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

Sushi Bistro

sushibistro.co.uk is partly visible to agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

OrderCallWebsite

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

419 Birmingham Rd, B72 1AX, Birmingham · +447752624555

Prices: 12 prices on the site, the middle one £25.50 · WhatsApp: a link on the site

Nearby, also direct

Places near Sushi Bistro 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 Sushi Bistro's website. What Sushi Bistro 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.

63.1%

41 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.

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What the site tells visitors Measured, not scored

These don't change the grade.

The footer says © 2024.

Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In Birmingham, 81% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later.

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12 prices on the landing page, the middle one £25.50.

In Birmingham, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £10.00.

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Named by assistants

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

Each assistant was asked the way people ask, with web search on, for up to three places in Birmingham and a link to each one's own site. This business was named in one answer, by 1 of the 2 assistants asked.

QuestionNamed byAsked
I want sushi delivered this evening.ChatGPT with a link to this site2026-10-15

Every place named in Birmingham, question by question.

Show it

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

Named by 1 of 2 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 Sushi Bistro compares

Where it stands

441 of 1,053 in Birmingham

Top 42% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Okra Bar & Restaurant C, Spices wednesbury C. Just below: Taj Mahal C, The Country Kitchen C.

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 HTML85%no
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)93%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours56%no
Have an llms.txt40%no

The top 10% are the 108 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%63.1%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Jahed Cuisine of India19 mDyes
Jahed Tandoori indian22 mFno
Piri Fino94 mAyes
Inji128 mCno
The Eastern Restaurant pan_asian147 mFno
Namaste Sutton indian162 mByes
Chester House chinese326 mByes
Garma-Garam1.0 kmFno
Indian Kitchen1.1 kmFno
Pane & Vino italian1.1 kmByes
Businesses like yours

Businesses like Sushi Bistro in Birmingham

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Birmingham1,05353%34%63.1%
Sites built with WordPress in Birmingham25867%50%63.1%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Birmingham

Decorumbirmingham A 100% · Hallal food in Birmingham tiffin walay A 100% · Pizza Takeaway Acocks Green A 100% · Fazenda Rodizio Bar & Grill Birmingham A 96.3% · Fogo de Chão A 96.3%

After the top fixes

With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; Menu or price list is an image), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 18th of 1,053 in Birmingham, up from 441st.

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 an image +6 points

    Agents can't read it. Publish it as text. 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 Birmingham. 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.
  • Ordering on your own site Agents can order without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · Front: cloudflare · booking page /delivery-fees/: 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 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": "LocalBusiness",
  "name": "Sushi Bistro",
  "url": "http://www.sushibistro.co.uk/",
  "telephone": "+447752624555",
  "address": "419 Birmingham Rd, B72 1AX, Birmingham",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 52.53578723,
    "longitude": -1.8269559
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "OrderAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://sushibistro.co.uk/delivery-fees/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# Sushi Bistro

> local business (sushi) in 419 Birmingham Rd, B72 1AX, Birmingham, Birmingham. Phone +447752624555.

## Book or order directly

- Order: https://sushibistro.co.uk/delivery-fees/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://sushibistro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/sushi-bistro-menu-05-2026.png

## About

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

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Keep watching this business: the assistants are asked again every month, and you see what changed. 2 EUR a month or 19 EUR a year. Deep report: ten questions to each assistant, plus the places nearby. 5 EUR, paid once. Reading and scanning stay free. These few euros pay for the questions sent to the assistants and for the servers.

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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 Sushi Bistro

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

PathLinkStatus
Booknone on record
Ordersushibistro.co.uk/delivery-fees/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested
Menusushibistro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/sushi-bistro-me imagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone+447752624555

Stable links that count: /go/sushibistro.co.uk/order, /go/sushibistro.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