New Era Coffee
neweracoffee.co.uk is largely invisible to agents.
Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 33% → 39%
See what an AI agent reads on this site →
25 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
Since the scan of 2026-10-14: fixed The server turned AI crawlers away at the door; No llms.txt.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- No booking or ordering path at all +15 points
Agents have nothing to act on. Add a booking or ordering page on your own domain. How to fix it
- No menu or price list found +7 points
Agents answer 'what do they offer' from marketplaces instead. Add a menu or price list page and link it from the homepage. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Birmingham cafes and bars. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
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.
Builder: shopify · Front: cloudflare
What to paste
Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on shopify is in the guides.
Structured data (JSON-LD)
One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. Guide.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
"name": "New Era Coffee",
"url": "https://www.neweracoffee.co.uk/",
"address": {
"@type": "PostalAddress",
"streetAddress": "Arden Oak Road 12",
"postalCode": "B26 3LX",
"addressLocality": "Birmingham"
},
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 52.4523974,
"longitude": -1.7705278
},
"openingHours": "Mo-Fr 08:30-16:00, Sa-Su 10:00-15:00",
"servesCuisine": [
"coffee shop"
]
}
</script>
138 of 194 in Birmingham cafes and bars
Top 71% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: JJ's Cafe F, Marlboro Cafe F. Just below: Pitcher & Piano F, Revolution Late F.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 95% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 80% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 85% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 50% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 5% | yes |
The top tenth is the 20 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Against its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Shopify 1,345 sites | 58% | 37% | 38.5% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pup and Duckling | 840 m | C | no |
| Clubrooms | 2.4 km | B | yes |
Businesses like New Era Coffee in Birmingham cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars | 194 | 49% | 22% | 38.5% |
| Built with Shopify in Birmingham cafes and bars | 2 | 53% | 0% | 38.5% |
The best of Same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars
Vagabond Wines A 96.3% · Centenary Coffee & Co A 91.3% · Be at One A 90% · Dirty Martini A 90% · Nortons A 90%
The climb
With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering path at all; No menu or price list found) the score would be about 95.4%: 2nd of 194 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 138th.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
What agents get for New Era Coffee
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-14 found no booking or ordering link on neweracoffee.co.uk or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/neweracoffee.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/birmingham-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | Mo-Fr 08:30-16:00, Sa-Su 10:00-15:00 | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | none on record |
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
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 | 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.
The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.
Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence
The standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, on the same criteria as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. Not part of the score; each missing item links to a how-to. Cloudflare's report.
| Link headers on the homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | yes |
| llms.txt | yes |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | yes |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | yes |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | yes |
| JSON-LD for the business | no |
What assistants answer
Each assistant is asked three questions about this business: the official website, where to book, where to order. The cell says where the answer sent people.
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.
Show the score
Owners who score well embed the badge; it links back here and updates with every scan.
<a href="https://directindex.org/r/neweracoffee.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/neweracoffee.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score F" width="236" height="40"></a>
Own this business?
Fixed something, or think a check is wrong? Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm; after that the three assistants are asked about the business right away, the site is rescanned weekly, and you get a message only when the score changes.
Deep report Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off.