# The Next Step Beauty&Therapy College: Agent-Direct Score C (60%) Site: http://www.next.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/next.co.uk 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.) The Next Step Beauty&Therapy College is partly visible to agents. Some AI assistants are turned away by The Next Step Beauty&Therapy College'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. ## Direct links - Order directly: https://zendesk.next.co.uk/hc/en-gb/sections/4406796148241 (on the business's own site) - Phone: 0333 777 8000 - Address: Parkfield Street, London ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Next Step Beauty&Therapy College that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Hair Art Studio (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/hairartstudio.co.uk - 7 Day Spa Massage & Beauty (150 m): https://directindex.org/r/7dayspa.co.uk - Bangkok Thai Massage (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/bangkokthaimassage.co.uk - Meaestheticlounge (170 m): https://directindex.org/r/meaestheticlounge.co.uk - The Chapel (300 m): https://directindex.org/r/thechapel.co.uk ## What to fix first - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+10 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403), PerplexityBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **No price list of services found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer and what does it cost?' from marketplaces and directories instead. Add a page that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **Structured data is incomplete.** (+6 points) Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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. ``` # The Next Step Beauty&Therapy College > organization in Parkfield Street, London, London hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone 0333 777 8000. ## Book or order directly - Order: https://zendesk.next.co.uk/hc/en-gb/sections/4406796148241 (on the business's own site) ## About - Website: http://www.next.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 main AI user agents. - **Structured data found (Organization).** no address, phone or hours in it - **Ordering on your own site.** Agents can order without going through a marketplace. ## Where it stands 2830 of 6060 in London hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 47% 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 | 100% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 11% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 100% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 22% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 58% | no | Nearest places in the index: Massage London (F, 37 m, https://directindex.org/r/t.me); Chez Andre Paie Hairstudio (C, 137 m, https://directindex.org/r/andrepaie.com); Halo - House of Beauty (At-home beauty) (C, 142 m, https://directindex.org/r/halospraytan.com); Hair Art Studio (B, 145 m, https://directindex.org/r/hairartstudio.co.uk); 7 Day Spa Massage & Beauty (C, 154 m, https://directindex.org/r/7dayspa.co.uk); Joe Franciosa (D, 160 m, https://directindex.org/r/joefranciosa.co.uk); Bangkok Thai Massage (C, 168 m, https://directindex.org/r/bangkokthaimassage.co.uk); Meaestheticlounge (C, 172 m, https://directindex.org/r/meaestheticlounge.co.uk); ELP Barbershop (C, 246 m, https://directindex.org/r/elpbarbershop.com); The Chapel (C, 300 m, https://directindex.org/r/thechapel.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. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/next.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like The Next Step Beauty&Therapy College in London hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in London hairdressers and beauty salons | 6060 | 51% | 26% | 60% | The best of the businesses of the same kind in London hairdressers and beauty salons: Beauty Sculpt (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/beautysculpt.co.uk); Glow Tanning-Beauty-Laser (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/glow-tanningbeautylaser.co.uk); Opulence Thai Spa (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/opulencethaispa.co.uk); Tranquilstate Professional Male Grooming (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/tranquilstate.co.uk); Amba Hair Boutique (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/ambablowdry.com). With the three fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; No price list of services found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 6,060 in London hairdressers and beauty salons. ## The direct record What agents get for The Next Step Beauty&Therapy College, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/next.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: https://zendesk.next.co.uk/hc/en-gb/sections/4406796148241 (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested) - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: 0333 777 8000 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/next.co.uk/order ## 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 Found one hop past the home page: contact page /hc/en-gb: WhatsApp. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 15 | 25 | | Readable | 9 | 25 | | Actionable | 15 | 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/next.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/next.co.uk/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/next.co.uk/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=next.co.uk&force=1