The Direct Index
Report · Manchester · scanned 2026-10-21

Samsi

samsi.co.uk is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookMenuWebsite

Ways to reach Samsi directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

Whitworth Street 36-38 M1 3NR Manchester

Nearby, also direct

Places near Samsi that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.

Owners

The website's grade

An AI assistant can open Samsi's website. What Samsi offers is in a PDF or an image, and assistants read those badly. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

80%

52 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

4

things to fix

Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.

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Named by assistants

Named by ChatGPT for "I want sushi delivered this evening" in Manchester, October 2026

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Manchester and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 3 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
I want sushi delivered this evening.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-17

Every place named in Manchester, question by question.

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The badge shows how many of the assistants asked named this business, and the month. It updates after every round.

Named by 1 of 3 assistants, Direct Index

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Assistants

What assistants answer

Each assistant gets three questions about this business: the official website, where to book and where to order. Each cell shows where the answer sent people.

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.

Recommended when people ask:
“I want sushi delivered this evening.” (ChatGPT, with a link to this site)

Where it stands

How Samsi compares

Where it stands

399 of 2,391 in Manchester

Top 17% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Porta Wine & Tapas B, Retro Bar B. Just below: Shoryu B, Spicy Mango B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML86%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours49%no
Have an llms.txt28%no

The top 10% are the 245 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 145,483 sites57%28%80%
Sites using Deliveroo 611 sites63%38%80%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Teppanyaki japanese410 mCyes
Shoryu japanese, ramen503 mByes
Chotto Matte Manchester japanese730 mAyes
KOKORO japanese, korean, sushi854 mDno
KAJI Restaurant and Bar japanese987 mDyes
New Wave Ramen japanese1.0 kmDyes
Kitten japanese1.1 kmCno
Seoul Kimchi japanese, korean2.0 kmBno
Sakura japanese2.4 kmCyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Samsi in Manchester

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Manchester2,39155%32%80%
Sites built with WordPress in Manchester54865%48%80%
Sites using Deliveroo in Manchester2865%43%80%
Sites built with WordPress and using Deliveroo in Manchester1565%53%80%

The best of the sites built with WordPress and using Deliveroo in Manchester

Haute Dolci A 86.2% · Royal Nawaab Pyramid B 81.5% · Aubaine B 73.8% · Bella Vita B 73.8% · Glamorous Chinese Restaurant B 73.8%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (Structured data is incomplete; Menu or price list is a PDF), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 43rd of 2,391 in Manchester, up from 399th.

Peers are the businesses in the same index that have a reachable site, using the latest scan of each. The rank comes from the index's current ranking.

Findings

What to fix first

  1. Structured data is incomplete +7 points

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

  2. Menu or price list is a PDF +3 points

    Most agents skip PDFs or read them badly. Publish it as an HTML page and keep the PDF as a download. How to fix it

  3. Ordering only through deliveroo no points, but worth doing

    Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor

  4. No llms.txt no points, but worth doing

    Optional for now and cheap to add. It's a short text file that describes the business for language models. How to fix it

Send the fixes to your web person

One email with the fixes and the link. Nothing is stored.

No one is listed yet to fix this in Manchester. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • robots.txt lets AI crawlers in No rule blocks the main AI user agents.
  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Structured data found (Organization) no address, phone or hours in it
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about-us/: nothing new; booking page /reservations/: booking via resdiary

Fix kit

What to paste

Filled in from the business's own record and this scan. Check every line before it goes live. The guides show where it goes on wordpress.

Where to paste it on WordPress: a plugin that adds code to every page's header, such as WPCode (Insert Headers and Footers), in its Header box. the official help page.

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Structured data (JSON-LD)

Paste it as one block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom code box. Change anything that's wrong. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Samsi",
  "url": "http://www.samsi.co.uk/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Whitworth Street 36-38",
    "postalCode": "M1 3NR",
    "addressLocality": "Manchester"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 53.476127,
    "longitude": -2.236495
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "japanese"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.samsi.co.uk/reservations/",
  "hasMenu": "https://www.samsi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/samsi-menu.pdf",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.samsi.co.uk/reservations/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Samsi

> restaurant (japanese) in Whitworth Street 36-38 M1 3NR Manchester, Manchester.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.samsi.co.uk/reservations/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://www.samsi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/samsi-menu.pdf

## About

- Website: http://www.samsi.co.uk/
- This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
Owners

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Agent-Direct Score B

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For developers and agents

What agents get, and what the site publishes

The direct record agents get for this business, the rails an agent could transact through, and the agent standards the site publishes.

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The direct record

What agents get for Samsi

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/samsi.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/manchester/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.samsi.co.uk/reservations/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuwww.samsi.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/samsi-menu.pdf pdffrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/samsi.co.uk/book, /go/samsi.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.

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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /reservations/: booking via resdiary.

Agent readiness

Level 1 of 5, Basic Web Presence

These are the standards an agent looks for before it reads a page, checked the same way as Cloudflare's Agent Readiness scan. They don't count toward 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