The Direct Index
Report · London hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-15

Paul's Hairdressers

paulshairdressing.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Book directly: www.paulshairdressing.co.uk/19a-east-street on the business's own site

Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 41% → 61%

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

C
61.2%

39.8 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

5

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 (D then): fixed No booking or ordering path at all.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. 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 with services and prices as text and link it from the homepage. How to fix it

  2. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +6.7 points

    Live fetches as GPTBot (challenge:attention required), ClaudeBot (challenge:attention required) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. How to fix it

  3. Structured data is incomplete +6 points

    Missing: address, telephone, opening hours. How to fix it

  4. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot +2.5 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  5. No llms.txt no points, still worth doing

    Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. How to fix it

No one is listed yet to fix this in London hairdressers and beauty salons. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.

Already right

Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us: nothing new; booking page /19a-east-street: nothing new; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live; where it goes on your builder 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": "HairSalon",
  "name": "Paul's Hairdressers",
  "url": "https://paulshairdressing.co.uk",
  "telephone": "+44 20 8460 6181",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "East Street 25",
    "postalCode": "BR1 1QE",
    "addressLocality": "Bromley",
    "addressCountry": "GB"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.4068656,
    "longitude": 0.0158068
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.paulshairdressing.co.uk/19a-east-street",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

llms.txt

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

# Paul's Hairdressers

> hair salon in East Street 25 BR1 1QE Bromley, London hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +44 20 8460 6181.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.paulshairdressing.co.uk/19a-east-street (on the business's own site)

## About

- Website: https://paulshairdressing.co.uk
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Where it stands

355 of 995 in London hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 36% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: WiW Inspire Salon C, Wigmore C. Just below: Aer C, Ben Forrest C.

What the top tenth of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML13%no
Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block)98%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours17%no
Have an llms.txt31%no

The top tenth is the 101 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Wright Lounge1.4 kmFno
Sally Hair & Beauty1.8 kmByes
K V Nails & Beauty2.8 kmCyes
Hak's Barbers3.1 kmCyes
Ascott Beauty Clinic3.1 kmDno
Cutting Remarks3.1 kmCno
SAYA Aesthetics3.2 kmDno
RAW Hair Salon3.2 kmCyes
Klinik3.3 kmByes
Jangi's3.3 kmCno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Paul's Hairdressers in London hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in London hairdressers and beauty salons99543%17%61.2%

The best of Same kind in London hairdressers and beauty salons

Radiance Beauty & Tanning A 95.4% · Masaj A 93.8% · Headmasters A 88.8% · Margaret Dabbs A 87.5% · Neville A 87.5%

The climb

With the three fixes above (No price list of services found; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 91.5%: 3rd of 995 in London hairdressers and beauty salons, up from 355th.

Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.

The direct record

What agents get for Paul's Hairdressers

The links an assistant is sent when it books, orders or reads the menu for this business, where each leads, and when a browser last checked it. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/paulshairdressing.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.paulshairdressing.co.uk/19a-east-street own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+44 20 8460 6181

Stable links that count: /go/paulshairdressing.co.uk/book answer 302 to the links above; the count is the line "followed N direct links" on this page.

Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.

Transactable

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
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
Agent readiness

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 homepageno how
sitemap.xmlyes
AI bot rules in robots.txtyes
Content Signals in robots.txtno how
Markdown on Accept: text/markdownno how
llms.txtno how
API catalog (RFC 9727)no how
MCP server cardno how
A2A agent cardno how
Agent Skills indexno how
OAuth or OIDC discoveryno how
OAuth protected resource metadatano how
auth.mdno how
Web Bot Auth key directoryno how
ARD capability manifestno how
DNS-AID recordsno how
WebMCP tools on the pageno how
JSON-LD for the businessyes
Assistants

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.

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Agent-Direct Score C

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Owners

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