# 7 Sins: Agent-Direct Score B (84%)

Site: https://www.thefaraday.co.uk/
Report: https://directindex.org/r/thefaraday.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.)
7 Sins is mostly ready for agents.
Some AI assistants are turned away by 7 Sins's website. It can read what 7 Sins offers. It finds a way to book or order directly on the site.

## Direct links
- Book directly: https://thefaraday.co.uk/bookings (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://thefaraday.co.uk/drinks
- Phone: +441618060054
- Address: 43-45 Lever St, M1 1FN, Manchester
- Its menu mentions: allergens
- Prices: 4 prices on the site, the middle one £13.50

## Nearby, also direct
Places near 7 Sins that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Guilty by Association (50 m): https://directindex.org/r/guiltyba.com
- The Fitzgerald (50 m): https://directindex.org/r/thefitzgeraldmanchester.com
- Nancy Spains Manchester (50 m): https://directindex.org/r/nancyspains.co.uk
- Lost In Tokyo (60 m): https://directindex.org/r/lostintokyo.co.uk
- Mean Eyed Cat Bar (80 m): https://directindex.org/r/meaneyedcatbar.co.uk

## What to fix first
- **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Requests as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) 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
- **robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended.** (+3.7 points) These are the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI features. Remove the Disallow lines for them, or add explicit Allow rules. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents
- **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

## What the site tells visitors (Measured, not scored)
- **4 prices on the landing page, the middle one £13.50.** In Manchester, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is £13.23.

## Fix kit: What to paste

robots.txt. Add these lines to /robots.txt and delete any Disallow rule that names these crawlers.

```
# Let AI assistants read the site: they send people to you; a marketplace keeps them.
# Remove any Disallow lines for these names elsewhere in this file.
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Claude-User
Allow: /

User-agent: Perplexity-User
Allow: /
```

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

```
# 7 Sins

> bar or pub in 43-45 Lever St, M1 1FN, Manchester, Manchester cafes and bars. Phone +441618060054.

## Book or order directly

- Book: https://thefaraday.co.uk/bookings (on the business's own site)
- Menu: https://thefaraday.co.uk/drinks

## About

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

## Already right
- **Structured data found (BarOrPub).** address, phone, opening hours
- **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.

## Where it stands
121 of 1309 in Manchester cafes and bars. Top 9% 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% | yes |
| Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 92% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 86% | no |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 30% | yes |
| Have an llms.txt | 20% | no |

Nearest places in the index: Public (F, 24 m, https://directindex.org/r/publicmcr.com); Guilty by Association (B, 45 m, https://directindex.org/r/guiltyba.com); The Fitzgerald (B, 48 m, https://directindex.org/r/thefitzgeraldmanchester.com); Nancy Spains Manchester (B, 49 m, https://directindex.org/r/nancyspains.co.uk); Lost In Tokyo (B, 60 m, https://directindex.org/r/lostintokyo.co.uk); Noho (C, 61 m, https://directindex.org/r/noho-bar.com); Northern Quarter Takeover (C, 76 m, https://directindex.org/r/tnq.co.uk); Dusk Til Pawn (C, 78 m, https://directindex.org/r/dusktilpawn.co.uk); Mean Eyed Cat Bar (A, 84 m, https://directindex.org/r/meaneyedcatbar.co.uk); Ezra & Gil (D, 90 m, https://directindex.org/r/ezraandgil.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.

Recommended when people ask: "A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?" (ChatGPT); "A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six." (ChatGPT)


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

## Named by ChatGPT for "A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?" and "A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six" in Manchester cafes and bars, October 2026
- "A pub showing the football tonight. Can I book a table?" (2026-10-24): ChatGPT with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/manchester-cafes-bars/recommended/pub-football
- "A bar with live music this Saturday night, reserve a table for six." (2026-10-24): ChatGPT with a link to this site. https://directindex.org/city/manchester-cafes-bars/recommended/live-music-bar
Named by 1 of 2 assistants asked. Badge: https://directindex.org/badge/named/thefaraday.co.uk.svg

## Businesses like 7 Sins in Manchester cafes and bars

| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Manchester cafes and bars | 1309 | 49% | 24% | 84% |

The best of the businesses of the same kind in Manchester cafes and bars: Pink Cafe (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/pinkcafe.co.uk); Popworld (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/popworldparty.co.uk); The Waldorf (A 100%, https://directindex.org/r/greatlocalpubs.co.uk); Stamford Arms (A 98.5%, https://directindex.org/r/stamfordarmsstalybridge.co.uk); Darts 59 (A 96.9%, https://directindex.org/r/bar59ashton.co.uk).

With the two fixes above (The server turns AI crawlers away at the door; robots.txt blocks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 1,309 in Manchester cafes and bars.

## The direct record
What agents get for 7 Sins, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thefaraday.co.uk
- Book: https://thefaraday.co.uk/bookings (own site; found by the scan of 2026-10-21, not yet tested)
- Order: none on record
- Menu: https://thefaraday.co.uk/drinks (html_page; from the scan)
- Hours: none on record
- Phone: +441618060054
- Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thefaraday.co.uk/book, https://directindex.org/go/thefaraday.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

Found one hop past the home page: menu page /drinks: 29 menu items in JSON-LD.

## Score breakdown
| Component | Points | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Reachable | 14.6 | 25 |
| Readable | 25 | 25 |
| Actionable | 15 | 15 (the action test: pending) |
| Cited | 0 | 0 (the assistant citation check: pending) |

## Agent readiness (Cloudflare)
Level 2 of 5, Bot-Aware. Cloudflare's report: https://isitagentready.com/thefaraday.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: yes
- Content Signals in robots.txt: yes
- 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: yes

Keep watching this business (https://directindex.org/r/thefaraday.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/thefaraday.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=thefaraday.co.uk&force=1