The Direct Index
Report · London hairdressers and beauty salons · scanned 2026-10-14

Richard Ward

richardward.com is mostly ready for agents.

Book directly: www.richardward.com/ on the business's own site · Order directly: www.richardward.com/delivery-returns on the business's own site

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B
78.5%

51 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

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. Structured data is incomplete +4 points

    Missing: address, telephone. How to fix it

  3. 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: squarespace · Front: cloudflare

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 squarespace 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": "Richard Ward",
  "url": "https://www.richardward.com/",
  "telephone": "+44 20 7730 1222",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Duke of York Square 82",
    "postalCode": "SW3 4LY",
    "addressLocality": "London"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.4912522,
    "longitude": -0.158971
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.richardward.com/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.richardward.com/delivery-returns",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Richard Ward

> hair salon in Duke of York Square 82 SW3 4LY London, London hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +44 20 7730 1222.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.richardward.com/ (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://www.richardward.com/delivery-returns (on the business's own site)

## About

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

58 of 995 in London hairdressers and beauty salons

Top 6% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Melatone Skin Clinic B, Pall Mall Barbers B. Just below: Space NK B, Temptation Studio B.

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%yes
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.

Against its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 7,098 sites65%48%78.5%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Pavilion Barbers270 mCno
Michael Charalambous273 mDno
Sophie Marks Hair & Beauty280 mCno
Chloé's Nail Spa332 mFno
Sassoon Hair Salon333 mByes
Michael John Spa362 mByes
Smith and Gardner498 mCno
Chelsea Green Salon535 mDno
Serenity Nails and Beauty554 mFno
Tiara Organic593 mCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Richard Ward in London hairdressers and beauty salons

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Same kind in London hairdressers and beauty salons99543%17%78.5%
Built with Squarespace in London hairdressers and beauty salons7566%43%78.5%

The best of Built with Squarespace in London hairdressers and beauty salons

Masaj A 93.8% · seed. B 83.1% · Brow Base B 81.5% · Eton Crop B 81.5% · Hilario Barbershop & Hair Salon B 81.5%

The climb

With the two fixes above (No price list of services found; Structured data is incomplete) the score would be about 95.4%: first of 995 in London hairdressers and beauty salons.

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 Richard Ward

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/richardward.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london-salons/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.richardward.com/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Orderwww.richardward.com/delivery-returns own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-14, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+44 20 7730 1222

Stable links that count: /go/richardward.com/book, /go/richardward.com/order 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
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.

The next scan also reads the contact, menu and booking pages one hop deeper; facts found there can change the score.

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 B

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/richardward.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/richardward.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score B" width="236" height="40"></a>
Owners

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