# Monsoon: Agent-Direct Score A (86.2%)

Site: https://www.monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk
Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.)
Monsoon is ready for agents.
An AI assistant can open the website of Monsoon. It can read what Monsoon offers. It finds a way to book or order directly, through chefonline.co.uk.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://www.monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/a-la-carte
- Phone: +44 20 7284 1700

## What to fix first
- **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **Ordering through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps
- **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business

## Fix kit: What to paste

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

```
# Monsoon

> restaurant (indian, bangladeshi) in York Rise, Highgate 24 NW5 1ST London, London. Phone +44 20 7284 1700.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://www.monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/a-la-carte

## Opening hours

Mo-Su 17:30-23:00

## About

- Website: https://www.monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/
- 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 key AI user agents.
- **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response.
- **Structured data present (Restaurant).** address, phone, opening hours
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly.

## Where it stands
380 of 2933 in London. Top 13% of the sites scanned in this index.

| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 88% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 91% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 64% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 27% | no |

Nearest places with a similar menu: Babuji (C, 920 m, https://directindex.org/r/babuji.co.uk); The Great Indian (A, 1607 m, https://directindex.org/r/thegreatindian.uk); Spice of Haverstock (C, 1698 m, https://directindex.org/r/spiceofhaverstock.com); The Tiffin Guru (A, 2175 m, https://directindex.org/r/thetiffinguru.co.uk); Namaaste Kitchen (C, 2305 m, https://directindex.org/r/namaastekitchen.co.uk); Dishoom (A, 2804 m, https://directindex.org/r/dishoom.com); The Tamil Prince (C, 2850 m, https://directindex.org/r/thetamilprince.com); Spice Deli (D, 2866 m, https://directindex.org/r/spicedeli.co.uk); Kings Cross Tandoori (B, 3473 m, https://directindex.org/r/kingscrosstandoori.co.uk); Zoya Grill & Lounge (B, 3491 m, https://directindex.org/r/zoyalounge.co.uk).

## What assistants answer
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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like Monsoon in London

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London | 2933 | 57% | 42% | 86.2% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in London: Akatuki (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/akatuki.co.uk); Aki (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/akilondon.com); Alexander The Great (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/alexanderthegreatgreekrestaurant.co.uk); Ara Restaurant (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/ararestaurant.co.uk); Arianna Trattoria Romana (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/ariannarestaurant.uk).

With the two fixes above (Booking through an unrecognised third party; Ordering through an unrecognised third party) the score would be about 100%: first of 2,933 in London.

## The direct record
What agents get for Monsoon, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://www.monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/a-la-carte (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: Mo-Su 17:30-23:00 (closed now) (from OpenStreetMap)
- Phone: +44 20 7284 1700
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/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): 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.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 25 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 6 | 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/monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk
- 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: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/plan): the assistants asked again every month, with what changed; 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year.
Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 5 EUR, one-off. 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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=monsoonindiancuisine.co.uk&force=1