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

Sheesh Mahal

sheesh-mahal.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

BookOrderWebsite

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

London Road 19-21 TW1 3SX Twickenham

Step-free access (OpenStreetMap)

Nearby, also direct

Places near Sheesh Mahal 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 Sheesh Mahal's website. What Sheesh Mahal offers is on another site. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

64.6%

42 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

3

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.

See what an AI agent reads on this site →

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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about London and named 66 places. Sheesh Mahal wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Sheesh Mahal compares

Where it stands

3,934 of 8,985 in London

Top 44% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: SINO C, Searcys Bar and Brasserie at Surveyors House C. Just below: Six-13 C, Smoking Goat C.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain100%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML87%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)94%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours63%no
Have an llms.txt36%no

The top 10% are the 915 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with Squarespace 32,150 sites61%41%64.6%
Sites using NextOrder 213 sites68%37%64.6%

Nearest places with a similar menu

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
The Tiger's Tandoor indian111 mCyes
Kathmandu Tandoori indian, nepalese125 mDno
Atithi indian128 mFno
Tsaretta Spice tapas, indian190 mAyes
Little Mumbai indian442 mByes
Delhi Social indian457 mCyes
Dhoom indian, asian465 mCyes
Shiuli indian530 mAyes
Jaflong Tandoori indian1.5 kmByes
Tangawizi indian1.7 kmAyes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Sheesh Mahal in London

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in London8,98554%36%64.6%
Sites built with Squarespace in London65172%61%64.6%
Sites using NextOrder in London3371%58%64.6%
Sites built with Squarespace and using NextOrder in London864%38%64.6%

The best of the sites built with Squarespace and using NextOrder in London

Boulevard B 76.3% · Phoreal B 73.8% · Brockley Rock B 72.3% · Abshar C 56.9% · Fulham Indian Restaurant and Bar C 56.9%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is on another site), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 187th of 8,985 in London, up from 3934th.

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. No structured data for the business +15 points

    Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (Restaurant, LocalBusiness or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine and acceptsReservations). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it

  2. Menu or price list is on another site +5 points

    The link goes to nextorder.com, so that site gets the credit and the visits. How to fix it

  3. 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 London. 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.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.
  • Ordering through nextorder on your own domain There's no marketplace commission, and the customer stays yours.

Builder: squarespace · contact page /home: nothing new; booking page /nov8reservations: nothing new

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 squarespace.

Where to paste it on Squarespace: the Code Injection panel, in the Header field, which applies to every page. It needs the Core plan or above. the official help page.

Show the code 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. Guide.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Sheesh Mahal",
  "url": "http://www.sheesh-mahal.co.uk/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "London Road 19-21",
    "postalCode": "TW1 3SX",
    "addressLocality": "Twickenham"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.44721,
    "longitude": -0.3288146
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "indian"
  ],
  "acceptsReservations": "https://www.sheesh-mahal.co.uk/nov8reservations",
  "hasMenu": "https://sheesh-mahal-twickenham.nextorder.com/",
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://www.sheesh-mahal.co.uk/nov8reservations",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    },
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://sheesh-mahal-twickenham.nextorder.com/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Sheesh Mahal

> restaurant (indian) in London Road 19-21 TW1 3SX Twickenham, London.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://www.sheesh-mahal.co.uk/nov8reservations (on the business's own site)
- Order: https://sheesh-mahal-twickenham.nextorder.com/ (through nextorder acting for the business)
- Menu: https://sheesh-mahal-twickenham.nextorder.com/

## About

- Website: http://www.sheesh-mahal.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 C

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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 Sheesh Mahal

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/sheesh-mahal.co.uk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/london/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookwww.sheesh-mahal.co.uk/nov8reservations own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Ordersheesh-mahal-twickenham.nextorder.com/ vendor on own site: NextOrderfound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Menusheesh-mahal-twickenham.nextorder.com/ externalfrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phonenone on record

Stable links that count: /go/sheesh-mahal.co.uk/book, /go/sheesh-mahal.co.uk/order, /go/sheesh-mahal.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
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 businessno