The Direct Index
Report · Cape Town · scanned 2026-10-24

The 41

the41.co.za is mostly ready for agents.

Listed by Overture Maps.

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Ways to reach The 41 directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-10-24. On the business's own site. Report a mistake

41 Victoria Rd, 8040, Cape Town · 021 437 0558

Nearby, also direct

Places near The 41 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 The 41's website. It can read what The 41 offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

72.3%

47 of 65 points available

1/5

agent-readiness level, Basic Web Presence

2

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 12 everyday questions about Cape Town and named 64 places. The 41 wasn't one of them. See who was named →

Where it stands

How The 41 compares

Where it stands

203 of 813 in Cape Town

Top 25% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Thai Central Restaurant B, Thali B. Just below: The Falafel Guy B, The Pelican Hout Bay B.

What the top 10% of the index doesTop 10%This site
Take bookings or orders on their own domain98%yes
Publish the menu or price list as HTML91%yes
Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt)96%yes
Structured data with address, phone and hours38%no
Have an llms.txt42%no

The top 10% are the 85 highest-scoring reachable sites in the index at the last update.

Compared with its peers

Average scoreA or BThis site
Sites built with WordPress 224,455 sites55%24%72.3%

Nearest places in the index

PlaceDistanceGradeDirect booking or ordering
Mantra Cafe european5 mAyes
The Bayside Cafe seafood11 mDno
Ocean Basket seafood24 mCno
Harry's Beach Restaurant25 mDno
Kauai Health Food31 mCyes
Victoria pizza35 mByes
Col'Cacchio Pizzeria pizza36 mDno
Chinchilla rooftop Cafe & Bar276 mFno
Hard Rock Cafe: Cape Town297 mAyes
Phuket Thai restaurant thai297 mDno
Businesses like yours

Businesses like The 41 in Cape Town

GroupSitesAvg scoreA or BThis site
Businesses of the same kind in Cape Town81353%26%72.3%
Sites built with WordPress in Cape Town42060%31%72.3%

The best of the sites built with WordPress in Cape Town

Ferrymans Tavern A 100% · Quay Four A 98.5% · Baker & Bean Café, Bakery & Deli A 95.4% · Woodlands Eatery A 94.9% · The Farmhouse Somerset West A 92.3%

After the top fixes

With the fix above (No structured data for the business), the score would be about 95.4%. That would be 16th of 813 in Cape Town, up from 203rd.

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. 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 Cape Town. 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.
  • Menu or price list is an HTML page Agents can read the items and prices.
  • Booking on your own site Agents can book without going through a marketplace.

Builder: wordpress · contact page /about-us/: nothing new; menu page /menu/: nothing new; booking page /reservations/: booking link (other)

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": "The 41",
  "url": "http://www.the41.co.za",
  "telephone": "021 437 0558",
  "address": "41 Victoria Rd, 8040, Cape Town",
  "geo": {
    "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
    "latitude": -33.950781313068966,
    "longitude": 18.37849840070897
  },
  "potentialAction": [
    {
      "@type": "ReserveAction",
      "target": {
        "@type": "EntryPoint",
        "urlTemplate": "https://the41.co.za/reservations/",
        "actionPlatform": [
          "http://schema.org/DesktopWebPlatform",
          "http://schema.org/MobileWebPlatform"
        ]
      },
      "result": {
        "@type": "Reservation",
        "name": "Reservation"
      }
    }
  ]
}
</script>

llms.txt

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

# The 41

> local business in 41 Victoria Rd, 8040, Cape Town, Cape Town. Phone 021 437 0558.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://the41.co.za/reservations/ (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://the41.co.za/menu/

## About

- Website: http://www.the41.co.za
- 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 B

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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 The 41

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/the41.co.za, through the MCP tool direct_record and in the city feed /city/cape-town/direct.json.

PathLinkStatus
Bookthe41.co.za/reservations/ own sitefound by the scan of 2026-10-24, not yet tested
Ordernone on record
Menuthe41.co.za/menu/ html_pagefrom the scan
Hoursnone on record
Phone021 437 0558

Stable links that count: /go/the41.co.za/book, /go/the41.co.za/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

Found one hop past the home page: booking page /reservations/: booking link (other).

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