The Direct Index
Report · Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-21

Mai Salon

maisalon.co.uk is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookWebsite

Ways to reach Mai Salon directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon–Wed 10:00–19:00 · Thu–Fri 10:00–20:00 · Sat 10:00–16:00 · Sun closed

Booth Street 32 M2 4AB Manchester

Open on Saturday · Open after 19:00 on a weekday

Nearby, also direct

Places near Mai Salon that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Mai Salon's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

78.5%

51 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2017.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site.

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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.

Where it stands

How Mai Salon compares

Where it stands

139 of 1,587 in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 9% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: King St Hair & Beauty B, Macleod Bradley B. Just below: Manchester Massage B, North West Scalp Clinic & Training Academy B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML9%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)99%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours14%no
Have an llms.txt61%no

The top 10% are the 162 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 18,903 sites63%46%78.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Vibe Studio84 mDno
Revive Skin Clinic90 mCyes
Claritys126 mFno
Manchester Cosmetic Centre126 mByes
Skalp | Manchester Scalp Micropigmentation Clinic131 mByes
Siamease Thai Massage & Spa175 mCyes
Neon183 mFno
Riot Hearts Collective194 mDno
Red Moon196 mCyes
Manchester Academy Of Barbering200 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Mai Salon in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons1,58750%22%78.5%
Sites built with Squarespace in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons6165%46%78.5%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons

Gladstone Barber & Bistro A 92.3% · La Parisienne Beauty A 92.3% · Liz Wood Aesthetics A 92.3% · The Massage Company B 84.6% · Barber Below B 83.1%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No price list of services found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 1,587 in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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. How to fix it

  2. Structured data is incomplete +4 points

    Missing: address, telephone. How to fix it

  3. 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. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (LocalBusiness) opening hours
  • Appointments on your own site Agents can book an appointment without going through a marketplace.

Builder: squarespace · Front: cloudflare · contact page /contactus: nothing new; booking page /makeanappointment: booking via treatwell

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "HairSalon",
  "name": "Mai Salon",
  "url": "http://www.maisalon.co.uk/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Booth Street 32",
    "postalCode": "M2 4AB",
    "addressLocality": "Manchester"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.4793055,
    "longitude": -2.2421126
  },
  "openingHours": "Mo-We 10:00-19:00; Th,Fr 10:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-16:00",
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "19:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "20:00"
    },
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Saturday"
      ],
      "opens": "10:00",
      "closes": "16:00"
    }
  ],
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.maisalon.co.uk/makeanappointment",
        "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.

# Mai Salon

> hair salon in Booth Street 32 M2 4AB Manchester, Manchester hairdressers and beauty salons.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.maisalon.co.uk/makeanappointment (on the business's own site)

## Opening hours

Mo-We 10:00-19:00; Th,Fr 10:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-16:00

## About

- Website: http://www.maisalon.co.uk/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

Own this business?

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Mai Salon

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/maisalon.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.maisalon.co.uk/makeanappointment own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
HoursMo-We 10:00-19:00; Th,Fr 10:00-20:00; Sa 10:00-16:00 (open now)from OpenStreetMap
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/maisalon.co.uk/book 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
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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /makeanappointment: booking via treatwell.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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 businessyes