# The Braid Bar: Agent-Direct Score D (53.8%) Site: http://www.thebraidbar.co.uk/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/thebraidbar.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.) The Braid Bar is hard for agents to use. An AI assistant can open The Braid Bar's website. It can read what The Braid Bar offers. It finds a phone number, but no link to book or order online. ## Direct links - Menu: https://www.thebraidbar.co.uk/menu/ - Phone: +442073323047 - Address: 400 Oxford Street, W1A 1AB, London ## Nearby, also direct Places near The Braid Bar that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between. - Skin Design (70 m): https://directindex.org/r/skindesignlondon.com - Augustinus Bader (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/augustinusbader.com - The Beaumont Spa (110 m): https://directindex.org/r/thebeaumont.com - SaraSkinCare (130 m): https://directindex.org/r/saraskincare.co.uk ## What to fix first - **No structured data for the business.** (+14 points) Add schema.org JSON-LD for the business (HairSalon, BeautySalon or the closest type, with name, address, telephone and openingHoursSpecification). Every assistant reads this block first, and the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **No online booking link on the website.** (+13 points) There's only a phone number or WhatsApp, and agents can't use those yet. If you take bookings or orders through a platform, link to it from the site so agents can find it. Add an online appointment page. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **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 - **The phone number on the site doesn't match the open map data.** The site shows +44%207931362162, but OpenStreetMap or Overture Maps lists +442073323047. An assistant that sees two numbers can't tell which one to trust. Fix whichever is wrong, on the site or in the map data at openstreetmap.org. ## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored) - **The footer says © 2022.** Visitors and assistants may read that year as the last time anyone looked after the site. In London, 69% of comparable sites that show a year say 2025 or later. ## 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 ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # The Braid Bar > local business in 400 Oxford Street, W1A 1AB, London, London hairdressers and beauty salons. Phone +442073323047. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://www.thebraidbar.co.uk/menu/ ## About - Website: http://www.thebraidbar.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. - **AI crawlers get the page.** GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot all got a normal response. - **Price list of services is an HTML page.** Agents can read the items and prices. ## Where it stands 2965 of 6059 in London hairdressers and beauty salons. Top 49% 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 | 95% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 11% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 98% | yes | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 17% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 60% | no | Nearest places in the index: Nail Haven (F, 67 m, https://directindex.org/r/naileden.com); Skin Design (C, 69 m, https://directindex.org/r/skindesignlondon.com); Augustinus Bader (B, 107 m, https://directindex.org/r/augustinusbader.com); The Beaumont Spa (C, 108 m, https://directindex.org/r/thebeaumont.com); INGLOT (A, 124 m, https://directindex.org/r/inglotcosmetics.com); SaraSkinCare (C, 129 m, https://directindex.org/r/saraskincare.co.uk); Slim Bodyline Clinic (F, 162 m, https://directindex.org/r/slimbodyline.co.uk); Matthew David (F, 165 m, https://directindex.org/r/matthewdavid.co.uk); Jinny Beauty (F, 169 m, https://directindex.org/r/jinnyshop.com); Mrs-Ritchie (D, 171 m, https://directindex.org/r/mrs-ritchie.com). ## 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. Compared with its peers: Sites built with WordPress 57% (28% A or B, 145483 sites); This site 53.8%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thebraidbar.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like The Braid Bar in London hairdressers and beauty salons | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Businesses of the same kind in London hairdressers and beauty salons | 6059 | 48% | 18% | 53.8% | | Sites built with WordPress in London hairdressers and beauty salons | 2154 | 57% | 22% | 53.8% | The best of the sites built with WordPress in London hairdressers and beauty salons: Tranquilstate Professional Male Grooming (A 95.4%, https://directindex.org/r/tranquilstate.co.uk); DJN Physios Tottenham Court Road (A 93.8%, https://directindex.org/r/djnphysioslondon.co.uk); Headmasters (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/headmasters.com); Headmasters (A 88.8%, https://directindex.org/r/headmasters.com); LN Micropigmentation Clinic (A 87.7%, https://directindex.org/r/liananunes.com). With the two fixes above (No structured data for the business; No online booking link on the website), the score would be about 95.4%, which would be first of 6,059 in London hairdressers and beauty salons. ## The direct record What agents get for The Braid Bar, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thebraidbar.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://www.thebraidbar.co.uk/menu/ (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: +442073323047 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thebraidbar.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 | 25 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 2 | 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/thebraidbar.co.uk - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: yes - 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/thebraidbar.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/thebraidbar.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=thebraidbar.co.uk&force=1