# Baluchi: Agent-Direct Score D (45.1%) Site: https://www.thelalit.com/the-lalit-london/eat-and-drink/baluchi/ Report: https://directindex.org/r/thelalit.co.uk Scanned: 2026-10-14 (Provisional: the action test and the assistant citation check still to come; the hatched part of the bar is not measured yet.) Baluchi is hard for agents to use. ## Direct links - Menu: https://thelalit.co.uk/dining/baluchi-the-great-hall - Phone: 02037650000 ## 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). It is the one block every assistant reads first; the fix kit below has it filled in. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/structured-data-restaurant - **Booking only through opentable.** (+12 points) Every agent transaction goes through the marketplace and its commission. Add a direct path on your own site, even a simple form. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/book-direct-on-your-own-website - **The server turns AI crawlers away at the door.** (+6.7 points) Live fetches as GPTBot (http_403), ClaudeBot (http_403) were refused while a normal browser got the page. This is usually a hosting or firewall bot list the owner never chose. Ask the host to allow these user agents. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/blocking-ai-crawlers-without-knowing - **No llms.txt.** (no points, still worth doing) Optional today, cheap to add: a short text file describing the business for language models. Guide: https://directindex.org/guides/llms-txt-for-a-business ## Fix kit: What to paste Structured data (JSON-LD). One block in the page's head, or in the builder's custom-code slot. Replace anything that is wrong. ```html ``` llms.txt. Save as /llms.txt at the root of the site. ``` # Baluchi > restaurant (indian) in London. Phone 02037650000. ## Book or order directly - Menu: https://thelalit.co.uk/dining/baluchi-the-great-hall ## About - Website: https://www.thelalit.com/the-lalit-london/eat-and-drink/baluchi/ - 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 is no robots.txt, which allows everything. - **Menu or price list is an HTML page.** Agents can read items and prices directly. - **OpenTable lets agents act only through its partners.** OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms. An assistant that is not a partner cannot finish the step there; a direct path on your own domain works for all of them. ## Where it stands 2026 of 3575 in London. Top 57% of the sites scanned in this index. | What the top tenth of the index does | Top 10% | This site | |---|---|---| | Take bookings or orders on their own domain | 99% | no | | Publish the menu or price list as HTML | 86% | yes | | Let AI crawlers in (no edge block, no robots.txt block) | 93% | no | | Structured data with address, phone and hours | 53% | no | | Have an llms.txt | 26% | no | Nearest places with a similar menu: Cafe Nawaz Indian Restaurant (B, 691 m, https://directindex.org/r/cafenawaz.co.uk); The Rajasthan I (B, 797 m, https://directindex.org/r/rajasthan1.co.uk); Silka (B, 836 m, https://directindex.org/r/silka.co.uk); The India - Monument (A, 870 m, https://directindex.org/r/theindia3.restaurant); Horn OK Please (D, 920 m, https://directindex.org/r/hop.st); Mango (B, 1037 m, https://directindex.org/r/lovemango.co.uk); The Rajasthan II (B, 1039 m, https://directindex.org/r/rajasthan2.co.uk); Bermondsey Tandoori (B, 1313 m, https://directindex.org/r/bermondseytandoori.co.uk); Dabangg Kitchen (D, 1328 m, https://directindex.org/r/dabangg-kitchen.co.uk); Mumbai Square (A, 1374 m, https://directindex.org/r/mumbaisquare.co.uk). ## What assistants answer Not asked yet. Assistants are asked about the top-ranked businesses in each city index, and about every claimed business the moment it is claimed; claim this page to be included. Against its peers: Sites using OpenTable 67% (42% A or B, 1409 sites); This site 45.1%. See what an AI agent reads on this site: https://directindex.org/r/thelalit.co.uk/agent-view ## Businesses like Baluchi in London | Group | Sites | Avg score | A or B | This site | |---|---|---|---|---| | Same kind in London | 3575 | 45% | 34% | 45.1% | | Using OpenTable in London | 127 | 64% | 35% | 45.1% | The best of Using OpenTable in London: 34 Mayfair (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/34-restaurant.co.uk); Balthazar London (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/balthazarlondon.com); Berberè Pizzeria (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/berberepizzeria.co.uk); Daphne's (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/daphnes-restaurant.co.uk); J. Sheekey (A 92.3%, https://directindex.org/r/j-sheekey.co.uk). With the three fixes above (No structured data for the business; Booking only through opentable; The server turns AI crawlers away at the door) the score would be about 95.4%: 51st of 3,575 in London, up from 2026th. ## The direct record What agents get for Baluchi, as JSON: https://directindex.org/api/direct/thelalit.co.uk - Book: none on record - Order: none on record - Menu: https://thelalit.co.uk/dining/baluchi-the-great-hall (html_page; from the scan) - Hours: none on record - Phone: 02037650000 - Stable links that count: https://directindex.org/go/thelalit.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): not measured - ACP discovery document (/.well-known/acp.json, OpenAI and Stripe's Agentic Commerce Protocol): not measured - 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): not measured - Vendor terms for agents, OpenTable: Partners only. OpenTable's terms page could not be fetched on 2026-10-15; OpenTable names over 200 authorized partners, Google, Meta and OpenAI among them, as the channels through which agents book. Read 2026-10-15: https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/business/2026/07/14/opentable-new-terms Not measured at this scan; the next scan measures it. ## Score breakdown | Component | Points | Available | |---|---|---| | Reachable | 18.3 | 25 | | Readable | 8 | 25 | | Actionable | 3 | 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/thelalit.co.uk - Link headers on the homepage: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/link-headers/SKILL.md) - sitemap.xml: no (how: https://isitagentready.com/.well-known/agent-skills/sitemap/SKILL.md) - 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 Deep report: https://directindex.org/r/thelalit.co.uk/deep. Ten questions the way people ask, each assistant's full answer, the eight nearest similar places, the fix plan and a PDF: 19 EUR, one-off. Methodology: https://directindex.org/methodology · Rescan now: https://directindex.org/scan?url=thelalit.co.uk&force=1