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

Station India

stationindia.co.uk is hard for agents to use.

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OrderCallWebsite

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

128 Portobello High Street, EH15 1AH, Edinburgh · 01316699981

Nearby, also direct

Places near Station India 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 Station India'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 on the site.

46.2%

30 of 65 points available

0/5

agent-readiness level, Not Ready

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.

The assistants were asked 13 everyday questions about Edinburgh and named 62 places. Station India wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How Station India compares

Where it stands

624 of 930 in Edinburgh

Top 67% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Istanbul D, Quick & Plenty Cafe D. Just below: Supperbowl D, The Fishmarket D.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain99%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML75%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)95%no
Structured data with address, phone and hours57%no
Have an llms.txt22%no

The top 10% are the 95 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

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Mamacita's cuban18 mCyes
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Pronto italian, pizza102 mAyes
MatchaMind109 mDno
Tai Chi Restaurant chinese111 mDyes
Istanbul kebab133 mDno
Portobello Tap136 mByes
Foresters Guild255 mAyes
Carlos269 mFno
Cinnamon indian314 mFno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Station India in Edinburgh

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh93055%39%46.2%

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Edinburgh

Minami A 100% · Osaka A 100% · Rishi's Indian Aroma A 100% · The Theatre Royal Bar A 100% · Wee Greek Kitchen A 100%

After the top fixes

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 9th of 930 in Edinburgh, up from 624th.

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. robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, Perplexity-User +10 points

    These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. How to fix it

  3. 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

  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 Edinburgh. List your agency or yourself. It's free, and every listing is reviewed by hand.

Already right

  • AI crawlers get the page GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: unknown

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 your builder.

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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Station India",
  "url": "http://www.stationindia.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "01316699981",
  "address": "128 Portobello High Street, EH15 1AH, Edinburgh",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 55.9533795,
    "longitude": -3.1152578
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://stationindia.co.uk/order-now",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

robots.txt

Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers. Guide.

# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /

llms.txt

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

# Station India

> local business in 128 Portobello High Street, EH15 1AH, Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Phone 01316699981.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://stationindia.co.uk/order-now (on the business's own site)

## About

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

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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/stationindia.co.uk"><img src="https://directindex.org/badge/stationindia.co.uk.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 Station India

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Orderstationindia.co.uk/order-now own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Menunone on record
Hoursnone on record
Phone01316699981

Stable links that count: /go/stationindia.co.uk/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
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 0 of 5, Not Ready

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.xmlno how
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