The Alley
the-alley.hk is largely invisible to agents.
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Ways to reach The Alley directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-20. Report a mistake
Nathan Rd, 27-33號, Alpha House, 地下F舖, 000000, Kowloon · +85221579267
Languages: English, Chinese
Places near The Alley that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- JCB PLAZA Lounge HONG KONG270 m
- Bar Butler270 m
The website's grade
Some AI assistants are turned away by The Alley's website. It can't find a menu or price list, so it answers from other sites. It can't find a link to book or order online.
21.7 of 65 points available
agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence
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.
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.
How The Alley compares
547 of 701 in Hong Kong cafes and bars
Top 78% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: 香港茶葉學會 Tea Science Society of Hong Kong F, Coffee Lab HK F. Just below: The Sandwich Club F, YoHou! - Life Repair Bar F.
| What the top 10% of the index does | Top 10% | This site |
|---|---|---|
| Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 93% | no |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 47% | no |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 96% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 22% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 56% | no |
The top 10% are the 72 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mixue Ice Cream & Tea 蜜雪冰城 | 46 m | D | no |
| Panash Cafe (iSQUARE) | 70 m | F | no |
| eyebar | 95 m | C | no |
| CHAGEE 霸王茶姬 | 188 m | F | no |
| Ricky's Kitchen | 189 m | F | no |
| 大苑子-香港 | 193 m | D | no |
| Infuse by Ideaology | 268 m | D | no |
| JCB PLAZA Lounge HONG KONG | 270 m | B | yes |
| Bar Buonasera | 271 m | C | no |
| Bar Butler | 272 m | B | yes |
Businesses like The Alley in Hong Kong cafes and bars
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Hong Kong cafes and bars | 701 | 44% | 15% | 33.4% |
The best of the businesses of the same kind in Hong Kong cafes and bars
One Small Step A 100% · 植作茶 A 100% · Frank's Records A 96.3% · Cats Tea Room Causeway Bay A 95.4% · City Cafe A 95.4%
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; No booking or ordering link on the website; No menu or price list found), the score would be about 90.3%. That would be 11th of 701 in Hong Kong cafes and bars, up from 547th.
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.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +15 points
Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (CafeOrCoffeeShop, BarOrPub or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification, plus servesCuisine). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. How to fix it
- 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. How to fix it
- 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
- The server turns AI crawlers away at the door +3.3 points
Requests as GPTBot (http_406) 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
- 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
No one is listed yet to fix this in Hong Kong 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.
Builder: unknown · Front: cloudflare · Cloudflare in front; AI crawlers blocked at the edge
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": "The Alley",
"url": "https://www.the-alley.hk/",
"telephone": "+85221579267",
"address": "Nathan Rd, 27-33號, Alpha House, 地下F舖, 000000, Kowloon",
"geo": {
"@type": "GeoCoordinates",
"latitude": 22.29640382,
"longitude": 114.17194578
}
}
</script>
llms.txt
Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. Guide.
# The Alley > local business in Nathan Rd, 27-33號, Alpha House, 地下F舖, 000000, Kowloon, Hong Kong cafes and bars. Phone +85221579267. ## About - Website: https://www.the-alley.hk/ - This file follows llms.txt (https://llmstxt.org): a short plain-text description for language models.
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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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What agents get for The Alley
No direct path on record: the scan of 2026-10-20 found no booking or ordering link on the-alley.hk or on a vendor's site. The same record is served as JSON at /api/direct/the-alley.hk, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/hong-kong-cafes-bars/direct.json.
| Path | Link | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Book | none on record | |
| Order | none on record | |
| Menu | none on record | |
| Hours | none on record | |
| Phone | +85221579267 |
Owners: claim the business below to correct this record; the claim email carries the link.
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 |
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 homepage | no how |
| sitemap.xml | yes |
| AI bot rules in robots.txt | yes |
| Content Signals in robots.txt | no how |
| Markdown on Accept: text/markdown | no how |
| llms.txt | no how |
| API catalog (RFC 9727) | no how |
| MCP server card | no how |
| A2A agent card | no how |
| Agent Skills index | no how |
| OAuth or OIDC discovery | no how |
| OAuth protected resource metadata | no how |
| auth.md | no how |
| Web Bot Auth key directory | no how |
| ARD capability manifest | no how |
| DNS-AID records | no how |
| WebMCP tools on the page | no how |
| JSON-LD for the business | no |