The Helmand
thehelmand.com is partly visible to agents.
Listed by OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps.
Ways to reach The Helmand directly, with no marketplace in between. Checked 2026-11-13. Report a mistake
Hours, from OpenStreetMap · Overture Maps: Mon closed · Tue–Sat 17:00–22:00 · Sun 16:00–21:00
806 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 · +1-410-752-0311
Outdoor seating (OpenStreetMap)
Prices: 33 prices on the site, the middle one $21.95
Places near The Helmand that take a booking or an order on their own website, with no marketplace in between.
- Akbar Restaurant60 m · curry
- Never on Sunday70 m
- Marie Louise Bistro100 m · french
- Cafe Fili120 m · mediterranean
- Kumari130 m · indian
The website's grade
An AI assistant can open The Helmand's website. It can read what The Helmand offers. To book or order, it is sent to Resy, a marketplace.
39 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 the site tells visitors Measured, not scored
These don't change the grade.
In Baltimore, the middle price of comparable sites that show prices is $11.99.
Every city compared →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 22 everyday questions about Baltimore and named 91 places. The Helmand wasn't one of them. See who was named →
How The Helmand compares
454 of 873 in Baltimore
Top 52% of the sites scanned in this index. Just above: Nick's Crab Market C, The Glass Grill Tacontento Restaurant C. Just below: The Kabul Fresh Grill C, Tortilleria Sinaloa C.
| 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 | 90% | yes |
| Let AI crawlers in (no block at the server or in robots.txt) | 92% | yes |
| Structured data with address, phone and hours | 65% | no |
| Have an llms.txt | 34% | no |
Compared with its peers
| Average score | A or B | This site | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites built with Squarespace 36,138 sites | 61% | 41% | 60% |
| Sites using Resy 2,970 sites | 67% | 45% | 60% |
Nearest places in the index
| Place | Distance | Grade | Direct booking or ordering |
|---|---|---|---|
| Akbar Restaurant curry, indian | 58 m | A | yes |
| Never on Sunday | 73 m | F | yes |
| Marie Louise Bistro french | 100 m | D | yes |
| Cafe Fili mediterranean | 124 m | C | yes |
| Kumari indian, nepalese | 127 m | B | yes |
| Smokin Chick barbecue | 133 m | F | no |
| The Elephant | 161 m | C | no |
| Indigma indian | 165 m | D | no |
| The Manor american | 166 m | A | yes |
| George's on Mt. Vernon Square american | 195 m | F | no |
Businesses like The Helmand in Baltimore
| Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Businesses of the same kind in Baltimore | 873 | 55% | 38% | 60% |
| Sites built with Squarespace in Baltimore | 98 | 72% | 66% | 60% |
| Sites using Resy in Baltimore | 30 | 65% | 43% | 60% |
| Sites built with Squarespace and using Resy in Baltimore | 12 | 71% | 58% | 60% |
After the top fixes
With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through resy; Ordering through an unrecognised third party), the score would be about 100%, which would be first of 873 in Baltimore.
What to fix first
- No structured data for the business +14 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
- Booking only through resy +9 points
Every transaction an agent makes goes through the marketplace, which takes its commission. Add a direct way on your own site. Even a simple form will do. How to fix it About this vendor
- Ordering through an unrecognised third party +9 points
Check that the provider keeps your business as the seller of record. 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 Baltimore. 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.
Builder: squarespace · What to paste
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