# The Plough: Agent-Direct Score D (40%) Site: https://www.ploughpuboldbury.co.uk/index Report: https://directindex.org/r/ploughpuboldbury.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) The Plough is hard for agents to use. ## Direct links - Phone: +44 1215523822 ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No booking or ordering path at all.** (+13 points) Only a phone number or WhatsApp. Agents cannot act on those yet. Add a booking or ordering page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **Almost no text without JavaScript.** (+2 points) Crawlers that do not run scripts see an empty page. Render the menu, hours and address as plain HTML. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/website-blank-without-javascript - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Plough > bar or pub in George Road 7 B68 9LH, Birmingham cafes and bars. Phone +44 1215523822. ## About - Website: https://www.ploughpuboldbury.co.uk/index - 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 key AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all received a normal response. ## Since the scan of 2026-10-14 (D then) - Fixed: nothing - New: nothing ## Where it stands 134 of 194 in Birmingham cafes and bars. Top 69% of the sites scanned in this index. | 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% | no | Nearest places in the index: Buttons Community Cafe (F, 1131 m, https://directindex.org/r/oaktreecentre.co.uk); The Bell Inn (D, 2042 m, https://directindex.org/r/the-bellinn.com); Chapel Café (D, 2274 m, https://directindex.org/r/chapelcafe.org); Shimla Cocktail Bar (C, 2275 m, https://directindex.org/r/live-website.com); Serenity Cafe (F, 2292 m, https://directindex.org/r/serenitycafe.net); The Windsor Complex (D, 2303 m, https://directindex.org/r/windsorcomplex.com); 1000 Trades On The Park (C, 2307 m, https://directindex.org/r/1000tradesonthepark.org.uk); Cafe Craft (C, 2321 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafecraft.co.uk); Stag & Three Horseshoes (C, 2532 m, https://directindex.org/r/sizzlingpubs.co.uk); Café @ Portway (C, 2824 m, https://directindex.org/r/completekidz.co.uk). ## What assistants answer 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. Score over 2 scans since 2026-10-14: 2026-10-14 40%, 2026-10-14 40%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/ploughpuboldbury.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like The Plough in Birmingham cafes and bars | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars | 194 | 49% | 22% | 40% | The best of Same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars: Vagabond Wines (A 96.3%, https://directindex.org/r/vagabondwines.co.uk); Centenary Coffee & Co (A 91.3%, https://directindex.org/r/centenarylounge.com); Be at One (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/beatone.co.uk); Dirty Martini (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/dirtymartini.co.uk); Nortons (A 90%, https://directindex.org/r/nortonsdigbeth.com). 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 92.3%: 2nd of 194 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 134th. ## The direct record What agents get for The Plough, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/ploughpuboldbury.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: +44 1215523822 ## 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): 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. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 23 | 25 | | Readable | 1 | 25 | | Actionable | 2 | 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/ploughpuboldbury.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: no Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/ploughpuboldbury.co.uk/deep. 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. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=ploughpuboldbury.co.uk&force=1