# Peppercorn: Agent-Direct Score F (32.3%) Site: http://www.peppercornthai.com.au Report: https://directindex.org/r/peppercornthai.com.au Scanned: 2026-10-18 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Peppercorn is largely invisible to agents. AI assistants can't open Peppercorn's website, so they go by what other sites say about it. ## Direct links - Phone: +61 3 9432 6500 ## What to fix first - **The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included.** (+25 points) A plain fetch was refused (TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout). Only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent gets turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the page as the browser rendered it. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **Booking through an unrecognised third party.** (+9 points) Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller 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 your business as the seller of record. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/online-ordering-without-delivery-apps - **No menu or price list found.** (+7 points) Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai ## Already right - **robots.txt lets AI crawlers in.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed. - **Structured data found (LocalBusiness).** address, phone, opening hours ## Where it stands 3370 of 4078 in Melbourne. Top 83% 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% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 91% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 95% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 50% | yes | | Have an llms.txt | 27% | no | Nearest places in the index: Eos (A, 6 m, https://directindex.org/r/eosgreektavern.com.au); Infuse (A, 33 m, https://directindex.org/r/infusegb.com.au); Mehek Indian Restaurant (F, 90 m, https://directindex.org/r/mehek.com.au); Seven Star Pizza Kitchen (B, 95 m, https://directindex.org/r/7starpizzeria.com.au); Phở 999 (C, 150 m, https://directindex.org/r/pho999.com.au); Oriental Jade (F, 292 m, https://directindex.org/r/orientaljade.com.au); Prefisso 3088 (B, 726 m, https://directindex.org/r/prefisso3088.com.au); The A Team Kitchen (F, 1786 m, https://directindex.org/r/ateamkitchen.com.au); UNICO (C, 1807 m, https://directindex.org/r/unicopizzaandkebabonline.com.au); Kebab Nation (B, 1878 m, https://directindex.org/r/kebabnation.com.au). ## 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. The assistants were asked 12 everyday questions about Melbourne and named 56 places. Peppercorn wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/melbourne/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder 41% (14% A or B, 1674 sites); This site 32.3%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/peppercornthai.com.au/agent-view ## Businesses like Peppercorn in Melbourne | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Melbourne | 4078 | 56% | 33% | 32.3% | | Sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Melbourne | 45 | 33% | 9% | 32.3% | The best of the sites built with GoDaddy Website Builder in Melbourne: Al Makan (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/almakan.com.au); Naughty Norman (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/naughtynorman.com.au); Ying Thai 2 (B 73.8%, https://directindex.org/r/yingthai2.com.au); Triim (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/triim.com.au); Chai N Dosa Braybrook (C 64.6%, https://directindex.org/r/chaidosa.com.au). With the three fixes above (The site turns away every visitor that isn't a browser, AI agents included; Booking through an unrecognised third party; Ordering through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 98.5%. That would be 83rd of 4,078 in Melbourne, up from 3370th. ## The direct record What agents get for Peppercorn, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/peppercornthai.com.au - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +61 3 9432 6500 ## 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 Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got TimeoutError: The operation was aborted due to timeout); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 0 | 25 | | Readable | 15 | 25 | | Actionable | 6 | 15 (the action test: pending) | | Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) | ## Agent readiness (Cloudflare) Not measured for this scan. - JSON-LD for the business: yes Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/peppercornthai.com.au/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/peppercornthai.com.au/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 · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=peppercornthai.com.au&force=1