The Direct Index
Report · Birmingham cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-14

The Lodge

lodgeshirley.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Book directly: www.lodgeshirley.co.uk/booking on the business's own site · Menu: www.inapub.co.uk/uploads/dbfiles/da570bd518e84be1ab58eb73240

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C
63.8%

51 of 80 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Action test, 2026-10-14: partial, a path exists but an agent would struggle. There is a button or a form, but no complete booking or ordering flow an agent can finish on this page.

Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  3. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in Birmingham cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder is in the guides.

Structured data (JSON-LD)

One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BarOrPub",
  "name": "The Lodge",
  "url": "https://www.lodgeshirley.co.uk",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Yardley Wood Road",
    "postalCode": "B90 1JU",
    "addressLocality": "Solihull"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 52.406582,
    "longitude": -1.8609116
  },
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.lodgeshirley.co.uk/booking",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.inapub.co.uk/uploads/dbfiles/da570bd518e84be1ab58eb7324094c47.pdf",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.lodgeshirley.co.uk/booking",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# The Lodge

> bar or pub in Yardley Wood Road B90 1JU Solihull, Birmingham cafes and bars.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.lodgeshirley.co.uk/booking (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.inapub.co.uk/uploads/dbfiles/da570bd518e84be1ab58eb7324094c47.pdf

## About

- Website: https://www.lodgeshirley.co.uk
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

74 of 194 in Birmingham cafes and bars

Top 38% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: caneat C, Soho Tavern C. Just below: 1000 Trades On The Park C, Bull Ring Tavern C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain95%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML80%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)85%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours50%no
Have an llms.txt5%no

The top tenth is the 20 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Shaking Hand2.2 kmCyes
Coffee#1 coffee_shop2.3 kmDno
The Robin Hood2.5 kmCno
German Café2.6 kmDno
JJ's Cafe coffee_shop2.8 kmFno
Abdul's Cafe and Diner indian3.4 kmDno
Goma sushi3.5 kmCyes
Blow Water dumplings, hong_kong3.7 kmByes
Pause coffee_shop3.9 kmCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The Lodge in Birmingham cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars19449%22%63.8%

The best of Same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars

Vagabond Wines A 96.3% · Centenary Coffee & Co A 91.3% · Be at One A 90% · Dirty Martini A 90% · Nortons A 90%

The climb

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is a PDF) the score would be about 86.3%: 9th of 194 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 74th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

The direct record

What agents get for The Lodge

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/lodgeshirley.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/birmingham-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.lodgeshirley.co.uk/booking own sitecould not verify: partial (2026-10-14)
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.inapub.co.uk/uploads/dbfiles/da570bd518e84be1ab58eb73240 pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/lodgeshirley.co.uk/book, /go/lodgeshirley.co.uk/menu answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

Can an agent transact?

Measured, not scored: the Agent-Direct Score stays at specification v1.0. This says which rails an agent could transact through today, and what the booking or ordering vendor's terms allow.

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

Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.

Link headers on the homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessno
Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.

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.

Badge

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Agent-Direct Score C

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/lodgeshirley.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/lodgeshirley.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
Owners

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