The Direct Index
Report · Birmingham cafes and bars · scanned 2026-10-21

Broad Lane Café

shepcom.com is hard for agents to use.

Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach Broad Lane Café directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-21. Report a mistake

+441564778890

Nearby, also direct

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

Owners

The website's grade

Some AI assistants are turned away by Broad Lane Café's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online.

51.8%

33.7 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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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.

Where it stands

How Broad Lane Café compares

Where it stands

267 of 544 in Birmingham cafes and bars

Top 49% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Ainscough Birmingham Depot D, The Red Lion D. Just below: Island Inn D, The Hideout - Board Game Bar & Café D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%no
Publish the menu or price list as HTML91%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)89%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours41%no
Have an llms.txt18%yes

The top 10% are the 56 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%51.8%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Love Life Coffee347 mFno
The Kings Arms1.1 kmFno
H C F Takeaway1.1 kmDno
Spirit Cafe - Birmingham UK1.3 kmDno
15 Club1.3 kmFno
Kids Kandy Co1.4 kmByes
The Pavilion1.4 kmByes
Photo-Me1.6 kmDno
Sol Bistro1.8 kmCyes
Colanzo Cafe1.8 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Broad Lane Café in Birmingham cafes and bars

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham cafes and bars54448%23%51.8%
Sites built with WordPress in Birmingham cafes and bars14860%32%51.8%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Birmingham cafes and bars

Centenary Coffee & Co A 91.3% · Heidi's Bier Bar A 90.8% · Nortons A 90% · Roxy Ball Room A 86.3% · Arch 13 A 86.2%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No booking or ordering link on the website; No menu or price list found; Structured data is incomplete), the score would be about 90.3%. That would be 14th of 544 in Birmingham cafes and bars, up from 267th.

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 booking or ordering link on the website +13 points

    There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add a booking or ordering page. How to fix it

  2. No menu or price list found +7 points

    Agents answer 'what do they offer?' from marketplaces instead. Add a page with the menu or price list and link to it from the homepage. How to fix it

  3. Structured data is incomplete +5 points

    Missing: address, opening hours. How to fix it

  4. The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points

    Requests as ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused, but a normal browser got the page. That's usually a bot list at the host or in a firewall that the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. 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 Birmingham cafes and bars. 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.
  • Structured data found (Organization) phone

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · contact page /about-us/: nothing new; Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge

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.

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": "CafeOrCoffeeShop",
  "name": "Broad Lane Café",
  "url": "http://www.shepcom.com",
  "telephone": "+441564778890",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 52.4138656,
    "longitude": -1.9031252
  }
}
</script>
Owners

Own this business?

If you fixed something or think a check is wrong, rescan. Rescans are free. Claiming takes one email to confirm. After that, the three assistants are asked about the business right away and the site is rescanned every week. You get a message only when the score changes.

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Agent-Direct Score D

<a href="https://directindex.org/r/shepcom.com"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/shepcom.com.svg" alt="Agent-Direct Score D" width="236" height="40"></a>
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 Broad Lane Café

No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-21 found no booking or ordering link on shepcom.com or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/shepcom.com, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/birmingham-cafes-bars/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordernone on record
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone+441564778890

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.txtyes
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