# Thai Elephant: Agent-Direct Score D (44.2%)

Site: http://thai-elephant.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thai-elephant.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.)
Thai Elephant is hard for agents to use.
Some AI assistants are turned away by Thai Elephant's website. It can read what Thai Elephant offers. It can't find a link to book or order online.

## Direct links
- Menu: https://thai-elephant.co.uk/menu.html
- Address: Croydon Road 39 BR4 9HZ West Wickham

## Nearby, also direct
Places near Thai Elephant that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- I Naga (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/inaga.co.uk
- Curry Night (770 m): https://directindex.org/r/curry-nights.co.uk
- Ciao Pizza (950 m): https://directindex.org/r/ciao-pizza.co.uk
- Tugra (1 km): https://directindex.org/r/tugrarestaurant.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant
- **No booking or ordering link on the website.** (+15 points) There's no link on the site for an agent to follow. 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 on your own domain. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+3.3 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_429) 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. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing
- **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

## 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
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Restaurant",
  "name": "Thai Elephant",
  "url": "http://thai-elephant.co.uk/",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "Croydon Road 39",
    "postalCode": "BR4 9HZ",
    "addressLocality": "West Wickham"
  },
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": 51.3700013,
    "longitude": 0.0009846
  },
  "servesCuisine": [
    "thai"
  ],
  "hasMenu": "https://thai-elephant.co.uk/menu.html"
}
</script>
```

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

```
# Thai Elephant

> restaurant (thai) in Croydon Road 39 BR4 9HZ West Wickham, London.

## Book or order directly

- Menu: https://thai-elephant.co.uk/menu.html

## About

- Website: http://thai-elephant.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.** There's no robots.txt, which means everything is allowed.
- **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices.

## Where it stands
5943 of 8985 in London. Top 66% 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 | 100% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 87% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 94% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 64% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 37% | no |

Nearest places in the index: I Naga (B, 110 m, https://directindex.org/r/inaga.co.uk); Sakura (D, 431 m, https://directindex.org/r/sakurabromley.co.uk); Zeera Spice (F, 457 m, https://directindex.org/r/zeeraspice.com); Curry Night (A, 771 m, https://directindex.org/r/curry-nights.co.uk); Salt and Slate (D, 927 m, https://directindex.org/r/saltandslate.co.uk); Bellenie's Osteria (F, 929 m, https://directindex.org/r/hayleybellenie.com); Ciao Pizza (B, 946 m, https://directindex.org/r/ciao-pizza.co.uk); Nonno (F, 992 m, https://directindex.org/r/nonnotrattoria.com); Tugra (B, 1019 m, https://directindex.org/r/tugrarestaurant.co.uk); Thara Thai (F, 1022 m, https://directindex.org/r/tharathai.co.uk).

## 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 23 everyday questions about London and named 108 places. Thai Elephant wasn't one of them. See who was named: https://directindex.org/city/london/recommended


See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thai-elephant.co.uk/agent-view

## Businesses like Thai Elephant in London

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in London | 8985 | 54% | 36% | 44.2% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in London: ALBA London - Italian Restaurant Knightsbridge (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/alba-ldn.uk); AVA - Steakhouse & Grill (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/avagrill.co.uk); Akatuki (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/akatuki.co.uk); Aki (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/akilondon.com); Al-Fanar (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/alfanarrestaurant.com).

With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 187th of 8,985 in London, up from 5943rd.

## The direct record
What agents get for Thai Elephant, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thai-elephant.co.uk
- Book: none on record
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://thai-elephant.co.uk/menu.html (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: none on record
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thai-elephant.co.uk/menu

## 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

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 21.7 | 25 |
| Readable | 7 | 25 |
| Actionable | 0 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 0 of 5, Not Ready. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/thai-elephant.co.uk
- Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md)
- sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md)
- AI bot rules in robots.txt: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/ai-rules/SKILL.md)
- 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/thai-elephant.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/thai-elephant.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=thai-elephant.co.uk&force=1
