The Direct Index
Report · Manchester · scanned 2026-10-21

Martins Cakes

martinsbakery.co.uk is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

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

30 Holyoak Street, M40 1HB, Manchester · 01616881467

Nearby, also direct

Places near Martins Cakes 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 Martins Cakes'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.

73.8%

48 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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.

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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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about Manchester and named 90 places. Martins Cakes wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Martins Cakes compares

Where it stands

568 of 2,385 in Manchester

Top 24% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Mahabharat Restaurant B, Manhattan Pizza Atherton B. Just below: Masala Bay B, Masuma Express B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML86%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours49%no
Have an llms.txt28%yes

The top 10% are the 244 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Shopify 7,656 sites48%26%73.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Grill Chill bar_and_grill146 mCno
Chaplins pizza161 mDno
Smash Doner Shakes doner_kebab168 mCno
USA Fried Chicken and Pizza177 mCno
Helen Cheng chinese320 mByes
Magic Wok chinese325 mDno
Milano pizza562 mCno
The Canadian Newton heath798 mFno
Adanos Burger burger832 mFno
Mr Macs Fish & Chips fish_and_chips1.1 kmFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Martins Cakes in Manchester

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester2,38555%32%73.8%
Sites built with Shopify in Manchester1965%42%73.8%

The best of the sites built with Shopify in Manchester

The Upper Crust Pizzeria & Bar A 100% · Pasta Evangelists A 90.8% · Dishoom A 90% · Caravan Manchester A 86.2% · Quayside Canteen B 78.5%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 43rd of 2,385 in Manchester, up from 568th.

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. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  2. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. 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. 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 (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: shopify · Front: cloudflare · contact page /pages/contact-us: nothing new; booking page /collections: nothing new

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 shopify.

Where to paste it on Shopify: Online Store, then the three-dot menu on the theme, then Edit code; paste it in the theme's layout file, inside the head. the official help page.

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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": "Organization",
  "name": "Martins Cakes",
  "url": "http://www.martinsbakery.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "01616881467",
  "address": "30 Holyoak Street, M40 1HB, Manchester",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.502454,
    "longitude": -2.1803268
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.martinsbakery.co.uk/collections",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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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 Martins Cakes

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderwww.martinsbakery.co.uk/collections own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone01616881467

Stable links that count: /go/martinsbakery.co.uk/order 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
yes
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
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/markdownyes
llms.txtyes
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryyes
OAuth protected resource metadatayes
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageyes
JSON-LD for the businessyes