# Howard Place Dental Practice: Agent-Direct Score C (69.2%) Site: https://howardplacedental.com/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/howardplacedental.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) Howard Place Dental Practice is partly visible to agents. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://booking.uk.hsone.app/soe/new/Howard%20Place%20Dental%20Practice?pid=UKHWP01 (through hsone acting for the business) - Phone: +44 131 556 7232 ## What to fix first - **No list of services and prices found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they treat and what does it cost' from 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.** (+5 points) Missing: telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Howard Place Dental Practice > dentist in Howard Place 4 Edinburgh, Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets. Phone +44 131 556 7232. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://booking.uk.hsone.app/soe/new/Howard%20Place%20Dental%20Practice?pid=UKHWP01 (through hsone acting for the business) ## About - Website: https://howardplacedental.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 key AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. - **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address - **Appointments through hsone on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours. ## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (D then) - Fixed: No booking or ordering path at all - New: nothing ## Where it stands 38 of 159 in Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets. Top 24% 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 | 100% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 0% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 100% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 63% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 50% | no | Nearest places in the index: Pristine Smile (B, 185 m, https://directindex.org/r/pristinesmile.co.uk); Eyre Medical Practice (C, 246 m, https://directindex.org/r/eyre-medical-practice.co.uk); New Town Dental Care (C, 323 m, https://directindex.org/r/newtowndentalcare.co.uk); City Chiropractic (C, 386 m, https://directindex.org/r/edinburghcitychiropractic.co.uk); Ripple Dental (D, 662 m, https://directindex.org/r/rippledental.co.uk); Stockbridge Health Centre (C, 825 m, https://directindex.org/r/greenpractice-shc.co.uk); Stockbridge Clinic (B, 941 m, https://directindex.org/r/stockbridgeclinic.com); The Row Dental (C, 944 m, https://directindex.org/r/therowdental.com); Goldenacre Dental Practice (C, 999 m, https://directindex.org/r/1009kitchen.com); The MOLE Clinic (C, 1040 m, https://directindex.org/r/themoleclinic.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 54%, 2026-10-14 69%. Against its peers: Sites built with Squarespace 65% (48% A or B, 7098 sites); This site 69.2%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/howardplacedental.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like Howard Place Dental Practice in Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Same kind in Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets | 159 | 51% | 23% | 69.2% | | Built with Squarespace in Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets | 14 | 69% | 50% | 69.2% | | Using HSOne in Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets | 3 | 71% | 33% | 69.2% | | Built with Squarespace and using HSOne in Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets | 1 | 69% | 0% | 69.2% | The best of Built with Squarespace in Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets: Your Dentist (B 83.1%, https://directindex.org/r/dentistzone.co.uk); Edinburgh Sports + Spinal Physiotherapy (B 77.5%, https://directindex.org/r/physiotherapistsedinburgh.co.uk); Leith Vets (B 76.3%, https://directindex.org/r/leithvets.co.uk); The Physio Therapy Place (B 76.3%, https://directindex.org/r/thephysiotherapyplace.com); Ardmillan Dental Practice (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/ardmillandental.com). With the two fixes above (No list of services and prices found; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 87.7%: first of 159 in Edinburgh dentists, clinics and vets. ## The direct record What agents get for Howard Place Dental Practice, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/howardplacedental.co.uk - Book: https://booking.uk.hsone.app/soe/new/Howard%20Place%20Dental%20Practice?pid=UKHWP01 (vendor on own site: HSOne; found by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +44 131 556 7232 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/howardplacedental.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): not measured - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured - 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): not measured - Vendor terms for agents, HSOne: Not stated. The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 10 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 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/howardplacedental.co.uk - 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/howardplacedental.co.uk/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/howardplacedental.co.uk/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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=howardplacedental.co.uk&force=1