# House of Saab: Agent-Direct Score F (24.6%)

Site: https://www.houseofsaab.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/houseofsaab.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.)
House of Saab is largely invisible to agents.
AI assistants can't open House of Saab's website, so they go by what other sites say about it.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://houseofsaab.co.uk/book (on the business's own site)
- Phone: +442045424562
- Address: 27 Chepstow Place, W2 4TT, London
- Prices: 4 prices on the site, the middle one £413
- WhatsApp: a link on the site

## Nearby, also direct
Places near House of Saab that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- STIL Salon (100 m): https://directindex.org/r/stil-salon.com
- Harmonie (180 m): https://directindex.org/r/millerharris.com
- Gina Conway Salon Spa (240 m): https://directindex.org/r/ginaconwaysalons.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+21.3 points) A plain fetch was refused (http_403). 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.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **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 that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended.** (no points, but worth doing) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **4 prices on the landing page, the middle one £413.** In London, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £46.00.

## 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": "House of Saab",
  "url": "https://www.houseofsaab.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+442045424562",
  "address": "27 Chepstow Place, W2 4TT, London",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.514478,
    "longitude": -0.195191
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://houseofsaab.co.uk/book",
        "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.

```
# 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: /
```

## Already right
- **Appointments on your own site.** Agents can book an appointment without going through a marketplace.

## Where it stands
5192 of 6057 in London hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 86% 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 | 95% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 11% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 18% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 59% | no |

Nearest places in the index: STIL Salon (C, 98 m, https://directindex.org/r/stil-salon.com); Apogii Clinic Cryo (F, 136 m, https://directindex.org/r/apogiiclinic.co.uk); Gustav Fouche (F, 163 m, https://directindex.org/r/gustavfouche.com); Minishorts-S-2 (C, 172 m, https://directindex.org/r/showdry.com); Li Choi Ling UK Hair Care House (D, 173 m, https://directindex.org/r/avit.hk); Harmonie (B, 176 m, https://directindex.org/r/millerharris.com); W2 Sports and Advanced Massage (F, 222 m, https://directindex.org/r/w2-sports-massage.co.uk); Decleor & Carita Training Academy (F, 228 m, https://directindex.org/r/decleor.co.uk); Gina Conway Salon Spa (C, 240 m, https://directindex.org/r/ginaconwaysalons.co.uk); Hill Nails (D, 262 m, https://directindex.org/r/hillnails.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 London hairdressers and beauty salons and named 85 places. House of Saab wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/london-salons/recommended


Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 55% (25% A or B, 236087 sites); This site 24.6%.

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

## Businesses like House of Saab in London hairdressers and beauty salons

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London hairdressers and beauty salons | 6057 | 49% | 19% | 24.6% |
| Sites built with WordPress in London hairdressers and beauty salons | 2154 | 57% | 22% | 24.6% |

The best of the sites built with WordPress in London hairdressers and beauty salons: Tranquilstate Professional Male Grooming (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/tranquilstate.co.uk); DJN Physios Tottenham Court Road (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/djnphysioslondon.co.uk); Headmasters (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/headmasters.com); LN Micropigmentation Clinic (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/liananunes.com); Omniya Clinic (A 87.5%, https://directindex.org/r/omniya.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; No price list of services found), the score would be about 89.7%. That would be 21st of 6,057 in London hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 5192nd.

## The direct record
What agents get for House of Saab, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/houseofsaab.co.uk
- Book: https://houseofsaab.co.uk/book (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +442045424562
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/houseofsaab.co.uk/book

## 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 http_403); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 0 | 25 |
| Readable | 1 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 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/houseofsaab.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/houseofsaab.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=houseofsaab.co.uk&force=1