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

Maxies

maxiesbistro.com is hard for agents to use.

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Ways to reach Maxies directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake

Johnston Terrace 5B EH1 2PW Edinburgh · +44 131 226 7770

Nearby, also direct

Places near Maxies 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 Maxies's website. What Maxies offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. To book or order, it is sent to Quandoo, a marketplace.

44.6%

29 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

6

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 →

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 Edinburgh and named 62 places. Maxies wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Maxies compares

Where it stands

625 of 911 in Edinburgh

Top 69% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: One Plate D, Dusit D. Just below: Pulse PlantBased HomeCooking D, Restaurant@JMCC D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML74%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours57%no
Have an llms.txt22%no

The top 10% are the 92 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 145,483 sites57%28%44.6%
Sites using Quandoo 176 sites53%17%44.6%

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PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
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Maison Bleue french24 mFno
La Barantine Victoria french30 mByes
Mariachi mexican43 mBno
Bertie's fish_and_chips58 mByes
Mussel & Steak Bar69 mCno
The Witchery70 mByes
Amber71 mAyes
Alba Bistro83 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Maxies in Edinburgh

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh91155%40%44.6%
Sites built with WordPress in Edinburgh28168%55%44.6%
Sites using Quandoo in Edinburgh350%0%44.6%
Sites built with WordPress and using Quandoo in Edinburgh248%0%44.6%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Edinburgh

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After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through quandoo; Quandoo's terms ban bots and automated use, but a direct form on your own site has no such limit), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 911 in Edinburgh.

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 structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Booking only through quandoo +12 points

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  3. Quandoo's terms ban bots and automated use, but a direct form on your own site has no such limit +12 points

    Quandoo's end-user terms (London, May 2018, section 3.3.1) bar robots, spiders, scrapers or any other automated means of access to the website for any purpose; the operator, Quandoo UK Limited, is in members' voluntary liquidation and the German company is in liquidation too. Terms read on 2026-10-15: https://www.quandoo.co.uk/terms-conditions. An agent that books or orders there goes against the vendor's terms unless the vendor allows it. A form or booking page on your own domain has no such limit. How to fix it About this vendor

  4. No working HTTPS +3 points

    The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it.

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

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

  6. 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 Edinburgh. 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.

Builder: wordpress

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 wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. 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": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Maxies",
  "url": "http://www.maxiesbistro.com",
  "telephone": "+44 131 226 7770",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Johnston Terrace 5B",
    "postalCode": "EH1 2PW",
    "addressLocality": "Edinburgh",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 55.9485947,
    "longitude": -3.1945597
  },
  "hasMenu": "http://maxiesbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/maxies-christmas-menu-2024.pdf"
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Maxies

> restaurant in Johnston Terrace 5B EH1 2PW Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Phone +44 131 226 7770.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: http://maxiesbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/maxies-christmas-menu-2024.pdf

## About

- Website: http://www.maxiesbistro.com
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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Owners who score well put the badge on their site. It links back here and updates with every scan.

Agent-Direct Score D

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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 Maxies

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/maxiesbistro.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/edinburgh/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menumaxiesbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/maxies-christmas pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+44 131 226 7770

Stable links that count: /go/maxiesbistro.com/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
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
Quandoo, read 2026-10-15
No

Quandoo's end-user terms (London, May 2018, section 3.3.1) bar robots, spiders, scrapers or any other automated means of access to the website for any purpose; the operator, Quandoo UK Limited, is in members' voluntary liquidation and the German company is in liquidation too. Source. About Quandoo · all vendors.

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 businessno