# Shear Success: Agent-Direct Score C (55.4%) Site: http://www.shearsuccess.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/shearsuccess.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-21 (Provisional, with the action test and the assistant citation check still to come. The hatched part of the bar isn't measured yet.) Shear Success is partly visible to agents. An AI assistant can open Shear Success's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a way to book or order directly, through Salon IQ. ## Direct links - Book directly: https://s-iq.co/BookingPortal/dist/?salonid=6dac11da-1e8a-4a96-9e39-f74f9a8ebe49&tab=book (through salon_iq acting for the business) - Phone: 01213532738 - Address: 296 Clarence Road, B74 4LT, Sutton Coldfield ## Nearby, also direct Places near Shear Success that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Pure Hair & Spa (10 m): https://directindex.org/r/purehairspa.co.uk - Scalp.inc (1.3 km): https://directindex.org/r/scalpinc.co.uk - Hair at 11a (1.7 km): https://directindex.org/r/hairat11a.co.uk ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **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 that lists services and prices as text, and link to it from the homepage. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/menu-pdf-ai - **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business - **The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data.** The site shows 0182762998, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists 01213532738. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org. ## Fix kit: What to paste 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. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Shear Success > local business in 296 Clarence Road, B74 4LT, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone 01213532738. ## Book or order directly - Book: https://s-iq.co/BookingPortal/dist/?salonid=6dac11da-1e8a-4a96-9e39-f74f9a8ebe49&tab=book (through salon_iq acting for the business) ## About - Website: http://www.shearsuccess.co.uk/ - 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 main AI user agents. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Appointments through salon_iq on your own domain.** There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours. ## Where it stands 266 of 592 in Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 45% 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 | 98% | yes | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 0% | no | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 10% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 41% | no | Nearest places in the index: Pure Hair & Spa (C, 13 m, https://directindex.org/r/purehairspa.co.uk); Simply Nails (C, 422 m, https://directindex.org/r/renewbeauty.co.uk); Sova Healthcare® (C, 927 m, https://directindex.org/r/sovahealthcare.co.uk); True Ambition (D, 959 m, https://directindex.org/r/trueambition.co.uk); Aromatica (D, 965 m, https://directindex.org/r/sharonhiltonsportsmassage.com); Exclusive Beauty Spa (C, 986 m, https://directindex.org/r/exclusivebeautyspa.co.uk); Scalp.inc (B, 1262 m, https://directindex.org/r/scalpinc.co.uk); L'Arco (D, 1512 m, https://directindex.org/r/larcohairdressing.co.uk); Hair at 11a (C, 1662 m, https://directindex.org/r/hairat11a.co.uk); Emma Baglee Aesthetics Studio (F, 1662 m, https://directindex.org/r/emmabaglee.com). ## 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 Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons and named 55 places. Shear Success wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/birmingham-salons/recommended Compared with its peers: Sites using Salon IQ 61% (24% A or B, 159 sites); This site 55.4%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/shearsuccess.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like Shear Success in Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons | 592 | 48% | 15% | 55.4% | | Sites using Salon IQ in Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons | 9 | 63% | 22% | 55.4% | The best of the sites using Salon IQ in Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons: Hemaxi (B 75.4%, https://directindex.org/r/hemaxibeauty.co.uk); Hush Hair & Beauty (B 72.3%, https://directindex.org/r/hushhair.com); Hair at 11a (C 67.7%, https://directindex.org/r/hairat11a.co.uk); James Bushell (C 67.7%, https://directindex.org/r/jamesbushell.co.uk); Lisa Shepherd (C 66.2%, https://directindex.org/r/lisashepherd.co.uk). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No price list of services found), the score would be about 87.7%, which would be first of 592 in Birmingham hairdressers and beauty salons. ## The direct record What agents get for Shear Success, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/shearsuccess.co.uk - Book: https://s-iq.co/BookingPortal/dist/?salonid=6dac11da-1e8a-4a96-9e39-f74f9a8ebe49&tab=book (vendor on own site: Salon IQ; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested) - Order: none on record - Menu: none on record - Hours: none on record - Phone: 01213532738 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/shearsuccess.co.uk/book ## 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 - Vendor terms for agents, Salon IQ: Not stated. The terms do not address an agent acting for a person (several bar scraping or data extraction only), could not be read on the date given, or the vendor has not been researched yet. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 1 | 25 | | Actionable | 10 | 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/shearsuccess.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 Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/shearsuccess.co.uk/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/shearsuccess.co.uk/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=shearsuccess.co.uk&force=1