cafes and bars: VQ Notting Hill (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/vqrestaurants.com); Violas at Covent Garden (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/violas.co.uk); kitchen@The Bridge (A 96.9%, https://directindex.org/r/lantana.co.uk); Friends of Ours (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/friendsofoursrestaurant.com); The Grey Horse (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/grey-horse.co.uk).

With the two fixes above (Booking only through opentable; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 5,692 in London cafes and bars.

## The direct record
What agents get for Hithe + Seek, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/hitheandseek.com
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.hitheandseek.com/our-menus (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +442039880141
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/hitheandseek.com/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, OpenTable: Through partners. OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /our-menus: menu schema.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 15 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 3 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/hitheandseek.com
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: yes
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md)
- Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md)
- llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md)
- API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md)
- MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md)
- A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md)
- Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md)
- OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md)
- OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md)
- auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md)
- Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md)
- ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md)
- DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md)
- WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md)
- JSON-LD for the business: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/hitheandseek.com/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/hitheandseek.com/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=hitheandseek.com&force=1