# Ishi: Agent-Direct Score F (33.8%)

Site: https://www.ishisalon.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/ishisalon.co.uk
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.)
Ishi is largely invisible to agents.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://home.shortcutssoftware.com/ishisalonroseneath (through shortcuts acting for the business)
- Phone: +44 131 229 4111

## 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 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": "Ishi",
  "url": "https://www.ishisalon.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+44 131 229 4111",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Roseneath Street 4",
    "addressLocality": "Edinburgh"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 55.93826,
    "longitude": -3.1920598
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-We 09:00-18:00; Th 09:00-20:00; Fr 09:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-16:30",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "18:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "20:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "18:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "09:00",
      "closes": "16:30"
    }
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://home.shortcutssoftware.com/ishisalonroseneath",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
```

## Already right
- **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- **Structured data present (LocalBusiness).** address, phone
- **Appointments through shortcuts on your own domain.** No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.

## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (D then)
- Fixed: The server turned AI crawlers away at the door; No booking or ordering path at all; No llms.txt
- New: The site turned every visitor without a browser away

## Where it stands
110 of 149 in Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 74% 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% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 33% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 47% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Cheryl Irvine (F, 31 m, https://directindex.org/r/cherylirvinehairdressing.co.uk); March Hair (F, 206 m, https://directindex.org/r/march-hair.com); Babu (F, 264 m, https://directindex.org/r/babuhair.com); Blossom Beauty (F, 373 m, https://directindex.org/r/blossombeauty.co); True Thai Massage & Beauty Therapies (C, 676 m, https://directindex.org/r/truethaiedinburgh.co.uk); Meadows Retreat (D, 714 m, https://directindex.org/r/meadowsretreat.co.uk); McKensie Knight Hairdressing (D, 761 m, https://directindex.org/r/mytreatwell.co.uk); Signature Hair Salon (C, 766 m, https://directindex.org/r/github.io); Edinburgh Beauty Quarter (D, 812 m, https://directindex.org/r/edinburghbeautyquarter.co.uk); Hot Head (F, 859 m, https://directindex.org/r/hotheadhair.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 55%, 2026-10-15 34%.

Against its peers: Sites built with Wix 58% (35% A or B, 3255 sites); This site 33.8%.

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

## Businesses like Ishi in Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons | 149 | 44% | 13% | 33.8% |
| Built with Wix in Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons | 14 | 53% | 21% | 33.8% |
| Using Shortcuts in Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons | 2 | 39% | 0% | 33.8% |
| Built with Wix and using Shortcuts in Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons | 1 | 34% | 0% | 33.8% |

The best of Built with Wix in Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons: The Shore Clinic (B 80%, https://directindex.org/r/theshoreclinic.co.uk); Zuri (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/zuri.co.uk); Salon 13 (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/salon13hair.com); freshfaced (C 65.4%, https://directindex.org/r/freshfaced.com); The Source Clinic (C 62%, https://directindex.org/r/thesourceclinic.com).

With the three fixes above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included; No price list of services found; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 87.7%: first of 149 in Edinburgh hairdressers and beauty salons.

## The direct record
What agents get for Ishi, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/ishisalon.co.uk
- Book: https://home.shortcutssoftware.com/ishisalonroseneath (vendor on own site: Shortcuts; found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: none on record
- Hours: Mo-We 09:00-18:00; Th 09:00-20:00; Fr 09:00-18:00; Sa 09:00-16:30 (open now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +44 131 229 4111
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/ishisalon.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
- Vendor terms for agents, Shortcuts: 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.

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 | 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: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/ishisalon.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/ishisalon.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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=ishisalon.co.uk&force=1