# Maxies: Agent-Direct Score D (44.6%) Site: http://www.maxiesbistro.com Report: https://directindex.org/r/maxiesbistro.com Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Maxies is hard for agents to use. 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. ## Direct links - Menu: http://maxiesbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/maxies-christmas-menu-2024.pdf - Phone: +44 131 226 7770 - Address: Johnston Terrace 5B EH1 2PW Edinburgh ## Nearby, also direct Places near Maxies that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Whirlybird (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/whirlybirdedinburgh.co.uk - La Barantine Victoria (30 m): https://directindex.org/r/labarantine.com - Bertie's (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/bertiesfishandchips.com - The Witchery (70 m): https://directindex.org/r/thewitchery.com - Amber (70 m): https://directindex.org/r/scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk ## What to fix first - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **No working HTTPS.** (+3 points) The page is only served over plain http. Browsers and agents rank it lower or refuse it. - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # 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. ``` ## 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. ## Where it stands 625 of 911 in Edinburgh. Top 69% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 74% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 57% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 22% | no | Nearest places in the index: Hanam's (F, 13 m, https://directindex.org/r/hanams.com); Whirlybird (C, 14 m, https://directindex.org/r/whirlybirdedinburgh.co.uk); Maison Bleue (F, 24 m, https://directindex.org/r/maisonbleuerestaurant.com); La Barantine Victoria (B, 30 m, https://directindex.org/r/labarantine.com); Mariachi (B, 43 m, https://directindex.org/r/mariachi-restaurant.co.uk); Bertie's (B, 58 m, https://directindex.org/r/bertiesfishandchips.com); Mussel & Steak Bar (C, 69 m, https://directindex.org/r/musselandsteakbar.com); The Witchery (B, 70 m, https://directindex.org/r/thewitchery.com); Amber (A, 71 m, https://directindex.org/r/scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk); Alba Bistro (F, 83 m, https://directindex.org/r/albabistro.co.uk). ## What assistants answer 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: https://directindex.org/city/edinburgh/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (28% A or B, 145483 sites); Sites using Quandoo 53% (17% A or B, 176 sites); This site 44.6%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/maxiesbistro.com/agent-view ## Businesses like Maxies in Edinburgh | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh | 911 | 55% | 40% | 44.6% | | Sites built with WordPress in Edinburgh | 281 | 68% | 55% | 44.6% | | Sites using Quandoo in Edinburgh | 3 | 50% | 0% | 44.6% | | Sites built with WordPress and using Quandoo in Edinburgh | 2 | 48% | 0% | 44.6% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in Edinburgh: Minami (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/minami-sushi.co.uk); Chaskaa (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/chaskaaindian.co.uk); McLarens (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/mclarensonthecorner.co.uk); Dhaba 36 (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/dhaba36.co.uk); The Chop House (A 92.5%, https://directindex.org/r/chophousesteak.co.uk). 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. ## The direct record What agents get for Maxies, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/maxiesbistro.com - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: http://maxiesbistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/maxies-christmas-menu-2024.pdf (pdf; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +44 131 226 7770 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/maxiesbistro.com/menu ## 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, Quandoo: 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. Read 2026-10-15: https://www.quandoo.co.uk/terms-conditions ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 22 | 25 | | Readable | 4 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/maxiesbistro.com - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - AI bot rules in robots.txt: yes - Content Signals in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/content-signals/SKILL.md) - Markdown on Accept: text/markdown: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/markdown-negotiation/SKILL.md) - llms.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/llms-txt/SKILL.md) - API catalog (RFC 9727): no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/api-catalog/SKILL.md) - MCP server card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/mcp-server-card/SKILL.md) - A2A agent card: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/a2a-agent-card/SKILL.md) - Agent Skills index: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/agent-skills/SKILL.md) - OAuth or OIDC discovery: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-discovery/SKILL.md) - OAuth protected resource metadata: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/oauth-protected-resource/SKILL.md) - auth.md: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/auth-md/SKILL.md) - Web Bot Auth key directory: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/web-bot-auth/SKILL.md) - ARD capability manifest: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ard/SKILL.md) - DNS-AID records: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/dns-aid/SKILL.md) - WebMCP tools on the page: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/webmcp/SKILL.md) - JSON-LD for the business: no Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/maxiesbistro.com/plan): the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/maxiesbistro.com/deep. Ten questions phrased the way people ask them, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF. 5 EUR, paid once. 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 ยท Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=maxiesbistro.com&force=1