Northern Monk Refectory
northernmonk.com is mostly ready for agents.
62 of 80 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
things to fix
Action test, 2026-10-14: completed, an agent can reach the step before confirming. A SevenRooms booking or ordering page renders and can be used without a login.
Provisional: the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.
What to fix first
- Structured data is incomplete
Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it
- Menu is a PDF
Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish the menu as HTML, keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it
- Ordering through an unrecognised third party
Check that the provider keeps you as the merchant of record. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in Manchester 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.
- Structured data present (Organization) but without address, phone or hours
- Booking through sevenrooms on your own domain No marketplace commission, and the guest stays yours.
Builder: shopify · Front: cloudflare
31 of 235 in Manchester cafes and bars
Top 13% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Walkabout B, Henry C B. Just below: Nùr Café B, Revolución de Cuba B.
| What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 96% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 96% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 83% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 33% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 21% | yes |
The top tenth is the 24 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idle Hands coffee_shop | 48 m | B | yes |
| Feel Good Club | 50 m | D | no |
| The Head of Steam japanese, fusion, cocktails | 78 m | C | no |
| Port Street Beer House | 96 m | F | no |
| Ezra & Gil sandwich, breakfast, cake, tea, local, coffee_shop | 108 m | C | yes |
| The Rat & Pigeon | 163 m | C | no |
| 7Sins | 206 m | D | no |
| Starbucks coffee_shop | 215 m | B | yes |
| Companio | 274 m | F | no |
| Cha Ology japanese | 291 m | B | yes |
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.
| 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 | yes |
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/northernmonk.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/northernmonk.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" 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.