Polpo
polpo.co.uk is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Book directly: www.polpo.co.uk/reservations on the business's own site · Order directly: order.polpo.co.uk/ on the business's own site · Menu: www.polpo.co.uk/menu
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40 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level
thing 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 (F then): fixed The site could not be read at all. new The site turned every visitor without a browser away.
What to fix first
- The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included +25 points
A plain fetch was refused (cloudflare_challenge); only a real browser got the page. Every AI crawler and agent is turned away the same way, so Reachable scores 0 and the rest is measured on the rendered page. Ask the host to let the AI user agents through. How to fix it
No one is listed yet to fix this in London. List your agency or yourself: free, reviewed by hand.
Already right
- robots.txt lets AI crawlers in There is no robots.txt, which allows everything.
- Structured data present (Restaurant) address, phone, opening hours
- Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read items and prices directly.
- Booking on your own site Agents can book without a marketplace in the loop.
- Ordering on your own site Agents can order without a marketplace in the loop.
Builder: popmenu · Front: cloudflare · A plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge; a real browser got the page, so the scan continues on the rendered page.
How Polpo compares
2,822 of 2,990 in London
Top 94% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Plenty F, Poké Shack F. Just below: Poncho 8 F, Positano F.
| What the top tenth 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 | 86% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 92% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 60% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 28% | no |
The top tenth is the 308 best-scoring reachable sites of the index at the last refresh.
Nearest places with a similar menu
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lina Stores italian | 232 m | F | no |
| Bocca Di Lupo italian | 257 m | B | yes |
| Cecconi's italian | 339 m | D | no |
| Grasso italian | 371 m | A | yes |
| Forty Dean Street italian | 385 m | B | yes |
| La Porchetta italian, pizza, pasta | 514 m | B | yes |
| Bocconcino Mayfair italian | 583 m | A | yes |
| Novikov italian, asian | 649 m | A | yes |
| Bardo St James's italian, pasta, pizza, regional | 658 m | B | yes |
| Sartori italian | 662 m | A | yes |
Businesses like Polpo in London
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Same kind in London | 2,990 | 54% | 40% | 61.5% |
| Built with Popmenu in London | 4 | 69% | 25% | 61.5% |
The best of Built with Popmenu in London
Onyx A 90.8% · Annab C 61.5% · Papi's Grill Restaurant & Bar C 61.5%
The climb
With the fix above (The site turns every visitor without a browser away, AI agents included) the score would be about 100%: first of 2,990 in London.
Peers are the businesses of the same index with a reachable site, latest scan of each; the rank uses the index's current ranking.
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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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.
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<a href="https://directindex.org/r/polpo.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/polpo.co.uk.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score C" width="236" height="40"></a>
What agents get, and what the site publishes
The direct record an agent is served for this business, the rails it could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.
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What agents get for Polpo
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/polpo.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | www.polpo.co.uk/reservations own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested |
| Order | order.polpo.co.uk/ own site | found by the scan of 2026-10-15, not yet tested |
| Menu | www.polpo.co.uk/menu html_page | from the scan |
| Hours | Mo-Fr 11:30-23:00; Sa 10:00-23:00; Su 10:00-22:00 (open now) | from OpenStreetMap |
| Phone | +44 20 7734 4479 |
Stable links that count: /go/polpo.co.uk/book, /go/polpo.co.uk/order, /go/polpo.co.uk/menu 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.
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 |
Only a real browser got this page (a plain fetch got cloudflare_challenge); Readable and Actionable were measured on the rendered page.
Not measured
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.
| JSON-LD for the business | yes |